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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 128
115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 115-98
TO PROVIDE FOR THE CORRECTION OF A SURVEY OF
CERTAIN LAND IN THE STATE OF ALASKA
JUNE 8, 2017.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 267]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 267) to provide for the correction of a survey
of certain land in the State of Alaska, having considered the same,
reports favorably thereon without amendment and recommends
that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 267 is to provide for the correction of a survey
of certain Federal land within the boundaries of the Swan Lake
Hydroelectric Project in the State of Alaska.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
The Swan Lake Hydroelectric project (Project No. 2911) origi-
nally consisted of a 174-foot high, 430-foot long dam on Swan Lake,
located 22 air miles northeast of Ketchikan, Alaska. The project in-
cluded a 2,200-foot power tunnel and was able to produce 22
megawatts of electricity for the City of Ketchikan and surrounding
areas. It was funded by the State of Alaska in 1980 and completed
and placed in service in June 1984.
In the 1980s, the State of Alaska sought to select for transfer to
the State pursuant to the Alaska Statehood Act (Public Law 85-
508) all of the land underneath the existing reservoir and the lands
that would be flooded by a future expansion of the reservoir, in the
event that the height of the dam was ever raised. A 15-foot in-
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