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Article: Oil-Drilling Report Is Kept From Congress
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 12, 1988
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The Interior Department has withheld from Congress an internal
report on environmental damage from oil drilling in Alaska as a House
panel is considering a Reagan administration request to open the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to petroleum development, according
to congressional staff members.
The Fish and Wildlife Service report on the environmental impact
from drilling in Alaska's North Slope was requested in April 1987 by
Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Interior water
and power resources subcommittee.
Aides to Miller said Tuesday that the report prepared by the
service's Fairbanks office was sent to the Interior Department last
December but not to Miller.
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