98 STAT. 470 16 USC 3102. Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation.
43 USC 1761. 30 USC 185.
Arctic Slope Regional Corporation. 94 Stat. 2533.
PUBLIC LAW 98-366—JULY 17, 1984 provision of law applicable to any conservation system unit, as that term is defined in section 102(4) of that Act. SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Interior shall convey to Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation (hereinafter "UIC"), subject to valid existing rights, all right, title, and interest held by the United States to sand and gravel underlying the surface estate owned by UIC in the Barrow gas fields and Walakpa gas discovery site, upon execution of an easement agreement with the North Slope Borough, satisfactory to the North Slope Borough, in consideration for the conveyance to UIC of such sand and gravel, providing for easements, for all purposes associated with operation, maintenance, development, production, generation, or transportation of energy, including the transmission of electricity, from the Barrow gas fields, the Walakpa discovery site, or from any other source of energy chosen by the North Slope Borough, to supply energy to Barrow, Wainwright, and Atkasook, and providing such easements when and where required as determined by the North Slope Borough during the life of such fields or other energy sources. SEC. 4. (a) Section 102 of the Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6502) is amended by adding "and the North Slope Borough" immediately after "Alaska Natives", by deleting "and" immediately after "responsibilities under this Act,", and by replacing the period following "Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act" with ", and (4) grant such rights-of-way to the North Slope Borough, under the provisions of title V of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 or section 28 of the Mineral Leasing Act, as amended, as may be necessary to permit the North Slope Borough to provide energy supplies to villages on the North Slope." (b) Section 104(e) of the Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6504(e)) is repealed effective October 1, 1984. SEC. 5. (a) In consideration for the relinquishment of rights that Arctic Slope Regional Corporation has under section 1431(o) of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, Public Law 96487, 94 Stat. 2371, 2541, to the subsurface resources in the Barrow gas fields and the Walakpa gas discovery site conveyed to the North Slope Borough and Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation pursuant to sections 2 and 3 of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior and Arctic Slope Regional Corporation are authorized to exchange lands and interests as set forth in the separate agreement between the Secretary and Arctic Slope Regional Corporation dated January 24, 1984 (hereinafter "the ASRC Agreement"), on file with the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. The specific terms, conditions, and covenants of the ASRC Agreement are hereby incorporated into this Act and ratified, as to the rights, duties, and obligations of the United States and Arctic Slope Regional Corporation and as to the rights and interests of the North Slope Borough, as a matter of Federal law. (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 4 of the ASRC Agreement, in lieu of the additional 69,120 acres of subsurface estate to be identified by ASRC pursuant to said paragraph 4, ASRC shall identify for conveyance or relinquishment to the United States, as appropriate, the 101,272 acres of subsurface estate beneath the surface estate of the lands described in subparagraphs 2 (a), (b) and (d) of the August 9, 1983 agreement between Arctic Slope Regional Corporation and the United States of America.
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