Zinke signs secretarial order to jump-start production within NPR-A

US Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke dramatically concluded his 5-day visit to Alaska by signing a secretarial order
to jump-start oil production within the National Petroleum
Reserve-Alaska. The May 31 order also called for updated resource
assessments along Alaska’s North Slope (ANS), including the federally
managed 1002 Area on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal
plain.


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