Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2025
- Last Action
- 5/19/2026
Actions
- 2026-05-19Became Public Law No: 119-93.
- 2026-05-19Became Public Law No: 119-93.
- 2026-05-19Signed by President.
- 2026-05-19Signed by President.
- 2026-05-12Presented to President.
- 2026-05-12Presented to President.
- 2026-03-03Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- 2026-02-26Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S697-699)
- 2026-02-26Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
- 2026-02-26Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged by Unanimous Consent.
- 2026-02-26Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged by Unanimous Consent.
- 2025-12-16Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
- 2025-12-15Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 2025-12-15On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5879-5880)
- 2025-12-15Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5879-5880)
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CRS Summary
As of 2026-05-19 (49)
Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2025
This act waives a statutory core township selection requirement for the Cape Fox Corporation and allows Cape Fox to receive other lands to fulfill its remaining land entitlement. Cape Fox is an Alaska Native village corporation for the Alaska Native village of Saxman, Alaska.
Specifically, the act states that Cape Fox shall not be required to receive its previously selected land of approximately 185 acres located within the township in which the Alaska Native village of Saxman, Alaska, is located. Instead, the act allows Cape Fox to receive land outside of Cape Fox's current exterior selection boundary upon written notice of the new selection to the Department of the Interior.
In particular, if Cape Fox submits written notice of its selection of approximately 180 acres of surface land within the Tongass National Forest in Alaska to Interior within 90 days of the act's enactment, then Interior must convey the federal land to Cape Fox. Upon conveyance of the surface estate of the federal land to Cape Fox, Interior must convey the subsurface estate of the federal land to Sealaska Corporation (the Alaska Native regional corporation representing southeastern Alaska).
The act reserves a public access easement on the federal land conveyed to Cape Fox and Sealaska.
Subjects
- Alaska
- Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
- Federal-Indian relations
- Land transfers
Became law: Pub. L. 119-93
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