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43 U.S.C. § 1604 — Enrollment

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43 U.S.C. § 1604 — Enrollment

**(a) Eligible Natives; finality of decision** The Secretary shall prepare within two years from December 18, 1971, a roll of all Natives who were born on or before, and who are living on, December 18, 1971. Any decision of the Secretary regarding eligibility for enrollment shall be final. **(b) Residence; order of priority in enrollment of Natives not permanent residents; regional family or hardship enrollment** The roll prepared by the Secretary shall show for each Native, among other things, the region and the village or other place in which he resided on the date of the 1970 census enumeration, and he shall be enrolled according to such residence. Except as provided in subsection (c), a Native eligible for enrollment who is not, when the roll is prepared, a permanent resident of one of the twelve regions established pursuant to [section 1606(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1606/a&num=0&edition=prelim) shall be enrolled by the Secretary in one of the twelve regions, giving priority in the following order to— (1) the region where the Native resided on the 1970 census date if he had resided there without substantial interruption for two or more years; (2) the region where the Native previously resided for an aggregate of ten years or more; (3) the region where the Native was born; and (4) the region from which an ancestor of the Native came: 11 So in original. The colon probably should be a period. The Secretary may enroll a Native in a different region when necessary to avoid enrolling members of the same family in different regions or otherwise avoid hardship. **(c) Election of enrollment in thirteenth region, if established, of Native nonresidents; dependent household members as bound** A Native eli

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43 U.S.C. § 1610 — Withdrawal of public lands

**(a) Description of withdrawn public lands; exceptions; National Wildlife Refuge lands exception; time of withdrawal** (1) The following public lands are withdrawn, subject to valid existing rights, from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, including the mining and mineral leasing laws, and from selection under the Alaska Statehood Act, as amended: (A) The lands in each township that encloses all or part of any Native village identified pursuant to subsection (b); (B) The lands in each township that is contiguous to or corners on the township that encloses all or part of such Native village; and (C) The lands in each township that is contiguous to or corners on a township containing lands withdrawn by paragraph (B) of this subsection. The following lands are excepted from such withdrawal: lands in the National Park System and lands withdrawn or reserved for national defense purposes other than Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 4. (2) All lands located within the townships described in subsection (a)(1) hereof that have been selected by, or tentatively approved to, but not yet patented to, the State under the Alaska Statehood Act are withdrawn, subject to valid existing rights, from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, including the mining and mineral leasing laws, and from the creation of third party interests by the State under the Alaska Statehood Act. (3) (A) If the Secretary determines that the lands withdrawn by subsections (a)(1) and (2) hereof are insufficient to permit a Village or Regional Corporation to select the acreage it is entitled to select, the Secretary shall withdraw three times the deficiency from the nearest unreserved, vacant and unappropriated public lands. In making this withdrawal the Secretar

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43 U.S.C. § 1605 — Alaska Native Fund

**(a) Establishment in Treasury; deposits into Fund of general fund, interest, and revenue sharing moneys** There is hereby established in the United States Treasury an Alaska Native Fund into which the following moneys shall be deposited: (1) $462,500,000 from the general fund of the Treasury, which are authorized to be appropriated according to the following schedule: (A) $12,500,000 during the fiscal year in which this chapter becomes effective; (B) $50,000,000 during the second fiscal year; (C) $70,000,000 during each of the third, fourth, and fifth fiscal years; (D) $40,000,000 during the period beginning July 1, 1976, and ending September 30, 1976; and (E) $30,000,000 during each of the next five fiscal years, for transfer to the Alaska Native Fund in the fourth quarter of each fiscal year. (2) Four percent interest per annum, which is authorized to be appropriated, on any amount authorized to be appropriated by this paragraph that is not appropriated within six months after the fiscal year in which payable. (3) $500,000,000 pursuant to the revenue sharing provisions of [section 1608 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1608&num=0&edition=prelim). **(b) Prohibition of expenditures for propaganda or political campaigns; misdemeanor; penalty** None of the funds paid or distributed pursuant to this section to any of the Regional and Village Corporations established pursuant to this chapter shall be expended, donated, or otherwise used for the purpose of carrying on propaganda, or intervening in (including the publishing and distributing of statements) any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office. Any person who willfully violates the foregoing provision shall be guilty of

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43 U.S.C. § 1606 — 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** For purposes of this chapter, the State of Alaska shall be divided by the Secretary within one year after December 18, 1971, into twelve geographic regions, with each region composed as far as practicable of Natives having a common heritage and sharing common interests. In the absence of good cause shown to the contrary, such regions shall approximate the areas covered by the operations of the following existing Native associations: (1) Arctic Slope Native Association (Barrow, Point Hope); (2) Bering Straits Association (Seward Peninsula, Unalakleet, Saint Lawrence Island); (3) Northwest Alaska Native Association (Kotzebue); (4) Association of Village Council Presidents (southwest coast, all villages in the Bethel area, including all villages on the Lower Yukon River and the Lower Kuskokwim River); (5) Tanana Chiefs’ Conference (Koyukuk, Middle and Upper Yukon Rivers, Upper Kuskokwim, Tanana River); (6) Cook Inlet Association (Kenai, Tyonek, Eklutna, Iliamna); (7) Bristol Bay Native Association (Dillingham, Upper Alaska Peninsula); (8) Aleut League (Aleutian Islands, Pribilof Islands and that part of the Alaska Peninsula which is in the Aleut League); (9) Chugach Native Association (Cordova, Tatitlek, Port Graham, English Bay, Valdez, and Seward); (10) Tlingit-Haida Central Council (southeastern Alaska, including Metlakatla); (11) Kodiak Area Native Association (all villages on and around Kodiak Island); and (12) Copper River Native Association (Copper Center, Glennallen, Chitina, Mentasta). Any dispute over the boundaries of a region or regions shall be res

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43 U.S.C. § 1604 — Enrollment

Page 438 TITLE 43—PUBLIC LANDS § 1603 1 So in original. The colon probably should be a period. Subsecs. (n) to (t). Pub. L. 100–241, § 3(5), added sub- secs. (n) to (t). 1980—Subsec. (m). Pub. L. 96–487 added subsec. (m). Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries DEFINITIONS Pub. L. 108–452, § 2, Dec. 10, 2004, 118 Stat. 3576, pro- vided that: ‘‘In this Act [see Short Title of 2004 Amend- ment note set out under section 1601 of this title]: ‘‘(1) NATIVE ALLOTMENT.—The term ‘Native allot- ment’ means an allotment claimed under the Act of May 17, 1906 (34 Stat. 197, chapter 2469) [former 43 U.S.C. 270–1 to 270–3]. ‘‘(2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘Secretary’ means the Secretary of the Interior. ‘‘(3) STATE.—The term ‘State’ means the State of Alaska.’’ § 1603. Declaration of settlement (a) Aboriginal title extinguishment through prior land and water area conveyances All prior conveyances of public land and water areas in Alaska, or any interest therein, pursu- ant to Federal law, and all tentative approvals pursuant to section 6(g) of the Alaska Statehood Act, shall be regarded as an extinguishment of the aboriginal title thereto, if any. (b) Aboriginal title and claim extinguishment where based on use and occupancy; sub- merged lands underneath inland and off- shore water areas and hunting or fishing rights included All aboriginal titles, if any, and claims of ab- original title in Alaska based on use and occu- pancy, including submerged land underneath all water areas, both inland and offshore, and in- cluding any aboriginal hunting or fishing rights that may exist, are hereby extinguished. (c) Aboriginal claim extinguishment where based on right, title, use, or occupancy of land or water areas; domestic statute or treaty relat- ing to use and occupanc

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