Dan Sullivan

Mr. Chairman, I can get back to you on that, because it is A, B, C, and D, and I am not recalling exactly which one it is.

We think that the latest assessment that USGS did, and we worked very closely, my agency in particular, very closely with USGS.

We had been a cooperating agency in the review process

It was principally, we thought it was based on very limited data, not enough seismic, not enough wells.

Yes, sir. That is the primary issue here.

We don't consider ourselves just another stakeholder in the process. We are the other sovereign in the process.

You can responsibly develop the resources in an Arctic environment and protect the environment.

We believe it is the Federal Government's responsibility to clean it up.

The organic focus on the NPR-A, just think about the title, the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska, was focused on oil and gas security for the country.

One of the things that we are most concerned about is in the integrated plan, how that essentially took half of the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska... off the table for leasing.

The notion that all the sudden the State and the Borough have to pay for that, which is really the essence of the budget proposal, is why, Mayor Brower mentioned why that is such an offensive issue to us.

This is a reasonable proposal based on Alaska's high standards for responsible resource development and environmental protection.

Why would you not want to know what the resource potential is in the 1002 Area, when your mission is to manage that land?

We fear a replay of the NPR process and result.

The Department of the Interior withdrew almost half, 11 million acres, of NPR lands from oil and gas leasing.

Alaska's access--indeed, America's access--to Federal lands in Alaska has been significantly restricted.

We believe it is important that they do their part in promoting the American energy renaissance in Alaska.

We need the Federal Government as a partner in achieving that million-barrels-a-day goal, not as an obstacle.

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