[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1159 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1159

 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

                           September 10, 1997

 Mr. Murkowski 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 (Public Law 92-203, 
December 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 688, 43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), as amended, 
is further amended by adding at the end thereof:

``SEC.    KAKE TRIBAL CORPORATION LAND EXCHANGE.

    ``(a) General.--To provide Kake Tribal Corporation with land 
suitable for development, to acknowledge the corporation's return to 
public ownership land needed as 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).
    ``(b) Title to Surface and Subsurface.--Subject to valid existing 
rights and easements, the Secretary shall, no later than the deadline 
specified in (c)(2) of this section, convey to Kake Tribal Corporation 
title to the surface estate in the land described in subsection (c)(2) 
and convey to Sealaska Corporation title to the subsurface estate in 
that land.
    ``(c) Description and Deadlines.--The land to be conveyed under 
this section is in the Copper River Meridian and is further described 
as follows:
            (1) the municipal watershed land to be conveyed by Kake 
        Tribal Corporation to the United States no later that 90 days 
        after the effective date of this section is shown on the map 
        dated              and labeled Attachment A, and is described 
        as follows:

                          MUNICIPAL WATERSHED

                               T56S, R72E

Section                                               Approximate acres
        13.....................................................      82
        23.....................................................     118
        24.....................................................     635
        25.....................................................     640
        26.....................................................     346
        34.....................................................       9
        35.....................................................     349
        36.....................................................     248
        Approximate total......................................   2,427
        and
            ``(2) the approximate 2,427 acres of land to be conveyed to 
        Kake Tribal Corporation is land in the Hamilton Bay and Saginaw 
        Bay areas and shall be conveyed within 90 days after the 
        conveyance of lands in subsection (c)(1); this land is depicted 
        on the maps dated              and labeled Attachments B and C.
    ``(d) Management of Watershed.--The United States Forest Service 
shall enter into a Memorandum of Agreement with the City of Kake, 
Alaska, to provide for management of the municipal watershed.
    ``(e) Timber Manufacturing; Export Restriction.--Notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, timber harvested from land conveyed to Kake 
Tribal Corporation under this Act is not available for export as 
unprocessed logs from Alaska, nor may Kake Tribal Corporation sell, 
trade, exchange, substitute, or otherwise convey that timber to any 
person for the purpose of exporting that timber from the State of 
Alaska. The land exchange valuation shall be in accordance with section 
22(f).
    ``(f) Relation to Other Requirements.--The land conveyed to Kake 
Tribal Corporation and Sealaska Corporation under this section shall be 
for all purposes, considered land conveyed under the Alaska Native 
Claims Settlement Act.
    ``(g) 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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