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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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116TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-133
ARCTIC CULTURAL AND COASTAL PLAIN PROTECTION
ACT
JUNE 27, 2019.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 1146]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1146) to amend Public Law 115-97 (commonly known as
the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act) to repeal the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge oil and gas program, and for other purposes, having consid-
ered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and
recommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Arctic Cultural and Coastal Plain Protection Act.
SEC. 2. REPEAL OF ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE OIL AND GAS PROGRAM.
Section 20001 of Public Law 115-97 (16 U.S.C. 3143 note) is hereby repealed.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 1146 is to amend Public Law 115-97 to re-
peal the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil and gas program.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The area that later became the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
(ANWR, or the Arctic Refuge) was first protected by Secretarial
Order in 1960 as the 8.9-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife
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