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118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7785 
To make additional Federal public land available for selection under the 
Alaska Native Vietnam era veterans land allotment program, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 21, 2024 
Mrs. PELTOLA introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To make additional Federal public land available for selection 
under the Alaska Native Vietnam era veterans land allot-
ment program, 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 ‘‘Alaska Native Vietnam 
Era Veterans Land Allotment Extension and Fulfillment 
Act of 2024’’. 
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SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF THE ALASKA NATIVE VIETNAM ERA 
VETERANS LAND ALLOTMENT PROGRAM. 
Section 1119(b)(3)(B) of the John D. Dingell, Jr. 
Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act (43 
U.S.C. 1629g–1(b)(3)(B)) is amended by striking ‘‘5-year 
period’’ and inserting ‘‘10-year period’’. 
SEC. 3. MAKING ADDITIONAL LAND AVAILABLE FOR SELEC-
TION UNDER THE ALASKA NATIVE VIETNAM 
ERA VETERANS LAND ALLOTMENT PROGRAM. 
(a) WILDLIFE REFUGE SYSTEM LAND.—All Federal 
land identified as suitable for allotment selection in the 
report under subsection (c)(1) of section 1119 of the John 
D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recre-
ation Act (43 U.S.C. 1629g–1), and published by the 
United States Fish and Wildlife Service in the report enti-
tled ‘‘Identification of National Wildlife Refuge System 
Lands in Alaska That Should Be Made Available for Allot-
ment Selection by Eligible Alaska Native Vietnam Era 
Veterans’’ (November 2020), shall be made immediately 
available by the Secretary of the Interior for selection in 
accordance with that section. 
(b) FEDERAL LAND MANAGED
BY
THE FOREST 
SERVICE.— 
(1) DEFINITION
OF
AVAILABLE
FEDERAL 
LAND.—Section 1119(a)(1)(B) of the John D. Din-
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gell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation 
Act (43 U.S.C. 1629g–1(a)(1)(B)) is amended— 
(A) by striking clause (v); and 
(B) by redesignating clauses (vi) through 
(x) as clauses (v) through (ix), respectively. 
(2) IDENTIFICATION OF FEDERAL LAND.—Sec-
tion 1119 of the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, 
Management, and Recreation Act (43 U.S.C. 
1629g–1) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(e) IDENTIFICATION OF FEDERAL LAND ADMINIS-
TERED BY THE FOREST SERVICE.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of enactment of this subsection, the Sec-
retary of Agriculture, in consultation with the Sec-
retary, the State, Regional Corporations, and Village 
Corporations, shall identify available Federal land 
within units of the National Forest System in the 
State that should be made available for allotment se-
lection by eligible individuals. 
‘‘(2) EXCLUSIONS.—In identifying available 
Federal land within units of the National Forest 
System in the State that should be made available 
for allotment selection under paragraph (1), the Sec-
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retary shall not identify any available Federal land 
in a unit of the National Forest System— 
‘‘(A) the conveyance of which, independ-
ently or as part of a group of allotments, 
could— 
‘‘(i) significantly interfere with bio-
logical, physical, cultural, scenic, rec-
reational, or subsistence values; or 
‘‘(ii) interfere with the management 
plan of the unit; 
‘‘(B) that is located within 300 feet from 
the shore of a navigable body of water; 
‘‘(C) that is not consistent with the pur-
poses for which the unit was established; or 
‘‘(D) that is designated by Congress as wil-
derness. 
‘‘(3) AVAILABILITY
OF
LAND.—All available 
Federal land identified as suitable for allotment se-
lection under this subsection shall be made imme-
diately available for selection in accordance with this 
section.’’. 
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