Alaska Energy & Environmental Policy Update - October 29, 2009

With identification of polar bear critical habitat, federal Endangered Species Act rulings are forming a new regulatory landscape for federal, state and Native lands in Alaska. The Department of the Interior has engaged in a fast-moving, sweeping review of federal management of subsistence hunting and fishing in rural Alaska. And proposed revisions to the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) rules, issued yesterday, may well re-shape the landscape for Alaska Native businesses and their partners. Other policy developments of interest to Alaskans are covered in this issue of the Alaska Energy & Environmental Policy Update.