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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Oct 18, 1999
Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) to withdraw certain Alaska lands from disposition under the public land laws, including the mining and mineral leasing laws, for a two-year period, for selection by the Elim Native Corporation. Authorizes such Corporation to select 50,000 acres of such lands to satisfy its land entitlements under a previous executive order. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Interior to receive and adjudicate a selection application filed by the Corporation and to convey the surface and subsurface estate in the lands selected. Subjects such transfer to valid existing rights. Reserves appropriate ingress and egress easements for lands conveyed to the Corporation. Authorizes the Secretary to permit selections and conveyances of hot or medicinal springs (subject to specified covenants and conditions). Directs the Bureau of Land Management to reserve appropriate easements to the United States and authorizes the Bureau to reserve easements for the Iditarod National Historic Trail. Constitutes the Corporations selection of such lands as full satisfaction of all Corporation claims under ANCSA.Authorizes appropriations.Authorizes an Alaska Native to transfer Settlement Common Stock to a descendant notwithstanding an adoption, relinquishment, or termination of parental rights that may have altered or severed the legal relationship between the donor and recipient.Redefines a Settlement Trust as any trust operated for the benefit of shareholders, Natives, and descendants of Natives (current law limits to stockholders).
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Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large] · R–AK
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Became Public Law No: 106-194.
Became Public Law No: 106-194.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2798-2799; text: CR S2798-2799)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S2798-2799; text: CR S2798-2799)
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 488.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported to Senate by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 106-258.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported to Senate by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 106-258.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported in lieu of S.1702 without amendment favorably.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Received in the Senate.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H11718-11719)
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H11718-11719)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3090.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H11718-11720)
Mr. Young (AK) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 261.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 106-452.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 106-452.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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