Editing Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (section)

==Native and state land selection==
Alaska Natives had three years from passage of ANCSA to make land selections of the {{convert|44|e6acre|km2}} granted under the act.<ref name=section1611>{{cite web|title=43 U.S. Code § 1611 - Native land selections|url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/43/1611|publisher=Legal Information Institute|access-date=30 November 2014}}</ref> In some cases Native corporations received outside aid in surveying the land.<ref name=haynes/> For instance, [[Doyon, Limited]] (one of the 13 [[Alaska native corporation|regional corporations]]) was helped by the Geophysical Institute of the [[University of Alaska]].<ref name=haynes/> The Institute determined which land contained resources such as minerals and coal.<ref name=haynes/> [[NASA]] similarly provided satellite imagery to aid in Native corporations finding areas most suited for vegetation and their traditional subsistence culture.<ref name=haynes/> The imagery showed locations of caribou and moose, as well as forests with marketable timber.<ref name=haynes/> In total about {{convert|7|e6acre|km2}} were analyzed for Doyon.<ref name=haynes/> Natives were able to choose tens of thousands of acres of land rich with timber while Doyon used mineral analysis to attract businesses.<ref name=haynes>{{cite journal|last1=Haynes|first1=James B.|title=Land Selection and Development under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act|journal=Arctic Institute of North America|date=September 1975|volume=28 |issue=3|pages=201–208|url=http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic28-3-201.pdf|access-date=30 November 2014}}</ref>

The state of Alaska to date has been granted approximately 85% or {{convert|90|e6acre|km2}} of the land claims it has made under ANCSA.<ref name=dnr>{{cite web|title=Fact Sheet Title: Land Ownership In Alaska (March 2000)|url=http://dnr.alaska.gov/mlw/factsht/land_own.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://dnr.alaska.gov/mlw/factsht/land_own.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|publisher=Alaska Department of Natural Resources|access-date=30 November 2014}}</ref> The state is entitled to a total of {{convert|104.5|e6acre|km2}} under the terms of the Statehood Act.<ref name=section6/> Originally the state had 25 years after passage of the [[Alaska Statehood Act]] to file claims under section 6 of the act with the [[Bureau of Land Management]] (BLM).<ref name=section6>{{cite web|title=Alaska Statehood Act: Selection of public lands, fish and wildlife, public schools, mineral permits, mineral grants, confirmation of grants, internal improvements, submerged lands (Section 6)|url=http://www.lbblawyers.com/ancsa/state6.htm|access-date=30 November 2014}}</ref> Amendments to ANCSA extended that deadline until 1994, with the expectation that BLM would complete processing of land transfers subject to overlapping Native claims by 2009.<ref name=note>{{cite web|title=118 Stat. 3594 (Public Law 108–452—DEC. 10, 2004) 43 USC 1635 note|url=http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/info/regulations/alaska_specific_legislation.-WidePar-35782-DownloadFile.tmp/PL108-2-452.pdf|access-date=30 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150616103958/http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/info/regulations/alaska_specific_legislation.-WidePar-35782-DownloadFile.tmp/PL108-2-452.pdf|archive-date=2015-06-16|url-status=dead}}</ref> Nonetheless, some Native and state selections under ANCSA remained unresolved as late as December 2014.<ref name=ruskin>{{cite web|last1=Ruskin|first1=Liz|title=Sealaska Selections in Tongass Added to Defense Bill|date=4 December 2014 |url=http://www.alaskapublic.org/2014/12/03/sealaska-selections-in-tongass-added-to-defense-bill/|publisher=Alaska Public Media|access-date=4 December 2014}}</ref>