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Alaska Native Claims Settlement Improvement Act of 2017

Introduced: June 29, 2017 Introduced by: Murkowski, Lisa Republican · Alaska See on congress.gov
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Feb 7, 2018
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 115-502.
Jun 29, 2017
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Jun 29, 2017
Introduced in Senate
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Alaska Native Claims Settlement Improvement Act of 2017

This bill revises provisions concerning Alaska Natives claims to land and Alaska Native regional, village, or urban corporations.

The bill amends the Barrow Gas Field Transfer Act of 1984 to require the Department of the Interior to convey to the Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation certain sand and gravel deposits.

Interior must grant the Shishmaref Native Corporation a transportation easement.

Shee Atika Incorporated may opt to receive credits from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the sale of Cube Cove in Admiralty Island, Alaska, that may be used to acquire federal property sold at public sales.

The bill authorizes a land exchange between the USDA and the Sealaska Corporation.

Cook Inlet Region, Inc. may satisfy its land claim under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA).

Interior must convey a surface estate to the Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation, a subsurface estate to the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, a surface estate to Kian Tr'ee Corporation, and a subsurface estate to Doyon Limited.

The bill amends ANCSA to require Interior to pay compensation to Nagamut Limited and the Calista Corporation in lieu of conveying land to Nagamut and a subsurface estate to Calista.

Native residents of the villages of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell, Alaska, may organize as urban corporations. Upon incorporation, Interior must offer each corporation 23,040 acres of land.

Alaska Native veterans who served during the Vietnam War may receive an allotment of federal land.

For purposes of determining eligibility for need-based federal programs, the amount of cash an Alaska Native receives from a Native corporation that is disregarded is increased.

Under certain circumstances, Alaska Native village corporations may reincorporate after they are involuntarily dissolved.

What's happening now February 7, 2018

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 115-502.

 Related & companion bills 18
  • S 1482 Related bill ANCSA Shishmaref Emergency Access Easement Act of 2017
  • S 1486 Related bill ANCSA Barrow Sand and Gravel Access Act of 2017
  • S 1492 Related bill ANCSA Thirteenth Regional Corporation Reincorporation Act of 2017
  • S 1494 Related bill ANCSA Dividend Exclusion Act of 2017
  • S 1495 Related bill ANCSA Fractional Shares Consolidation Act of 2017
  • HR 231 Related bill Canyon Village Land Conveyance Act
  • S 1496 Related bill ANCSA Corporation Reinstatement Act of 2017
  • HR 229 Related bill Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act
  • HR 230 Related bill SALE Act
  • HR 1867 Related bill Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act
  • S 785 Related bill Alaska Native Vietnam Era Veterans Land Allotment Act
  • S 1483 Related bill ANCSA Shee Atika Land Exchange Settlement Act
  • S 1484 Related bill ANCSA Admiralty Island Land Exchange Finalization Act of 2017
  • S 1485 Related bill ANCSA Cook Inlet Region Land Conveyance Finalization Act of 2017
  • S 1490 Related bill ANCSA Nagamut Group Land Conveyance Settlement Act of 2017
  • S 1491 Related bill ANCSA Unrecognized Community Landless Natives Authorization Act of 2017
  • S 1493 Related bill ANCSA Chugach Alaska Land Exchange Study Act of 2017
  • S 1487 Related bill ANCSA Kaktovik and Canyon Village Land Conveyance Settlement Act of 2017
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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Republican 1
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Sullivan, Dan
Alaska · Jun 29, 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1481: Alaska Native Claims Settlement Improvement Act of 2017. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-1481/
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"S. 1481: Alaska Native Claims Settlement Improvement Act of 2017." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-1481/.
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S. 1481, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-1481/.
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