(C) Locating or confining facilities and ac-
tivities to areas that will minimize impact on 
fish and wildlife, their habitat, and the environ-
ment. 
(D) Utilizing existing facilities wherever 
practicable. 
(E) Enhancing compatibility between wild-
life values and development activities. 
(g) ACCESS
TO PUBLIC LANDS.—The Secretary 
shall— 
(1) manage public lands in the Coastal Plain 
subject to subsections (a) and (b) of section 811 of 
the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation 
Act (16 U.S.C. 3121); and 
(2) ensure that local residents shall have rea-
sonable access to public lands in the Coastal Plain 
for traditional uses. 
SEC. 148. EXPEDITED JUDICIAL REVIEW. 
(a) FILING OF COMPLAINT.— 
(1) DEADLINE.—Subject to paragraph (2), any 
complaint seeking judicial review of any provision of 
this subtitle or any action of the Secretary under 
this subtitle shall be filed— 
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(A) except as provided in subparagraph 
(B), within the 90-day period beginning on the 
date of the action being challenged; or 
(B) in the case of a complaint based solely 
on grounds arising after such period, within 90 
days after the complainant knew or reasonably 
should have known of the grounds for the com-
plaint. 
(2) VENUE.—Any complaint seeking judicial re-
view of any provision of this subtitle or any action 
of the Secretary under this subtitle may be filed only 
in the United States Court of Appeals for the Dis-
trict of Columbia. 
(3) LIMITATION
ON
SCOPE
OF
CERTAIN
RE-
VIEW.—Judicial review of a Secretarial decision to 
conduct a lease sale under this subtitle, including 
the environmental analysis thereof, shall be limited 
to whether the Secretary has complied with the 
terms of this subtitle and shall be based upon the 
administrative record of that decision. The Sec-
retary’s identification of a preferred course of action 
to enable leasing to proceed and the Secretary’s 
analysis of environmental effects under this subtitle 
shall be presumed to be correct unless shown other-
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wise by clear and convincing evidence to the con-
trary. 
(b) LIMITATION ON OTHER REVIEW.—Actions of the 
Secretary with respect to which review could have been 
obtained under this section shall not be subject to judicial 
review in any civil or criminal proceeding for enforcement. 
SEC. 149. FEDERAL AND STATE DISTRIBUTION OF REVE-
NUES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, of the amount of adjusted bonus, rental, and 
royalty revenues from Federal oil and gas leasing and op-
erations authorized under this subtitle— 
(1) 50 percent shall be paid to the State of 
Alaska; and 
(2) except as provided in section 152(d), 90 
percent of the balance shall be deposited into the 
American Renewable and Alternative Energy Trust 
Fund established by section 331. 
(b) PAYMENTS TO ALASKA.—Payments to the State 
of Alaska under this section shall be made semiannually. 
SEC. 150. RIGHTS-OF-WAY ACROSS THE COASTAL PLAIN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall issue rights- 
of-way and easements across the Coastal Plain for the 
transportation of oil and gas— 
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(1) except as provided in paragraph (2), under 
section 28 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 
185), without regard to title XI of the Alaska Na-
tional Interest Lands Conservation Act (30 U.S.C. 
3161 et seq.); and 
(2) under title XI of the Alaska National Inter-
est Lands Conservation Act (30 U.S.C. 3161 et 
seq.), for access authorized by sections 1110 and 
1111 of that Act (16 U.S.C. 3170 and 3171). 
(b) TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—The Secretary shall 
include in any right-of-way or easement issued under sub-
section (a) such terms and conditions as may be necessary 
to ensure that transportation of oil and gas does not result 
in a significant adverse effect on the fish and wildlife, sub-
sistence resources, their habitat, and the environment of 
the Coastal Plain, including requirements that facilities be 
sited or designed so as to avoid unnecessary duplication 
of roads and pipelines. 
(c) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary shall include in 
regulations under section 143(g) provisions granting 
rights-of-way and easements described in subsection (a) 
of this section. 
SEC. 151. CONVEYANCE. 
In order to maximize Federal revenues by removing 
clouds on title to lands and clarifying land ownership pat-
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terns within the Coastal Plain, the Secretary, notwith-
standing the provisions of section 1302(h)(2) of the Alas-
ka National Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 
3192(h)(2)), shall convey— 
(1) to the Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation the 
surface estate of the lands described in paragraph 1 
of Public Land Order 6959, to the extent necessary 
to fulfill the Corporation’s entitlement under sec-
tions 12 and 14 of the Alaska Native Claims Settle-
ment Act (43 U.S.C. 1611 and 1613) in accordance 
with the terms and conditions of the Agreement be-
tween the Department of the Interior, the United 
States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of 
Land Management, and the Kaktovik Inupiat Cor-
poration effective January 22, 1993; and 
(2) to the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation 
the remaining subsurface estate to which it is enti-
tled pursuant to the August 9, 1983, agreement be-
tween the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation and the 
United States of America. 
SEC. 152. LOCAL GOVERNMENT IMPACT AID AND COMMU-
NITY SERVICE ASSISTANCE. 
(a) FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AUTHORIZED.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary may use 
amounts available from the Coastal Plain Local Gov-
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