COMBINED ENTITLEMENTS.

SEC. 202. COMBINED ENTITLEMENTS. Section 12 of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1611) is amended—(1) in the second sentence of subsection (b), by striking “Regional Corporation shall” and inserting “Regional Corporation shall, not later than October 1, 2005,”; and(2) by adding at the end the following:“(f)(1) The entitlements received by any Village Corporation under subsection (a) and the reallocations made to the Village Corporation under subsection (b) may be combined, at the discretion of the Secretary, without—“(A) increasing or decreasing the combined entitlement; or“(B) increasing the limitation on selections of Wildlife Refuge System land, National Forest System land, or State-selected land under subsection (a). 118 STAT. 3583“(2) The combined entitlement under paragraph (1) may be fulfilled from selections under subsection (a) or (b) without regard to the entitlement specified in the selection application.“(3) All selections under a combined entitlement under paragraph (1) shall be adjudicated and conveyed in compliance with this Act. “(4) Except in a case in which a survey has been contracted for before the date of enactment of this subsection, the combination of entitlements under paragraph (1) shall not require separate patents or surveys, to distinguish between conveyances made to a Village Corporation under subsections (a) and (b).”.