Alaska Native Claims Technical Amendments Act of 1999

Alaska Native Claims Technical Amendments Act of 1999 - Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to authorize an Alaska Native to transfer Settlement Common Stock to a descendant notwithstanding an adoption, relinquishment, or termination of parental rights that may have altered or severed the legal relationship between the donor and recipient.

(Sec. 3) Includes any corporation, partnership, joint venture, sole proprietorship, trust, or affiliate with which a Native Corporation or its affiliate engages in one or more commercial transactions that exceed $20,000 in a calendar year within the entities excluded from the definition of "employer" for purposes of application of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

(Sec. 4) Includes as a Settlement Trust any trust operated for the benefit of shareholders (current law), Natives, and descendants of Natives.

(Sec. 5) Includes within lands authorized to be allotted to Alaska Native veterans: (1) lands in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska which the eligible person used and occupied; and (2) land that was not vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved when the eligible person first used and occupied such land, but which later became vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved during the time the eligible person used and occupied the land.

Makes eligible for such allotments Alaska veterans who served during the period between August 5, 1964, and May 7, 1975 (currently, the period between January 1, 1969, and December 31, 1971) and served on active duty for at least six months. Outlines allotment approval procedures, including the right to protest a proposed allotment.

(Sec. 7) Allows allotment selections made after December 18, 1974, to be in partial sections, but requires each selection to be not less than 160 contiguous acres.

(Sec. 8) Withdraws for two years from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws certain lands in the vicinity of Elim, Alaska. Authorizes the Elim Native Corporation to select and receive title to 50,000 acres within the withdrawn lands to replace lands deleted from the original Norton Bay Reservation by executive order in 1929. Subjects any such conveyance to valid existing rights and certain reserved easements. States that conveyance of selected lands shall constitute full satisfaction of Corporation claims to replacement lands.

(Sec. 9) States that no person acquiring a land interest under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act shall be liable for costs of removal or remedial action, any damages, or any third party liability arising out of any contamination on that land at the time the land was acquired unless such person was directly responsible for such contamination.