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104TH CONGRESS

2D SESSION S. 1807

To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, regarding the Kake

Tribal Corporation public interest land exchange.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

MAY 23, 1996

Mr. MURKOWSKI (for himself and Mr. STEVENS) introduced the following bill;

which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

A BILL

To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, regarding the Kake Tribal Corporation public interest land

exchange.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Kake Tribal Corpora5 tion Land Exchange Act’’.

6 SEC. 2. AMENDMENT OF SETTLEMENT ACT.

7 The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (Pub. L.

8 92–203, December 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 688, 43 U.S.C.
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1 1601 et seq.), as amended, is further amended by adding

2 a new section to read:

3 ‘‘SEC. 40. KAKE TRIBAL CORPORATION LAND EXCHANGE.

4 ‘‘(a) To provide Kake Tribal Corporation with land

5 suitable for development, to acknowledge the corporation’s

6 return to public ownership land needed as a municipal wa7 tershed area, and to promote the public interest, the Sec8 retary shall convey to the corporation approximately 2,427

9 acres of Federal land as described in subsection (c). The

10 land to be conveyed includes—

11 ‘‘(1) up to 388 acres in the Slate Lakes area,

12 as described in (c)(2) of this section, if, within five

13 years after the effective date of this section, the cor14 poration has entered into an agreement to lease or

15 otherwise convey some or all of the land to the oper16 ator of the Jualin Mine; or

17 ‘‘(2) at the corporation’s option, the 388 acres

18 mentioned in (1) of this subsection and the remain19 ing 2,039 acres may be conveyed from the acres de20 scribed in (c)(3) of this section.

21 ‘‘(b) TITLE TO SURFACE AND SUBSURFACE.—Sub22 ject to valid existing rights and easements, the Secretary

23 shall, no later than the deadlines specified in (c) (2) and

24 (3) of this section, convey to Kake Tribal Corporation title
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1 to the surface estate in this land and convey to Sealaska

2 Corporation title to the subsurface estate in that land.

3 ‘‘(c) DESCRIPTION AND DEADLINES.—The land cov4 ered by this section is in the Copper River Meridian and

5 is further described as follows:

6 ‘‘(1) The land to be conveyed by Kake Tribal

7 Corporation to the United States, no later than 90

8 days after the effective date of this section, as shown

9 on the map dated lll and labeled Attachment A,

10 is the municipal watershed area and is described as

11 follows:

‘‘Municipal watershed

Section Approximate

acres

T56S, R72E

13 .................................................................................................... 82

23 .................................................................................................... 118

24 .................................................................................................... 635

25 .................................................................................................... 640

26 .................................................................................................... 346

34 .................................................................................................... 9

35 .................................................................................................... 349

36 .................................................................................................... 248

Approximate Total ...................................................................... 2,427’’

12 ‘‘(2) Kake Tribal Corporation shall have the op13 tion to select up to 388 acres in the Slate Lakes

14 area, as shown on the map dated lll and la15 beled Attachment B. This option shall remain in ef16 fect for five years after the date of enactment of this
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1 section. The land to be conveyed is identified on the

2 following maps as:

Slate lakes area

Section Description Approximate

acres

T35S, R62E

22 ............................................. E1⁄2 .......................................... 27

23 ............................................. W1⁄2 .......................................... 152

26 ............................................. W1⁄2 .......................................... 119

27 ............................................. E1⁄2 .......................................... 23

T36S, R62E

1 ............................................... W1⁄2, NW1⁄4 ............................. 38

Two utility corridors: One beginning in the northwest quarter of

section 1, T36S, R62E, heading northwest through the northeast quarter of section 2, then heading northwest through

section 26, T35S, R62E; another beginning in section 23,

T35S, R62E, heading northeast, then heading northwest

through section 23, then northwest through the southwest

quarter of section 15, then northwest through section 16,

then turning northeast in the northeast quarter of section 16

to the Jualin patented group.

Approximate Total .............................................................. 388’’

3 ‘‘(3) The remaining 2,039 acres of land to be

4 conveyed to Kake Tribal Corporation, or the entire

5 2,427 acres if the option on the 388 acres mentioned

6 in (2) of this subsection is not exercised, shall be

7 land in the Hamilton Bay and Saginaw Bay areas

8 and shall be conveyed within 90 days after the effec9 tive date of this section; this land is shown on the

10 maps dated lll and labeled Attachments C

11 and D.

12 ‘‘(d) TIMBER MANUFACTURING.—Notwithstanding

13 any other provision of law, timber harvested from lands

14 conveyed to Kake Tribal Council pursuant to this Act shall
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1 not be available for export as unprocessed logs from Alas2 ka, nor may Kake Tribal Corporation sell, trade, ex3 change, substitute, or otherwise convey such logs to any

4 other person for the purpose of exporting such logs from

5 the State of Alaska.

6 ‘‘(e) RELATION TO OTHER REQUIREMENTS.—The

7 land conveyed to Kake Tribal Corporation and Sealaska

8 Corporation under this section is, for all purposes, consid9 ered land conveyed under the Alaska Native Claims Settle10 ment Act.

11 ‘‘(f) MAPS.—The maps referred to in this section

12 shall be maintained on file in the Office of the Chief,

13 United States Forest Service, and in the Office of the Sec14 retary of the Interior, Washington, DC. The acreage cited

15 in this section is approximate, and if a discrepancy arises

16 between cited acreage and the land depicted on the speci17 fied maps the maps shall control. The maps do not con18 stitute an attempt by the United States to convey State

19 or private land.’’.

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