HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.
![handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxagov0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED
US. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
GP
Calendar No. 500
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 118-221
UNRECOGNIZED SOUTHEAST ALASKA NATIVE
COMMUNITIES RECOGNITION AND COMPENSATION ACT
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. MANCHIN, from the Committee on Engergy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 1889]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 1889) to provide for the recognition of certain
Alaska Native communities and the settlement of certain claims
under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and for other pur-
poses, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with
an amendment and recommends that the bill, as amended, do pass.
AMENDMENT
Strike section 7.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 1889 is to establish five Alaska Native Urban
Corporations in Southeast Alaska and to provide each newly estab-
lished corporation with approximately 23,040 acres of land from
the Tongass National Forest.
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.
Under section 11(b) of ANCSA (43 U.S.C. 1610(b)), Alaska Na-
tives were authorized to be a shareholder of a village corporation
49-010](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.congrecreports/crptxagov0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)