119THCONGRESS
1
STSESSION H. R. 43
AN ACT
To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to pro-
vide that Village Corporations shall not be required to
convey land in trust to the State of Alaska for the
establishment of Municipal Corporations, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 2
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Alaska Native Village 2
Municipal Lands Restoration Act of 2025’’. 3
SEC. 2. REVERSION OF CERTAIN LAND CONVEYED IN 4
TRUST TO THE STATE OF ALASKA. 5
Section 14(c) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement 6
Act (43 U.S.C. 1613(c)) is amended— 7
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through 8
(5) as subparagraphs (A) through (E), respectively, 9
and indenting appropriately; 10
(2) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) 11
(as so redesignated), by striking ‘‘(c) Each patent’’ 12
and inserting the following: 13
‘‘(c) C
ONVEYANCE OF CERTAINLAND BYVILLAGE 14
C
ORPORATION.— 15
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—Each patent’’; 16
(3) in paragraph (1) (as so designated), in the 17
undesignated matter following subparagraph (E) (as 18
so redesignated), in the first sentence— 19
(A) by striking ‘‘section 14(c) of this Act’’ 20
and inserting ‘‘this subsection’’; and 21
(B) by striking ‘‘There is authorized’’ and 22
inserting the following: 23
‘‘(2) T
ECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.— 24
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—There are author-25
ized’’; 26 3
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(4) in paragraph (2)(A) (as so redesignated), in 1
the second sentence, by striking ‘‘The Secretary’’ 2
and inserting the following: 3
‘‘(B) F
ORM OF FUNDING .—The Sec-4
retary’’; and 5
(5) in paragraph (1) (as so designated)— 6
(A) in each of subparagraphs (A) and (B) 7
(as so redesignated)— 8
(i) by striking ‘‘the’’ the first place it 9
appears and inserting ‘‘The’’; and 10
(ii) by striking the semicolon at the 11
end and inserting a period; 12
(B) in subparagraph (D) (as so redesig-13
nated), by striking ‘‘the’’ the first place it ap-14
pears and inserting ‘‘The’’; 15
(C) by striking ‘‘existed as of’’ in subpara-16
graph (D) (as so redesignated) and all that fol-17
lows through ‘‘for’’ in subparagraph (E) (as so 18
redesignated) and inserting the following: ‘‘ex-19
isted as of December 18, 1971. 20
‘‘(E) For’’; and 21
(D) in subparagraph (C) (as so redesig-22
nated)— 23
(i) by striking the semicolon at the 24
end and inserting a period; 25 4
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(ii) by striking ‘‘in trust: Provided, 1
however, That the word’’ and all that fol-2
lows through ‘‘sentence,’’ and inserting the 3
following: ‘‘in trust. 4
‘‘(II) D
EFINITION OF SALE .— 5
For purposes of subclause (I), the 6
term ‘sale’’’; 7
(iii) by striking ‘‘one thousand two 8
hundred and eighty acres: Provided further, 9
That any net’’ and inserting the following: 10
‘‘1,280 acres. 11
‘‘(iii) N
ET REVENUES.— 12
‘‘(I) I
N GENERAL.—Any net’’; 13
(iv) by striking ‘‘community needs: 14
Provided, That the’’ and inserting the fol-15
lowing: ‘‘community needs. 16
‘‘(ii) M
INIMUM ACREAGE.—The’’; 17
(v) by striking ‘‘(C) the Village Cor-18
poration’’ and inserting the following: 19
‘‘(C) C
ONVEYANCE TO MUNICIPAL COR -20
PORATION OR THE STATE IN TRUST .— 21
‘‘(i) I
N GENERAL.—The Village Cor-22
poration’’; and 23
(vi) by adding at the end the fol-24
lowing: 25 5
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‘‘(iv) CASES IN WHICH CONVEYANCE 1
SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED .— 2
‘‘(I) I
N GENERAL .—Notwith-3
standing any other provision of this 4
subparagraph, if a Village Corpora-5
tion, prior to the date of enactment of 6
the Alaska Native Village Municipal 7
Lands Restoration Act of 2025, con-8
veyed to the State in trust all or a 9
portion of the acreage of land re-10
quired to be conveyed under this sub-11
paragraph for the establishment of a 12
Municipal Corporation in the future, 13
and a Municipal Corporation has not 14
been established as of that date of en-15
actment, on formal resolution by the 16
Village Corporation and the residents 17
of the Native village requesting dis-18
solution of the trust, the trust shall be 19
dissolved and title to the land shall re-20
vert to the Village Corporation, sub-21
ject to subclause (III). 22
‘‘(II) A
DDITIONAL LAND.—Not-23
withstanding any other provision of 24
this subparagraph, as of the date of 25 6
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enactment of the Alaska Native Vil-1
lage Municipal Lands Restoration Act 2
of 2025, a Village Corporation shall 3
not be required to convey any addi-4
tional land in trust under this sub-5
paragraph for the establishment of a 6
Municipal Corporation in the future. 7
‘‘(III) R
EQUIREMENTS.—In ac-8
cordance with subsection (g)— 9
‘‘(aa) the reversion of land 10
to a Village Corporation pursuant 11
to subclause (I) shall be subject 12
to— 13
‘‘(AA) valid existing 14
rights created by the appli-15
cable trust; and 16
‘‘(BB) any existing 17
easements, rights-of-way 18
necessary for public roadway 19
access, or rights-of-way for 20
access of holders of valid ex-21
isting rights; and 22
‘‘(bb) the Village Corpora-23
tion shall assume the obligations 24
of the applicable trust with re-25 7
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spect to any lease or other use 1
agreement applicable to the land 2
on reversion of the land to the 3
Village Corporation pursuant to 4
subclause (I).’’. 5
Passed the House of Representatives February 4,
2025.
Attest:
Clerk. 119
TH
CONGRESS
1
ST
S
ESSION
H. R. 43
AN ACT
To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
to provide that Village Corporations shall not be
required to convey land in trust to the State of
Alaska for the establishment of Municipal Cor-
porations, and for other purposes.