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Union Calendar No. 412
105TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 2812
[Report No. 105–716]
To provide for the recognition of certain Native communities under the
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 4, 1997
Mr. YOUNG of Alaska introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Resources
SEPTEMBER 15, 1998
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union
and ordered to be printed
A BILL
To provide for the recognition of certain Native communities
under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Unrecognized South-
east Alaska Native Communities Recognition Act’’.
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF ADDITIONAL NATIVE COR-
PORATIONS IN SOUTHEAST ALASKA.
Section 16 of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement
Act (43 U.S.C. 1615) is amended by adding at the end
the following new subsection:
‘‘(e)(1) The Native residents of each of the Native
villages of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, and Wrangell,
Alaska, may organize as an Urban Corporation.
‘‘(2) The Native residents of the Native village of
Tenakee, Alaska, may organize as a Group Corporation.
‘‘(3) Nothing in this subsection shall affect any enti-
tlement to land of any Native Corporation pursuant to this
Act or any other provision of law.’’.
SEC. 3. SHAREHOLDER ELIGIBILITY.
Section 8 of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
(43 U.S.C. 1607) is amended by adding at the end the
following new subsection:
‘‘(d)(1) The Secretary shall enroll to each of the
Urban Corporations for Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, or
Wrangell those individual Natives who enrolled under this
Act to Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, or Wrangell, and
shall enroll to the Group Corporation for Tenakee those
individual Natives who enrolled under this Act to Tenakee.
‘‘(2) Those Natives who, pursuant to paragraph (1),
are enrolled to an Urban Corporation for Haines, Ketch-
ikan, Petersburg, or Wrangell, or to a Group Corporation
for Tenakee, and who were enrolled as shareholders of the
Regional Corporation for southeast Alaska on or before
March 30, 1973, shall receive 100 shares of Settlement
Common Stock in such Urban or Group Corporation.
‘‘(3) A Native who has received shares of stock in
the Regional Corporation for southeast Alaska through in-
heritance from a decedent Native who originally enrolled
to Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, or Wrangell,
which decedent Native was not a shareholder in a Village,
Group or Urban Corporation, shall receive the identical
number of shares of Settlement Common Stock in the
Urban Corporation for Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, or
Wrangell, or in the Group Corporation for Tenakee, as
the number of shares inherited by that Native from the
decedent Native who would have been eligible to be en-
rolled to such Urban or Group Corporation.
‘‘(4) Nothing in this subsection shall affect entitle-
ment to land of any Regional Corporation pursuant to sec-
tion 12(b) or section 14(h)(8).’’.
SEC. 4. DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS.
Section 7 of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
(43 U.S.C. 1606) is amended—
(1) in subsection (j), by adding at the end the
following new sentence: ‘‘Native members of the
communities of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg,