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Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large] (R-AK)
Amends the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) to include lands conveyed to a Native Corporation pursuant to an exchange authorized under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) or other applicable law among lands that are exempt, as long as such lands are not developed, leased, or sold to third parties, from adverse possession claims, real property taxes, specified judgments, and involuntary distributions or conveyances related to the involuntary dissolution of a Native Corporation or Settlement Trust. Specifies that lands shall not be considered developed, leased, or sold to a third party as a result of an exchange or conveyance between or among Native Corporations and trusts, partnerships, corporations, or joint ventures (trusts) whose beneficiaries, partners, shareholders, or joint venturers (beneficiaries) are Native Corporations. Makes certain prohibitions regarding actions by a trustee inapplicable to actions by any trustee whose right, title, or interest in land arises pursuant to an agreement between or among Native Corporations and trusts whose beneficiaries are Native Corporations. (Sec. 2) Amends ANCSA to authorize a Native Regional Corporation, upon request, to obtain the retained mineral estate of the Native Allotments that are totally surrounded by ANCSA land selections. (Sec. 3) Withdraws certain lands in Alaska from disposition under the public land laws, entry or appropriation under the mining laws, and the operation of the mineral leasing laws of the United States, subject to valid existing rights, for a one-year period, for selection by the Elim Native Corporation. Authorizes: (1) such Corporation to select such lands to satisfy its land entitlements under ANCSA, and the Secretary of the Interior to receive, adjudicate, and convey the lands to such Corporation, subject to valid existing rights and an easement reserved to the United States for the benefit of the public; and (2) the Secretary to withdraw, and the Corporation to select, certain additional adjacent lands withdrawn to fulfill the Corporation's land entitlements equal to the total acreage of the Norton Bay Reservation as withdrawn by executive order. (Sec. 4) Amends the Alaska Land Status Technical Corrections Act of 1992 to deem the Cook Inlet Region Incorporated, the Regional Corporation for the Gold Creek Susitna Association, Incorporated, to have 3,520 acres of subsurface entitlement which shall be satisfied in the manner prescribed for the Region in ANCSA. (Sec. 5) Amends the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1992 with respect to the valuation, implementation, and administration of the Calista Corporation land exchanges. (Sec. 6) Amends ANCSA to include the Haida Corporation and the Haida Traditional Use Sites with respect to transferring the administration of mining claims on Regional Corporation lands and not subjecting any revenues remitted to Haida Corporation to distribution under such Act. (Sec. 7) Amends ANCSA to exempt revenues received by a Regional Corporation from the sale of sand, gravel, stone, pumice, peat, clay, or cinder resources from the revenue sharing requirements otherwise applicable to revenues received for timber resource and subsurface estate sales. (Sec. 8) Amends ANILCA to: (1) provide for the approval of certain protested Alaska Native allotment applications; and (2) require the Secretary, in selecting individuals to provide certain visitor services, to give preference to the Native Corporations (currently, the Native Corporation) most directly affected by the establishment or expansion of any conservation system unit by or under the provisions of such Act. (Sec. 10) Requires a report to the Congress concerning local hires under ANILCA and their inability to obtain competitive service positions.