Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2025

This bill changes the rules for how the Cape Fox Corporation, an Alaska Native village corporation for the village of Saxman, Alaska, receives land it is owed. Instead of requiring Cape Fox to take about 185 acres near Saxman, the bill lets the corporation choose roughly 180 acres of land in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, even though that land is outside its original selection area. If Cape Fox notifies the Department of the Interior of its new land choice within 90 days, the government must hand over the surface land to Cape Fox and the underground rights to Sealaska Corporation, which is the regional Alaska Native corporation for southeastern Alaska. The bill also keeps a public access easement on the transferred land, meaning the public would still have some right to use it.

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