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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 145
115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 115-108
JAY S. HAMMOND WILDERNESS ACT OF 2017
JUNE 14, 2017.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 213]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 213) to designate the wilderness within the
Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in the State of Alaska as
the Jay S. Hammond Wilderness Area, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 213 is to designate the wilderness within the
Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in the State of Alaska as
the Jay S. Hammond Wilderness Area.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, established by Congress
in 1980 in the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act
(ANILCA, Public Law 96-487), preserves and protects some
3,653,000 acres of Southwest Alaska on the western shore of Cook
Inlet as a national park and preserve.
Although occupied by Alaska Natives for centuries, the area was
explored by Russian explorers after 1741. After the United States
purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, Charles Leslie McKay be-
came the first Euro-American to explore the area in 1881, col-
lecting artifacts for the Smithsonian Institution. In 1891, a party
led by explorer Alfred B. Schanz again traveled through the area.
Included in the Schanz party was John W. Clark, a representative
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