Sec. 41.21.502. - Kenai River Special Management Area. - Alaska Statutes

(a) The surface estate in the land and water presently owned by the state and all land and water acquired by the state in the future, including shore, tide, and submerged land, lying within the parcels described in this section is designated as the Kenai River Special Management Area:

(1) the Kenai River at the common section line of Sections 16 and 17, Township 5 North, Range 11 West, Seward Meridian, upstream to and including the waters of the Kenai and Skilak Lakes;

(2) the Moose River from its confluence with the Kenai River upstream to the Sterling Highway Bridge;

(3) the Funny River from its confluence with the Kenai River upstream to the Funny River Road Bridge;

(4) the state land in the Kenai Recording District that is located within the following parcels:

(A) Kenai Keys

Township 5 North, Range 8 West, Seward Meridian

Section 26: General Land Office Lot 9

Section 36:

According to the Stephenkie Alaska Subdivision,

Alaska State Land Survey No. 73-146:

Lots 2, 3, 5 - 8 and 12 - 33 of Block 2

Tract B

A small un-meandered island located within the

SE1/4SE1/4 of Section 36

General Land Office Lots 2, 3

SW1/4NE1/4

NE1/4NW1/4

Excluding the Kenai Keys Road Right-of-Way and Stephenkie Alaska Subdivision, Alaska State Land Survey No. 73-146

(B) Bing's Landing

Township 5 North, Range 8 West, Seward Meridian

Section 16: Portion of W1/2W1/2 lying south of the Sterling Highway

Section 20: Lot 1

Section 21: Lot 3

(C) Izaak Walton

Township 5 North, Range 8 West, Seward Meridian

Section 7:

Parcel #1: Starting at the Southwest corner of Lot 6, Section 7, T5N, R8W, go South 0 08' East a distance of 888.1 feet to the center of road to corner no. 1, which is the true point of beginning; then North 73 5' West along the center of the road a distance of 727 feet to corner no. 2; then in a southwesterly direction a distance of 515.6 feet plus or minus, along the line of mean high water of Moose River to point no. 3; then a distance of 108 feet plus or minus, to point no. 4 along the line of mean high water of Moose River to Kenai River; then a distance of 75.3 feet plus or minus, to point no. 5 along that river; then upstream a distance of 808.6 feet plus or minus, at mean high water along Kenai River to point no. 6; then North 0 8' West 150 feet to point no. 7; then south 89 57' East a distance of 208 feet to point no. 8; then North 0 08' West 213.9 feet to point no. 1, which is the true point of beginning.

Parcel #2: Starting at the Southwest corner of Lot 6, Section 7, T5N, R8W, go South 0 08' East a distance of 1102.0 feet to corner no. 1, which is the true point of beginning; then North 89 57' West 208.0 feet to corner no. 2; then South 0 08' East 150 feet plus or minus to corner no. 3, which is a point at mean high water of the Kenai River, then Southeasterly a distance of 238 feet plus or minus, along the line of high water of that river to corner no. 4, which is a point 268 feet plus or minus, South 0 08' East of corner no. 1, then North 0 08' West 268 feet plus or minus to corner no. 1, which is the true point of beginning, containing one acre plus or minus.

(D) Nilnunqa

Township 5 North, Range 8 West, Seward Meridian

Section 7: Lot 10

(E) Funny River

Township 5 North, Range 9 West, Seward Meridian

Section 28: SE1/4SE1/4

Tract 6, Heistand Subdivision,

Addition No. 2

Section 33: Lots 1, 3

SE1/4NW1/4

portion of NE1/4 lying west of the Funny River Road

(F) Morgan's Landing

Township 5 North, Range 9 West, Seward Meridian

Section 21: SW1/4SE1/4

Section 28: Lots 2, 3, 7 - 9, 14, 15

NE1/4NW1/4

NW1/4SW1/4

Section 33: Lot 2

(G) Kenai River Islands

Township 5 North, Range 8 West, Seward Meridian

Section 27: Lots 10, 17

Township 5 North, Range 10 West, Seward Meridian

Section 6: Lots 9 - 10

Section 7: Lots 2 - 4, 8, 11, 16

Section 18: Lots 2, 3, 14

Section 19: Lots 3, 17

Section 30: Lots 2, 8

Section 31: Lots 7, 10

Section 32: Lot 7

Section 33: Lots 5, 8

Section 34: Lot 10

Township 5 North, Range 11 West, Seward Meridian

Section 36: Lot 2 within NE1/4

(H) Slikok Creek

Township 5 North, Range 11 West, Seward Meridian

Section 36: Tract "A", Slikok Creek Alaska Subdivision

(I) Big Eddy

Township 5 North, Range 11 West, Seward Meridian

Section 24: Lots 14, 15

NW1/4NE1/4SE1/4

(J) Ciechanski

Township 5 North, Range 11 West, Seward Meridian

Section 24: Lot 1

(K) Kenai River Flats

Township 5 North, Range 11 West, Seward Meridian

Section 15: Lot 8

NW1/4SE1/4

N1/2SW1/4

N1/2S1/2SW1/4

(L) Other Lower River Land

Township 5 North, Range 9 West, Seward Meridian

Section 22: Lots 4, 9, 10, NE1/4SW1/4

Township 5 North, Range 10 West, Seward Meridian

Section 6: Lot 8

Section 7: Lots 5 - 7, 15

Section 18: Lots 1, 2, 4 - 6, Tract A, Larry's Fishing Hole Subdivision, Plat No. 90-42 Government Lots 4 - 7, 10 - 13

