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Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act

Introduced: November 19, 2021 Introduced by: Murkowski, Lisa Republican · Alaska See on congress.gov
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Jun 7, 2022
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 117-301.
Nov 19, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Nov 19, 2021
Introduced in Senate
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Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act

This bill allows five Alaska Native communities in Southeast Alaska to form urban corporations and receive land entitlements.

Specifically, the bill allows the Alaska Native residents of each of the Alaska Native villages of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell, Alaska, to organize as Alaska Native urban corporations and to receive certain settlement land.

The bill directs the Department of the Interior to convey specified land to each urban corporation. Further, Interior must convey the subsurface estate for that land to the regional corporation for Southeast Alaska.

Interior must also convey to each urban corporation any U.S. interest in all roads, trails, log transfer facilities, leases, and appurtenances on or related to the land conveyed to the urban corporation.

The bill also allows each urban corporation to establish a settlement trust to (1) promote the health, education, and welfare of the trust beneficiaries; and (2) preserve the Alaska Native heritage and culture of their communities.

What's happening now June 7, 2022

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 117-301.

 Related & companion bills 2
  • HR 9116 Identical bill Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act
  • HR 3231 Related bill Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act
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Sullivan, Dan
Alaska · Nov 19, 2021
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3269: Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-3269/
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"S. 3269: Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-3269/.
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