TURPIN v. NORTH SLOPE BOROUGH

No. S-4801.

879 P.2d 1009 (1994)

Frank G. TURPIN, Commissioner, Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, and the State of Alaska, Appellant, v. NORTH SLOPE BOROUGH, and Tanana Chiefs Conference, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

August 26, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph W. Geldhof and Jack B. McGee, Asst. Attys. Gen., Charles E Cole, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellant.

Darlene M. Erickson, Deputy Borough Atty., Anchorage, Thomas P. Amodio and Jonathan B. Rubini, Birch, Horton, Bittner & Cherot, Anchorage, for appellee North Slope Borough.

Michael J. Walleri, Fairbanks, for appellee Tanana Chiefs Conference.

Before MOORE, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, MATTHEWS and COMPTON, JJ.


OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Justice.

The James Dalton Highway, also known as the North Slope Haul Road, runs approximately 425 miles from Livengood to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. It is the only maintained land route linking central Alaska to the northern coast of Alaska. A substantial portion of the James Dalton Highway is located within the boundaries of the North Slope Borough (NSB).

The Acting State Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) of the...

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