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to Congress; payment of claims; Interest 

 restriction. 



1620. Taxation. 



(a) Fund revenues exemption; investment In- 



come taxable. 



(b) Shares of stock exemption. 



(c) Land or land Interests exemption; basis on 



disposition of land or land Interests. 



(d) Real property Interests: exemption period 



for Interests not developed or leased, de- 

 veloped or leased Interests taxable, certain 

 real property Interests taxable; derivative 

 revenues or proceeds taxable. 



(e) Public lands status of real property Inter- 



ests exempt from real estate taxes for pur- 

 poses of Federal highway and education 

 laws; Federal Are protection services for 

 real property interests without cost. 



1621. Miscellaneous provisions. 



(a) Contract restrictions; percentage fee; en- 



forcement: Hens, executions, or Judgments. 



(b) Patents for homesteads, headquarter sites, 



trade and manufacturing sites, or small 

 tract sites; use and occupancy protection. 



(c) Mining claims: possessory rights, protection. 



(d) Purchase restrictions for personnel Inappli- 



cable to chapter. 



(e) National Wildlife Refuge System: replace- 



ment lEinds. 



(f) Land exchanges. 



(g) National Wildlife Refuge System lands sub- 



ject of patents; Federal reservation of first 

 refusal rights; provision In patents for 

 continuing application of laws and regu- 

 lations governing Refuge. 



(h) Withdrawals of public lands; termination 

 date. 



(I) Administration of withdrawn lands; con- 

 tracting and other authority of Secretaries 

 not impaired by withdrawal. 



(J) Administration actions In absence of pro- 

 traction diagrams and nonconformity to 

 Land Survey System to accomplish pur- 

 poses of chapter: deed notation of adjust- 

 ments to Insure beneficiaries of land 

 grants their full entitlement. 



(k) National forest land patents: conditions. 



(1) Land selection limitation; proximity to home 

 rule or first class city and Ketchikan. 



1622. Annual reports to Congress until 1984; submission 



in 1985 of report of status of Natives, summary 

 of actions taken, and recommendations. 



1623. Authorization of appropriations. 



1624. Regulations; Issuance; publication in Federal Reg- 



ister. 



i 1601. Congressional findings and declaration of 

 policy. 



Congress finds and declares that — 



(a) there is an immediate need for a fair and 

 just settlement of all claims by Natives and Native 

 groups of Alaska, based on aboriginal land claims; 



(b) the settlement should be accomplished rap- 

 idly, with certainty, in conformity with the real 

 economic and social needs of Natives, without liti- 

 gation, with maximum participation by Natives 

 in decisions affecting their rights and property, 

 without establishing any permanent racially de- 

 fined institutions, rights, privileges, or obligations, 

 without creating a reservation system or lengthy 

 wardship or trusteeship, and without adding to 

 the categories of property and institutions enjoy- 

 ing special tax privileges or to the legislation estab- 

 lishing special relationships between the United 

 States Government and the State of Alaska; 



(c) no provision of this chapter shall replace or 

 diminish any right, privilege, or obligation of Na- 



tives as citizens of the United States or of Alaska, 

 or relieve, replace, or diminish any obligation of 

 the United States or of the State or Alaska to pro- 

 tect and promote the rights or welfare of Natives 

 as citizens of the United States or of Alaska; the 

 Secretary is authorized and directed, together with 

 other appropriate agencies of the United States 

 Government, to make a study of all Federal pro- 

 grams primarily designed to benefit Native people 

 and to report back to the Congress with his rec- 

 ommendations for the future management and 

 operation of these programs within three years of 

 December 18, 1971; • 



(d) no provision of this chapter shall constitute 

 a precedent for reopening, renegotiating, or legis- 

 lating upon any past settlement involving land 

 claims or other matters with any Native organiza- 

 tions, or any tribe, band, or identifiable group of 

 American Indians; 



(e) no provision of this chapter shall effect a 

 change or changes in the petroleum reserve policy 

 reflected in sections 7421 through 7438 of Title 10 

 except as specifically provided in this chapter; 



(f) no provision of this chapter shall be con- 

 strued to constitute a jurisdictional act, to confer 

 jurisdiction to sue, nor to grant implied consent to 

 Natives to sue the United States or any of its of- 

 ficers with respect to the claims extinguished by 

 the operation of this chapter; and 



(g) no provision of this chapter shall be con- 

 strued to terminate or otherwise curtail the activi- 

 ties of the Economic Development Administration 

 or other Federal agencies conducting loan or loan 

 and grant programs in Alaska. For this purpose 

 only, the terms "Indian reservation" and "trust 

 oi: restricted Indian-owned land areas" in Public 

 Law 89-136, the Public Works and Economic De- 

 velopment Act of 1965, as amended, shall be inter- 

 preted to include lan(''s granted to Natives under 

 this chapter as long as such lands remain in the 

 ownership of the Native villages or the Regional 

 Corporations. 



(Pub. L. 92-203, § 2, Dec. 18. 1971, 85 SUt. 688.) 



§ 1602. Definitions. 

 For the purposes of this chapter, the term — 



(a) "Secretary" means the Secretary of the 

 Interior; 



(b) "Native" means a citizen of the United 

 States who is a person of one-fourth degree or 

 more Alaska Indian (including Tsimshian Indians 

 not enrolled in the Metlaktla Indian Community) 

 Eskimo, or Aleut blood, or combination thereof. 

 The term includes any Native as so defined either 

 or both of whose adoptive parents are not Natives. 

 It also includes, in the absence of proof of a mini- 

 mum blood quantum, any citizen of the- United 

 States who is regarded as an Alaska Native by the 

 Native village or Native group of which he claims 

 to be a member and whose father or mother is (or, 

 if deceased, was) regarded as Native by any village 

 or group. Any decision of the Secretary regarding 

 eligibility for enrollment shall be final; 



(c) "Native village" means any tribe, band, clan, 

 group, village, community, or association in 

 Alaska listed in sections 1610 and 1615 of this title. 



