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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-881
UNRECOGNIZED SOUTHEAST ALASKA NATIVE
COMMUNITIES RECOGNITION AND COMPENSATION ACT
DECEMBER 16, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 4748]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 4748) to provide for the recognition of certain Alaska Na-
tive communities and the settlement of certain claims under the
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, 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:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Commu-
nities Recognition and Compensation Act.
SEC. 2. PURPOSE.
The purpose of this Act is to redress the omission of the southeastern Alaska com-
munities of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell from eligibility
under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) by author-
izing the Alaska Natives enrolled in the communities-
(1) to form Urban Corporations for the communities of Haines, Ketchikan, Pe-
tersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement
Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.); and
(2) to receive certain settlement land pursuant to that Act.
SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF ADDITIONAL NATIVE CORPORATIONS.
Section 16 of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1615) is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following:
(e) NATIVE VILLAGES OF HAINES, KETCHIKAN, PETERSBURG, TENAKEE, AND
WRANGELL, ALASKA.-
(1) IN GENERAL.-The Native residents of each of the Native Villages of
Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell, Alaska, may organize
as Urban Corporations.
(2) EFFECT ON ENTITLEMENT TO LAND.-Nothing in this subsection affects
any entitlement to land of any Native Corporation established before the date
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