[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1807 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1807

 To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, regarding the Kake 
           Tribal Corporation public interest land exchange.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 23, 1996

 Mr. Murkowski (for himself and Mr. Stevens) 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 amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, regarding the Kake 
           Tribal Corporation public interest land exchange.

    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 ``Kake Tribal Corporation Land 
Exchange Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT OF SETTLEMENT ACT.

    The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (Pub. L. 92-203, December 
18, 1971, 85 Stat. 688, 43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), as amended, is further 
amended by adding a new section to read:

``SEC. 40. KAKE TRIBAL CORPORATION LAND EXCHANGE.

    ``(a) To provide Kake Tribal Corporation with land suitable for 
development, to acknowledge the corporation's return to public 
ownership land needed as a municipal watershed area, and to promote the 
public interest, the Secretary shall convey to the corporation 
approximately 2,427 acres of Federal land as described in subsection 
(c). The land to be conveyed includes--
            ``(1) up to 388 acres in the Slate Lakes area, as described 
        in (c)(2) of this section, if, within five years after the 
        effective date of this section, the corporation has entered 
        into an agreement to lease or otherwise convey some or all of 
        the land to the operator of the Jualin Mine; or
            ``(2) at the corporation's option, the 388 acres mentioned 
        in (1) of this subsection and the remaining 2,039 acres may be 
        conveyed from the acres described in (c)(3) of this section.
    ``(b) Title to Surface and Subsurface.--Subject to valid existing 
rights and easements, the Secretary shall, no later than the deadlines 
specified in (c) (2) and (3) of this section, convey to Kake Tribal 
Corporation title to the surface estate in this land and convey to 
Sealaska Corporation title to the subsurface estate in that land.
    ``(c) Description and Deadlines.--The land covered by this section 
is in the Copper River Meridian and is further described as follows:
            ``(1) The land to be conveyed by Kake Tribal Corporation to 
        the United States, no later than 90 days after the effective 
        date of this section, as shown on the map dated ______ and 
        labeled Attachment A, is the municipal watershed area and is 
        described as follows:


                          ``Municipal watershed                         
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                                                             Approximate
                          Section                               acres   
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                               T56S, R72E                               
13.........................................................           82
23.........................................................          118
24.........................................................          635
25.........................................................          640
26.........................................................          346
34.........................................................            9
35.........................................................          349
36.........................................................          248
                                                            ------------
  Approximate Total........................................      2,427''
------------------------------------------------------------------------

            ``(2) Kake Tribal Corporation shall have the option to 
        select up to 388 acres in the Slate Lakes area, as shown on the 
        map dated ______ and labeled Attachment B. This option shall 
        remain in effect for five years after the date of enactment of 
        this section. The land to be conveyed is identified on the 
        following maps as:


                            Slate lakes area                            
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                                                             Approximate
              Section                      Description          acres   
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                               T35S, R62E                               
22.................................  E\1/2\................           27
23.................................  W\1/2\................          152
26.................................  W\1/2\................          119
27.................................  E\1/2\................           23
                                                                        
                               T36S, R62E                               
1..................................  W\1/2\, NW\1/4\.......           38
                                                                        
   Two utility corridors: One beginning in the northwest                
quarter of section 1, T36S, R62E, heading northwest through             
 the northeast quarter of section 2, then heading northwest             
    through section 26, T35S, R62E; another beginning in                
  section 23, T35S, R62E, heading northeast, then heading               
  northwest through section 23, then northwest through the              
  southwest quarter of section 15, then northwest through               
section 16, then turning northeast in the northeast quarter             
        of section 16 to the Jualin patented group.                     
      Approximate Total....................................        388''
------------------------------------------------------------------------

            ``(3) The remaining 2,039 acres of land to be conveyed to 
        Kake Tribal Corporation, or the entire 2,427 acres if the 
        option on the 388 acres mentioned in (2) of this subsection is 
        not exercised, shall be land in the Hamilton Bay and Saginaw 
        Bay areas and shall be conveyed within 90 days after the 
        effective date of this section; this land is shown on the maps 
        dated ______ and labeled Attachments C and D.
    ``(d) Timber Manufacturing.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, timber harvested from lands conveyed to Kake Tribal Council 
pursuant to this Act shall not be available for export as unprocessed 
logs from Alaska, nor may Kake Tribal Corporation sell, trade, 
exchange, substitute, or otherwise convey such logs to any other person 
for the purpose of exporting such logs from the State of Alaska.
    ``(e) Relation to Other Requirements.--The land conveyed to Kake 
Tribal Corporation and Sealaska Corporation under this section is, for 
all purposes, considered land conveyed under the Alaska Native Claims 
Settlement Act.
    ``(f) Maps.--The maps referred to in this section shall be 
maintained on file in the Office of the Chief, United States Forest 
Service, and in the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, 
Washington, DC. The acreage cited in this section is approximate, and 
if a discrepancy arises between cited acreage and the land depicted on 
the specified maps the maps shall control. The maps do not constitute 
an attempt by the United States to convey State or private land.''.
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