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104TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 104-838
ALASKA NATIVES COMMISSION
SEPTEMBER 25, 1996.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. YOUNG of Alaska, from the Committee on Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 3973]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Resources, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 3973) to provide for a study of the recommendations of the
Joint Federal-State Commission on Policies and Programs Affecting
Alaska Natives, having considered the same, report favorably
thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as
amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof
the following:
SECTION 1. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS AND DECLARATION OF POLICY.
The Congress finds and declares the following:
(1) The Joint Federal-State Commission on Policies and Programs Affecting
Alaska Natives (hereafter in this Act referred to as the Alaska Natives Com-
mission) was established by Public Law 101-379 (42 U.S.C. 2991a note) follow-
ing the publication in 1989 of the Report on the Status of Alaska Natives: A
Call for Action by the Alaska Federation of Natives and after extensive con-
gressional hearings which focused on the need for the first comprehensive as-
sessment of the social, cultural, and economic condition of Alaska's 86,000 Na-
tives since the enactment of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, Public
Law 92-203.
(2) The 14 member Alaska Natives Commission held 15 regional hearings
throughout Alaska between July 1992 and October 1993, and 2 statewide hear-
ings in Anchorage coinciding with the Conventions of 1992 and 1993 of the
Alaska Federation of Natives. In May 1994, the Alaska Natives Commission is-
sued its 3 volume, 440 page report. As required by Public Law 101-379, the re-
port was formally conveyed to the Congress, the President of the United States,
and the Governor of Alaska.
(3) The Alaska Natives Commission found that many Alaska Native individ-
uals, families, and communities were experiencing a social, cultural, and eco-
nomic crisis marked by rampant unemployment, lack of economic opportunity,
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