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HJR 12                                                                                                                        
SENATE CS FOR CS FOR HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION                                                                                     
NO. 12(RES) am S Urging the United States Department of the                                                                     
Interior, Bureau of Land Management, to honor the recent lease sales                                                            
and proceed with permitting in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge;                                                             
urging the President of the United States to defend the 2020 Record of                                                          
Decision approving the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program in                                                             
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; opposing designation of the                                                                
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a National Monument; urging the                                                              
Alaska delegation in Congress to work to repeal sec. 20001(b)(5) of                                                             
the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 to honor the Alaska Statehood Act                                                             
with respect to the state's share of bonuses, royalties, and rentals from                                                       
exploration and development in the coastal plain of the Arctic National                                                         

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Wildlife Refuge; and requesting that the Alaska delegation in                                                                   
Congress defeat any effort to alter or repeal other provisions of sec.                                                          
20001 of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 if the result would                                                                  
adversely affect oil and gas development efforts in the Arctic National                                                         
Wildlife Refuge, was engrossed.