Alaska Land Conveyance Program - A Slow, Complex, and Costly Process V. RCED-84-14

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RCED-84-14 [i] (1984-06-12)

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BY THE U.S, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

Report To The Secretary Of The Interior

Alaska Land Conveyance

Program--A Slow, Complex,

And Costly Process

Under the Alaska Statehood Act of 1958,
and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement
Act of 1971, the state is entitled to receive
104 million acres of land and Alaska Native
corporations are entitled to receive 44
million acres of land from the federal
government. As of December 1983, the
Native corporations and the state have re-
ceived legal title to surveyed land for 26 of
the 148 million acres

Obstacles slowing the Department of the
Interior's conveyance of land include having
to resolve over 8,800 pending individual
Alaska Native claims for small parcels of
land and surveying the boundaries of over
72 million acres of land. The land surveys at
current funding levels could take over 40
years and cost over $300 million to com-
plete

GAO makes recommendations to the Sec-
retary of the Interior on ways to improve the
land conveyance program

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