---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 3165"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "3165"
heading: "Standards for granting certain authorizations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/3165"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation"
  - "Subchapter IV — Transportation and Utility Systems in and Across, and Access into, Conservation System Units"
---

# §3165. Standards for granting certain authorizations


In any case in which there is no [applicable law](/usc/16/3162.md?p=1) with respect to a [transportation or utility system](/usc/16/3162.md?p=4-A), the head of the [Federal agency](/usc/16/3162.md?p=3) concerned shall, within four months after the date of filing of any final Environmental Impact Statement, make recommendations, for purposes of [section 3166(b) of this title](/usc/16/3166.md?p=b), to grant such authorizations as may be necessary to establish such system, in whole or in part, within the [conservation system unit](/usc/16/3102.md?p=4) concerned if he determines that—

- (1) such system would be compatible with the purposes for which the [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) was established; and
- (2) there is no economically feasible and prudent alternative route for the system.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–487, title XI, § 1105, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2461.)