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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 ....
Alaskas delegation senator lisa measure cows ki is the chair of the hearing. Welcome back, everyone. Sorry for the extra tenminute delay but we have finished at least these tranche of voting and hopefully well have an opportunity to get through this last panel with an opportunity for questions and conclude the hearing before we have another round of votes. So thats the hope here. This second panel is perhaps more of our technical panel. We have several witnesses present to help answer questions about modern development on the north slope and what it might look like in the future. Joining us today are mr. Aaron shut. Aaron is the president and ceo of doyon limited. Thank you for being here. You also brought your son with you, which is a great Educational Opportunity for him and we appreciate you both being here. Low w lois epistone is epstein is with us. She has been before the committee before. Following ms. Epstein, we w ....
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 s ....
[ gavel ] welcome back, everyone. Sorry for the extra tenminute delay, but we have finished at least this tranche of voting, and hopefully, well have an opportunity to get through this last panel with an opportunity for questions and conclude the hearing before we have another round of votes, so thats the hope here. This second panel is perhaps more of our technical panel. We have several witnesses present to help answer questions about modern development on the north slope and what it might look like in the future. Joining us today are mr. Aaron sh shutt, president and ceo of doyon limited. Thank you for being here. You also brought your son with you, which is a great Educational Opportunity for him, and we appreciate your being here. Lois epstein is with us. Lois has been before the committee before. We welcome her back. She is the Arctic Program director for the w ....
Of. Welcome back sorry for the extra read ted minute delay but we were voting and hopefully we have an opportunity to get through the last panel with the opportunity to conclude the hearing before we have another round of votes. This second panel is more technical with several witnesses present about modern development on the north slope and joining us today we have the president and ceo komen thanks for being here you also brought your seven with zero your son with you. And also bought the ring back the Arctic Program director from the Wilderness Society and then also a frequent flier to the committee the executive Vice President for land and Natural Resources from their Regional Cooperation is go ....