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- 43 U.S.C. § 1601 (ANCSA § 2) – Congressional findings and declaration of policy
- 43 U.S.C. § 1602 (ANCSA § 3) – Definitions
- 43 U.S.C. § 1603 (ANCSA § 4) – Declaration of settlement
- 43 U.S.C. § 1604 (ANCSA § 5) – Enrollment
- 43 U.S.C. § 1605 (ANCSA § 6) – Alaska Native Fund
- 43 U.S.C. § 1606 (ANCSA § 7) – Regional Corporations
- 43 U.S.C. § 1607 (ANCSA § 8) – Village Corporations
- 43 U.S.C. § 1608 (ANCSA § 9) – Revenue sharing
- 43 U.S.C. § 1609 (ANCSA § 10) – Limitation of actions
- 43 U.S.C. § 1610 (ANCSA § 11) – Withdrawal of public lands
- 43 U.S.C. § 1611 (ANCSA § 12) – Native land selections
- 43 U.S.C. § 1612 (ANCSA § 13) – Surveys
- 43 U.S.C. § 1613 (ANCSA § 14) – Conveyance of lands
- 43 U.S.C. § 1613a – ANCSA Amendment [Exchange or conveyance of land between Native corporations in same region]
- 43 U.S.C. § 1614 (ANCSA § 15) – Timber sale contracts; modification; timber from contingency area
- 43 U.S.C. § 1615 (ANCSA § 16) – Withdrawal and selection of public lands; funds in lieu of acreage
- 43 U.S.C. § 1616 (ANCSA § 17) – Joint Federal-State Land Use Planning Commission for Alaska
- 43 U.S.C. § 1617 (ANCSA § 18) – Indian allotment authority in Alaska; revocation; charging allotments on pending application against statutory acreage grant; relocation of allotment
- 43 U.S.C. § 1618 (ANCSA § 19) – Reservations; revocation; excepted reserve; acquisition of title to surface and subsurface estates in reserve; election of Village Corporations
- 43 U.S.C. § 1619 (ANCSA § 20) – Attorney and consultant fees
- 43 U.S.C. § 1620 (ANCSA § 21) – Taxation
- 43 U.S.C. § 1621 (ANCSA § 22) – Miscellaneous provisions
- 43 U.S.C. § 1622 (ANCSA § 23) – Annual reports to Congress until 1984; submission in 1985 of report of status of Natives, summary of actions taken, and recommendations
- 43 U.S.C. § 1623 (ANCSA § 24) – Authorization of appropriations
- 43 U.S.C. § 1624 (ANCSA § 25) – Regulations; issuance; publication in Federal Register
- 43 U.S.C. § 1625 – Securities laws exemption
- 43 U.S.C. § 1626 – Relation to other programs
- 43 U.S.C. § 1627 – Merger of Native corporations
- 43 U.S.C. § 1628 – Assignments by Regional Corporations of rights to receive payments from Fund
- 43 U.S.C. § 1629 – Cape Krusenstern National Monument land exchange between United States and NANA Regional Corporation, Inc.
