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lease, contract, permit, right-of-way, or easement 

 shall continue to be by the State or the United 

 States, unless the agency responsible for administra- 

 tion waives administration. In the event that the 

 patent does not cover all of the land embraced within 

 any such lease, contract, permit, right-of-way, or 

 easement, the patentee shall only be entitled to the 

 proportionate amount of the revenues reserved under 

 such lease, contract, permit, right-of-way, or ease- 

 ment by the State or the United States which results 

 from multiplying the total of such revenues by a 

 fraction in which the numerator is the acreage of 

 such lease, contract, permit, right-of-way, or ease- 

 ment which is included in the patent and the denom- 

 inator is the total acreage contained in such lease 

 contract, permit, right-of-way, or easement. 



(h) Authorization of land conveyances. 



The Secretary is authorized to withdraw and con- 

 vey 2 million acres of unreserved and unappropriated 

 public lands located outside the areas withdrawn by 

 sections 1610 and 1615 of this title, and ' follows: 



(1) The Secretary may withdraw and convey to 

 the appropriate Regional Corporation fee title to 

 existing cemetery sites and historical places; 



(2) The Secretary may withdraw and convey 

 to a Native group that does not qualify as a Native 

 village, if it incorporates imder the laws of Alaska, 

 title to the surface estate in not more than 23,040 

 acres surroimding the Native group's locality. The 

 subsurface estate in such land shall be conveyed 

 to the appropriate Regional Corporation ; 



(3) The Secretary may withdraw and convey 

 to the Natives residing in Sitka, Kenai, Juneau, 

 and Kodiak, if they incorporate under the laws 

 of Alaska, the surface estate of lands of a similar 

 character in not more than 23,040 acres of land, 

 which shall be located in reasonable proximity to 

 the municipalities. The subsurface estate in such 

 lands shall be conveyed to the appropriate Re- 

 gional Corporation imless the lands are located in 

 a Wildlife Refuse: 



(4) The Secretary shall withdraw only such 

 lands surrounding the villages and municipalities 

 as are necessary to permit the conveyance au- 

 thorized by paragraphs (2) and (3) to be planned 

 and effected; 



(5) The Secretary may convey to a Native, 

 upon application within two years from Decem- 

 ber 18, 1971, the surface estate in not to exceed 

 160 acres of land occupied by the Native as a 

 primary place of residence on August 31. 1971. 

 Determination of occupancy shall be made by the 

 Secretary, whose decision shall be final. The sub- 

 surface estate in such lands shall be conveyed to 

 the appropriate Regional Corporations; 



(6) The Secretary shall charge against the 2 

 million acres authorized to be conveyed by this 

 section all allotments approved pursuant to section 

 1617 of this title during the four years following 

 December 18, 1971; 



(7) The Secretary may withdraw and convey 

 lands out of the National Wildlife Refuge System 

 and out of the National Forests, for the purposes 

 set forth in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and (5) of 

 this subsection; and 



' So In original. 



(8) Any portion of the 2 million acres not con- 

 veyed by this subsection shall be allocated and 

 conveyed to the Regional Corporations on the basis 

 of population. 

 (Pub. L. 92-203, § 14. Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 702.) 



§1614. Timber sale contracts; modification. 



Notwithstanding the provisions of existing Na- 

 tional Forest timber sale contracts that are directly 

 affected by conveyances authorized by this chapter, 

 the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to modify 

 any such contract, with the consent of the pur- 

 chaser, by substituting, to the extent practicable, 

 timber on other national forest lands approximately 

 equal in volume, species, grade, and accessibility for 

 timber standing on any land affected by such con- 

 veyances, and, on request of the appropriate Village 

 Corporation the Secretary of Agricuture is directed 

 to make such substitution to the extent it is per- 

 mitted by the timber sale contract without the con- 

 sent of the purchaser. (Pub. L. 92-203, § 15, Dec. 18, 

 1971, 85 Stat. 705.) 



§ 1615. Withdrawal and selection of public lands; 

 funds in lieu of acreage. 



(a) Withdrawal of public lands; list of Native villages. 

 All public lands in each township that encloses all 



or any part of a Native village listed below, and in 

 each township that is contiguous to or comers on 

 such township, except lands withdrawn or reserved 

 for national defense purposes, are hereby withdrawn, 

 subject to valid existing rights, from all forms of ap- 

 propriation under the pubic land laws, including the 

 mining and mineral leasing laws, and from selection 

 under the Alaska Statehood Act, as amended: 



Angoon, Southeast. 



Craig, Southeast. 



Hoonah, Southeast. 



Hydaburg, Southeast. 



Kake, Southeast. 



Kasaan, Southeast. 



Klawock, Southeast. 



Klukwan, Southeast. 



Saxman, Southeast. 



Yakutat, Southeast. 



(b) Native land selections; Village Corporations for 

 listed Native villages; acreage; proximity of 

 selections; conformity to Lands Survey System. 



During a period of three years from December 18, 

 1971, each Village Corporation for the villages listed 

 in subsection (a) of this section shall select, in ac- 

 cordance with rules established by the Secretary, an 

 area equal to 23,040 acres, which must include the 

 township or townships in which all or part of the 

 Native village is located, plus, to the extent necessary, 

 withdrawn lands from the townships that are con- 

 tiguous to or corner on such townships. All selections 

 shall be contiguous and in reasonably compact tracts, 

 except as separated by bodies of water, and shall 

 conform as nearly as practicable to the United States 

 Lands Survey System. 



(c) Tlingit-Haida settlement. 



The funds appropriated by the Act of July 9, 1968 

 (82 Stat. 307) , to pay the judgment of the Court of 

 Claims in the case of The Tlinglt and Haida Indians 

 of Alaska, et al. against The United States, numbered 



