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PUBLIC LAW 102-415—OCT. 14, 1992 106 STAT. 2125 (4) be in partial fulfillment of the entitlement of the Sealaska Corporation under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.). SEC. 18. HAIDA SUBSURFACE EXCHANGE AMENDMENT. The Haida Land Exchange Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-664) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: "SEC. 14. OFFER. "(a)(1) For and in consideration of the relinquishment and conveyance to the United States of all Haida Corporation's right, title, and interest in Lots 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of section 18, T. 77S. R. 84 E., C.R.M., and, in addition, all Haida Corporation's right, title, and interest in a road easement to be specified by the Secretary 100 feet in total width across Lot 1 of section 18, T. 77S. R. 84 E., C.R.M., from section 7 of T. 77 S. R. 84 E. C.R.M. to the cooperative information and education branch site, there are hereby offered to Haida Corporation the following lands and interests in lands: All right, title, and interest in the subsurface estate of the Haida Traditional Use Sites. "(2) Any conveyance of the offered lands and interests described in paragraph (1) shall be subject to valid existing rights, and shall except and reserve to the United States the perpetual easements identified in paragraph 18 of the agreement executed September 8, 1988, entitled 'Agreement between United States of America and Haida Corporation Regarding Implementation of the Haida Traditional Use Sites Exchange Pursuant to §3(a) the Haida Land Exchange Act of 1986, Pub. L. No. 99-664'. Without limitation to any other rights reserved under the terms of said easements, any such conveyance shall also except and reserve the rock, sand, and gravel occurring within said easement boimdaries. "(b) Haida Corporation shall have 90 days from the date of enactment of this section within which to accept the offer provided in this section by providing to the Secretary a properly executed and certified corporate resolution binding upon the corporation with respect to the relinquishment and conveyance of all the corporation's right, title, and interest in the lands specified in subsection (a). "(c) This section shall be ineffective, and no conveyances shall be made under this section, if the Secretary of Agriculture, on or before the date 60 days after the date of enactment of this section, determines implementation of this section would result in receipt by the United States of lands less in value than the value of the lands ofiTered for conveyance to the Haida Corporation.". SEC. 19. AHTNA GROUP SETTLEMENT. (a) WITHDRAWAL OPPORTUNITY. —AS an offer of settlement, within one year after enactment of this section, any or all of the Ahtna Group Corporations of Lower Tonsina, Twin Lakes, Little Lake Louise, Slana, and Nebesna may withdraw by resolution transmitted to the Secretary of the Interior (hereafter in this Act referred to as the "Secretary") a pending application for group eligibihty under section 14 of the Alaska Native Claim Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1613) (as amended and supplemented). Such resolution shall preclude the corporation concerned from any administrative or judicial review of its entitlement to land and money under such Act, and such withdrawal of application shall be construed as a dismissal with prejudice of such corporation's action before