106 STAT. 2112 PUBLIC LAW 102-415 —OCT. 14, 1992 Public Law 102-415 102d Congress An Act Oct. 14, 1992 [H.R. 3157] Alaska Land Status Technical Corrections Act of 1992. 43 USC 1601 note. To provide for the settlement of certain claims under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the "Alaska Land Status Technical Corrections Act of 1992". SEC. 2. FORT DAVIS NATIVE ALLOTMENT. Section 905(a)(l) of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (43 U.S.C. 1634(a)(1)) is amended— (1) by inserting "(A)" after "(1)"; (2) by inserting "or within Fort Davis (except as provided in subparagraph (B))" after "Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4)"; and (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: "(B) The land referred to in subparagraph (A) with respect to Fort Davis— "(i) shall be restricted to— " (I) the allotment applications named in the decision published at 96 IBLA 42 (1987) and to the acreage involved in those applications; or "(II) the heirs of an applicant who made an application described in subclause (I); and "(ii) shall be subject to valid existing rights and an easement for the Iditarod National Historic Trail established by section 5(a)(7) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(a)(7)), but pending final determination of the trail's location, the easement shall be located on an interim basis by the Secretary, in consultation with the Iditarod Historic Trail Advisory Council.". SEC. 3. NATIVE ALLOTMENT RELOCATION. Section 18 of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1617) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: "(c)(l)(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an allotment applicant, who had a valid application pending before the Department of the Interior on December 18, 1971, and whose application remains pending as of the date of enactment of this subsection, may amend the land description in the application of the applicant (with the advice and approval of the responsible officer of the Bureau of Indian Affairs) to describe land other than the land that the applicant originally intended to claim if— "(i) the application pending before the Department, either describes land selected by, tentatively approved to, or patented to the State of Alaska or otherwise conflicts with an interest
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