Alaska Native Landless Equity Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill authorizes Native residents of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell to organize new urban corporations under ANCSA without disturbing prior Native-corporation land entitlements, requires preserves regional-corporation distribution rights for members who become shareholders in the new urban corporations and protects existing ANCSA distribution formulas and settlement agreements, and requires the Secretary of the Interior to convey large surface-estate land parcels to each new Southeast Alaska urban corporation while preserving valid existing rights and leaving subsurface estate with the regional. It relies on compliance mandates. The main policy areas are Tribal Affairs.
Who Benefits and How
New urban corporations for Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell could gain revenue opportunities, Native residents of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell, Alaska could face fewer barriers, and Shareholders of new Southeast Alaska urban corporations who remain eligible for regional distributions could gain revenue opportunities.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Interior Department officials responsible for federal land conveyances under ANCSA would take on compliance duties, Interior Department officials responsible for administering the new land-conveyance provisions would take on compliance duties, and Interior Department officials implementing new ANCSA urban-corporation recognition would take on compliance duties.
Key Provisions
- Authorizes Native residents of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell to organize new urban corporations under ANCSA without disturbing prior Native-corporation land entitlements.
- Requires preserves regional-corporation distribution rights for members who become shareholders in the new urban corporations and protects existing ANCSA distribution formulas and settlement agreements.
- Requires the Secretary of the Interior to convey large surface-estate land parcels to each new Southeast Alaska urban corporation while preserving valid existing rights and leaving subsurface estate with the regional...
- Adds a duplicate ANCSA section laying out the same urban-corporation land-conveyance structure for Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill authorizes Native residents of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell to organize new urban corporations under ANCSA without disturbing prior Native-corporation land entitlements, requires preserves regional-corporation distribution rights for members who become shareholders in the new urban corporations and protects existing ANCSA distribution formulas and settlement agreements, and requires the Secretary of the Interior to convey large surface-estate land parcels to each new Southeast Alaska urban corporation while preserving valid existing rights and leaving subsurface estate with the regional.
Key Policy Areas
Tribal Affairs
Primary Purpose
The bill authorizes Native residents of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell to organize new urban corporations under ANCSA without disturbing prior Native-corporation land entitlements, requires preserves regional-corporation distribution rights for members who become shareholders in the new urban corporations and protects existing ANCSA distribution formulas and settlement agreements, and requires the Secretary of the Interior to convey large surface-estate land parcels to each new Southeast Alaska urban corporation while preserving valid existing rights and leaving subsurface estate with the regional.
Policy Domains
Sections 3, 5, and 6 - New Southeast Alaska urban corporations and land conveyances
Identified Gains
- New urban corporations for Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell
- Native residents of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell, Alaska
- Shareholders of new Southeast Alaska urban corporations who remain eligible for regional distributions
Identified Costs
- Interior Department officials responsible for federal land conveyances under ANCSA
- Interior Department officials responsible for administering the new land-conveyance provisions
- Interior Department officials implementing new ANCSA urban-corporation recognition
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedCommittee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported …
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, …
Ms. Murkowski (for herself and Mr. Sullivan) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Interior Department officials implementing new ANCSA urban-corporation recognition, Interior Department officials responsible for administering the new land-conveyance provisions, Interior Department officials responsible for federal land conveyances under ANCSA
Positive-direction: Shareholders of new Southeast Alaska urban corporations who remain eligible for regional distributions
Negative-direction: Interior Department officials implementing new ANCSA urban-corporation recognition, Interior Department officials responsible for administering the new land-conveyance provisions, Interior Department officials responsible for federal land conveyances under ANCSA
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of the Interior
- "urban_corporation"
- → Each urban corporation for Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell
- "the_regional_corporation"
- → Regional Corporation for Southeast Alaska
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Each of the urban corporations for Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell established under the bill's ANCSA amendments.
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