[ncountylee]

Dec. 2, the day Carter signed the law, is "a day that will live in infamy,"

Jimmy was the worst and most hated President in history. IMO

[thackney]

The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980 (ANILCA) expanded the Refuge, mostly south and west, to include another 9.2 million acres. Section 702(3) designated much of the original Refuge as a wilderness area, but not the coastal plain, nor the newer portions of the Refuge. Instead, Congress postponed decisions on the development or further protection of the coastal plain. Section 1002 directed a study of ANWR’s “coastal plain” (therefore often referred to as the “1002 area”) and its resources to be completed within five years and nine months of enactment. Since oil is actually seeping out of the ground in this area, it seemed a good bet it would be a place to develop our resources.

In 1987, the U. S. Department of the Interior completed the final legislative environmental impact statement (FLEIS) on the feasibility for oil development on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as mandated in paragraph 1002(h) of the ANILCA. The conclusions in the FLEIS were that there was a strong possibility for economically recoverable oil. The recommendation to Congress from the Secretary of the Interior, based on the interpretation of the existing data, was to open that portion of the coastal plain of ANWR that had been designated for possible development to full leasing.

Maybe if the requirements of ANILCA are not going to be followed, the additional 104 million acres of federal lands that ANILCA kept from Alaska and placed into national parks, wildlife refuges, national monuments and national forests could be returned to the State for their use.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

And this is just one small wrinkle in the giant turd that is Karter's presidency.

[Don Corleone]

He shut down Alaska and opened up Panama to the communists. What a legacy!!