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[CITE: 42USC6505]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
            CHAPTER 78--NATIONAL PETROLEUM RESERVE IN ALASKA
 
Sec. 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).

(Pub. L. 94-258, title I, Sec. 105, Apr. 5, 1976, 90 Stat. 305; Pub. L. 
102-285, Sec. 10(b), May 18, 1992, 106 Stat. 172.)

                          Codification

    Subsec. (a) of this section amended section 6244 of this title.

                         Change of Name

    ``United States Bureau of Mines'' substituted for ``Bureau of 
Mines'' in subsec. (c)(2) pursuant to section 10(b) of Pub. L. 102-285, 
set out as a note under section 1 of Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining.
    Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of Senate abolished and 
replaced by Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of Senate, 
effective Feb. 11, 1977. See Rule XXV of Standing Rules of Senate, as 
amended by Senate Resolution No. 4 (popularly cited as the ``Committee 
System Reorganization Amendments of 1977''), approved Feb. 4, 1977.
    Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of 
Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of the House 
of Representatives on Jan. 5, 1993, by House Resolution No. 5, One 
Hundred Third Congress. Committee on Natural Resources of House of 
Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Resources of House 
of Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note 
preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 6508 of this title; title 16 
section 1276.
