[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1487 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1487

 To provide for certain conveyances of surface estate under the Alaska 
         Native Claims Settlement Act, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 29, 2017

 Ms. Murkowski (for herself and Mr. Sullivan) 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 provide for certain conveyances of surface estate under the Alaska 
         Native Claims Settlement Act, 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 ``ANCSA Kaktovik and Canyon Village 
Land Conveyance Settlement Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. KAKTOVIK AND CANYON VILLAGE.

    (a) Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation.--To maximize Federal revenues by 
removing clouds on title to land and clarifying land ownership patterns 
within the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 
notwithstanding section 1302(h)(2) of the Alaska National Interest 
Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 3192(h)(2)), the Secretary shall 
convey--
            (1) to the Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation the surface estate 
        of the land described in paragraph 1 of Public Land Order 6959 
        (58 Fed. Reg. 14323), to the extent necessary to fulfill the 
        entitlement of the Corporation under section 12 of the Alaska 
        Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1611) in accordance 
        with the terms and conditions of the Agreement between the 
        Department of the Interior, the United States Fish and Wildlife 
        Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Kaktovik 
        Inupiat Corporation, effective January 22, 1993; and
            (2) to the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation the remaining 
        subsurface estate to which the Corporation is entitled pursuant 
        to the Agreement between the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation 
        and the United States of America dated August 9, 1983.
    (b) Canyon Village.--
            (1) Conveyance.--
                    (A) In general.--The Secretary shall convey to Kian 
                Tr'ee Corporation, for the Native Village of Canyon 
                Village, the surface estate in the land selected by the 
                Kian Tr'ee Corporation pursuant to section 14(h)(2) of 
                the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 
                1613(h)(2)).
                    (B) Application.--Section 2653.3(c) of title 43, 
                Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations), 
                shall not apply to the conveyance under subparagraph 
                (A).
            (2) Limitation.--The conveyance under paragraph (1)(A) 
        shall not exceed 6,400 acres.
            (3) Subsurface estate.--
                    (A) In general.--Unless Doyon, Limited, elects to 
                receive conveyance under subparagraph (B), the 
                Secretary shall convey to Doyon, Limited, the 
                subsurface estate in the land conveyed under paragraph 
                (1)(A).
                    (B) Alternate selection.--At the option of Doyon, 
                Limited, in lieu of accepting the conveyance under 
                subparagraph (A)--
                            (i) Doyon, Limited, may receive a 
                        conveyance from existing selections on land 
                        withdrawn pursuant to section 11(a)(3) of the 
                        Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 
                        1610(a)(3)) that is equal in acreage to the 
                        subsurface that would otherwise be conveyed 
                        under subparagraph (A);
                            (ii) Doyon, Limited, shall notify the 
                        Secretary (acting through the Alaska State 
                        Office of the Bureau of Land Management) of the 
                        preference of Doyon, Limited, not later than 90 
                        days after the date of enactment of this Act; 
                        and
                            (iii) the Secretary shall convey to Doyon, 
                        Limited, the subsurface estate selected under 
                        clause (i).
    (c) Definition of Secretary.--In this section, the term 
``Secretary'' means the Secretary of the Interior.
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