NE1/4SW1/4

E1/2NW1/4

Section 19:

Tracts A and B, Timberland Terrace Phase 1 Subdivision, Plat 97-26

Lot 4, Kobylarz Subdivision, according to the official plat filed under Plat No. 92-24, Kenai Recording Office

Beginning at the section corner common to Sections 19, 20, 29, and 30, Township 5 North, Range 10 West, Seward Meridian, traverse west along the section line common to Sections 19 and 30 a distance of 1320 feet, thence north along the 1/16 section line a distance of 1420 feet to Corner No. 1 and the point of beginning, thence west 100 feet to Corner No. 2, thence north to the thalweg of the Kenai River and Corner No. 3, thence east along the thalweg of the Kenai River to the point of intersection with 1/16 section line and Corner No. 4, thence south along the 1/16 section line to Corner No. 1, and the point of beginning, located in the Kenai Recording District, as may be modified by a record of survey accepted by the state

Lot 16

Section 30: Tracts A, J, and K, Channel Shores Subdivision, Plat No. 85-102

Section 31: Lots 2, 3, and 11, excluding the following subdivisions, as shown in record of survey no. 96-7: Halcyon Subdivision, Lot 1, Block 1, plat of survey no. K-1706; Halcyon Subdivision Lot 5, Block 1, plat of survey no. 73-9; Halcyon Subdivision plat of survey no. 76-75; Halcyon Subdivision Addition No. 4, plat of survey no. 77-47; Halcyon Subdivision Addition No. 5, plat of survey no. 77-82; Halcyon Subdivision No. 3, plat of survey no. 78-25; Halcyon Subdivision Amended Plat Lot 1-B, Block 1, plat of survey no. 78-96; Halcyon Subdivision Addition No. 7, plat of survey no. 79-155; Halcyon Subdivision Addition No. 8, plat of survey no. 83-174; Halcyon Subdivision Addition No. 9, plat of survey no. 84-47; Halcyon Subdivision No. 10, plat of survey no. 84-244; Halcyon Subdivision No. 9, plat of survey no. 86-98RS; Halcyon Subdivision No. 9, plat of survey no. 86-99RS; Halcyon Subdivision No. 11, plat of survey no. 92-41; Halcyon Subdivision No. 8 Amended, plat of survey no. 92-72; and Halcyon Subdivision No. 12, plat of survey no. 93-8; and excluding that portion of Government Lot 3 east of Daisy Drive conveyed by warranty deed recorded March 10, 1989, in book 343, page 15, Kenai Recording Office.

Section 32: Lot 1-B-1, ASLS No. 97-25, a subdivision of Lot 1-B, Fisherman's Square Subdivision, Addition No. 1, within the W1/2SW1/4;

Section 33: Lot 6-B, Mullen Homestead River Addition Phase 1, Plat No. 97-89;

Section 34: Lot 7, NE1/4SE1/4

Township 5 North, Range 11 West, Seward Meridian

Section 1: Lots 9 and 10

Section 11: Tract A-1A, Cone Tracts; Lot 3, excluding that portion north of the south right-of-way boundary of the Beaver Loop Road and all land west of and including the Cone Tracts A-1A and A-1B Subdivision and SE1/4NW1/4, and the N1/2NW1/4, excluding that portion of the south right-of-way boundary of the Beaver Loop Road and all land west of and including the Cone Tracts A-1A and A-1B Subdivision

Section 12: Lots 1 - 3, 7 - 10, 13

N1/2SE1/4

SE1/4NE1/4

NE1/4SW1/4

N1/2SW1/4SE1/4

Section 13: Lot 1

SW1/4NW1/4

Section 14: Lots 2, 7

Section 16: Lots 1 - 10

SE1/4

NW1/4NW1/4

SE1/4SW1/4

Section 24: That portion of Lot 11 within LSH 148

Section 25: Lot 3

Section 36: That strip of land between the line of ordinary high water of the Kenai River and EPF 21-11, Block 1.

(b) Subject to valid existing rights, the land and water described in (a) of this section is designated as a special purpose area under art. VIII, Sec. 7, of the Alaska Constitution.

(c) The mineral estate in the state-owned land and water described in (a) of this section is open to oil and gas leasing under AS 38.05.180 . The mineral estate in the state-owned land and water described in (a) of this section is closed to mineral entry under AS 38.05.181 - 38.05.275.