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Friday, December 12, 2003

Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski (R) has dropped objections to a land swap benefiting Alaska Native corporations.

The deal has been scaled back, however. Instead of $12.5 million and 18,000 acres, the state will use $2.5 million in federal and private funds to buy 2,100 acres of land belonging to Native corporations on Afognak Island.

The Department of Interior will pitch in $1 million to help the state. Murkowski had objected because he didn't want money from the Exxon Valdez oil spill trust fund to be used to buy the land.

Get the Story:
Governor won't block Afognak deal (The Fairbanks Daily News Miner 12/12)

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Murkowski vetoes Alaska Native land purchase (06/13)


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