# Jurisdiction in Alaska
> **National Park Service** · Final rule. · Published 2020-11-16 · Effective 2020-12-16 · 85 FR 72956
## Document
- **Document number:** 2020-24899
- **Category:** park-regulation
- **Sub-agency:** National Park Service
- **State:** AK
- **Federal Register citation:** 85 FR 72956
- **CFR reference:** 36 CFR 1
- **Publication date:** 2020-11-16
- **Effective date:** 2020-12-16
- **Interior docket:** NPS-AKRO-30677
## Abstract

This rule revises National Park Service regulations to comply with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Sturgeon v. Frost. In the Sturgeon decision, the Court held that National Park Service regulations apply exclusively to public lands (meaning federally owned lands and waters) within the external boundaries of National Park System units in Alaska. Lands which are not federally owned, including submerged lands under navigable waters, are not part of the units subject to the National Park Service's ordinary regulatory authority.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/11/16/2020-24899/jurisdiction-in-alaska)
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