ARCTIC REGIONS

Articles and editorials

New Cold War’s Arctic Front, S4096 [11JN]

Bills and resolutions

Alaska: retain and provide for future use of certain land on Point Spencer, support missions and duties of the Coast Guard, and convey certain Point Spencer lands to Bering Straits Native Corp., and the State (see S. 1316), S2849 [13MY] (see H.R. 2284), H2877 [12MY]

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: preserve the Arctic coastal plain as wilderness (see S. 2341), S8306 [2DE] (see H.R. 239), H187 [9JA]

Arctic Ocean: prohibit drilling (see S. 1794), S5170 [16JY] (see H.R. 3632), H6306 [28SE]

Coast Guard: establish the National Icebreaker Fund to pay costs of construction, alteration, renovation, lease, or charter of icebreakers (see H.R. 3214), H5522 [27JY]

——— provide multiyear procurement authority for the procurement of up to six polar icebreakers to be owned and operated by the Coast Guard (see S. 1386), S3060 [19MY]

Dept. of State: establish a U.S. Ambassador at Large for Arctic Affairs (see H.R. 1593), H1900 [24MR]

Dept. of the Interior: establish an environmentally sound oil and gas leasing program for exploration, development, and production of resources of the Coastal Plain of Alaska (see H.R. 339), H358 [13JA]

NSF: prohibit funding for Polar Learning and Responding Climate Change Educational Partnership (see H.R. 2765), H4343 [12JN]

Power resources: provide for the development of methane hydrate as a commercially viable source of energy (see S. 1215), S2688 [6MY]

Remarks in House

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: preserve the Arctic coastal plain as wilderness, H555 [26JA]

——— prohibit funding for revised comprehensive conservation plan, H4803, H4804 [7JY]

NOAA: importance of surveying sea subsurface and shoreline of Alaska, E827 [3JN]

Ships and vessels: arctic polar icebreakers construction funding, H3226 [15MY], H9240 [10DE]

Remarks in Senate

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: proposal to preserve the Arctic coastal plain as wilderness, S456–S460 [26JA], S558–S560 [28JA]

Climate: impact of global warming on Arctic biodiversity and landscape, S2468 [28AP]

Dept. of Defense: develop strategy to protect national security interests in the Arctic, S4278 [18JN]

——— maintain Arctic airborne brigade, S4096 [11JN]

Foreign policy: implementation of national strategy for development, S1289–S1291 [4MR]

Ships and vessels: establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund for the construction of arctic polar icebreakers, S1884 [25MR]