Senate Sends Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act to President's Desk for Signature

Cape Fox faced a 6-mile land exclusion zone — 3 times larger than the 2-mile buffer applied to every other Alaska Native village corporation

180 acres is roughly 0.001% of the 16.7-million-acre Tongass National Forest

ANCSA — the law Cape Fox's entitlement stems from — conveyed 44 million acres to Alaska Natives and paid $963 million when passed in 1971

Legislation to fix Cape Fox's land entitlement has been introduced in Congress since at least 2003 — more than 20 years before H.R. 2815 passed both chambers

The Mahoney Lake hydroelectric project tied to this land transfer was first permitted with the Department of Energy in 1995 — 30 years before the land deal cleared Congress