Well, this would be one opportunity for you to view for yourself.

I do support the agency's many programs that deal with recreation and with wildlife.

This is in regards to continuing discussions regarding the Forest Service's potential acquisition of Shee Atika Incorporated's lands at Cube Cove on Admiralty Island.

I think that this decision by the agency represents the latest in a long line of misguided Forest Service actions that have had a crippling impact on Southeast Alaska.

I want to be clear. I do support the agency's many programs that deal with recreation and with wildlife.

You have got to find a different path here that does not punish these struggling rural communities for the agency's failure to manage our Nation's forests.

I have questioned that at a time where budgets are very, very tight, we would be purchasing more land when we're not able to adequately care for, maintain, provide the resources for what it is that we have.

I would certainly hope that at a bare minimum there is no effort to collect late fees and penalties.

That's what your agency says.

I think that oversight role is important. And I worry that we might lose some aspect of that oversight with this expansion that we're talking about.

If the State of Alaska and Alabama and Wyoming refuse to pay, as the Governor's letter certainly suggests, I mean, what do you do?

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I worked with Secretary Salazar on the agreement involving the King Cove road reflected in the Secretary's memorandum of March 21.

the outcry from tribes from folks back home on this particular issue is really loud.

There may be some interest in adding refining capacity to the pipeline.

I also want to acknowledge the good work of Deputy Secretary David Hayes, and I share the chairman's appreciation for the work that you have provided for the Department of the Interior under former Secretary Salazar.

You are Alaska's landlord, effectively.

It's our understanding that there have been some attempts in the past by small, mobile refining interests to gain access to the Federal helium pipeline.

I must tell you that there are two proposals in this request that are, frankly, an insult to the people of Alaska.

My staff has searched; they can find no other State in the Union that was ever asked to effectively pay to gain the lands that were promised them when they joined this Union.