This bill became law on 2026-05-19 as Public Law No. 119-93.
The summary below describes the bill at the version we last reviewed; the enacted text may differ.
About 180 acres of Tongass National Forest land in southeast Alaska will be transferred to Cape Fox Village Corporation, the Native corporation for the community of Saxman. The bill also waives a technical requirement under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act that would have forced Cape Fox to accept roughly 185 acres of land near Saxman that the corporation doesn’t want and didn’t select. Underground mineral rights to the transferred land go to Sealaska Corporation, the regional Alaska Native corporation, as required by existing law. A public easement is preserved so that people can still access deeper National Forest lands through the transferred property.
Congressional Summary
Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2025This 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.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. 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).The act reserves a public access easement on the federal land conveyed to Cape Fox and Sealaska.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Public Law
- Action Date
- 2026-05-19
- Date Added
- 2026-06-23
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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