concerns that it s too risky for pristine areas of our country 23 we re going to protect the country. frank lautenberg and menendez and others, we ll move forward and do a look and see on the atlantic. it still has to go through the environmental analysis, but at the end of the day, this administration stands ready and strong with the foot in conservation, and we re not going to do anything that will degrade the environment or the coastline. the flip side of the argument has come from some republicans who say this is too timid, that you should not have taken bristol bay out of play up in alaska, for example. you should not have taken out of play the pacific coast. why those decisions? well, those decisions are based on the fact that there are some natural ecological wildlife values up there that are just absolutely the greatest. bristol bay provides about 40% of the fish for the united states. it is a place where presidents from the past, republican and democrats, wanted to prote