ELR Citation: ELR 20574
No(s). 98-35310 (9th Cir. May 3, 2000)

The court holds that title to the bed of the Kukpowruk River in Alaska did not pass from the federal government to the state of Alaska when Alaska became a state in 1959. In public land order (PLO) 82 issued in 1943, the federal government withdrew the land in which the riverbed lies from sale, loca...