Congress gives 21,000 acres of Denali Park to Alaska Native corporation
S. 4399 — Geese House Site Conveyance Act · Filed by Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Apr 27, 2026 · Reported out
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What it does
The bill tells the Secretary of the Interior to give land to Doyon, Limited. About 21,578 acres in Denali National Park will transfer within one year. Doyon is an Alaska Native corporation. The land was chosen in 1978 under a settlement act. Doyon cannot sell, mine, or build on it in harmful ways. The park border will move to exclude this land.
Who it affects
Doyon, Limited gets the land. The public loses access to that part of the park. Alaska Native people gain land promised to them long ago.
One thing to notice
The bill skips the normal federal review process. Rules that protect the site only bind Doyon now, not future owners.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- Apr 27, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Apr 27, 2026 — Referred to Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources”
- Jul 21, 2026 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held”
- Jul 29, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $10,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 9 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Lisa Murkowski, who sponsored the bill, received $357,300 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American Firearms Association — $10,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Secretary of the Interior — the federal official who manages public lands and natural resources
- Alaska Native corporation — a company owned by Alaska Native people to manage land
- settlement act — a law that gave Alaska Native groups land and money in 1978
- Denali National Park — a large federal protected area in Alaska for wildlife and public use
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (3,212 characters) on Aug 20, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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