Union Calendar No. 323
104TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 2560
[Report No. 104–643]
A BILL
To provide for conveyances of certain lands in Alas-
ka to Chickaloon-Moose Creek Native Associa-
tion, Inc., Ninilchik Native Association, Inc.,
Seldovia Native Association, Inc., Tyonek Native
Corporation, and Knikatnu, Inc. under the Alas-
ka Native Claims Settlement Act.
JUNE 27, 1996
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Commit-
tee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and
ordered to be printed
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Union Calendar No. 323
104TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 2560
[Report No. 104–643]
To provide for conveyances of certain lands in Alaska to Chickaloon-Moose
Creek Native Association, Inc., Ninilchik Native Association, Inc.,
Seldovia Native Association, Inc., Tyonek Native Corporation, and
Knikatnu, Inc. under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Mr. YOUNG of Alaska introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Resources
JUNE 27, 1996
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 October 30, 1995]
A BILL
To provide for conveyances of certain lands in Alaska to
Chickaloon-Moose 
Creek 
Native 
Association, 
Inc.,
Ninilchik Native Association, Inc., Seldovia Native Asso-
ciation, Inc., Tyonek Native Corporation, and Knikatnu,
Inc. under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 4 of Public Law 94–456 (43 U.S.C. 1611 note)
is amended—
(1) by striking out ‘‘subsection (a)’’ in subsection
(c) and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘subsections (a) and
(d)’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(d)(1) In order to convey to the Village Corporations
named in this subsection certain lands the Villages have se-
lected under section 12(a) of the Settlement Act, the Sec-
retary shall convey all right, title, and interest of the United
States in and to the surface estate of the lands described
in paragraph (2) to the Village Corporations within Cook
Inlet Region named in paragraph (2) in partial satisfac-
tion of each Village Corporation’s statutory entitlement
under section 12(a) of the Settlement Act. Conveyances shall
be made pursuant to sections 12(a) and 14(f) of the Settle-
ment Act. The conveyances described in paragraph (2) shall
be made within 90 days after the date of enactment of this
subsection.
‘‘(2) The lands described in this paragraph are to be
conveyed to Village Corporations as follows:
To Chickaloon-Moose Creek Native Association, Inc.:
SEWARD MERIDIAN, ALASKA
Township 1 North, Range 20 West (Unsurveyed)
Sections 24, 25, and 36 (fractional).
To Knikatnu, Inc.:
SEWARD MERIDIAN, ALASKA
Township 1 South, Range 20 West (Unsurveyed)
Section 1 (fractional).
Township 3 South, Range 20 West (Unsurveyed)
Section 3 (fractional);
Sections 4 and 9.
Township 1 North, Range 20 West (Unsurveyed)
Section 9 (fractional).
To Ninilchik Native Association, Inc.:
SEWARD MERIDIAN, ALASKA
Township 1 South, Range 19 West (Unsurveyed)
Sections 29 and 32 (fractional).
Township 2 South, Range 19 West (Unsurveyed)
Sections 6 and 18 (fractional).
Township 2 South, Range 20 West (Unsurveyed)
Section 1 (fractional);
Sections 6 and 14;
Sections 23, 24, and 26 (fractional);
Sections 32 and 33;
Sections 34 and 35 (fractional).
Township 3 South, Range 20 West (Unsurveyed)
Section 10 (fractional).
Township 3 South, Range 21 West (Unsurveyed)
Sections 13 and 19 through 24, inclusive;
Section 25 (fractional);
Sections 32 and 34 (fractional).
Township 1 North, Range 20 West (Unsurveyed)
Sections 6 through 8 (fractional), inclusive;
Section 16;
Sections 22 and 23 (fractional);
Section 26.
Township 4 North, Range 19 West (Unsurveyed)
Sections 20 and 36.
To Seldovia Native Association, Inc.:
SEWARD MERIDIAN, ALASKA
Township 2 South, Range 20 West (Unsurveyed)
Section 13 (fractional).
Township 3 South, Range 20 West (Unsurveyed)
Sections 7 and 8;
Section 16 (fractional);
Sections 17 and 18;
Sections 19 and 20 (fractional).
To Tyonek Native Corporation:
SEWARD MERIDIAN, ALASKA
Township 1 South, Range 20 West (Unsurveyed)
Section 2 (fractional);
Section 3.
Township 2 South, Range 21 West (Unsurveyed)
Section 36.
Township 2 South, Range 20 West (Unsurveyed)
Section 12 (fractional);
Section 31.
Township 3 South, Range 20 West (Unsurveyed)
Sections 15, 21, and 30 (fractional).
Township 3 South, Range 21 West (Unsurveyed)
Section 26;
Sections 27 and 28 (fractional);
Sections 29 through 31 (fractional), inclu-
sive;
Sections 33, 35, and 36 (fractional).
Township 1 North, Range 20 West (Unsurveyed)
Section 15 (fractional);
Section 35.
Aggregating approximately 29,900 acres, more or less.
‘‘(3) No later than 180 days following the completion
of the conveyances required by paragraph (1), Cook Inlet
Region, Inc., shall convey to each of the Village Corpora-
tions referred to in paragraph (2) the surface estate in such
lands described in Appendix A of that certain Agreement
dated August 31, 1976, known as the Deficiency Agreement,
as the Village Corporations have identified, and in the order
they identified in their priority selection rounds, to satisfy
each Village Corporation’s section 12(a) entitlement under
the Settlement Act.
‘‘(4) If the Secretary does not convey the lands in
paragraph (2) within 90 days of the date of the enactment
of this subsection, then all right, title, and interest of the