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S 3617 118th Congress Senate Native Americans Alaska Alaska Natives and Hawaiians Federal-Indian relations Land transfers

Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2024

Introduced: January 18, 2024 Introduced by: Murkowski, Lisa Republican · Alaska See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 11 steps
Introduced
In committee
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 20, 2024
Held at the desk.
Dec 20, 2024
Received in the House.
Dec 20, 2024
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Dec 19, 2024
Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7218; text: CR S7219--7220)
Dec 19, 2024
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
Nov 21, 2024
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 606.
Nov 21, 2024
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
Nov 19, 2024
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Jun 12, 2024
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 118-394.
Jan 18, 2024
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Jan 18, 2024
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2024

This bill waives a statutory core township selection requirement for the Cape Fox Corporation and allows Cape Fox to receive other lands to fulfill its remaining land entitlement. Cape Fox is an Alaska Native village corporation for the Alaska Native village of Saxman, Alaska.

Specifically, the bill states that Cape Fox shall not be required to receive its previously selected land of approximately 185 acres located within the township in which the Alaska Native village of Saxman, Alaska, is located. Instead, the bill allows Cape Fox to receive land outside of Cape Fox's current exterior selection boundary upon written notice of the new selection to the Department of the Interior. 

In particular, if Cape Fox submits written notice of its selection of approximately 180 acres of surface land within the Tongass National Forest in Alaska to Interior within 90 days of the bill's enactment, then Interior must convey the federal land to Cape Fox. Upon conveyance of the surface estate of the federal land to Cape Fox, Interior must convey the subsurface estate of the federal land to Sealaska Corporation (the Alaska Native regional corporation representing southeastern Alaska).

The bill reserves a public access easement on the federal land conveyed to Cape Fox and Sealaska.

What's happening now December 20, 2024

Held at the desk.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Republican 1