HCR 3-ENDORSING ANWR LEASING  2:27:41 PM CHAIR MCGUIRE announced the consideration of HCR 3, Urging the governor and the attorney general to pursue all legal and legislative options to open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and areas of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas to oil and gas exploration, development, and production. 2:27:58 PM TOM WRIGHT, Staff, Representative Mike Chenault, introduced HCR 3 on behalf of the sponsor speaking to the following sponsor statement: HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 3: Urging the governor and the attorney general to pursue all legal and legislative options to open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and areas of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas to oil and gas exploration, development, and production. House Concurrent Resolution 3 urges the Governor and the Attorney General to "pursue all legal and legislative options to open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and areas of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas to oil and gas exploration and development." This resolution is being offered in response to actions taken by the Obama administration that requests Congress to designate the coastal plain of ANWR as wilderness and designating 9.8 million acres in the waters of the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas off Alaska's coast as off limits to consideration for future oil and gas leasing. The Alaska Statehood Act recognized the need for resource development to ensure the economic viability of the state; section 6(i) of the Act ensured that the state would have the right to minerals on land received from the federal government and 30 U.S.C. 191provides for the sharing of federal royalties with the state from federal lands in the state. 2:29:58 PM CHAIR MCGUIRE motioned to adopt Amendment 1, labeled 29- LS0452\H.1. AMENDMENT 1 OFFERED IN THE SENATE BY SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE TO: CSHCR 3(RLS) Page 1, line 3, following "production": Insert "; and urging the governor and the  Legislative Budget and Audit Committee to work with  the United States Congress to enact measures necessary  to prevent President Barack Obama and other federal  agencies from implementing regulations that place  landscape characteristic restrictions on the Arctic  National Wildlife Refuge that are equivalent to the  restrictions placed on land given a wilderness  designation" Page 5, following line 4: Insert new material to read: "FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature urges the governor and the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee to work with the United States Congress to enact measures necessary to prevent President Barack Obama, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Department of the Interior, and other federal agencies from implementing regulations that place landscape characteristic restrictions on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that are equivalent to the restrictions placed on land given a wilderness designation; and be it" SENATOR COGHILL objected for discussion purposes. 2:30:23 PM REPRESENTATIVE BOB HERRON, sponsor of HCR 3 explained that the amendment recognizes the new federal code phrase for wilderness called "landscape characteristics." The amendment also gives the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee the authority to hire the right people to further the intent of the resolution. 2:31:58 PM SENATOR COGHILL removed his objection. CHAIR MCGUIRE found no further objection and announced that Amendment 1 is adopted. Finding no public testimony, she closed it. 2:32:38 PM SENATOR COGHILL moved to report CS for HCR 3, as amended, from committee with individual recommendations [and zero fiscal note.] CHAIR MCGUIRE announced that without objection, SCS CSHCR 3(JUD) is reported from the Senate Judiciary Standing Committee.