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Chugach Alaska Land Exchange Oil Spill Recovery Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • The bill allows the Chugach Alaska Corporation to exchange about 231,000 acres of subsurface rights to the federal government for about 65,374 acres of federal land in Alaska.
  • This affects the Chugach Alaska Corporation, an Alaska Native regional corporation, and their shareholders in southcentral Alaska.
  • The exchange must be completed within one year of the bill's enactment, with certain village corporation lands excluded from the deal.

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  1. 01

    How would the Chugach Alaska Corporation's shareholders benefit or lose from exchanging 231,000 acres of subsurface rights for 65,374 acres of federal land?

  2. 02

    What specific oil spill recovery goals does this land exchange achieve, and why is the federal government acquiring subsurface rights to accomplish them?

  3. 03

    Which village corporations are excluded from this exchange, and what criteria determined which lands were removed from the deal?

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Lisa Murkowski

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Introduced 2025-12-17

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-12-17 · senate · Committee

    Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

  2. 2025-12-02 · senate · Committee

    Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held.

  3. 2025-06-10 · senate · IntroReferral

    Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

  4. 2025-06-10 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in Senate

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