- 43 U.S.C. § 1629a – Relinquishment by NANA Regional Corporation, Inc., of lands compact and contiguous to public lands in Cape Krusenstern National Monument
- 43 U.S.C. § 1629b (ANCSA § 36) – Procedures for considering amendments and resolutions
- 43 U.S.C. § 1629c (ANCSA § 37) – Duration of alienability restrictions
- 43 U.S.C. § 1629d (ANCSA § 38) – Dissenters rights
- 43 U.S.C. § 1629e (ANCSA § 39) – Settlement Trust option
- 43 U.S.C. § 1629f – Claims arising from contamination of transferred lands
- 43 U.S.C. § 1629g – Open Season for Certain Alaska Native Veterans for Allotments
- 43 U.S.C. § 1629h – Kake Tribal Corporation Land Transfer Act
- 43 U.S.C. § 1631 – Ownership of submerged lands
- 43 U.S.C. § 1632 – Statute of limitations on decisions of Secretary and reconveyance of land by Village Corporation
- 43 U.S.C. § 1633 – Administrative provisions
- 43 U.S.C. § 1634 – Alaska Native allotments
- 43 U.S.C. § 1635 – State selections and conveyances
- 43 U.S.C. § 1636 – Alaska Land Bank
- 43 U.S.C. § 1637 – Use of protraction diagrams
- 43 U.S.C. § 1638 – National Environmental Policy Act
- 43 U.S.C. § 1639 – Construction with Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
- 43 U.S.C. § 1640 – Relinquishment of selections partly within conservation units
- 43 U.S.C. § 1641 – Conveyances to Village Corporations
- 43 U.S.C. § 1642 – Land conveyances
Table of Contents, including subsections
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- 43 U.S.C. § 1601 (ANCSA § 2) – Congressional findings and declaration of policy
- 43 U.S.C. § 1602 (ANCSA § 3) – Definitions
- 43 U.S.C. § 1603 (ANCSA § 4) – Declaration of settlement
- (a) Aboriginal title extinguishment through prior land and water area conveyances
- (b) Aboriginal title and claim extinguishment where based on use and occupancy; submerged lands underneath inland and offshore water areas and hunting or fishing rights included
- (c) Aboriginal claim extinguishment where based on right, title, use, or occupancy of land or water areas; domestic statute or treaty relating to use and occupancy; or foreign laws; pending claims
- 43 U.S.C. § 1604 (ANCSA § 5) – Enrollment
- 43 U.S.C. § 1605 (ANCSA § 6) – Alaska Native Fund
- (a) Establishment in Treasury; deposits into Fund of general fund, interest, and revenue sharing moneys
- (b) Prohibition of expenditures for propaganda or political campaigns; misdemeanor; penalty
- (c) Distribution of Fund moneys among organized Regional Corporations; basis as relative number of Native enrollees in each region; reserve for payment of attorney and other fees; retention of share in Fund until organization of corporation
- 43 U.S.C. § 1606 (ANCSA § 7) – Regional Corporations
- (a) Division of Alaska into twelve geographic regions; common heritage and common interest of region; area of region commensurate with operations of Native association; boundary disputes, arbitration
- (b) Region mergers; limitation
- (c) Establishment of thirteenth region for nonresident Natives; majority vote; Regional Corporation for thirteenth region
- (d) Incorporation; business for profit; eligibility for benefits; provisions in articles for carrying out chapter
- (e) Original articles and bylaws: approval by Secretary prior to filing, submission for approval; amendments to articles: approval by Secretary; withholding approval in event of creation of inequities among Native individuals or groups
- (f) Board of directors; management; stockholders; provisions in articles or bylaws for number, term, and method of election
- (g) Issuance of stock
- (h) Settlement Common Stock
- (i) Certain natural resource revenues; distribution among twelve Regional Corporations; computation of amount; subsection inapplicable to thirteenth Regional Corporation
- (j) Corporate funds and other net income, distribution among: stockholders of Regional Corporations; Village Corporations and nonresident stockholders; and stockholders of thirteenth Regional Corporation
- (k) Distributions among Village Corporations; computation of amount
- (l) Distributions to Village Corporations; village plan: withholding funds until submission of plan for use of money; joint ventures and joint financing of projects; disagreements, arbitration of issues as provided in articles of Regional Corporation
- (m) Distributions among Village Corporations in a region; computation of dividends for nonresidents of village; financing regional projects with equitably withheld dividends and Village Corporation funds
- (n) Projects for Village Corporations
- (o) Annual audit; place; availability of papers, things, or property to auditors to facilitate audits; verification of transactions; report to stockholders
