AK HJR21

Urges the U.S. Secretary of the Interior to withdraw Secretarial Order No. 3310, issued December 22, 2010, which directs the Bureau of Land Management to inventory federal lands for wilderness characteristics and designate lands with such characteristics as "Wild Lands."

Contends that the secretarial order was issued without consultation with Alaska, other affected states, or the public, violating the President's Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government from January 2009.

Argues that only Congress may designate wilderness under the Wilderness Act of 1964, and that the order violates the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act's prohibition on presumptive management of land for wilderness characteristics without congressional approval.

Asserts that Wild Lands designations in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska would violate the Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 1976 and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, and would preclude oil and resource development.

Urges Congress to prohibit use of appropriated funds by the Department of the Interior and Bureau of Land Management to implement, administer, or enforce Secretarial Order No. 3310 if the Secretary declines to withdraw it.