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43 U.S.C. § 1633 — Administrative provisions
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**(a) Limitations concerning easements** With respect to lands conveyed to Native Corporations or Native Groups the Secretary shall reserve only those easements which are described in section 17(b)(1) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act [[43 U.S.C. 1616(b)(1)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1616/b/1&num=0&edition=prelim)] and shall be guided by the following principles:
(1) all easements should be designed so as to minimize their impact on Native life styles, and on subsistence uses; and
(2) each easement should be specifically located and described and should include only such areas as are necessary for the purpose or purposes for which the easement is reserved.
**(b) Acquisition of future easements** Whenever, after a conveyance has been made by this Act or under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act [[43 U.S.C. 1601](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1601&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], the Secretary determines that an easement not reserved at the time of conveyance or by operation of subsection (a) of this section is required for any purpose specified in section 17(b)(1) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, he is authorized to acquire such easement by purchase or otherwise. The acquisition of such an easement shall be deemed a public purpose for which the Secretary may exercise his exchange authority pursuant to section 22(f) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act [[43 U.S.C. 1621(f)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1621/f&num=0&edition=prelim)].
**(c) Status of certain lease offers** Offers for noncompetitive oil and gas leases under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 [[30 U.S.C. 181](https://uscode.house.gov/view.x
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**(a) Limitations concerning easements** With respect to lands conveyed to Native Corporations or Native Groups the Secretary shall reserve only those easements which are described in section 17(b)(1) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act [[43 U.S.C. 1616(b)(1)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1616/b/1&num=0&edition=prelim)] and shall be guided by the following principles:
(1) all easements should be designed so as to minimize their impact on Native life styles, and on subsistence uses; and
(2) each easement should be specifically located and described and should include only such areas as are necessary for the purpose or purposes for which the easement is reserved.
**(b) Acquisition of future easements** Whenever, after a conveyance has been made by this Act or under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act [[43 U.S.C. 1601](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1601&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], the Secretary determines that an easement not reserved at the time of conveyance or by operation of subsection (a) of this section is required for any purpose specified in section 17(b)(1) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, he is authorized to acquire such easement by purchase or otherwise. The acquisition of such an easement shall be deemed a public purpose for which the Secretary may exercise his exchange authority pursuant to section 22(f) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act [[43 U.S.C. 1621(f)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1621/f&num=0&edition=prelim)].
**(c) Status of certain lease offers** Offers for noncompetitive oil and gas leases under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 [[30 U.S.C. 181](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section181&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.] which were filed but which did not result in the issuance of a lease on or before December 18, 1971, on lands selected by, and conveyed before, on, or after December 2, 1980, to, Native Corporations or to individual Natives under paragraph (5) or (6) of section 14(h) [[43 U.S.C. 1613(h)(5)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1613/h/5&num=0&edition=prelim) or (6)] as part of the entitlement to receive land under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act [[43 U.S.C. 1601](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1601&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.] shall not constitute valid existing rights under section 14(g) of such Act [[43 U.S.C. 1613(g)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1613/g&num=0&edition=prelim)] or under this Act.
**(d) Limitation** This Act is not intended to modify, repeal, or otherwise affect any provision of the Act of January 2, 1976 (89 Stat. 1145), as amended or supplemented by Public Laws 94–456 and 95–178, and shall not be construed as imposing any additional restriction on the use or management of those lands described in section 22(k) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act [[43 U.S.C. 1621(k)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1621/k&num=0&edition=prelim)].
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**(a) Acreage limitation; proximity of selections and size of sections and units; waiver**
(1) During a period of three years from December 18, 1971, the Village Corporation for each Native village identified pursuant to [section 1610 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1610&num=0&edition=prelim) shall select, in accordance with rules established by the Secretary, all of the township or townships in which any part of the village is located, plus an area that will make the total selection equal to the acreage to which the village is entitled under [section 1613 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1613&num=0&edition=prelim). The selection shall be made from lands withdrawn by [section 1610(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1610/a&num=0&edition=prelim): Provided, That no Village Corporation may select more than 69,120 acres from lands withdrawn by [section 1610(a)(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1610/a/2&num=0&edition=prelim), and not more than 69,120 acres from the National Wildlife Refuge System, and not more than 69,120 acres in a National Forest: Provided further, That when a Village Corporation selects the surface estate to lands within the National Wildlife Refuge System or Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 4, the Regional Corporation, for that region may select the subsurface estate in an equal acreage from other lands withdrawn in [section 1610(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1610/a&num=0&edition=prelim) within the region, if possible.
