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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-883
ALASKA NATIVE VILLAGE MUNICIPAL LANDS
RESTORATION ACT OF 2023
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. 6489]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 6489) to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
to provide that Village Corporations shall not be required to convey
land in trust to the State of Alaska for the establishment of Munic-
ipal Corporations, and for other purposes, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION
The purpose of H.R. 6489 is to amend the Alaska Native Claims
Settlement Act to provide that Village Corporations shall not be re-
quired to convey land in trust to the State of Alaska for the estab-
lishment of Municipal Corporations, and for other purposes.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
In 1971, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) 1
was enacted to settle the aboriginal land claims of Alaska Natives.
Through ANCSA, Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs) were estab-
lished to receive land under the settlement and disperse the pay-
ments to Alaska Natives. Alaska Natives received a $962.5 million
settlement payment and roughly 44 million acres of land, which
were divided between almost 200 village corporations and 12 re-
gional corporations established by the legislation.2
143 U.S.C. 1601, et seq.
2 Id.
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