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of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, subject to
the laws and regulations applicable thereto.
(b) MAPS.—The maps set forth as Exhibits C1, C2,
and D through I to the Agreement depict the lands subject
to the conveyances, retention of surface access rights, access
easements and all-terrain vehicle easements. These lands are
depicted in greater detail on a map entitled ‘‘Land Ex-
change Actions, Proposed Anaktuvuk Pass Land Exchange
and Wilderness Redesignation, Gates of the Arctic National
Park and Preserve’’, Map No. 185/80,039, dated April 1994,
and on file at the Alaska Regional Office of the National
Park Service and the offices of Gates of the Arctic National
Park and Preserve in Fairbanks, Alaska. Written legal de-
scriptions of these lands shall be prepared and made avail-
able in the above offices. In case of any discrepancies, Map
No. 185/80,039 shall be controlling.
SEC. 1403. NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM WILDERNESS.
(a) GATES OF THE ARCTIC WILDERNESS.—
(1) REDESIGNATION.—Section 701(2) of the
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (94
Stat. 2371, 2417) establishing the Gates of the Arctic
Wilderness is hereby amended with the addition of
approximately 56,825 acres as wilderness and the re-
scission of approximately 73,993 acres as wilderness,
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thus revising the Gates of the Arctic Wilderness to ap-
proximately 7,034,832 acres.
(2) MAP.—The lands redesignated by paragraph
(1) are depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Wilderness Ac-
tions, Proposed Anaktuvuk Pass Land Exchange and
Wilderness Redesignation, Gates of the Arctic Na-
tional Park and Preserve’’, Map No. 185/80,040,
dated April 1994, and on file at the Alaska Regional
Office of the National Park Service and the office of
Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in
Fairbanks, Alaska.
(b) NOATAK NATIONAL PRESERVE.—Section 201(8)(a)
of the Alaska National Interest Land Conservation Act (94
Stat. 2380) is amended by—
(1) striking ‘‘approximately six million four
hundred and sixty thousand acres’’ and inserting in
lieu thereof ‘‘approximately 6,477,168 acres’’; and
(2) inserting ‘‘and the map entitled ‘‘Noatak Na-
tional Preserve and Noatak Wilderness Addition’’
dated September 1994’’ after ‘‘July 1980’’.
(c) NOATAK WILDERNESS.—Section 701(7) of the
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (94 Stat.
2417) is amended by striking ‘‘approximately five million
eight hundred thousand acres’’ and inserting in lieu thereof
‘‘approximately 5,817,168 acres’’.
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SEC. 1404. CONFORMANCE WITH OTHER LAW.
(a) ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT ACT.—All
of the lands, or interests therein, conveyed to and received
by Arctic Slope Regional Corporation or Nunamiut Cor-
poration pursuant to the Agreement shall be deemed con-
veyed and received pursuant to exchanges under section
22(f) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, as amend-
ed (43 U.S.C. 1601, 1621(f)). All of the lands or interests
in lands conveyed pursuant to the Agreement shall be con-
veyed subject to valid existing rights.
(b) ALASKA NATIONAL INTEREST LANDS CONSERVA-
TION ACT.—Except to the extent specifically set forth in this
title or the Agreement, nothing in this title or in the Agree-
ment shall be construed to enlarge or diminish the rights,
privileges, or obligations of any person, including specifi-
cally the preference for subsistence uses and access to sub-
sistence resources provided under the Alaska National Inter-
est Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.).
TITLE XV—ALASKA PENINSULA
SUBSURFACE CONSOLIDATION
SEC. 1501. DEFINITIONS.
As used in this title:
(1) AGENCY.—The term agency—
(A) means—
(i) any instrumentality of the United
States; and
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(ii) any Government corporation (as
defined in section 9101(1) of title 31, Unit-
ed States Code); and
(B) includes any element of an agency.
(2) ALASKA
NATIVE
CORPORATION.—The term
‘‘Alaska Native Corporation’’ has the same meaning
as is provided for ‘‘Native Corporation’’ in section
3(m) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43
U.S.C. 1602(m)).
(3) FEDERAL LANDS OR INTEREST THEREIN.—
The term ‘‘Federal lands or interests therein’’ means
any lands or properties owned by the United States
(i) which are administered by the Secretary, or (ii)
which are subject to a lease to third parties, or (iii)
which have been made available to the Secretary for
exchange under this section through the concurrence of
the director of the agency administering such lands or
properties: Provided however, That excluded from
such lands shall be those lands which are within an
existing conservation system unit as defined in sec-
tion 102(4) of the Alaska National Interest Lands
Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 3102(4)), and those
lands the mineral interest for which are currently
under mineral lease.
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(4) 
KONIAG.—The 
term 
‘‘Koniag’’ 
means
Koniag, Incorporated, which is a regional Corpora-
tion.
(5) REGIONAL
CORPORATION.—The term ‘‘Re-
gional Corporation’’ has the same meaning as is pro-
vided in section 3(g) of the Alaska Native Claims Set-
tlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1602(g)).
(6) SECRETARY.—Except as otherwise provided,
the term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary of the Inte-
rior.
(7) SELECTION
RIGHTS.—The term ‘‘selection
rights’’ means those rights granted to Koniag, pursu-
ant to subsections (a) and (b) of section 12, and sec-
tion 14(h)(8), of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement
Act (43 U.S.C. 1611 and 1613(h)(8)), to receive title
to the oil and gas rights and other interests in the
subsurface estate of the approximately 275,000 acres
of public lands in the State of Alaska identified as
‘‘Koniag Selections’’ on the map entitled ‘‘Koniag In-
terest Lands, Alaska Peninsula’’, dated May 1989.
SEC. 1502. VALUATION OF KONIAG SELECTION RIGHTS.
(a) Pursuant to subsection (b) hereof, the Secretary
shall value the Selection Rights which Koniag possesses
within the boundaries of Aniakchak National Monument