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US. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
Calendar No. 393
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 118-177
ALASKA NATIVE VILLAGE MUNICIPAL LANDS
RESTORATION ACT
MAY 16, 2024.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. MANCHIN, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 2615]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 2615) to amend the Alaska Native Claims Set-
tlement Act to provide that Village Corporations shall not be re-
quired to convey land in trust to the State of Alaska for the estab-
lishment of Municipal Corporations, and for other purposes, having
considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment
and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 2615 is to amend the Alaska Native Claims
Settlement Act to provide that Village Corporations shall not be re-
quired to convey land in trust to the State of Alaska for the estab-
lishment of Municipal Corporations.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
In 1971, Congress enacted the Alaska Native Claims Settlement
Act (ANCSA; Public Law 92-203) to settle the aboriginal claims of
Alaska Natives. Under ANCSA, Alaska Natives received title to a
total of 44 million acres to be divided among the 220 Native village
corporations, four urban corporations, and 12 regional corporations
established by the Act.
Section 14(c)(3) of ANCSA (43 U.S.C. 1613(c)(3)) provides that an
Alaska Native Village Corporation receiving land under ANCSA
shall convey to any Municipal Corporation in the Native village or
to the State in trust for any Municipal Corporation established in
the Native village in the future, title to the remaining surface es-
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