ELR Citation: ELR 20020
No(s). s. 128 (U.S. Jan 23, 2006)

The court approves a decree quieting title to certain marine submerged lands in Southeast Alaska. Under the decree, the United States has title to the submerged lands underlying the pockets and enclaves of water that are more than three geographical miles from every point on the coastline of the mainland or of any individual island of the Alexander Archipelago. The United States also has title to the marine submerged lands within the exterior boundaries of Glacier Bay National Monument as those boundaries existed on the date of the state's admission to the Union.

[A prior decision in this litigation is publisehd at 35 ELR 20112.]