[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4943 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4943

            To regulate fishing in certain waters of Alaska.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 11, 1994

 Mr. Young of Alaska introduced the following bill; which was referred 
           to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries

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                                 A BILL


 
            To regulate fishing in certain waters of Alaska.

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

SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of this Act, the term ``Katmai National Park'' means 
the national park and national preserve redesignated, established, or 
expanded under section 202(2) of the Alaska National Interest Lands 
Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 410hh-1).

SEC. 2. DESCENDANTS' LAND USE.

    Local residents who are descendants of Katmai residents who lived 
within the boundaries of the area now designated as Katmai National 
Park shall be permitted, subject to reasonable regulations established 
by the Secretary of the Interior, to continue their traditional fishery 
for red fish in the Naknek Lake/Naknek River and Brooks River and Iliuk 
Arm within Katmai National Park.

SEC. 3. EFFECT ON TITLE AND JURISDICTION OF TIDAL AND SUBMERGED LANDS.

    (a) No provision of this Act shall be construed to invalidate or 
validate or in any other way affect any claim by the State of Alaska to 
title to any or all submerged lands, nor shall any actions taken 
pursuant to or in accordance with this Act operate under any provision 
or principle of the law to bar the State of Alaska from asserting at 
any time its claim of title to any or all of the submerged lands.
    (b) Nothing in this Act nor in any actions taken pursuant to this 
Act shall be construed as expanding or diminishing Federal or State 
jurisdiction, responsibility, interests, or rights in management, 
regulation, or control over waters of the State of Alaska or submerged 
lands under and provision of Federal or State law.
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