- (p) Federal-State conflict of laws
- (q) Business management group; investment services contracts
- (r) Benefits for Shareholders or Immediate Families
- 43 U.S.C. § 1607 (ANCSA § 8) – Village Corporations
- (a) Organization of Corporation prerequisite to receipt of patent to lands or benefits under chapter
- (b) Regional Corporation: approval of initial articles; review and approval of amendments to articles and annual budgets; assistance in preparation of articles and other documents
- (c) Applicability of section 1606
- 43 U.S.C. § 1608 (ANCSA § 9) – Revenue sharing
- (a) Minerals within section
- (b) Interim payments into Alaska Native Fund based on percentage of gross value of produced or removed minerals and of rentals and bonuses; time of payment
- (c) Patents; royalties: reservation of percentage of gross value of produced or removed minerals and of rentals and bonuses from disposition of minerals
- (d) Distribution of bonuses, rentals, and royalties from Federal disposition of minerals in public lands; payments into Alaska Native Fund based on percentage of gross value of produced minerals and of rentals and bonuses; Federal and State share calculation on remaining balance
- (e) Federal enforcement; State underpayment: deductions from grants-in-aid or other Federal assistance equal to underpayment and deposit of such amount in Fund
- (f) Oil and gas revenues; amount payable equal to Federal or State royalties in cash or kind
- (g) Alaska Native Fund payments; cessation; reimbursement for advance payments
- (h) Final payment; order of computation
- (i) Outer Continental Shelf mineral revenues; provisions of section inapplicable
- 43 U.S.C. § 1609 (ANCSA § 10) – Limitation of actions
- 43 U.S.C. § 1610 (ANCSA § 11) – Withdrawal of public lands
- 43 U.S.C. § 1611 (ANCSA § 12) – Native land selections
- (a) Acreage limitation; proximity of selections and size of sections and units; waiver
- (b) Allocation; reallocation considerations
- (c) Computation
- (d) Village Corporation for Native village at Dutch Harbor; lands and improvements and patent for Village Corporation
- (e) Disputes over land selection rights and boundaries; arbitration
- (f) [combined entitlements]
- 43 U.S.C. § 1612 (ANCSA § 13) – Surveys
- (a) Areas for conveyance to Village Corporations; monumentation of exterior boundaries; meanderable water boundaries exempt from requirement; land occupied as primary place of residence or business, or for other purposes and other patentable lands as subject to survey
- (b) Withdrawals, selections, and conveyances pursuant to chapter; current plats of surveys or protraction diagrams; conformity to Land Survey System
- 43 U.S.C. § 1613 (ANCSA § 14) – Conveyance of lands
- (a) Native villages listed in section 1610 and qualified for land benefits; patents for surface estates; issuance; acreage
- (b) Native villages listed in section 1615 and qualified for land benefits; patents for surface estates; issuance; acreage
- (c) Patent requirements; order of conveyance; vesting date; advisory and appellate functions of Regional Corporations on sales, leases, or other transactions prior to final commitment
- (d) Rule of approximation with respect to acreage limitations
- (e) Surface and/or subsurface estates to Regional Corporations
- (f) Patents to Village Corporations for surface estates and to Regional Corporations for subsurface estates; excepted lands; mineral rights, consent of Village Corporations
- (g) Valid existing rights preserved; saving provisions in patents; patentee rights; administration; proportionate rights of patentee
- (h) Authorization for land conveyances; surface and subsurface estates
- 43 U.S.C. § 1613a – ANCSA Amendment [Exchange or conveyance of land between Native corporations in same region]
- 43 U.S.C. § 1614 (ANCSA § 15) – Timber sale contracts; modification; timber from contingency area
- 43 U.S.C. § 1615 (ANCSA § 16) – Withdrawal and selection of public lands; funds in lieu of acreage
- (a) Withdrawal of public lands; list of Native villages
- (b) Native land selections; Village Corporations for listed Native villages; acreage; proximity of selections; conformity to Lands Survey System
- (c) Tlingit-Haida settlement
- (d) Withdrawal of lands for selection for village of Klukwan; benefits under this chapter; existing entitlements; forest reserves; quitclaims to Chilkat Indian Village; location, character, and value of lands to be withdrawn; withdrawal and selection periods; nonwithdrawal of lands selected or nominated for selection by other Native Corporation or located on Admiralty Island
