S 2016 · in committee · niche
Chugach Alaska Land Exchange Oil Spill Recovery Act of 2025
- government reform
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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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?
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What specific oil spill recovery goals does this land exchange achieve, and why is the federal government acquiring subsurface rights to accomplish them?
- 03
Which village corporations are excluded from this exchange, and what criteria determined which lands were removed from the deal?
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Sponsor · R-AK
Lisa Murkowski
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Introduced 2025-12-17
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Legislative timeline
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.
2025-12-02 · senate · Committee
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held.
2025-06-10 · senate · IntroReferral
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
2025-06-10 · IntroReferral
Introduced in Senate

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