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Code · BILL · 115th Congress · S. 49 (Introduced in Senate) — To provide for a leasing program within the Coastal Plain, and for other purposes. · Sec. 2

Sec. 2. Definitions

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In this Act: The term Coastal Plain means the area generally described in appendix I to part 37 of title 50, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of enactment of this Act), except that the westerly boundary of the Coastal Plain shall be the boundary depicted on the map prepared under section 10(b). The term Deformed Area of the Coastal Plain means the approximately 1,125,000 acres generally depicted as the deformed area south and east of the Marsh Creek anticline in figure 2 of fact sheet 0028–01 of the United States Geological Survey.
The term Final Statement means the final legislative environmental impact statement on the Coastal Plain, dated April 1987, and prepared pursuant to— section 1002 of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act ( 16 U.S.C. 3142 ); and section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ( 42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C) ). The term Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior. The term Undeformed Area of the Coastal Plain means the approximately 375,000 acres generally depicted as the undeformed area north and west of the Marsh Creek anticline in figure 2 of fact sheet 0028–01 of the United States Geological Survey.
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