---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 3146"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "3146"
heading: "Transportation alternatives portion of study"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/3146"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation"
  - "Subchapter III — Federal North Slope Lands Studies, Oil and Gas Leasing Program and Mineral Assessments"
---

# §3146. Transportation alternatives portion of study


In studying oil and gas alternative transportation systems, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall consult with the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Transportation and shall consider—

- (1) the extent to which environmentally and economically feasible alternative routes could be established;
- (2) the prospective oil and gas production potential of this [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) of Alaska for each alternative transportation route; and
- (3) the environmental and economic costs and other values associated with such alternative routes.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–487, title X, § 1006, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2453.)