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 PUBLIC LAW 102-415—OCT. 14, 1992 106 STAT. 2117 with the procedures for withdrawals and selections under section 22(j)(2) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 162igX2)). "(iiXD A Village Corporation described in clause (i) shall be entitled to select lands for replacement from the lands that have been withdrawn for selection by the Village Corporation pursuant to section ll(a)(l) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1610(a)(l)). "(ID In any case in which the lands described in subclause (I) are no longer in Federal ownership and the Village Corporation is entitled to msdce a selection pursuant to this subparagraph, the Secretary shall withdraw, and the Village Corporation shall select. Federal lands that are compact and contiguous with lands previously conveyed to the Village Corporation. "(C) Lands (or any interests in the lands) in the replacement of lands (or interests in the lands) reconveyed by the Regional Corporation to the United States under this subsection shall be selected by the Regional Corporation from lands that are— "(i) compact and contiguous with other lands previously conveyed to the Regional Corporation within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska; and "(ii) beneath the siuface estate of lands selected and conveyed to a Village Corporation. "(D) The Secretary shall convey the lands selected pursuant to this paragraph in accordance with this subsection. "(SXA) Eadi Native allotment certificate issued to an applicant or the heirs of the applicant pursuant to paragraph (3) shall be subject to any existing easement or other right that had been reserved, conveyed, transferred, or recognized by the United States prior to the issuance of the certificate. "(B) Each conveyance by the Secretary to any applicant or to the heirs of the applicant under this subsection shall reserve to the United States— "(i) except as provided in subparagraph (C), all interests in oil, gas, and coal in the conveyed lands, and the right of the United States, or a lessee or assignee of the United States, to enter on lands conveyed to the applicant or to the heirs of the applicant, to drill, explore, mine, produce, and remove the oil, gas, or coal; and "(ii) all other rights reasonably incident to the mineral reservations described in clause (i). "(C)(i) If the oil, gas, or coal described in subparagraph (B)(i) was previously conveyed to the Regional Corporation and the Regional Corporation reserves those interests in a reconveyance to the United States, the Secretary shall reserve from the reconveyance to the applicant or to the heirs of the applicant for the benefit of the Regional Corporation the same rights and privileges that would have been reserved for the United States, "(u) With respect to a reconveyance of lands (or any interest in the lands) by the Regional Corporation to the United States that does not convey the entire mineral estate, the Regional Corporation shall not be entitled— "(I) to a reduction of the acreage charged against the entitlement under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.); or "(11) to select mineral interests to replace the acreage.

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