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107TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 107-744
ALASKA NATIVE VETERANS LAND ALLOTMENT EQUITY
ACT
OCTOBER 11, 2002.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. HANSEN, from the Committee on Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 3148]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Resources, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 3148) to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to
provide equitable treatment of Alaska Native Vietnam Veterans,
and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favor-
ably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as
amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity
Act.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO ALLOW CERTAIN ALASKA NATIVE VETERAN LAND ALLOTMENTS.
Section 41 of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1629g) is
amended as follows:
(1) Paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a) are amended to read as follows:
(1) The period for filing allotments under this Act shall end 3 years after
the Secretary issues final regulations under section 3 of the Alaska Native
Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act. A person described in paragraph (1)
or (2) of subsection (b) shall be eligible for an allotment of not more than
two parcels of Federal land totaling 160 acres or less.
(2)(A) Allotments may be selected from the following:
(i) Vacant lands that are owned by the United States;
(ii) Lands that have been selected or conveyed to the State of Alaska if the
State voluntarily relinquishes or conveys to the United States the land for the
allotment.
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