Mobil Oil Corporation v. Local Boundary Commission

OPINION

ERWIN, Justice.

This appeal challenges administrative actions by the Local Boundary Commission and the Local Affairs Agency 1 in connection with incorporation of the North Slope Borough.

On April 6, 1971, a petition for incorporation of a first class organized borough was submitted to the Local Affairs Agency by the Arctic Slope Native Association. 2 The petition proposed creation of a North Slope Borough reaching from the Bering Straits below Point Hope eastward to the Canadian border and from the Brooks Range north to the Arctic shore. Within these 87,500 square miles lie the cities of…