42 U.S.C. § 6505 : US Code - Section 6505: Executive department responsibility for studies to determine procedures used in development, production, transportation, and distribution of petroleum resources in reserve; reports to Congress by President; establishment of task force by Secretary of the Interior; purposes; membership; report and recommendations to Congress by Secretary; contents

Search 42 U.S.C. § 6505 : US Code - Section 6505: Executive department responsibility for studies to determine procedures used in development, production, transportation, and distribution of petroleum resources in reserve; reports to Congress by President; establishment of task force by Secretary of the Interior; purposes; membership; report and recommendations to Congress by Secretary; contents

(a) Omitted
(b)(1) The President shall direct such Executive departments
and/or agencies as he may deem appropriate to conduct a study, in
consultation with representatives of the State of Alaska, to
determine the best overall procedures to be used in the
development, production, transportation, and distribution of
petroleum resources in the reserve. Such study shall include, but
shall not be limited to, a consideration of -
(A) the alternative procedures for accomplishing the
development, production, transportation, and distribution of the
petroleum resources from the reserve, and
(B) the economic and environmental consequences of such
alternative procedures.
(2) The President shall make semiannual progress reports on the
implementation of this subsection to the Committees on Interior and
Insular Affairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives
beginning not later than six months after April 5, 1976, and shall,
not later than one year after the transfer of jurisdiction of the
reserve, and annually thereafter, report any findings or
conclusions developed as a result of such study together with
appropriate supporting data and such recommendations as he deems
desirable. The study shall be completed and submitted to such
committees, together with recommended procedures and any proposed
legislation necessary to implement such procedures not later than
January 1, 1980.
(c)(1) The Secretary of the Interior shall establish a task force
to conduct a study to determine the values of, and best uses for,
the lands contained in the reserve, taking into consideration (A)
the natives who live or depend upon such lands, (B) the scenic,
historical, recreational, fish and wildlife, and wilderness values,
(C) mineral potential, and (D) other values of such lands.
(2) Such task force shall be composed of representatives from the
government of Alaska, the Arctic slope native community, and such
offices and bureaus of the Department of the Interior as the
Secretary of the Interior deems appropriate, including, but not
limited to, the Bureau of Land Management, the United States Fish
and Wildlife Service, the United States Geological Survey, and the
United States Bureau of Mines.
(3) The Secretary of the Interior shall submit a report, together
with the concurring or dissenting views, if any, of any non-Federal
representatives of the task force, of the results of such study to
the Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs of the Senate and
the House of Representatives within three years after April 5,
1976, and shall include in such report his recommendations with
respect to the value, best use, and appropriate designation of the
lands referred to in paragraph (1).