Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2024
- Last Action
- 12/20/2024
Actions
- 2024-12-20Held at the desk.
- 2024-12-20Received in the House.
- 2024-12-20Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- 2024-12-19Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7218; text: CR S7219--7220)
- 2024-12-19Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
- 2024-11-21Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 606.
- 2024-11-21Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
- 2024-11-21Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
- 2024-11-19Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
- 2024-06-12Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 118-394.
- 2024-01-18Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
- 2024-01-18Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2024-12-19 (55)
Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2024
This bill 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 bill 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 bill 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 bill'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 bill reserves a public access easement on the federal land conveyed to Cape Fox and Sealaska.
Cosponsors (1)
- Dan Sullivan (R-AK)
Subjects
- Alaska
- Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
- Federal-Indian relations
- Land transfers
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