- 43 U.S.C. § 1616 (ANCSA § 17) – Joint Federal-State Land Use Planning Commission for Alaska
- (a) [deleted]
- (b) [deleted]
- (c) Prohibition against selection of lands from withdrawn area in event of withdrawal of utility and transportation corridor across public lands
- (d) Public Land Order Numbered 4582 revoked; withdrawal of unreserved public lands; classification and reclassification of lands; opening lands to appropriation; administration; contracting and other authority of Secretary not impaired by withdrawal
- 43 U.S.C. § 1617 (ANCSA § 18) – Indian allotment authority in Alaska; revocation; charging allotments on pending application against statutory acreage grant; relocation of allotment
- 43 U.S.C. § 1618 (ANCSA § 19) – Reservations; revocation; excepted reserve; acquisition of title to surface and subsurface estates in reserve; election of Village Corporations
- 43 U.S.C. § 1619 (ANCSA § 20) – Attorney and consultant fees
- (a) Holding moneys in Fund for authorized payments
- (b) Claims; submission
- (c) Final date for filing of claims; form; information
- (d) Rules for receipt, determination, and settlement of claims
- (e) Report to Congress; payment of claims; interest restriction
- (f) Contract restriction; penalty
- (g) Claims for costs in performance of certain services: submission, form, information, reasonableness, pro rata reductions; report to Congress; payment of claims; interest restriction
- 43 U.S.C. § 1620 (ANCSA § 21) – Taxation
- (a) Fund revenues exemption; investment income taxable
- (b) Shares of stock exemption
- (c) Land or land interests exemption; basis for sale or other disposition, adjustment; basis for interest in mine, well, other natural deposit, or block of timber, adjustment
- (d) Real property interests; exemption period for conveyance of interests not developed or leased or interests used solely for exploration, interests taxable; derivative revenues taxable; exchanges; simultaneous exchanges
- (e) Public lands status of real property interests exempt from real estate taxes for purposes of Federal highway and education laws; Federal fire protection services for real property interests without cost
- (f) Stocks of Regional and Village Corporations exempt from estate taxes; period of exemption
- (g) Resource information or analysis; professional or technical services
- (h) Date of incorporation as date of trade or business; ordinary and necessary expenses
- (i) Personal Holding Company Act exemption
- (j) Shareholder homesites
- 43 U.S.C. § 1621 (ANCSA § 22) – Miscellaneous provisions
- (a) Contract restrictions; percentage fee; enforcement; liens, executions, or judgments
- (b) Patents for homesteads, headquarters sites, trade and manufacturing sites, or small tract sites; use and occupancy protection
- (c) Mining claims; possessory rights, protection
- (d) Purchase restrictions for personnel inapplicable to chapter
- (e) National Wildlife Refuge System; replacement lands
- (f) Land exchanges
- (g) National Wildlife Refuge System lands subject of patents; Federal reservation of first refusal rights; provision in patents for continuing application of laws and regulations governing Refuge
- (h) Withdrawals of public lands; termination date
- (i) Administration of withdrawn lands; contracting and other authority of Secretaries not impaired by withdrawal
- (j) Interim conveyances and underselections
- (k) National forest land patents; conditions
- (l) Land selection limitation; proximity to home rule or first class city and Ketchikan
- (l) Licenses Held by Alaska Native Regional Corporations
- 43 U.S.C. § 1622 (ANCSA § 23) – Annual reports to Congress until 1984; submission in 1985 of report of status of Natives, summary of actions taken, and recommendations
- 43 U.S.C. § 1623 (ANCSA § 24) – Authorization of appropriations
- 43 U.S.C. § 1624 (ANCSA § 25) – Regulations; issuance; publication in Federal Register
- 43 U.S.C. § 1625 – Securities laws exemption
- 43 U.S.C. § 1626 – Relation to other programs
- 43 U.S.C. § 1627 – Merger of Native corporations
- (a) Applicability of State law
- (b) Terms and conditions of merger; rights of dissenting shareholders; rights and liabilities of successor corporation
- (c) Alteration or elimination of dividend rights
- (d) Approval of merger or consolidation by shareholders
- (e) Conveyance of right to withhold consent to mineral exploration, development, etc., as part of merger or consolidation
- 43 U.S.C. § 1628 – Assignments by Regional Corporations of rights to receive payments from Fund
- 43 U.S.C. § 1629 – Cape Krusenstern National Monument land exchange between United States and NANA Regional Corporation, Inc.
