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Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2025

Official title: To provide equitable treatment for the people of the Village Corporation established for the Native Village of Saxman, Alaska, and for other purposes.

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What This Bill Does

This act waives a statutory core township selection requirement for the Cape Fox Corporation and allows Cape Fox to receive other lands to fulfill its remaining land entitlement. Cape Fox is an Alaska Native village corporation for the Alaska Native village of Saxman, Alaska.

Specifically, the act states that Cape Fox shall not be required to receive its previously selected land of approximately 185 acres located within the township in which the Alaska Native village of Saxman, Alaska, is located. Instead, the act allows Cape Fox to receive land outside of Cape Fox's current exterior selection boundary upon written notice of the new selection to the Department of the Interior.

In particular, if Cape Fox submits written notice of its selection of approximately 180 acres of surface land within the Tongass National Forest in Alaska to Interior within 90 days of the act's enactment, then Interior must convey the federal land to Cape Fox. Upon conveyance of the surface estate of the federal land to Cape Fox, Interior must convey the subsurface estate of the federal land to Sealaska Corporation (the Alaska Native regional corporation representing southeastern Alaska).

The act reserves a public access easement on the federal land conveyed to Cape Fox and Sealaska.

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Timeline

  1. Library of CongressSigned by President.
  2. Became Law
  3. House floor actionsPresented to President.
  4. SenateMessage on Senate action sent to the House.
  5. SenateSenate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged by Unanimous Consent.
  6. Library of CongressPassed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
  7. Floor Vote
  8. SenateReceived in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  9. House floor actionsMr. Stauber moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
  10. House floor actionsReported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-354.
  11. House committee actionsSubcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs Discharged
  12. House committee actionsSubcommittee Hearings Held
  13. House committee actionsReferred to the Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs.
  14. Library of CongressIntroduced in House
  15. House floor actionsReferred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
  16. Introduced
  17. Committee

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