[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 211 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 211

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to complete a land exchange 
  with the Chugach Regional Alaska Native Corporation, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 3, 2017

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to complete a land exchange 
  with the Chugach Regional Alaska Native 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 ``Chugach Region Lands Study Act''.

SEC. 2. CHUGACH ALASKA CORPORATION LAND EXCHANGE POOL ACT.

    (a) Definitions.--In this Act:
            (1) CAC.--The term ``CAC'' means Chugach Alaska 
        Corporation.
            (2) State.--The term ``State'' means the State of Alaska.
            (3) CAC lands.--The term ``CAC Lands'' means lands conveyed 
        to CAC pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 
        U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) in which--
                    (A) both the surface estate and the subsurface 
                estate were conveyed to CAC; or
                    (B) the subsurface estate was conveyed to CAC and 
                the surface estate or a conservation easement in the 
                surface estate was acquired by the State or by the 
                United States as part of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill 
                Trustee Council Habitat Protection and Acquisition 
                Program.
    (b) Identification of Federal Lands.--Not later than 1 year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior, 
in coordination with the Secretary of Agriculture and in consultation 
with Chugach Alaska Corporation (CAC), shall identify not less than 
500,000 acres of economically viable Federal land in or outside the 
State of Alaska that can be made available to CAC in exchange for any 
CAC Lands identified by CAC as available to the United States for 
exchange. Any such exchange shall be pursuant to mutual agreement of 
CAC and the United States and consummated in accordance with all 
applicable legal authorizations, except that any acre-for-acre exchange 
of such Federal lands for such CAC Lands shall be conclusively deemed 
to be in the public interest.
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