Good morning everyone. Committee will come to order. We meet this morning to consider opening a very small portion of alaskas 1002 area to responsible Energy Development to meet the 1 billion budget reconciliation instruction that our Committee Received last week. The 1002 area covers 1. 57 million acres of land in northeast alaska within the nonwilderness portion. You bring it over here, sean. Within the nonwilderness portion of an war. And i think its important to put this in context in terms of the areas we are talking about. Anwar itself is 19 million acres. Approximately the size of south carolina. The nonwilderness area, is approximately the size of delaware. The area here is designated as federal wilderness. So when were talking about anwr itself, i think its importedant to recognize there are parts that are designated as wilderness, parts within the refuge and parts, the 1002 area specifically been designated for consideration for oil and Gas Exploration. So again i want to be
Good morning everyone. Committee will come to order. We meet this morning to consider opening a very small portion of alaskas 1002 area to responsible Energy Development to meet the 1 billion budget reconciliation instruction that our Committee Received last week. The 1002 area covers 1. 57 million acres of land in northeast alaska within the nonwilderness portion. You bring it over here, sean. Within the nonwilderness portion of an war. And i think its important to put this in context in terms of the areas we are talking about. Anwar itself is 19 million acres. Approximately the size of south carolina. The nonwilderness area, is approximately the size of delaware. The area here is designated as federal wilderness. So when were talking about anwr itself, i think its importedant to recognize there are parts that are designated as wilderness, parts within the refuge and parts, the 1002 area specifically been designated for consideration for oil and Gas Exploration. So again i want to be
Nonwilderness portion. Important tot is put this in context, in terms of the areas where talking about. War, itself, is 9 million acres, approximately the size of south carolina. The nonwilderness area, this 1002 area, is 1. 5 million acres, approximately the size of delaware. The area here is designated as wilderness, federal wilderness, 8 million acres there. So, when we are talking about an important tot is recognize that there are parts r that are designated wilderness, parts are designated refuge, and parts have specifically been designated for consideration for oil and Gas Exploration. I want to be clear. The 1002 area is not federal wilderness. Congress recognized the value of anwar when it recognize more than 70 million acres as the wilderness. That is protected and cannot, and will not be touched. The coastal plain, again, is separate from the wilderness in anwar. It is about the size of delaware, in a refuge about the size of south carolina. Talkingareas we are about our sign
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