[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1342 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1342

 To provide for conveyances of certain lands within Cook Inlet Region, 
   Alaska, for reconveyance to village corporations under the Alaska 
                     Native Claims Settlement Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 28, 1995

 Mr. Young of Alaska introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                     to the Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for conveyances of certain lands within Cook Inlet Region, 
   Alaska, for reconveyance to village corporations under the Alaska 
                     Native Claims Settlement Act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 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) The Secretary shall convey all right, title, and interest 
of the United States in and to the lands described in paragraph (2) to 
Cook Inlet Region, Inc., for conveyance to the Village Corporations 
within Cook Inlet Region in partial satisfaction of each Village 
Corporation's statutory entitlement under section 12(a) of the 
Settlement Act:
    ``(2) The lands described in this paragraph are as follows:
    Seward Meridian, Alaska
            T. 1 S., R. 19 W. (Unsurveyed)
                    Sections 29 and 32 (fractional).
            T. 1 S., R. 20 W. (Unsurveyed)
                    Sections 1 and 2 (fractional);
                    Section 3.
            T. 2 S., R. 19 W. (Unsurveyed)
                    Sections 6 and 18 (fractional).
            T. 2 S., R. 20 W. (Unsurveyed)
                    Section 1 (fractional);
                    Section 6;
                    Sections 12 and 13 (fractional);
                    Section 14;
                    Sections 23, 24, and 26 (fractional);
                    Sections 31, 32, and 33;
                    Section 34 (fractional);
                    Section 35 (fractional).
            T. 2 S., R. 21 W. (Unsurveyed)
                    Section 36.
            T. 3 S., R. 20 W. (Unsurveyed)
                    Section 3 (fractional);
                    Section 4;
                    Section 7, 8, and 9;
                    Section 10 (fractional);
                    Sections 15 and 16 (fractional);
                    Sections 17 and 18;
                    Sections 19, 20, and 21 (fractional);
                    Section 30 (fractional).
            T. 3 S., R. 21 W. (Unsurveyed)
                    Section 13;
                    Sections 19 to 24, inclusive;
                    Section 25 (fractional);
                    Section 26;
                    Section 27 and 28 (fractional);
                    Section 29;
                    Sections 30 to 36 (fractional), inclusive.
            T. 1 N., R. 20 W. (Unsurveyed)
                    Sections 6 to 9 (fractional), inclusive;
                    Section 15 (fractional);
                    Section 16;
                    Sections 22 to 25 (fractional), inclusive;
                    Sections 26 and 35;
                    Section 36 (fractional).
            T. 4 N., R. 19 W. (Unsurveyed)
                    Sections 20 and 36.
                    Aggregating approximately 29,900 acres, more or 
                less.
    ``(3) Upon receipt of conveyance of the lands described in 
paragraph (2), the Cook Inlet Region, Inc., shall reconvey the surface 
estate to the appropriate Village Corporation in a manner that is 
consistent with the existing village selection priority ranking. Such 
conveyances shall be charged to each Village Corporation's section 
12(a) statutory entitlement under the Settlement Act.
    ``(4) Cook Inlet Region, Inc., shall notify the Bureau of Land 
Management of reconveyances under paragraph (3) and of any other 
reconveyance made in partial satisfaction of each Village Corporation's 
sections 12(a) and section 12(b) statutory entitlements under the 
Settlement Act pursuant to this subsection or to the Deficiency 
Conveyance Agreement between the Secretary of the Interior and Cook 
Inlet Region, Inc., dated August 31, 1976.''.
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