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103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4746
To provide for the exchange of lands within Gates of the Arctic National
Park and Preserve, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JULY 13, 1994
Mr. MILLER of California (by request) introduced the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on Natural Resources
A BILL
To provide for the exchange of lands within Gates of the
Arctic National Park and Preserve, 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 ‘‘Anaktuvuk Pass Land
Exchange and Wilderness Redesignation Act of 1994’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) On December 2, 1980, the Alaska National
Interest Lands Conservation Act (94 Stat. 2371) es-
tablished Gates of the Arctic National Park and
Preserve and Gates of the Arctic Wilderness. The
village of Anaktuvuk Pass, located in the highlands
of the central Brooks Range, is virtually surrounded
by these national park and wilderness lands and is
the only village located within the boundary of a Na-
tional Park System unit in Alaska.
(2) Unlike most other Alaskan Native commu-
nities, the village of Anaktuvuk Pass is not located
on a major river, lake, or coastline that can be used
as a means of access. The residents of Anaktuvuk
Pass have relied increasingly on snow machines in
winter and all-terrain vehicles in summer as their
primary means of access to pursue caribou and
other subsistence resources.
(3) In a 1983 land exchange agreement, linear
easements were reserved by the Inupiat Eskimo peo-
ple for use of all-terrain vehicles across certain na-
tional park lands, mostly along stream and river
banks. These linear easements proved unsatisfactory,
because they provided inadequate access to subsist-
ence resources while causing excessive environmental
impact from concentrated use.
(4) The National Park Service and the
Nunamiut Corporation initiated discussions in 1985
to address concerns over the use of all-terrain vehi-
cles on park and wilderness land. These discussions
resulted in an agreement, originally executed in
1992 and thereafter amended in 1993 and 1994,
among the National Park Service, the Nunamiut
Corporation, the City of Anaktuvuk Pass, and the
Arctic Slope Regional Corporation. Full effectuation
of this agreement, as amended, requires ratification
by the Congress.
SEC. 3. RATIFICATION OF AGREEMENT.
(a) RATIFICATION.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The terms, conditions, pro-
cedures, covenants, reservations and other provisions
set forth in the document entitled ‘‘Donation, Ex-
change of Lands and Interests in Lands and Wilder-
ness Redesignation Agreement Among Arctic Slope
Regional Corporation, Nunamiut Corporation, City
of Anaktuvuk Pass and the United States of Amer-
ica’’ (hereinafter referred to in this Act as ‘‘the
Agreement’’), executed by the parties on December
17, 1992, as amended, are hereby incorporated in
this Act, are ratified and confirmed, and set forth
the obligations and commitments of the United
States, 
Arctic 
Slope 
Regional 
Corporation,
Nunamiut Corporation and the City of Anaktuvuk
Pass, as a matter of Federal law.
(2) LAND
ACQUISITION.—Lands acquired by
the United States pursuant to the Agreement shall
be administered by the Secretary of the Interior
(hereinafter referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) as part
of Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve,
subject to the laws and regulations applicable there-
to.
(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, ac-
cess easements and all-terrain vehicle easements. These
lands are depicted in greater detail on a map entitled
‘‘Land Exchange 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 Of-
fice of the National Park Service and the offices of Gates
of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in Fairbanks,
Alaska. Written legal descriptions of these lands shall be
prepared and made available in the above offices. In case
of any discrepancies, Map No. 185/80,039, shall be con-
trolling.
SEC. 4. NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM WILDERNESS.
(a) 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 rescission of approxi-
mately 73,993 acres as wilderness, thus revising the Gates
of the Arctic Wilderness to approximately 7,034,832
acres.
(b) MAPS.—The lands redesignated in subsection (a)
are depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Wilderness Actions, Pro-
posed Anaktuvuk Pass Land Exchange and Wilderness
Redesignation, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Pre-
serve’’, 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.
SEC. 5. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT WILDERNESS.
Title VII of the Alaska National Interest Lands Con-
servation Act (94 Stat. 2371, 2417) is hereby amended
by adding at the end the following:
‘‘DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS ON BUREAU OF LAND
MANAGEMENT LANDS
‘‘SEC. 709. (a) In accordance with subsection 3(c) of
the Wilderness Act (78 Stat. 892), the public lands within
the boundaries depicted as ‘Proposed Wilderness’ on the
maps referred to in this section are hereby designated as
wilderness, with the nomenclature and approximate acre-
age as indicated below:
‘‘(1) Nigu Wilderness, of approximately 41,000
acres.
‘‘(b) The Nigu Wilderness as established in sub-
section (a)(1) is depicted on the map entitled ‘Appendix
D, Proposed Action Recommended Wilderness Area’ in the
September 14, 1988, Central Arctic Management Area
Wilderness Recommendations and Final Environmental
Impact Statement.’’.
SEC. 6. 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
amended (43 U.S.C. 1601, 1621(f)). All of the lands or
interests in lands conveyed pursuant to the Agreement
shall be conveyed subject to valid existing rights.
(b) ALASKA NATIONAL INTEREST LANDS CONSERVA-
TION ACT.—Nothing in this Act or in the Agreement shall
be construed to enlarge or diminish the rights, privileges,
or obligations of any person, except to the extent specifi-
cally set forth in this Act or the Agreement, including spe-
cifically the preference for subsistence uses and access to
subsistence resources provided under title VIII of the
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, as
amended (94 Stat. 2371–2422).
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