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PUBLIC LAW 92-203-DEC. 18, 1971

(C) $70,000,000 during each of the third, fourth, and fifth fiscal years; (D) $40^000,000 during the sixth fiscal year; and (E) $30,000,000 during each of the next five fiscal years. (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 9. (b) None of the funds paid or distributed pursuant to this section to any of the Eegional and Village Corporations established pursuant to this Act 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 a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than twelve months, or both. (c) After completion of the roll prepared pursuant to section 5, all money in the Fund, except money reserved as provided in section 20 for the payment of attorney and other fees, shall be distributed at the end of each three months of the fiscal year among the Regional Corporations organized pursuant to section 7 on the basis of the relative numbers of Natives enrolled in each region. The share of a Regional Corporation that has not been organized shall be retained in the Fund until the Regional Corporation is organized. REGIONAL

CORPORATIONS

SEC. 7. (a) For purposes of this Act, the State of Alaska shall be divided by the Secretary within one year after the date of enactment at this Act 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 H o p e); (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 R i v e r); (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, Glenn alien, Chitina, Mentasta). 75-432 O - 72 - 46

Expenditures for propaganda or political campaigns, prohibition*

Penalty.

Distribution.

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