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, Nunamiut Cor-
poration, the City of Anaktuvuk Pass, and Arctic
Slope Regional Corporation. Full effectuation of this
agreement, as amended, by its terms requires ratifi-
cation 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) 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 addi-
tion of approximately 56,825 acres as wilderness
and the rescission of approximately 73,993 acres as
wilderness, thus revising the Gates of the Arctic Wil-
derness to approximately 7,034,832 acres.
(2) MAP.—The lands redesignated by para-
graph (1) are depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Wilder-
ness Actions, Proposed Anaktuvuk Pass Land Ex-
change and Wilderness Redesignation, Gates of the
Arctic National 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 Pre-
serve in Fairbanks, Alaska.
(b) 
NOATAK
NATIONAL
PRESERVE.—Section
201(8)(a) of the Alaska National Interest Land Conserva-
tion 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
National 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’’.
SEC. 5. 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.—Except to the extent specifically set forth in
this Act or the Agreement, nothing in this Act or in the
Agreement shall be construed to enlarge or diminish the
rights, privileges, or obligations of any person, including
specifically the preference for subsistence uses and access
to subsistence resources provided under the Alaska Na-
tional Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 3101
et seq.).
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