[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 430 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 430

To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, to provide for a land 
   exchange between the Secretary of Agriculture and the Kake Tribal 
                  Corporation, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 22, 1999

 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, to provide for a land 
   exchange between the Secretary of Agriculture and the Kake Tribal 
                  Corporation, and for other purposes.

    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 Public 
Interest 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.--In exchange for lands and interests therein 
described in subsection (b), the Secretary of Agriculture shall, 
subject to valid existing rights, convey to the Kake Tribal Corporation 
the surface estate and to Sealaska Corporation the subsurface estate of 
the Federal land identified by Kake Tribal Corporation pursuant to 
subsection (c): Lands exchanged pursuant to this section shall be on 
the basis of equal value.
    ``(b) The surface estate to be conveyed by Kake Tribal Corporation 
and the subsurface estate to be conveyed by Sealaska Corporation to the 
Secretary of Agriculture are the municipal watershed lands as shown on 
the map dated September 1, 1997, and labeled Attachment A, and are 
further described as follows:

                          MUNICIPAL WATERSHED

                         COOPER RIVER MERIDIAN

                               T56S, R72E

Section                                                Aproximate acres
        13.....................................................      82
        23.....................................................     118
        24.....................................................     635
        25.....................................................     640
        26.....................................................     346
        34.....................................................       9
        35.....................................................     349
        36.....................................................     248
        Approximate total......................................   2,427
    ``(c) Within ninety (90) days of the receipt by the United States 
of the conveyances of the surface estate and the subsurface estate 
described in subsection (b), Kake Tribal Corporation shall be entitled 
to identify lands in the Hamilton Bay and Saginaw Bay areas, as 
depicted on the maps dated September 1, 1997, and labeled Attachments B 
and C. Kake Tribal Corporation shall notify the Secretary of 
Agriculture in writing which lands Kake Tribal Corporation has 
identified.
    ``(d) Timing of Conveyance and Valuation.--The conveyance mandated 
by subsection (a) by the Secretary of Agriculture shall occur within 
ninety (90) days after the list of identified lands is submitted by 
Kake Tribal Corporation pursuant to subsection (c).
    ``(e) Management of Watershed.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall 
enter into a Memorandum of Agreement with the City of Kake, Alaska, to 
provide for management of the municipal watershed.
    ``(f) Timber, Manufacturing; Export Restriction.--Notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, timber harvested from land conveyed to Kake 
Tribal Corporation under this section shall not be exported 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.
    ``(g) Relation to Other Requirements.--The land conveyed to Kake 
Tribal Corporation and Sealaska Corporation under this section shall be 
considered, for all purposes, land conveyed under the Alaska Native 
Claims Settlement Act.
    ``(h) 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, D.C. The acreage cited in this section is approximate, and 
if there is any discrepancy 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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