00SENATE CS FOR CS FOR HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 51(RES)                                                               
01 Relating to support for H.R. 2924, which allows certain Alaska Native Vietnam                                           
02 era veterans and the Elim Native Corporation to select land under the Alaska                                            
03 Native Claims Settlement Act.                                                                                           
04 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                              
05  WHEREAS Representative Don Young has introduced H.R. 2924, which amends the                                          
06 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to allow additional land selections to be made under that                           
07 Act by certain Alaska Natives who are Vietnam era veterans and by the Elim Native                                       
08 Corporation; and                                                                                                        
09  WHEREAS H.R. 2924 will allow Alaska Native Vietnam era veterans who missed                                           
10 their opportunity to make selections of native allotments while in military service to the                              
11 United States to make selections under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act;                                         
12  BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature supports the provisions of H.R.                                     
13 2924 that amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to allow Alaska Native Vietnam                                  
14 era veterans who missed their opportunity to make selections to make native allotment                                   

01 selections.                                                                                                             
02  COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable Bill Clinton, President of the                              
03 United States; the Honorable Al Gore, Jr., Vice-President of the United States and President                            
04 of the U.S. Senate; the Honorable Strom Thurmond, President Pro Tempore of the U.S.                                     
05 Senate; the Honorable Newt Gingrich, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; and to                               
06 the Honorable Ted Stevens and the Honorable Frank Murkowski, U.S. Senators, and the                                     
07 Honorable Don Young, U.S. Representative, members of the Alaska delegation in Congress.