Chugach Alaska Land Exchange Act
Official: Chugach Alaska Land Exchange Oil Spill Recovery Act of 2025
This bill facilitates a land exchange between Chugach Alaska Corporation and the federal government to consolidate land ownership in the Chugach Region. It helps manage land more effectively after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Chugach Alaska Land Exchange Oil Spill Recovery Act of 2025This bill authorizes a land exchange between the Chugach Alaska Corporation (also known as Chugach, an Alaska Native regional corporation in southcentral Alaska) and the federal government. Specifically, if Chugach offers to convey to the Department of the Interior all right, title, and interest of Chugach in and to approximately 231,000 acres of subsurface estate within one year of the bill's enactment, then Interior must accept the offer and convey all right, title, and interest of the federal government in and to approximately 65,374 acres of fee simple land located in the Chugach region. (The Chugach region includes portions of land on the Kenai Peninsula and the coast of Prince William Sound in Alaska.) The bill directs Chugach to exclude from its conveyance to Interior all right, title, and interest in any land, not to exceed a total of 209 acres, for which a village corporation has retained development rights (other than timber development rights) or that has been designated for a shareholder homesite program.