Alaska Native Vietnam Veteran Land Allotment Fulfillment Act of 2021
This bill makes additional federal land available for selection under the Alaska Native Vietnam Era Veterans Land Allotment Program. The program makes Alaska Native veterans who served in the Armed Forces in Vietnam between August 5, 1964, and December 31, 1971, or their heirs eligible to receive up to 160 acres of federal land in Alaska.
Specifically, the bill makes federal lands within units of the National Wildlife Refuge System in Alaska that were identified by the Department of the Interior in a November 2020 report as immediately available for allotment selection under the program. Interior identified over 3.6 million acres of land that should be made available for allotment selection by these veterans.
To make additional Federal public land available for selection under 
the Alaska Native Vietnam era veterans land allotment program, and for 
                             other purposes

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Alaska Native Vietnam Veteran Land 
Allotment Fulfillment Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. MAKING ADDITIONAL LAND AVAILABLE FOR SELECTION UNDER THE ALASKA 
              NATIVE VIETNAM ERA VETERANS LAND ALLOTMENT PROGRAM.

    All Federal land identified as suitable for allotment selection in 
the report under subsection (c)(1) of section 1119 of the John D. 
Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act (43 U.S.C. 
1629g-1), and published by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service 
in the report entitled ``Identification of National Wildlife Refuge 
System Lands in Alaska That Should Be Made Available for Allotment 
Selection by Eligible Alaska Native Vietnam Era Veterans'' (November 
2020), shall be made immediately available for selection in accordance 
with that section.
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Alaska Native Vietnam Veteran Land Allotment Fulfillment Act of 2021
A bill to make additional Federal public land available for selection under the Alaska Native Vietnam era veterans land allotment program, and for other purposes.
Alaska Native Vietnam Veteran Land Allotment Fulfillment Act of 2021
Sen. Murkowski, Lisa