(2) Selections made under this subsectio
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**(a) Withdrawal of public lands; list of Native villages** All public lands in each township that encloses all or any part of a Native village listed below, and in each township that is contiguous to or corners on such township, except lands withdrawn or reserved for national defense purposes, are hereby 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: Angoon, Southeast. Craig, Southeast. Hoonah, Southeast. Hydaburg, Southeast. Kake, Southeast. Kasaan, Southeast. Klawock, Southeast. Saxman, Southeast. Yakutat, Southeast.
**(b) Native land selections; Village Corporations for listed Native villages; acreage; proximity of selections; conformity to Lands Survey System** During a period of three years from December 18, 1971, each Village Corporation for the villages listed in subsection (a) shall select, in accordance with rules established by the Secretary, an area equal to 23,040 acres, which must include the township or townships in which all or part of the Native village is located, plus, to the extent necessary, withdrawn lands from the townships that are contiguous to or corner on such townships. All selections shall be contiguous and in reasonably compact tracts, except as separated by bodies of water, and shall conform as nearly as practicable to the United States Lands Survey System.
**(c) Tlingit-Haida settlement** The funds appropriated by the Act of July 9, 1968 (82 Stat. 307), to pay the judgment of the Court of Claims in the case of The Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska, et al. against The United States, numbered 47,900, and distributed to the Tlingit and Haida Indians pursuant to the Act of
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**(a) Establishment of units** In order to preserve for the benefit, use, education, and inspiration of present and future generations certain lands and waters in the State of Alaska that contain nationally significant natural, scenic, historic, archeological, geological, scientific, wilderness, cultural, recreational, and wildlife values, the units described in the following titles are hereby established.
**(b) Preservation and protection of scenic, geological, etc., values** It is the intent of Congress in this Act to preserve unrivaled scenic and geological values associated with natural landscapes; to provide for the maintenance of sound populations of, and habitat for, wildlife species of inestimable value to the citizens of Alaska and the Nation, including those species dependent on vast relatively undeveloped areas; to preserve in their natural state extensive unaltered arctic tundra, boreal forest, and coastal rainforest ecosystems; to protect the resources related to subsistence needs; to protect and preserve historic and archeological sites, rivers, and lands, and to preserve wilderness resource values and related recreational opportunities including but not limited to hiking, canoeing, fishing, and sport hunting, within large arctic and subarctic wildlands and on freeflowing rivers; and to maintain opportunities for scientific research and undisturbed ecosystems.
**(c) Subsistence way of life for rural residents** It is further the intent and purpose of this Act consistent with management of fish and wildlife in accordance with recognized scientific principles and the purposes for which each conservation system unit is established, designated, or expanded by or pursuant to this Act, to provide the opportunity for rural residents engaged in a subsistence way
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Congress finds and declares that—
**(a)** there is an immediate need for a fair and just settlement of all claims by Natives and Native groups of Alaska, based on aboriginal land claims;
**(b)** the settlement should be accomplished rapidly, with certainty, in conformity with the real economic and social needs of Natives, without litigation, with maximum participation by Natives in decisions affecting their rights and property, without establishing any permanent racially defined institutions, rights, privileges, or obligations, without creating a reservation system or lengthy wardship or trusteeship, and without adding to the categories of property and institutions enjoying special tax privileges or to the legislation establishing special relationships between the United States Government and the State of Alaska;
**(c)** no provision of this chapter shall replace or diminish any right, privilege, or obligation of Natives as citizens of the United States or of Alaska, or relieve, replace, or diminish any obligation of the United States or of the State or 11 So in original. Probably should be “of”. Alaska to protect and promote the rights or welfare of Natives as citizens of the United States or of Alaska; the Secretary is authorized and directed, together with other appropriate agencies of the United States Government, to make a study of all Federal programs primarily designed to benefit Native people and to report back to the Congress with his recommendations for the future management and operation of these programs within three years of December 18, 1971;
**(d)** no provision of this chapter shall constitute a precedent for reopening, renegotiating, or legislating upon any past settlement involving land claims or other matters with any Native organizations, or any
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Deposits of coal, phosphate, sodium, potassium, oil, oil shale, gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons), or gas, and lands containing such deposits owned by the United States, including those in national forests, but excluding lands acquired under the Appalachian Forest Act, approved March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 961), and those in incorporated cities, towns, and villages and in national parks and monuments, those acquired under other Acts subsequent to February 25, 1920, and lands within the naval petroleum and oil-shale reserves, except as hereinafter provided, shall be subject to disposition in the form and manner provided by this chapter to citizens of the United States, or to associations of such citizens, or to any corporation organized under the laws of the United States, or of any State or Territory thereof, or in the case of coal, oil, oil shale, or gas, to municipalities. Citizens of another country, the laws, customs, or regulations of which deny similar or like privileges to citizens or corporations of this country, shall not by stock ownership, stock holding, or stock control, own any interest in any lease acquired under the provisions of this chapter.
