[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 127 (Monday, September 16, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S10614]
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 THE ALASKA NATIONAL INTEREST LANDS CONSERVATION ACT AMENDMENT ACT OF 
                                  1996

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                      MURKOWSKI AMENDMENT NO. 5354

  (Ordered referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.)
  Mr. MURKOWSKI submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him 
to the bill (S. 1920) to amend the Alaska National Interest Lands 
Conservation Act, and for other purposes; as follows:

       (a) Section 1(a) is amended by adding ``and an ANCSA'' 
     after the word ``ANILCA'' on page 1, line 10, and page 2, 
     line 4.
       (b) Section 1(b) is deleted.
       (c) Section 1(d) is deleted.
       (d) Section 1(e) is deleted.
       Section 1(r) is amended by striking all after the word 
     ``follows'' and inserting in lieu thereof: ``Inability to 
     provide the service, after enactment of this Act, for up to a 
     two-year period shall not constitute a relinquishment of a 
     right under this section.''.
       (e) Section 1(s) is deleted.
       (f) At the end of the bill add a new section, section (2) 
     as follows:

     ``SEC. 2. STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION.

       Nothing in this Act is intended to affect--
       (1) the provisions for subsistence uses in Alaska set forth 
     in the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act 
     (Public Law 96-487), including those in titles III and VIII 
     of that Act;
       (2) the provisions of section 102 of the Alaska National 
     Interest Lands Conservation Act, the jurisdiction over 
     subsistence uses in Alaska, or any assertion of subsistence 
     used in the Federal courts; and
       (3) the manner in which section 810 of the Alaska National 
     Interest Lands Conservation Act is implemented in refuges in 
     Alaska, and the determination of compatible use as it relates 
     to subsistence uses in these refuges.''.

  Mr. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, today I rise for the purpose of 
submitting an amendment to legislation within the jurisdiction of the 
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  This amendment addresses some of the concerns raised by Alaskans on 
S. 1920 as introduced. I plan to discuss the bill and the amendment at 
a hearing to be held in the Senate and Energy and Natural Resources 
Committee on Wednesday, September 18, 1996.

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