# Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation; National Forest System Lands in Alaska
> **Forest Service** · Final rule and record of decision. · Published 2023-01-27 · Effective 2023-01-27 · 88 FR 5252
## Document
- **Document number:** 2023-01483
- **Category:** forest-service
- **Sub-agency:** Forest Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 88 FR 5252
- **CFR reference:** 36 CFR 294
- **Publication date:** 2023-01-27
- **Effective date:** 2023-01-27
## Abstract

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA or Department) is repealing an October 2020 rule (the 2020 Alaska Roadless Rule) that exempted the Tongass National Forest (the Tongass) from the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule (2001 Roadless Rule). Repealing the 2020 Alaska Roadless Rule will reinstate the pre-existing management regime, which prohibited timber harvest and road construction/ reconstruction with limited exceptions within designated Inventoried Roadless Areas (IRAs).

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/27/2023-01483/special-areas-roadless-area-conservation-national-forest-system-lands-in-alaska)
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