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Union Calendar No. 150 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 740 
[Report No. 113–203] 
To provide for the settlement of certain claims under the Alaska Native 
Claims Settlement Act, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 14, 2013 
Mr. YOUNG of Alaska (for himself, Ms. HANABUSA, Mr. PIERLUISI, Ms. 
BORDALLO, and Mr. SABLAN) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Natural Resources 
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013 
Additional sponsor: Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA 
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on February 14, 2013] 
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A BILL 
To provide for the settlement of certain claims under the 
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and for other pur-
poses. 
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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 ‘‘Southeast Alaska Native 
Land Entitlement Finalization and Jobs Protection Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) MAPS.—The term ‘‘maps’’ means the maps 
entitled ‘‘Sealaska Land Entitlement Finalization’’, 
numbered 1 through 25 and dated January 22, 2013. 
(2) SEALASKA.—The term ‘‘Sealaska’’ means the 
Sealaska Corporation, a Regional Native Corporation 
established under the Alaska Native Claims Settle-
ment Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.). 
(3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior. 
(4) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means the State 
of Alaska. 
SEC. 3. FINDINGS; PURPOSE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that— 
(1)(A) in 1971, Congress enacted the Alaska Na-
tive Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) 
to recognize and settle the aboriginal claims of Alaska 
Natives to land historically used by Alaska Natives 
for traditional, cultural, and spiritual purposes; and 
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(B) that Act declared that the land settlement 
‘‘should be accomplished rapidly, with certainty, in 
conformity with the real economic and social needs of 
Natives’’; 
(2) the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 
U.S.C. 1601 et seq.)— 
(A) authorized the distribution of approxi-
mately $1,000,000,000 and 44,000,000 acres of 
land to Alaska Natives; and 
(B) provided for the establishment of Native 
Corporations to receive and manage the funds 
and that land to meet the cultural, social, and 
economic needs of Native shareholders; 
(3) under section 12 of the Alaska Native Claims 
Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1611), each Regional Cor-
poration, other than Sealaska (the Regional Corpora-
tion for southeast Alaska), was authorized to receive 
a share of land based on the proportion that the num-
ber of Alaska Native shareholders residing in the re-
gion of the Regional Corporation bore to the total 
number of Alaska Native shareholders, or the relative 
size of the area to which the Regional Corporation 
had an aboriginal land claim bore to the size of the 
area to which all Regional Corporations had aborigi-
nal land claims; 
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