Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 94 Part 3.djvu/1049

 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS—DEC. 1, 1980

94 STAT. 3693

Claims Settlement Act to receive the subsurface estate corresponding to such surface estate, all of the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to such subsurface estate. "(c) DOCUMENTS.—As soon as possible after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall issue to each Native Corporation referred to in subsection (b) interim conveyances or patents to the estate or estates conveyed to such Corporation by such subsection, but title shall be deemed to have passed on the date of the filing of a document of election described in subsection (a), notwithstanding any delay in the issuance of the interim conveyances or patents. "(d) RECONVEYANCES; DISPUTES.—A Village Corporation's obligation to reconvey lands under section 14(c) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act shall arise only upon receipt of an interim conveyance or patent, whichever is earlier, under subsection (c) of this section or under such Act. For purposes of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, legislative conveyemces made by, or interim conveyances and patents issued pursuant to, this title shall have the same effect as if issued pursuant to sections 14(a), 14(b), 14(f), and 19(b) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and shall be deemed to have been so issued. Disputes between or among Native Corporations arising from conveyances under this Act shall be resolved by a board of arbitrators of a type described in section 12(e) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act pertaining to disputes over land selection rights and the boundaries of Village Corporations. "(e) EXISTING RIGHTS.—All conveyances made by operation of this section shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act as if such conveyances or patents had been made or issued pursuant to that Act. "(f) EASEMENTS.—For a period of one year from the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary may identify and issue a decision to reserve in the patent those easements, pursuant to section 17(b)(3) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, which are described in section 17(b)(1) of such Act on lands conveyed by this section, but the Secretary shall not reserve a greater number of easements or more land for a particular easement or easements than is reasonably necessary and he shall be guided by the principles of section 903 of this Act. Upon the finality of the decision so issued, such easements shall be reserved in the conveyance document or documents issued by the Secretary as required by this section. "(g) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the term 'Native Corporation' means Village Corporations and Regional Corporations.". (32) In section 1313 of the bill— (A) strike out the words "taking of fish and wildlife for sport and subsistence purposes," and insert in lieu thereof the words "taking offish and wildlife for sport purposes and for subsistence uses,"; (B) strike out the words "Consistent with the provision of this Act," and insert in lieu thereof the words Consistent with the provisions of section 816,"; and (C) strike out the words "appropriate State agency having jurisdiction" and all that follows down to the period at the end of such section, and insert in lieu thereof the words "appropriate State agency having responsibility over hunting,fishing,and trapping activities". (33) In section 6040)) of the bill strike out the reference to "(79) and (80)" in the new paragraph (5) which such subsection adds to the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act and substitute "(80) and (81)"

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