00                 CS FOR HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 4(RLS)                                                               
01 Requesting the Federal Subsistence Board to rescind its decisions regarding the                                         
02 subsistence fishery priority given to Ninilchik, Happy Valley, Hope, and Cooper                                         
03 Landing residents.                                                                                                      
04 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
05       WHEREAS the communities of Ninilchik and Happy Valley have not exhibited a                                    
06 long-term and traditional fishing history in the Upper Kenai or Kasilof drainage waters on                              
07 federal land; and                                                                                                       
08       WHEREAS, in making the customary and traditional use determination for the                                    
09 communities of Hope and Cooper Landing, the Federal Subsistence Board failed to follow its                              
10 own regulatory criteria for making that decision; and                                                                   
11       WHEREAS a survey by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game did not support                                      
12 these communities' receiving a subsistence priority; and                                                                
13       WHEREAS the residents of these communities fall short of meeting the eight factors                            
14 the Federal Subsistence Board considers when determining if an area has a subsistence                                   
15 priority;                                                                                                               

01       BE IT RESOLVED by the Alaska State Legislature that the Federal Subsistence                                     
02 Board is requested to rescind its decisions granting Ninilchik, Happy Valley, Hope, and                                 
03 Cooper Landing residents a subsistence fishery priority.                                                                
04       COPIES of this resolution shall be sent by electronic transmission and by mail to the                           
05 Honorable Dirk Kempthorne, United States Secretary of the Interior; the Honorable Mike                                  
06 Johanns, United States Secretary of Agriculture; the members of the Federal Subsistence                                 
07 Board; the Office of Subsistence Management, United States Department of the Interior; and                              
08 the Honorable Ted Stevens and the Honorable Lisa Murkowski, U.S. Senators, and the                                      
09 Honorable Don Young, U.S. Representative, members of the Alaska delegation in Congress.