Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2025 has not moved since its introduction on Mar 12, 2025, with one cosponsor, a Republican
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 213 words.
Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2025 This bill waives a statutory core township selection requirement for the Cape Fox Corporation and allows Cape Fox to receive other lands to fulfill its remaining land entitlement. Cape Fox is an Alaska Native village corporation for the Alaska Native village of Saxman, Alaska. Specifically, the bill states that Cape Fox shall not be required to receive its previously selected land of approximately 185 acres located within the township in which the Alaska Native village of Saxman, Alaska, is located. Instead, the bill allows Cape Fox to receive land outside of Cape Fox's current exterior selection boundary upon written notice of the new selection to the Department of the Interior. In particular, if Cape Fox submits written notice of its selection of approximately 180 acres of surface land within the Tongass National Forest in Alaska to Interior within 90 days of the bill's enactment, then Interior must convey the federal land to Cape Fox. Upon conveyance of the surface estate of the federal land to Cape Fox, Interior must convey the subsurface estate of the federal land to Sealaska Corporation (the Alaska Native regional corporation representing southeastern Alaska). The bill reserves a public access easement on the federal land conveyed to Cape Fox and Sealaska.
- Policy area
- Native Americans: 73 of 1,099 bills became law, 113th–118th (6.6%)
- Sponsor
- 9 of 355 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: placed on calendar senate · 529 words
- Subjects
- AlaskaAlaska Natives and HawaiiansFederal-Indian relationsLand transfers
- Latest action
- Mar 13, 2025: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 28.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Each bill appears once, under its strongest link. 1 in all.
Identical or companion · 1
- 119th H.R. 2815 Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2025 R · Law