2006-05-06                     Senate Journal                      Page 3259
HJR 9                                                                                             
SENATE CS FOR HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 9(JUD) am S                                                
Urging the United States Congress to honor the process and judgment                                 
of the federal courts in the case of the Exxon Valdez disaster and to                               
refrain from enacting legislation that would affect the outcome of the                              
courts' resolution of the case; urging the United States Department of                              
Justice and the Alaska Department of Law to identify all natural                                    
resource damages from the Exxon Valdez oil spill that were                                          
unanticipated at the time of the 1991 settlement, to develop plans to                               
remedy the damages, and to present the ExxonMobil Corporation with                                  
a request for the full $100,000,000 that is available through the                                   
"Reopener for Unknown Injury" clause of the 1991 civil settlement to                                
carry out these plans was engrossed, signed by the President and                                    
Secretary and returned to the House for consideration.