transfer report

transfer report Sec. 326. (a) The Secretary of the Interior is directed to report to Congress by March 1, 1991 the following: (1) Identification of lands and properties that were transferred to Alaska Native Corporations under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act as amended, which at the time of transfer were represented or disclosed by the Federal Government as being free from contaminants, and which subsequent to transfer, were discovered to be contaminated; and (2) Identification of lands and properties that the Federal Government knowingly transferred to Alaska Native Corporations with contaminants. (b) For the purposes of this section “contaminants” are defined as hazardous substances as described in the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, and asbestos as described in the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act. (c) Nothing in this section requires the Secretary to conduct an in-the-field survey to determine the presence or absence of contaminants on transferred lands or properties. This Act may be cited as the “Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991”.