I 
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4601 
To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to recognize Alexander 
Creek as a Native village, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 16, 2004 
Mr. YOUNG of Alaska introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Resources 
A BILL 
To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to recog-
nize Alexander Creek as a Native village, 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. ALEXANDER CREEK VILLAGE RECOGNITION. 
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 
1601 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘ALEXANDER CREEK VILLAGE RECOGNITION 
‘‘SEC. 43. 
‘‘(a) RECOGNITION OF THE VILLAGE OF ALEXANDER 
CREEK.—Alexander Creek, located within Township 15N,
Range 7W, Seward Meridian, Alaska, is an eligible Native 
village under section 11(b)(3). 
‘‘(b) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this section, 
the following terms apply: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘agency’ includes— 
‘‘(A) any instrumentality of the United 
States; 
‘‘(B) any element of an agency; and 
‘‘(C) any wholly owned or mixed-owned 
corporation of the United States Government 
identified in chapter 91 of title 31, United 
States Code. 
‘‘(2) The term ‘conservation system unit’ has 
the meaning given that term in the Alaska National 
Interest Lands Conservation Act. 
‘‘(3) The term ‘Alexander Creek’ means Alex-
ander Creek Incorporated, an Alaska Native Group 
corporation, organized pursuant to this Act. 
‘‘(4) The term ‘property’ has the meaning given 
that term in Public Law 94–204 (43 U.S.C. 1611 
note). 
‘‘(5) The term ‘Region’ means Cook Inlet Re-
gion Incorporated, an Alaska Native Regional Cor-
poration, which is the appropriate Regional Corpora-
tion for Alexander Creek under section 1613(h).
‘‘(c) ESTABLISHMENT.—(1) The Secretary of the 
Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of the Inte-
rior, shall establish an account in the Treasury to be 
known as the ‘Alexander Creek account’. 
‘‘(2) Funds in the Alexander Creek account shall— 
‘‘(A) be available to Alexander Creek for bid-
ding on and purchasing property sold at public sale, 
subject to paragraph (3); and 
‘‘(B) remain available until expended. 
‘‘(3)(A) Alexander Creek may use funds in the Alex-
ander Creek account to bid as any other bidder for prop-
erty in Alaska at any public sale by an agency and may 
purchase such property in accordance with applicable laws 
and regulations of the agency offering the property for 
sale. 
‘‘(B) In conducting a transaction described in sub-
paragraph (A), an agency shall accept, in the same man-
ner as cash, any amount tendered from the Alexander 
Creek account. The Secretary of the Treasury shall adjust 
the balance of the Alexander Creek account to reflect the 
transaction. 
‘‘(C) The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
with the Secretary of the Interior, shall establish proce-
dures for the following transactions related to the Alex-
ander Creek account:
‘‘(i) Receipt of deposits. 
‘‘(ii) Receipt of deposits into escrow when an 
escrow is required for the sale of property. 
‘‘(iii) Reinstatement to the Alexander Creek ac-
count of any unused escrow deposits in the event 
that a sale of property is not consummated. 
‘‘(d) LAND EXCHANGE.—The Secretary of the Inte-
rior shall enter into negotiations to attempt to conclude, 
under the authority of section 22(f), a land exchange to 
acquire the surface estate in lands not within any con-
servation system unit from the State of Alaska or the 
Matanuska-Susitna Borough under the same procedures 
set forth in section 22(f) to enable Alexander Creek to se-
lect additional public lands within Alexander Creek’s origi-
nal withdrawal area in Alaska, as identified by Alexander 
Creek. 
‘‘(e) AMOUNT.—(1) The initial balance of the Alex-
ander Creek account shall be the fair market value of the 
surface estate of the approximately 61,440 acres of defi-
ciency selections made by Alexander Creek, as depicted on 
the map entitled ‘llllllllllll’ and dated 
llllllllllll. 
‘‘(2) If a conveyance is made to Alexander Creek pur-
suant to subsection (d), the Alexander Creek account shall 
be reduced by the amount of the actual acres conveyed