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**(a) Optional procedure** The provisions of this section shall be applicable only to the conveyance of Federal lands described herein to a Native Corporation which within one hundred and eighty days after December 2, 1980, or the date of eligibility determination, whichever is later, files a document with the Secretary setting forth its election to receive conveyance pursuant to this section.
**(b) “Core” townships, etc.**
(1)
(A) Except to the extent that conveyance of a surface estate would be inconsistent with section 12(a), 14(a), 14(b), or 22(l) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act [[43 U.S.C. 1611(a)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1611/a&num=0&edition=prelim), 1613(a), 1613(b), or 1621(l)], subject to valid existing rights and [section 1633(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1633/a&num=0&edition=prelim), there is hereby conveyed to and vested in each Village Corporation for a Native Village which is determined by the Secretary to be eligible for land under section 11 or 16 of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act [[43 U.S.C. 1610](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1610&num=0&edition=prelim) or 1615] and which did not elect to acquire a former reserve under section 19(b) of such Act [[43 U.S.C. 1618(b)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1618/b&num=0&edition=prelim)], all of the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the surface estate in the public lands, as defined in such Act [[43 U.S.C. 1601](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1601&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], in the township or townships withdrawn pu
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TITLE 30—MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
§ 181
Sec.
SUBCHAPTER V—OIL SHALE
241.
Leases of lands.
242.
Oil shale claims.
SUBCHAPTER VI—ALASKA OIL PROVISO
251.
Leases to claimants of withdrawn lands;
terms and conditions; acreage; annual rent-
als and royalties; fraud of claimants.
SUBCHAPTER VII—SODIUM
261.
Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage.
262.
Leases to permittees; survey of lands; royal-
ties and annual rentals.
263.
Permits to use or lease of nonmineral lands
for camp sites, and other purposes; annual
rentals; acreage.
SUBCHAPTER VIII—SULPHUR
271.
Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage.
272.
Leases to permittees; privileges extended to
oil and gas permittees.
273.
Lease of lands not covered by permits or
leases; acreage; rental.
274.
Lands containing coal or other minerals.
275.
Laws applicable.
276.
Application of subchapter to Louisiana and
New Mexico only.
SUBCHAPTER IX—POTASH
281.
Prospecting permits for chlorides, sulphates,
carbonates, borates, silicates, or nitrates of
potassium; authorization; acreage; lands af-
fected.
282.
Leases to permittees of lands showing valu-
able deposits; royalty.
283.
Lands containing valuable deposits not cov-
ered by permits or leases; authority to
lease; acreage; conditions; renewals; exemp-
tions from rentals and royalties; suspension
of operations.
284.
Lands containing coal or other minerals in
addition to potassium deposits; issuance of
prospecting permits and leases; covenants
in potassium leases.
285.
Laws applicable.
286.
Disposition of royalties and rents from potas-
sium leases.
287.
Extension of prospecting permits.
