The Secretary is authorized and directed to withdraw seventy thousand acres of public lands, as defined in
section 1602 of this title, in order that the Village Corporation for the village of Klukwan may select twenty-three thousand and forty acres of land. Such Corporation and the shareholders thereof shall otherwise participate fully in the benefits provided by this chapter to the same extent as they would have participated had they not elected to acquire title to their former reserve as provided by
section 1618(b) of this title:
Provided, That nothing in this subsection shall affect the existing entitlement of any Regional Corporation to lands pursuant to
section 1613(h)(8) of this title:
Provided further, That no such lands shall be withdrawn from an area previously withdrawn as a forest reserve without prior consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture:
Provided further, That the foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not become effective unless and until the Village Corporation for the village of Klukwan shall quitclaim to Chilkat Indian Village, organized under the provisions of the Act of
June 18, 1934 (
[48 Stat. 984]), as amended by the Act of
May 1, 1936 (
[49 Stat. 1250]),
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all its right, title, and interest in the lands of the reservation defined in and vested by the Act of