- (a) Definitions
- (b) Conveyance of lands by Secretary of Interior
- (c) Exchange limited to designated lands
- (d) Easement in and to transportation system lands
- (e) Compliance with local laws
- (f) Reconveyance of easement by NANA
- (g) Construction materials taken from borrow sites within easement
- (h) Agreement as governing use of lands
- (i) Use of construction materials from other sites
- (j) Congressional consultation as prerequisite to amendment of Agreement
- 43 U.S.C. § 1629a – Relinquishment by NANA Regional Corporation, Inc., of lands compact and contiguous to public lands in Cape Krusenstern National Monument
- 43 U.S.C. § 1629b (ANCSA § 36) – Procedures for considering amendments and resolutions
- 43 U.S.C. § 1629c (ANCSA § 37) – Duration of alienability restrictions
- 43 U.S.C. § 1629d (ANCSA § 38) – Dissenters rights
- 43 U.S.C. § 1629e (ANCSA § 39) – Settlement Trust option
- 43 U.S.C. § 1629f – Claims arising from contamination of transferred lands
- 43 U.S.C. § 1629g – Open Season for Certain Alaska Native Veterans for Allotments
- 43 U.S.C. § 1629h – Kake Tribal Corporation Land Transfer Act
- 43 U.S.C. § 1631 – Ownership of submerged lands
- 43 U.S.C. § 1632 – Statute of limitations on decisions of Secretary and reconveyance of land by Village Corporation
- 43 U.S.C. § 1633 – Administrative provisions
- 43 U.S.C. § 1634 – Alaska Native allotments
- (a) Approval of applications for certain lands; lands containing coal, oil, or gas; nonmineral lands; lands within National Park System; protests; voluntary relinquishment of application
- (b) Conflicting land descriptions in applications; adjustments; reductions
- (c) Amendment of land description in application; notification; protest; adoption of final plan of survey
- (d) Powersites and power projects
- (e) Validity of existing rights; rights acquired by actual use and national forest lands unaffected
- (f) Reinstatement
- 43 U.S.C. § 1635 – State selections and conveyances
- (a) [deleted]
- (b) School lands settlement
- (c) Prior tentative approvals
- (d) Prior State selections
- (e) Future “top filings”
- (f) Right to overselect
- (g) Conveyance of specified lands
- (h) Limitation of conveyances of specified lands tentative approvals; surveys
- (i) Adjudication
- (j) Clarification of land status outside units
- (k) Interim provisions
- (l) Existing rights
- (m) Extinguishment of certain time extensions
- (n) Effect on third-party rights
- (o) Status of lands within units
- (p) PYK line
- 43 U.S.C. § 1636 – Alaska Land Bank
- 43 U.S.C. § 1637 – Use of protraction diagrams
- 43 U.S.C. § 1638 – National Environmental Policy Act
- 43 U.S.C. § 1639 – Construction with Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
- 43 U.S.C. § 1640 – Relinquishment of selections partly within conservation units
- 43 U.S.C. § 1641 – Conveyances to Village Corporations
- 43 U.S.C. § 1642 – Land conveyances