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 89 STAT. 1150

43 USC 1615.

43 USC 1618. 43 USC 1613.

25 Stat. 461. 25 Stat. 473a.

71 Stat. 596. 43 USC 1615.

43 USC 1613 "ote.

43 USC 1611 note,

PUBLIC LAW 94-204—JAN. 2, 1976 the disenrollment of Natives shall affect land entitlements of any Regional or Village Corporation or any Native village or group eligibility. SEC. 9. Section 16 of the Settlement Act is amended by inserting at the end thereof a new subsection (d) to read as follows: "(d) The lands enclosing and surrounding the village of Klukwan which were withdrawn by subsection (a) of this section are hereby rewithdrawn to the same extent and for the same purposes as provided by said subsection (a) for a period of one year from the date of enactment of this subsection, during which period the Village Corporation for the village of Klukwan shall select an area equal to twenty-three thousand and forty acres in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of this section and such Corporation and the shareholders thereof shall otherwise participate fully in the benefits provided by this Act to the same extent as they would have participated had they not elected to acquire title to their former reserve as provided by section 19(b) of this Act: Provided, That nothing in this subsection shall affect the existing entitlement of any Regional Corporation to lands pursuant to section 14(h)(8) of this Act: Provided further, That the foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not become effective unless and until the Village Corporation for the village of Klukwan shall quitclaim to Chilkat Indian Village, organized under the provisions of the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984), as amended by the Act of May 1, 1936 (49 Stat. 1250), all its right, title, and interest in the lands of the reservation defined in and vested by the Act of September 2, 1957 (71 Stat. 596), which lands are hereby conveyed and confirmed to said Chilkat Indian Village in fee simple absolute, free of trust and all restrictions upon alienation, encumbrance, or otherwise: Provided further, That the United States and the Village Corporation for the village of Klukwan shall also quitclaim to said Chilkat Indian Village any right or interest they may have in and to income derived from the reservation lands defined in and vested by the Act of September 2, 1957 (71 Stat. 597), after the date of enactment of this Act and prior to the date of enactment of this subsection.". SEC. 10. Section 16(b) of the Settlement Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Such allocation as the Regional Corporation for the southeastern Alaska region shall receive under section 14(h)(8) shall be select'^d and conveyed from lands not selected by puch Village Corporations that were withdrawn by subsection (a) of this section, except lands on Admiralty Island in the Angoon withdrawal area and, without the consent of the Governor of the State of Alaska or his delegate, lands in the Saxman and Yakutat withdrawal areas.". SEC. 11. The boundary between the southeastern and Chugach regions shall be the 141st meridian: Provided, That the Regional Corporation for the Chugach region shall accord to the Natives enrolled to the Village of Yakutat the same rights and privileges to use any lands which may be conveyed to the Regional Corporation in the vicinity of Icy Bay for such purposes as such Natives have traditionally made thereof, including, but not limited to, subsistence hunting, fishing and gathering, as the Regional Corporation accords to its own shareholders, and shall take no unreasonable or arbitrary action relative to such lands for the primary purpose and having the effect, of impairing or curtailing such rights and privileges. SEC. 12. (a) The purpose of this section is to provide for the settlement of certain claims, and in so doing to consolidate ownership among the United States, the Cook Inlet Region, Incorporated (hereinafter in this section referred to as the "Region"), and the State of Alaska,

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