Updated January 22. In
January 2003 the Bureau of Land Management released the Draft
Northwest
NPR-A Integrated Activity Plan and
Environmental
Impact Statement, which describes four possible management alternatives
for 8.8 million acres of public lands in the northwest portion
of
the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Public comments on the plan
were taken at meetings held in February and March 2003.
The final IAP/EIS was completed last fall. Click here for the
on-line version
of that document. The Record
of Decision was signed on January 22, 2004.
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