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Federal · 119th Congress · House bill

H.R. 2815: Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2025

Became law Public Law 119-93 Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. Reported by committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Sent to President
  6. Became law

Last official action: · Record last updated:

Official summary

Written by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), Library of Congress for the version “Public Law”, May 19, 2026. Reproduced verbatim.

Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2025

This act waives a statutory core township selection requirement for the Cape Fox Corporation and allows Cape Fox to receive other lands to fulfill its remaining land entitlement. Cape Fox is an Alaska Native village corporation for the Alaska Native village of Saxman, Alaska.

Specifically, the act states that Cape Fox shall not be required to receive its previously selected land of approximately 185 acres located within the township in which the Alaska Native village of Saxman, Alaska, is located. Instead, the act allows Cape Fox to receive land outside of Cape Fox's current exterior selection boundary upon written notice of the new selection to the Department of the Interior.

In particular, if Cape Fox submits written notice of its selection of approximately 180 acres of surface land within the Tongass National Forest in Alaska to Interior within 90 days of the act's enactment, then Interior must convey the federal land to Cape Fox. Upon conveyance of the surface estate of the federal land to Cape Fox, Interior must convey the subsurface estate of the federal land to Sealaska Corporation (the Alaska Native regional corporation representing southeastern Alaska).

The act reserves a public access easement on the federal land conveyed to Cape Fox and Sealaska.

Official actions

  1. Became Public Law No: 119-93.
  2. Signed by President.
  3. Presented to President.
  4. Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
  5. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged by Unanimous Consent.
  6. Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5879-5880)
  7. Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-354.
  8. Introduced in House

Sources

  1. Congress.gov: H.R. 2815 (119th Congress)
  2. GovInfo Bill Status XML: H.R. 2815
  3. GovInfo: Public Law 119-93 (official text)