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108TH CONGRESS f REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 108-345
LAND EXCHANGE ALASKA NATIVE VILLAGE
CORPORATION AND INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
NOVEMBER 4, 2003.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. POMBO, from the Committee on Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 924]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Resources, to whom was referred the bill (S.
924) to authorize the exchange of lands between an Alaska Native
Village Corporation and the Department of the Interior, and for
other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably there-
on without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of S. 924, is to authorize the exchange of lands be-
tween an Alaska Native Village Corporation and the Department
of the Interior, and for other purposes.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
S. 924 directs the Secretary of the Interior to complete a land ex-
change with Newtok Native Corporation, a Village Corporation or-
ganized pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of
1971 (ANCSA).
Newtok is located on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of western
Alaska. The people of this region are Yupik Eskimo and have lived
along the Bering Sea coast for 2,000 years. The current village has
been occupied since 1949 after the villagers moved from another
site that flooded. There are approximately 300 residents of Newtok.
The village is unincorporated and has no taxing authority. Most
villagers pursue a subsistence lifestyle, and fifty percent of them
live below the poverty level. Most are shareholders of the Newtok
Native Corporation.
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