06/06/2017
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"I think you would all agree with us on that."
"There's a 1980 Alaskan National Interest Lands Conservation Act contained within ANILCA is a provision that effectively precludes the Administration from declaring major, new conservation areas in Ala..."
"I appreciate that commitment. I think we recognize that it is a new area up there although not unexplored back in the 1980s."
"But both of these plans that are in process now effectively create new wilderness without the requisite congressional approval for the declarations."