---
kind: "unit"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
key: "ch33"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 33"
heading: "Alaska Native Claims Settlement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/ch33"
sections_count: 39
---

# Chapter 33 — Alaska Native Claims Settlement

Title 43 — Public Lands

## Sections

- [§1601. Congressional findings and declaration of policy](/usc/43/1601.md)
- [§1602. Definitions](/usc/43/1602.md)
- [§1603. Declaration of settlement](/usc/43/1603.md)
- [§1604. Enrollment](/usc/43/1604.md)
- [§1605. Alaska Native Fund](/usc/43/1605.md)
- [§1606. Regional Corporations](/usc/43/1606.md)
- [§1607. Village Corporations](/usc/43/1607.md)
- [§1608. Revenue sharing](/usc/43/1608.md)
- [§1609. Limitation of actions](/usc/43/1609.md)
- [§1610. Withdrawal of public lands](/usc/43/1610.md)
- [§1611. Native land selections](/usc/43/1611.md)
- [§1612. Surveys](/usc/43/1612.md)
- [§1613. Conveyance of lands](/usc/43/1613.md)
- [§1613a. ANCSA amendment](/usc/43/1613a.md)
- [§1614. Timber sale contracts; modification; timber from contingency area](/usc/43/1614.md)
- [§1615. Withdrawal and selection of public lands; funds in lieu of acreage](/usc/43/1615.md)
- [§1616. Joint Federal-State Land Use Planning Commission for Alaska](/usc/43/1616.md)
- [§1617. Revocation of Indian allotment authority in Alaska](/usc/43/1617.md)
- [§1618. Revocation of reserved rights; excepted reserve; acquisition of title to surface and subsurface estates in reserve; election of Village Corporations; restoration of land to Elim Native Corporation](/usc/43/1618.md)
- [§1619. Attorney and consultant fees](/usc/43/1619.md)
- [§1620. Taxation](/usc/43/1620.md)
- [§1621. Miscellaneous provisions](/usc/43/1621.md)
- [§1622. Annual reports to Congress until 1984; submission in 1985 of report of status of Natives, summary of actions taken, and recommendations](/usc/43/1622.md)
- [§1623. Authorization of appropriations](/usc/43/1623.md)
- [§1624. Regulations; issuance; publication in Federal Register](/usc/43/1624.md)
- [§1625. Securities laws exemption](/usc/43/1625.md)
- [§1626. Relation to other programs](/usc/43/1626.md)
- [§1627. Merger of Native corporations](/usc/43/1627.md)
- [§1628. Assignments by Regional Corporations of rights to receive payments from Fund](/usc/43/1628.md)
- [§1629. Cape Krusenstern National Monument land exchange between United States and NANA Regional Corporation, Inc.](/usc/43/1629.md)
- [§1629a. Relinquishment by NANA Regional Corporation, Inc., of lands compact and contiguous to public lands in Cape Krusenstern National Monument](/usc/43/1629a.md)
- [§1629b. Procedures for considering amendments and resolutions](/usc/43/1629b.md)
- [§1629c. Duration of alienability restrictions](/usc/43/1629c.md)
- [§1629d. Dissenters rights](/usc/43/1629d.md)
- [§1629e. Settlement Trust option](/usc/43/1629e.md)
- [§1629f. Claims arising from contamination of transferred lands](/usc/43/1629f.md)
- [§1629g. Open season for certain Alaska Native veterans for allotments](/usc/43/1629g.md)
- [§1629g–1. Alaska Native Vietnam era veterans land allotment](/usc/43/1629g-1.md)
- [§1629h. Kake Tribal Corporation land transfer](/usc/43/1629h.md)