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Alaska Native Village Municipal Lands Restoration Act of 2025Section 2 › Proposal

No further land has to be conveyed in trust

To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to provide that Village Corporations shall not be required to convey land in trust to the State of Alaska for the establishment of Municipal Corporations, and for other purposes, section 2, Sec. 2. Written by .

No further land has to be conveyed in trust

The document says “shall notWho acts: Village CorporationsHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says

“Notwithstanding any other provision of this subparagraph, as of the date of enactment of the Alaska Native Village Municipal Lands Restoration Act of 2025, a Village Corporation shall not be required to convey any additional land in trust under this subparagraph for the establishment of a Municipal Corporation in the future.”

To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to provide that Village Corporations shall not be required to convey land in trust to the State of Alaska for the establishment of Municipal Corporations, and for other purposes, Sec. 2

Subclause (II), headed Additional land, and it looks forward rather than back. As of the date of enactment, July 7, 2025, a Village Corporation is not required to convey any more land in trust under subparagraph (C) for a Municipal Corporation to be established in the future. Like subclause (I) it is written to override the rest of the subparagraph, opening Notwithstanding any other provision of this subparagraph. It says nothing about whether a Village Corporation may convey such land anyway.

What the document actually says

“Notwithstanding any other provision of this subparagraph, as of the date of enactment of the Alaska Native Village Municipal Lands Restoration Act of 2025, a Village Corporation shall not be required to convey any additional land in trust under this subparagraph for the establishment of a Municipal Corporation in the future.”

To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to provide that Village Corporations shall not be required to convey land in trust to the State of Alaska for the establishment of Municipal Corporations, and for other purposes, Sec. 2
That sentence, in plain words

From July 7, 2025, a village group need not hand over more land. That is land held for a town that might be set up later.

What this is about

This looks ahead, not back. It does not touch land handed over before that date. Part one covers that land.

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