Ted Stevens: “It is as important today as it ever was, more important probably, to have a military which has the resources it needs.”

Starting in the late 1980s, then-U.S. Senator Ted Stevens encouraged the community to actively explore and develop our first hydro facility.

The NALEMP annual appropriation was first drafted in 1993 by Senator Ted Stevens and Senator Daniel Inouye.

Thanks to the foresight of Senator Ted Stevens and his congressional colleagues in establishing the North Pacific Research Board in 1997.

The whole purpose of the Act is to protect our fisheries and have a conservation ethic to be the major goal.