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Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act

Introduced: June 8, 2023 Introduced by: Murkowski, Lisa Republican · Alaska See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 6 steps
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Became law
Sep 10, 2024
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 500.
Sep 10, 2024
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment. With written report No. 118-221.
Dec 14, 2023
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
Oct 25, 2023
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 118-311.
Jun 8, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Jun 8, 2023
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.

The land conveyed to each urban corporation must include 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.

The bill also directs Interior to convey certain Bureau of Land Management land to the City of Tenakee Springs, Alaska (upon written request of the city and subject to specified terms and conditions).

What's happening now September 10, 2024

Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 500.

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  • HR 4748 Related bill Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act
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Sullivan, Dan
Alaska · Jun 8, 2023
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1889: Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-1889/
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"S. 1889: Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act." 118th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-1889/.
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