Title: ANCSA Chugach Alaska Land Exchange Study Act of 2017
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
ANCSA Chugach Alaska Land Exchange Study Act of 2017
This bill requires the Department of Agriculture, in coordination with the Department of the Interior, to conduct a study that identifies the impacts on the land of the Chugach Alaska Corporation (CAC), an Alaska Native regional corporation, that resulted from changes in federal law or federal or state land acquisitions in the Chugach region after the enactment of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. The study must include the impacts on land in which the subsurface estate was conveyed to the CAC and the surface estate or a conservation easement in the surface estate was acquired by Alaska or by the United States as part of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council Habitat Protection and Acquisition Program.
In addition, the study must: (1) include recommendations for a land exchange, including land exchange options that could be offered to the CAC as consideration for the conveyance of its existing property rights in exchange for other federal land or property available for exchange; and (2) identify at least 500,000 acres of economically viable federal land, in or outside of Alaska, that can be exchanged with the CAC.
The land exchange described in the recommendations must be pursuant to mutual agreement of the CAC and the United States.


[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1493 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1493

To require a study and report identifying the impacts on Chugach Alaska 
 Corporation land that resulted from changes in Federal law or Federal 
    or State land acquisitions in the Chugach region, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 29, 2017

 Ms. Murkowski (for herself and Mr. Sullivan) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To require a study and report identifying the impacts on Chugach Alaska 
 Corporation land that resulted from changes in Federal law or Federal 
    or State land acquisitions in the Chugach region, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``ANCSA Chugach Alaska Land Exchange 
Study Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. CHUGACH ALASKA CORPORATION LAND EXCHANGE POOL.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) CAC.--The term ``CAC'' means Chugach Alaska 
        Corporation.
            (2) CAC land.--The term ``CAC land'' means land conveyed to 
        CAC pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 
        U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) in which--
                    (A) both the surface estate and the subsurface 
                estate were conveyed to CAC; or
                    (B)(i) the subsurface estate was conveyed to CAC; 
                and
                    (ii) the surface estate or a conservation easement 
                in the surface estate was acquired by the State or by 
                the United States as part of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill 
                Trustee Council Habitat Protection and Acquisition 
                Program.
            (3) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of Agriculture.
            (4) State.--The term ``State'' means the State of Alaska.
    (b) Study.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
        enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in coordination with the 
        Secretary of the Interior and in consultation with CAC, shall 
        conduct a study to identify the impacts on CAC land that 
        resulted from changes in Federal law or Federal or State land 
        acquisitions in the Chugach region after December 1, 1980.
            (2) Study requirements.--
                    (A) In general.--The study described in paragraph 
                (1) shall--
                            (i) consider conflicts that have arisen 
                        between the management of Federal land in the 
                        Chugach region and CAC land;
                            (ii) include recommendations for a land 
                        exchange, including land exchange options that 
                        could be offered to CAC as consideration for 
                        the conveyance of existing property rights of 
                        CAC in exchange for other Federal land or 
                        property available for exchange; and
                            (iii) identify not less than 500,000 acres 
                        of economically viable Federal land, being 
                        managed by any Federal land management agency, 
                        in or outside the State that can be made 
                        available to CAC in exchange for any CAC land 
                        identified by CAC as available to the United 
                        States for exchange.
                    (B) Land exchange requirements.--Any land exchange 
                described in subparagraph (A) shall be pursuant to 
                mutual agreement of CAC and the United States and 
                consummated in accordance with all applicable legal 
                authorizations, except that any acre-for-acre exchange 
                of such Federal land for such CAC land shall be 
                conclusively deemed to be in the public interest.
    (c) Report.--Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources 
of the House of Representatives a report containing the results of the 
study conducted under this section, the identification of Federal land 
for exchange, and any other recommendations as identified by the 
Secretary of the Interior.
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