00SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 5                                                                                                 
01 Relating to the federal government's failure to abide by the intent of the Alaska                                       
02 National Interest Lands Conservation Act.                                                                               
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE:                                                                                           
04  WHEREAS the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), P.L. 96-                                         
05 487, was intended by its framers to fully settle the status of all federal land in Alaska and                           
06 therefore provide much needed stability for the benefit of all businesses and citizens of the                           
07 State of Alaska; and                                                                                                    
08  WHEREAS two areas of extreme importance to Alaska in ANILCA were                                                       
09   (1)  Title XI, which provided a mechanism to gain a right of access across                                            
10 Conservation System Units that were created as part of ANILCA; and                                                      
11   (2)  Secs. 101d and 1326b of ANILCA which prohibited the creation of new                                              
12 Conservation System Units in Alaska; and                                                                                
13  WHEREAS Title XI of ANILCA was specifically included to provide assured,                                               
14 reasonable, and timely access across the patchwork of federal Conservation System Units in                              

01 Alaska but has been administered by the federal government in such a manner as to amount                                
02 to no more than useless rhetoric; and                                                                                   
03  WHEREAS secs. 101d and 1326b of ANILCA were included to assure no further land                                         
04 withdrawals from multiple use from the federal land base in Alaska, but these provisions have                           
05 also been ignored by the federal government since the passage of ANILCA; and                                            
06  WHEREAS these two areas of extreme importance have been ignored by the federal                                         
07 government with the end result negatively affecting citizens and businesses in Alaska; and                              
08  WHEREAS Alaska has the ability to request land exchanges under secs. 103b and                                          
09 1302h of ANILCA of land now known to contain high resource values that have been                                        
10 arbitrarily withdrawn from multiple use by ANILCA;                                                                      
11  BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Senate respectfully requests that the federal                                     
12 government live up to the true intent of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act                            
13 in all issues of access, and creation of additional Conservation System Units, and fully support                        
14 exchanges of high resource value land with Alaska to enable Alaska to establish greater                                 
15 economic and infrastructure opportunities for the people of the state.                                                  
16  COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable Bill Clinton, President of the                                
17 United States; the Honorable Al Gore, Jr., Vice-President of the United States and President                            
18 of the U.S. Senate; the Honorable Newt Gingrich, Speaker of the U.S. House of                                           
19 Representatives; the Honorable Strom Thurmond, President Pro Tempore of the U.S. Senate;                                
20 the Honorable Bob Dole, Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate; and to the Honorable Ted                                    
21 Stevens and the Honorable Frank Murkowski, U.S. Senators, and the Honorable Don Young,                                  
22 U.S. Representative, members of the Alaska delegation in Congress.