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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 448
107TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
2d Session SENATE 107-180
EXCHANGING LAND RIGHTS RECEIVED UNDER THE
ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT ACT
JUNE 26, 2002.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. BINGAMAN, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 1325]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 1325) to ratify an agreement between the Aleut
Corporation and the United States of America to exchange land
rights received under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act for
certain land interests on Adak Island, and for other purposes, hav-
ing considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amend-
ment and recommends that the bill, as amended, do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
On page 7, line 2, strike Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, and insert Notwithstanding the Federal Property and Ad-
ministrative Services Act of 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C. 483-484)
and the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990, as
amended (10 U.S.C. 2687),.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 1325 is to ratify an agreement between the
Aleut Corporation and the United States to exchange land rights
received under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act for certain
land interest on Adak Island.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
Adak Island is located in the middle of the Aleutian Islands
chain, approximately 1,200 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, between
the Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea. In 1913, Adak Island was
withdrawn as a wildlife preserve, and, in 1940, designated as a Na-
tional Wildlife Refuge. Section 303 of the Alaska National Interest
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