Alaska Native Claims Settlement Improvement Act of 2016
Latest action · May 26, 2016 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 26, 2016
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Improvement Act of 2016
This bill amends the Barrow Gas Field Transfer Act of 1984 to require the Department of the Interior to convey to the Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation, an Alaska Native village corporation, sand and gravel deposits underlying a surface estate owned by the corporation.
Interior must grant the Shishmaref Native Corporation, a village corporation, an easement between Shishmaref, Alaska, and the area of Ear Mountain, Alaska.
Shee Atika Incorporated, an urban Native corporation, may opt to receive credits from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the sale of Cube Cove in Admiralty Island, Alaska, that may be used to acquire federal property sold at public sales.
The bill authorizes a land exchange between the USDA and the Sealaska Corporation, an Alaska Native regional corporation.
Cook Inlet Region, Inc., a regional corporation, may satisfy its claim land under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA).
The bill amends ANCSA to require Interior to convey: (1) a surface estate to Kian Tr'ee Corporation, a village corporation, for the Native village of Canyon Village; and (2) a subsurface estate to Doyon Limited, a regional corporation.
Upon application by the village of Kaktovik or Nagamut, Interior must convey land within the National Wildlife Refuge System to the village.
The bill makes land held by Alaska Native corporations subject to the National Historic Preservation Act, the Tribal Forest Protection Act, and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
Native residents of the villages of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell, Alaska, may organize as urban corporations. Upon incorporation, Interior must offer each corporation 23,040 acres of land.
Alaska Native veterans who served during the Vietnam War may receive an allotment of federal land.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on May 26, 2016.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-AK | Dan Sullivan | Original | May 26, 2016 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Energy and Natural Resources Committee | Referred May 26, 2016 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 26, 2016Introduced in Senate
- May 26, 2016Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Hrg. 114-509 | PENDING LEGISLATION859 pages | Energy and Natural Resources Committee | Sep 22, 2016 |
Related bills 7
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 872 | Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act | Related bill | Oct 8, 2015 |
| S 1955 | Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act | Related bill | Oct 8, 2015 |
| HR 2386 | Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act | Related bill | Jun 17, 2015 |
| HR 2387 | Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act | Related bill | Nov 22, 2016 |
| S 3273 | Alaska Native Claims Settlement Improvement Act of 2016 | Related bill | Sep 22, 2016 |
| HR 5909 | SALE Act | Related bill | Aug 9, 2016 |
| HR 6115 | Canyon Village Land Conveyance Act | Related bill | Oct 3, 2016 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to make technical corrections to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Alaska Native Claims Settlement Improvement Act of 2016
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Native Americans.
- Alaska
- Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
- Cemeteries and funerals
- Federal-Indian relations
- Forests, forestry, trees
- Government trust funds
- Historical and cultural resources
- Indian claims
- Indian lands and resources rights
- Land transfers
- Land use and conservation
- Mining
- Monuments and memorials
- Native Americans
- Oil and gas
- Parks, recreation areas, trails
- Veterans' pensions and compensation
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 26, 2016Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
