00                      HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 14                                                                     
01 Urging the United States Congress to pass legislation to convey land to the University of                               
02 Alaska.                                                                                                                 
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
04       WHEREAS the University of Alaska is a land grant institution offering higher                                    
05 education to Alaskans; and                                                                                              
06       WHEREAS an academically strong and financially secure state university system is a                              
07 cornerstone to the long-term development of a stable population and to a healthy, diverse                               
08 economy; and                                                                                                            
09       WHEREAS the University of Alaska is the successor to and the beneficiary of all                                 
10 federal grants and conveyances to or for the Alaska Agricultural College and School of                                  
11 Mines; and                                                                                                              
12       WHEREAS, under the Acts of March 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1214), and January 21, 1929                                  
13 (45 Stat. 1091), the United States granted to the Territory of Alaska certain federal land for                          
14 the University of Alaska; and                                                                                           
15       WHEREAS the Territory of Alaska did not receive most of the land intended to be                                 
16 conveyed by the Act of March 4, 1915, before repeal of that Act by sec. 6(k) of the Alaska                              

01 Statehood Act (P. L. 85-508, 72 Stat. 339); and                                                                         
02       WHEREAS only one other state land grant college in the United States has obtained a                             
03 smaller land grant from the federal government than has the University of Alaska, and all land                          
04 grant colleges in the western states of the United States have obtained substantially larger land                       
05 grants than has the University of Alaska; and                                                                           
06       WHEREAS Alaska is the largest state in the United States; and                                                   
07       WHEREAS the federal government is the largest landowner in the state;                                           
08       BE IT RESOLVED by the Alaska State Legislature that the Congress of the United                                  
09 States is urged to pass S. 293 to facilitate the continuation of higher education in Alaska                             
10 through the conveyance of certain public land in the state to the University of Alaska; and be                          
11 it                                                                                                                      
12       FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature supports the conveyance                                      
13 of federal land in Alaska that was identified for conveyance under the Acts of March 4, 1915                            
14 (38 Stat. 1214), and January 21, 1929 (45 Stat. 1091), but was not conveyed before Alaska                               
15 achieved statehood.                                                                                                     
16       COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable George W. Bush, President                              
17 of the United States; the Honorable Richard B. Cheney, Vice-President of the United States                              
18 and President of the U.S. Senate; the Honorable Gale Norton, United States Secretary of the                             
19 Interior; the Honorable J. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; the                            
20 Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives; the                                       
21 Honorable Bill Frist, Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate; the Honorable Harry Reid, Minority                            
22 Leader of the U.S. Senate; the Honorable Pete V. Domenici, Chair of the Energy and Natural                              
23 Resources Committee of the U.S. Senate; the Honorable Ted Stevens and the Honorable Lisa                                
24 Murkowski, U.S. Senators, and the Honorable Don Young, U.S. Representative, members of                                  
25 the Alaska delegation in Congress; and, by electronic transmission, to all other members of                             
26 the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives serving in the 109th United States                                    
27 Congress.