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MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2003

Representative Don Young (R-Alaska) reintroduced two bills to benefit Alaska Natives and Alaska Native corporations.

The first requires the Department of Interior to fulfill a promise to grant more contracts to Alaska Natives at federal parks and refuges. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner says the bill is an expanded version of the one introduced last year because it allows contracting of construction, maintenance, data collection, biological research and harvest monitoring projects.

The second bill allows Alaska Native veterans of the Vietnam War to apply for 160-acre allotments. Some of these veterans missed a 1971 deadline to receive land.

The Bush administration opposed both bills at the House Resources Committee last year.

Get the Story:
Bill seeks to boost Native contracts in parks, refuges (The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner 3/10)

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