Oppose Application for a Recordable Disclaimer of Interest for
Application for a Recordable Disclaimer of Interest for Lands Underlying Portions of the Delta River, Tangle River, and Tangle Lakes, in Alaska
Bureau of Land Management· Delta River, Tangle River, Lower Tangle LakeFederal Register 2026-00031 ↗
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4 groups predicted likely to care in Alaska
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- Alaska Wilderness League
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Works Alaska: built around defending the Arctic Refuge from oil and gas drilling.
- Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges
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Works Alaska: lead plaintiff in the November 2025 federal suit challenging the land exchange signed to put a road through the Izembek Wilderness.
- Northern Alaska Environmental Center
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Works Alaska: first-named plaintiff in Northern Alaska Environmental Center v. Trump, the Ambler road suit filed in 2020.
- Southeast Alaska Conservation Council
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Works Alaska: southeast Alaska’s homegrown defender of the Tongass since 1970.
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The State of Alaska has applied for a Recordable Disclaimer of Interest, which would have the federal government formally give up its claim to the submerged lands beneath portions of the Delta River, Tangle River, and several Tangle Lakes in central Alaska. If approved, ownership of these riverbeds and lakebeds would transfer to state control, removing federal jurisdiction over those submerged lands. This affects conservation professionals, water rights advocates, and anyone with interests in these waterbodies and their surrounding ecosystems.
In the agency’s own words
On June 12, 2019, the State of Alaska (State) finalized an application with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for a Recordable Disclaimer of Interest (RDI) from the United States for the submerged lands underlying portions of the Delta River, Tangle River, Lower Tangle Lake, Long Tangle Lake, Round Tangle Lake, Tangle Lakes and Upper Tangle Lake south of Delta Junction, in Alaska. An RDI, if issued, would disclaim the United States' interest in the lands underlying the portions of the waterbodies in the RDI application. This notice is to notify the public of the pending RDI application and supporting evidence s…
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