A bill to provide for certain conveyances of surface estate under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and for other purposes.
ANCSA Kaktovik and Canyon Village Land Conveyance Settlement Act of 2017
This bill requires the Department of the Interior to convey: (1) specified surface estate to the Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation, an Alaska Native village corporation, in accordance with an agreement effective January 22, 1993; and (2) specified subsurface estate to the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, the Alaska Native regional corporation for the village of Kaktovik, pursuant to an agreement dated August 9, 1983.
Interior also must convey: (1) up to 6,400 acres of surface estate to Kian Tr'ee Corporation, a village corporation, for the village of Canyon Village; and (2) equal acreage of subsurface estate to Doyon Limited, the regional corporation for Canyon Village.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 115-502.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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