SR 9 Summary

• Alaska Senate asserts that the federal government has repeatedly violated commitments made in the Alaska Statehood Act and related federal laws regarding state land rights, resource development, and access to federal lands.

• Senate supports filing a petition by the Citizens' Advisory Commission on Federal Areas in Alaska and welcomes negotiated transfers of federal land ownership or management to the state.

• Senate urges Congress to reinstate and fund the Alaska Land Use Council under Title XII of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.

• Senate directs the Governor to negotiate cooperative land and resource management agreements with the federal government, with a requirement that any new federal land use restrictions lacking Congressional direction be subject to state approval before taking effect.

• Senate calls on the Governor to renew funding for the Citizens' Advisory Commission on Federal Areas in Alaska and the state's Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act implementation program, and urges establishment of a trust-beneficiary relationship with revenue sharing on federal lands.