[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 64 (Friday, April 12, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E453-E454]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           RETIREMENT OF SENIOR COUNSEL HARRY ``HANK'' SAVAGE

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                             HON. DON YOUNG

                               of alaska

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, April 12, 2019

  Mr. YOUNG. Madam Speaker, on May 2, Senior Counsel Harry ``Hank'' 
Atack Savage is retiring from the Office of Legislative Counsel after 
33 years. I want to commend Hank for his long and excellent service, 
and his improvements to the many bills on which he has worked over the 
years. In addition to working for other Committees, Hank handled 
maritime, Coast Guard, coastal and ocean and other issues for the now 
defunct Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, and for the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, the Committee on 
Natural Resources, and the Committee on Armed Services. When I chaired 
the Committee on Natural Resources and, later, the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure, I was glad to have his support and 
expertise when drafting complex legislation.
  As the maritime transportation counsel, Hank helped shepherd through 
Coast Guard authorization bills, including eight in the last nine 
Congresses, and a Maritime Administration authorization measure in 
every National Defense Authorization Act since 1995. His work has left 
a lasting impression on title 14, Coast Guard, and title 46, Shipping, 
of the

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United States Code. He also has drafted untold numbers of Jones Act 
waivers covering every imaginable type vessel, ownership scenario, and 
vessel history.
  On the Natural Resources Committee, I was particularly appreciative 
of his work on the 1996 update of the National Wildlife Refuge System 
organic statute during my first term as Chairman. He also worked on the 
first update of the hydrographic surveying laws in half a century, the 
Hydrographic reauthorization of the National Marine Sanctuaries Act, 
and multiple Coastal Barrier Resources System Act amendments, including 
the provision that led to the digitization of the Coastal Barrier 
Resource system maps.
  Of course, as the Congressman for All Alaska, I appreciate Hank's 
work on legislation related to numerous Alaska maritime and terrestrial 
issues, including the environmental restoration and land transfers on 
the Pribilof Islands.
  Hank is a proud University of Michigan grad, and graduated from 
Tulane Law School in New Orleans.
  Again, I want to thank Hank for his long and excellent service to 
Congress, and I am sure I am speaking for a long line of current and 
former Committee chairmen who share those thanks. I wish Hank and his 
wife, who is also retiring for Federal Service this spring, a long and 
happy retirement. I hope that will include a trip to Alaska.

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