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Section 407(a) of Pub. L. 93-153 provided that: "In view 

 of the delay In construction of a pipeline to transport 

 North Slope crude oU. the sum of $5,000,000 Is authorized 

 to be appropriated from the United States Treasury Into 

 the Alaska Native Fund every six months of each fiscal 

 year beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, 

 as advance payments chargeable against the revenues to 

 be paid under section 9 of the Alaska Native Claims Set- 

 tlement Act [this section] , until such time as the delivery 

 of North Slope crude oU to a pipeline Is commenced." 



§ 1609. Limitation of actions. 



(a) Complaint, time for filing; jurisdiction; com- 

 mencement by State official; certainty and finality 

 of vested rights, titles, and interests. 



Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any 

 civil action to contest the authority of the United 

 States to legislate on the subject matter or the legal- 

 ity of this chapter shall be barred unless the com- 

 plaint is filed within one year of December 18, 1971, 

 and no such action shall be entertained unless it is 

 commenced by a duly authorized official of the State. 

 Exclusive jurisdiction over such action is hereby 

 vested in the United States District Court for the 

 District of Alaska. The purpose of this limitation on 

 suits is to insure that, after the expiration of a rea- 

 sonable period of time, the right, title, and interest 

 of the United States, the Natives, and the State of 

 Alaska will vest with certainty and finality and may 

 be relied upon by all other persons in their relations 

 with the State, the Natives, and the United States. 



(b) Land selection: suspension and extension of 

 rights. 



In the event that the State initiates litigation or 

 voluntarily becomes a party to litigation to contest 

 the auhority of the United States to legislate on the 

 subject matter or the legality of this chapter, all 

 rights of land selection granted to the State by the 

 Alaska Statehood Act shall be suspended as to any 

 public lands which are determined by the Secretary 

 to be potentially valuable for mineral development, 

 timber, or other commercial purposes, and no selec- 

 tions shall be made, no tentative approval shall be 

 granted, and no patents shall be issued for such 

 lands during the pendency of such litigation. In the 

 event of such suspension, the State's right of land 

 selection pursuant to section 6 of the Alaska State- 

 hood Act shall be extended for a period of time equal 

 to the period of time the selection right was 

 suspended. (Pub. L. 92-203, § 10, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 

 Stat. 696.) 



§ 1610. Withdrawal of public lands. 



(a) Description of withdrawn public lands; excei>- 

 tions; National Wildlife Refuge lands exception; 

 time of withdrawal. 



(1) The following public lands are withdrawn, 

 subject to valid existing rights, from all forms of 

 appropriation under the public land laws, including 

 the mining and mineral leasing laws, and from selec- 

 tion under the Alaska Statehood Act, as amended: 



(A) The lands in each township that encloses 

 all or part of any Native village identified pur- 

 suant to subsection (b) of this section; 



(B) The lands in each township that is con- 

 tiguous to or corners on the township that encloses 

 all or part of such Native village; and 



(C) The lands in each township that is con- 

 tig^uous to or corners on a township containing 



lands withdrawn by paragraph (B) of this sub- 

 section. 

 The following lands are excepted from such with- 

 drawal : lands in the National Park System and lands 

 withdrawn or reserved for national defense purposes 

 other than Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 4. 



(2) All lands located within the townships de- 

 scribed in subsection (a) (1) hereof that have been 

 selected by, or tentatively approved to, but not yet 

 patented to, the State under the Alaska Statehood 

 Act are withdrawn, subject to valid existing rights, 

 from all forms of apropriation under the public land 

 laws, including the mining and mineral leasing laws, 

 and from the creation of third party interests by the 

 State under the Alaska Statehood Act. 



(3) (A) If the Secretary determines that the lands 

 withdrawn by subsections (a) (1) and (2) hereof 

 are insufficient to permit a Village or Regional Cor- 

 poration to select the acreage it is entitled to select, 

 the Secretary shall withdraw three times the de- 

 ficiency from the nearest unreserved, vacant and 

 unappropriated public lands. In making this with- 

 drawal the Secretary shall, insofar as possible, with- 

 draw public lands of a character similar to those on 

 which the village is located and in order of their 

 proximity to the center of the Native village: Pro- 

 vided, That if the Secretary, pursuant to section 1616, 

 and 1621(e) of this title determines there is a need 

 to expand the boundaries of a National Wildlife 

 Refuge to replace any acreage selected in the Wild- 

 life Refuge System by the Village Corporation the 

 withdrawal under this section shall not include lands 

 in the Refuge. 



(B) The Secretary shall make the withdrawal pro- 

 vided for in subsection (3) (A) hereof on the basis 

 of the best available information within sixty days of 

 December 18, 1971, or as soon thereafter as 

 practicable. 



(b) List of Native villages subject to chapter; re- 

 view; eligibility for benefits; expiration of with- 

 drawals for villages; alternative eligibility; eligi- 

 bility of unlisted villages. 

 ( 1 ) The Native villages subject to this chapter are 



as follows: 



NAME OF PLACE AND REGION 



Afognak, Afognak Island. 



Akhiok, Kodiak. 



Akiachak, Southwest Coastal Lowland. 



Akiak, Southwest Coastal Lowland. 



Akutan, Aleutian. 



Alakanuk, Southwest Coastal Lowland. 



Alatna, Koyukuk-Lower Yukon. 



Aleknagik, Bristol Bay. 



AUakaket, Koyukuk-Lower Yukon. 



Ambler, Bering Strait. 



Anaktuvuk, Pass, Arctic Slope. 



Andreafsey, Southwest Coastal Lowland. 



Aniak, Southwest Coastal Lowland. 



Anvik, Koyukuk-Lower Yukon. 



Arctic Village, Upper Yukon-Porcupine. 



Atka, Aleutian. 



Atkassok, Arctic Slope. 



Atmautluak. Southwest Coastal Lowland. 



Barrow, Arctic Slope. 



Beaver, Upper Yukon-Porcupine. 



Belkofsky, Aleutian. 



