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 106 STAT. 2126 PUBLIC LAW 102-415—OCT. 14, 1992 the United States District Court for Alaska, Civ. No. A86-035 and shall be binding upon the corporation and its members. Regulations. (b) OFFER.— In addition to those rights granted in section 1 of Public Law 94-204, for each Ahtna Group Corporation spedfied in subsection (a) whidi adopts a timely resolution to withdraw its section 14 application or group eligibility, there shall be a period of 180 days following transmittal of such resolution to the Secretary, during which each member of such Ahtna Group Corporation shall have the right to file with the Secretary an application for conveyance of up to 160 acres of landfiromthe United States to sudi individual member as if it were an application for a primary place of residence under section 14(h)(5) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1613(h)(5)), regulations for such application, and subject to the following provisions: (1) the availability of land subject to selection by the applicant shall be determined as of the date of the individual application: Provided, however, That if the application is for lands selected by Ahtna Regional Corporation or the State of Alaska after the date of selection by the Group Corporation, then the subsequent selections shall not attach to the lands selected by the Group Corporation until after the deadline for filing an application for primary place of residence: And provided further. That if the lands relinquished by the Group Corporation or the Ahtna Regionad Corporation lie within the boundaries of a conservation system unit, as defined in the Alaska National Interest Land Conservation Act, and such selections are relinquished in order to permit the filing of an application for primary place of residence, the withdrawal of the conservation system unit shall not prevent the filing, abjudication, and conveyance of those lands subject to the application for primary place of residence: And provided further, liiat any acreage granted to an applicant for primary place of residence shall be charged to the share of the Ahtna Regional Corporation under 45 CFR 2653; (2) the eligibility of the applicant shall be determined as if the application is an application for a primary place of residence filed Mdth the Secretary of the Interior on or before December 18, 1973; and (3) any State selection filed after the date on which the relevant Ahtna Group Corporation filed its application for section 14 eligibility shall not attach to lands segregated for the benefit of such ^tna Group Corporations until the applications of individual Ahtna Group members herein autiiorized have been identified, a4}udicated, and conveyed. (c) EXPEDITING.— In order to secure the rapid and certain resolution of Native lands claims, the United States shall endeavor to reach a final decision regarding each Ahtna Group member's application for primary place of residence within one year of its filing and shall otherwise complete the redetermination process for each Ahtna Group member as required by Public Law 94- 204, as amended, provided that revenues distributed or subject to distribution under section 7(i) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1606(i)), shall not be retroactively affected by any change in enrollment occasioned by said redetermination.

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