1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act . 2. Findings and purpose (a) Findings Congress finds that— (1) in 1971, Congress enacted the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ( 43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq. ) to recognize and settle the aboriginal claims of Alaska Natives to the land Alaska Natives had used for traditional purposes; (2) that Act awarded approximately $1,000,000,000 and 44,000,000 acres of land to Alaska Natives and provided for the establishment of Native Corporations to receive and manage the funds and land; (3) pursuant to that Act, Alaska Natives have been enrolled in 1 of 13 Regional Corporations; (4) most Alaska Natives reside in communities that are eligible under that Act to form a Village or Urban Corporation within the geographical area of a Regional Corporation; (5) Village or Urban Corporations established under that Act received cash and surface rights to the settlement land described in paragraph (2) and the corresponding Regional Corporation received cash and land that includes the subsurface rights to the land of the Village or Urban Corporation; (6) the southeastern Alaska communities of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell are not listed under that Act as communities eligible to form Village or Urban Corporations, even though the population of those villages comprises greater than 20 percent of the shareholders of the Regional Corporation for Southeast Alaska and display historic, cultural, and traditional qualities of Alaska Natives; (7) the communities described in paragraph (6) have sought full eligibility for land and benefits under that Act for more than 3 decades; (8) in 1993, Congress directed the Secretary of the Interior to prepare a report examining the reasons why the communities listed in paragraph (6) had been denied eligibility to form Village or Urban Corporations and receive land and benefits pursuant to that Act