SUBCHAPTER I—GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 181. Lands subject to disposition; persons enti-
tled to benefits; reciprocal privileges; heliu
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TITLE 43—PUBLIC LANDS
§ 1600l
1 So in original. Probably should be ‘‘of’’.
§ 1600l. Authorization of appropriations
There is authorized to be appropriated to the
Department of the Interior $600,000, through the
end of fiscal year 1990, in addition to any other
funds now available to the Department to dis-
charge its duties to implement sections 1600b to
1600k of this title and section 4029 of title 42:
Provided, That by mutual agreement, such funds
shall be made available to the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency to discharge its du-
ties under section 4029 of title 42: Provided fur-
ther, That the provisions of sections 1600d and
1600e of this title shall not be affected by this
section: And Provided further, in addition, Indian
tribes may be eligible under Public Law 93–638
[25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.] to contract for studies of
Indian lands required under the provisions of
this chapter.
(Pub. L. 99–450, § 15, Oct. 8, 1986, 100 Stat. 1136.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
Public Law 93–638, referred to in text, is Pub. L.
93–638, Jan. 4, 1975, 88 Stat. 2203, known as the Indian
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act,
which is classified principally to chapter 46 (§ 5301 et
seq.) of Title 25, Indians. For complete classification of
this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under
section 5301 of Title 25 and Tables.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
For transfer of all functions, personnel, assets, com-
ponents, authorities, grant programs, and liabilities of
the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including
the functions of the Under Secretary for Federal Emer-
gency Management relating thereto, to the Federal
Emergency Management Agency, see section 315(a)(1)
of Title 6, Domestic
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**(a) Native villages listed in section 1610 and qualified for land benefits; patents for surface estates; issuance; acreage** Immediately after selection by a Village Corporation for a Native village listed in [section 1610 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1610&num=0&edition=prelim) which the Secretary finds is qualified for land benefits under this chapter, the Secretary shall issue to the Village Corporation a patent to the surface estate in the number of acres shown in the following table: If the village had on the 1970 censusenumeration date a Native populationbetween—It shall be entitled to a patent to an area of public lands equal to— 25 and 9969,120 acres. 100 and 19992,160 acres. 200 and 399115,200 acres. 400 and 599138,240 acres. 600 or more161,280 acres. The lands patented shall be those selected by the Village Corporation pursuant to [section 1611(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1611/a&num=0&edition=prelim). In addition, the Secretary shall issue to the Village Corporation a patent to the surface estate in the lands selected pursuant to [section 1611(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1611/b&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Native villages listed in section 1615 and qualified for land benefits; patents for surface estates; issuance; acreage** Immediately after selection by any Village Corporation for a Native village listed in [section 1615 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1615&num=0&edition=prelim) which the Secretary finds is qualified for land benefits under this chapter, the Secretary shall issue to the Village Corporation a
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TITLE 43—PUBLIC LANDS
§ 1613
(b) Withdrawals, selections, and conveyances
pursuant to chapter: current plats of surveys
or protraction diagrams; conformity to Land
Survey System
All withdrawals, selections, and conveyances
pursuant to this chapter shall be as shown on
current plats of survey or protraction diagrams
of the Bureau of Land Management, or protrac-
tion diagrams of the Bureau of the State where
protraction diagrams of the Bureau of Land
Management are not available, and shall con-
form as nearly as practicable to the United
States Land Survey System.
(Pub. L. 92–203, § 13, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 702.)
§ 1613. Conveyance of lands
(a) Native villages listed in section 1610 and
qualified for land benefits; patents for sur-
face estates; issuance; acreage
Immediately after selection by a Village Cor-
poration for a Native village listed in section
1610 of this title which the Secretary finds is
qualified for land benefits under this chapter,
the Secretary shall issue to the Village Corpora-
tion a patent to the surface estate in the num-
ber of acres shown in the following table:
If the village had on the 1970 census
enumeration date a Native population
between—
It shall be entitled
to a patent to an
area of public lands
equal to—
25 and 99 ..........................................
69,120 acres.
100 and 199 .......................................
92,160 acres.
200 and 399 .......................................
115,200 acres.
400 and 599 .......................................
138,240 acres.
600 or more .....................................
161,280 acres.
The lands patented shall be those selected by
the Village Corporation pursuant to section
1611(a) of this title. In addition, the Secretary
shall issue to the Village Cor
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