Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation Gravel Exchange Amendment Act

Bill: 115-hr-348
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-01-05
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska

Alaska Natives and Hawaiians

Indian lands and resources rights

Land transfers

Oil and gas
Latest action: action_date: 2017-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-01-05
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation Gravel Exchange Amendment Act</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Barrow Gas Field Transfer Act of 1984 with respect to the conveyance to the Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation (UIC) of all right, title, and interest held by the United States to sand and gravel underlying the surface estate owned by UIC in the Barrow gas fields and Walakpa gas discovery site.</p> <p>This conveyance shall include all U.S. right, title, and interest to specified sand and gravel deposits underlying the surface estate owned by UIC that are contiguous to the Barrow gas fields. </p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 348 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 5, 2017 Mr. Young of Alaska introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources A BILL To more accurately identify and transfer subsurface gravel sources originally intended to be made available to the Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation in exchange for its relinquishment of related property rights.

1. Technical amendment (a) Short title This section may be cited as the Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation Gravel Exchange Amendment Act . (b) Identification and transfer of gravel sources Section 3 of the Barrow Gas Field Transfer Act of 1984 ( Public Law 98–366 , 98 Stat. 468) is amended by adding at the end the following: The foregoing conveyance to UIC shall include all right, title, and interest held by the United States to sand and gravel deposits underlying the surface estate owned by UIC contiguous to the Barrow gas fields, more particularly described as the sand and gravel deposits underlying that UIC surface estate lying within T 21N R16W, sections 7, 17–18, 19–21, and 28–29; T 21N R17W, sections 1–2, and 11–14; T 22N, R18W, sections 4, 9, and 29–32; and T 22N R19W, sections 25 and 36. .