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State land selections, pipeline corridor In its initiatives currently underway, Good- rum said the Division of Mining, Land and Wa- _P]T^NZY_TY`TYR_ZbZ]VbT_S_SP-78ZYʭYLW - izing the state’s remaining 5.3 million acres of land selection entitlement under the 1959 Alaska Statehood Act. As part of this the Department is also working with BLM on the pending Central Yukon land plan, which will govern management of federal lands in the northern central and northeast Interior. A draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Central Yukon plan is due this summer, BLM has said. 2ZZO]`X^LTOLQZN`^QZ]_SP^_L_PT^LYPʬZ]_ to get the BLM to lift its Public Land Order (PLO) 5150, a 1977 land order closing federal lands with- in the north-south Trans Alaska Pipeline System corridor. BLM could do this as part of its new Cen- tral Yukon plan and the state is watching for the DEIS to see if this will happen. The state is particularly interested in the part of the corridor from the North Slope to Interior
?SP@>2>SL^TOPY_TʭPO N]T_TNLWXTYP]LW^aT_LW_Z high-tech and defense industries where the U.S. is 100% dependent on imports and another 17 min- erals where the nation is 50% or more dependent on imports. Alaska has potential for development of many of those minerals, and the federal government has recognized that by making Alaska its own region within the Earth MRI, Goodrum said. “Alaska represents 16% of the area covered in the national inventory but we are getting 25% of the funding,” a recognition of the importance put on the state’s potential, Goodrum said. “Alaska currently produces germanium and indium, and SL^ ST^_Z]TNLWWd []ZO`NPO _TY ʮ`Z]^[L] [WL_T - num-group elements, antimony, tungsten, and barite.” In another budget item, the governor has pro- posed a capital budget addition for state Geolog- ic Material Center, or GMC for multi-spectrum scanning technology to allow improved access to data from mineral core stored at the GMC, which is in Anchorage.
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The Alaska Miner
January 2020
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