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P.O. BOX 189 

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OF ALASKA PHONE: 



NGOON 99820 (907) 788-3653 



TESTIMONY OF LYDIA GEORGE FOR THE CITY OF ANGOON 



The Council of City of Angoon would like to express their appreciation for the 

 opportunity to express our pnsition on the 705 (a) provisions of ANILCA which 

 establishes a it.5 billion board feet per decade timber supply and an off budget 

 unappropriated $W million per year to access marginal timber and for other 

 purposes, which directly benefit the long-term contracts of Alaska Pulp Company 

 and Ketchikan Pulp Company. 



The City of Angoon welcomes the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands National 

 Parks and Forest to the State of Alaska and would like the committee to focus 

 their attention to the concerns of our community and the lands surrounding the 

 municipality, as it exists and will exist for generations to come. 



Over the past decade the Federal Government has extinguished a program that the 

 U.S. Citizens of this nation, living within the boundaries of a municipality, has 

 directly benefitted from. The Federal Revenue Sharing Program. The timber 

 industry continues to receive a subsidy from the Federal Government. 



There are three struggling industries within our state. The Commercial 

 fisheries, which is the oldest industry within our state, has been a hard hit 

 industry over the past three decades and continues to decline. The Commercial 

 Fishing Industry receives no Federal Subsidy for recovery. This industry now 

 faces the possibility of extinction due to the oil spill in Valdez. 



