S. 430 (is) To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, to provide for a land exchange between the Secretary of Agriculture and the Kake Tribal Corporation, and for other purposes. [Introduced in Senate] ...

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106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 430

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                                 AN ACT


 
To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, to provide for a land 
   exchange between the Secretary of Agriculture and the Kake Tribal 
                  Corporation, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Kake Tribal Corporation Land 
Exchange Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT OF SETTLEMENT ACT.

    The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (Public Law 92-203, 
December 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 688, 43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), as amended, 
is further amended by adding at the end thereof:

``SEC.____. KAKE TRIBAL CORPORATION LAND EXCHANGE.

    ``(a) General.--In exchange for lands and interests therein 
described in subsection (b), the Secretary of Agriculture shall, 
subject to valid existing rights, convey to the Kake Tribal Corporation 
the surface estate and to Sealaska Corporation the subsurface estate of 
the Federal land identified by Kake Tribal Corporation pursuant to 
subsection (c). The values of the lands and interests therein exchanged 
pursuant to this section shall be equal.
    ``(b) The surface estate to be conveyed by Kake Tribal Corporation 
and the subsurface estate to be conveyed by Sealaska Corporation to the 
Secretary of Agriculture are the municipal watershed lands as shown on 
the map dated September 1, 1997, and labeled Attachment A, and are 
further described as follows:

                          MUNICIPAL WATERSHED

                         COOPER RIVER MERIDIAN

                               T56S, R72E

Section                                                Aproximate acres
        13.....................................................      82
        23.....................................................     118
        24.....................................................     635
        25.....................................................     640
        26.....................................................     346
        34.....................................................       9
        35.....................................................     349
        36.....................................................     248
        Approximate total......................................   2,427
    ``(c) Within ninety (90) days of the receipt by the United States 
of the conveyances of the surface estate and the subsurface estate 
described in subsection (b), Kake Tribal Corporation shall be entitled 
to identify lands in the Hamilton Bay and Saginaw Bay areas, as 
depicted on the maps dated September 1, 1997, and labeled Attachments B 
and C. Kake Tribal Corporation shall notify the Secretary of 
Agriculture in writing which lands Kake Tribal Corporation has 
identified.
    ``(d) Timing of Conveyance and Valuation.--The conveyance mandated 
by subsection (a) by the Secretary of Agriculture shall occur within 
ninety (90) days after the list of identified lands is submitted by 
Kake Tribal Corporation pursuant to subsection (c).
    ``(e) Management of Watershed.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall 
enter into a Memorandum of Agreement with the City of Kake, Alaska, to 
provide for management of the municipal watershed.
    ``(f) Timber, Manufacturing; Export Restriction.--Notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, timber harvested from land conveyed to Kake 
Tribal Corporation under this section shall not be exported as 
unprocessed logs from Alaska, nor may Kake Tribal Corporation sell, 
trade, exchange, substitute, or otherwise convey that timber to any 
person for the purpose of exporting that timber from the State of 
Alaska.
    ``(g) Relation to Other Requirements.--The land conveyed to Kake 
Tribal Corporation and

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