WASHINGTON, June 4 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management issued the following press release:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management today issued navigability decisions for four State of Alaska Recordable Disclaimers of Interest applications involving the Delta-Tangle River System and Tangle Lakes System, the West Fork Dennison Fork and Dennison Fork of the Fortymile River System, the Kwethluk River, and the Goodnews River System. With these decisions, the BLM formally recognizes that ownership of submerged lands beneath these waterbodies passed to the State of Alaska at statehood and that the United States does not hold any interests to them.
"Today's decisions show what can be accomplished when the...