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Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2025

This act 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.

Measure
H.R. 2815 · 119th Congress
Latest action
May 19, 2026
Policy changes
3
Source
CRS summary (Public Law) · Congress.gov

Became Public Law No: 119-93.

Who wrote it

Portrait of Nicholas J. Begich III

Sponsor

Rep. Nicholas J. Begich III (R-AK-AL)

No cosponsors. Introduced April 10, 2025.

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Provision 1

Specifically, the act 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 act 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.

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Provision 2

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 act'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).

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Provision 3

Reserves a public access easement on the federal land conveyed to Cape Fox and Sealaska.

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