Congress: 106 · Status: passed · Israel/Palestine classification: neutral
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Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large] (R-AK)
Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) to withdraw certain Alaska lands from disposition under the public land laws, including the mining and mineral leasing laws, for a two-year period, for selection by the Elim Native Corporation. Authorizes such Corporation to select 50,000 acres of such lands to satisfy its land entitlements under a previous executive order. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Interior to receive and adjudicate a selection application filed by the Corporation and to convey the surface and subsurface estate in the lands selected. Subjects such transfer to valid existing rights. Reserves appropriate ingress and egress easements for lands conveyed to the Corporation. Authorizes the Secretary to permit selections and conveyances of hot or medicinal springs (subject to specified covenants and conditions). Directs the Bureau of Land Management to reserve appropriate easements to the United States and authorizes the Bureau to reserve easements for the Iditarod National Historic Trail. Constitutes the Corporations selection of such lands as full satisfaction of all Corporation claims under ANCSA. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes an Alaska Native to transfer Settlement Common Stock to a descendant notwithstanding an adoption, relinquishment, or termination of parental rights that may have altered or severed the legal relationship between the donor and recipient. Redefines a Settlement Trust as any trust operated for the benefit of shareholders, Natives, and descendants of Natives (current law limits to stockholders).