Contains notes and research (General) Elmendorf AFB, Alaska) By Craig Hall of the AIR FORCE Team.

Contains notes research (General) Kulis, AGS, Alaska, By Craig Hall of the AIR FORCE Team.

2005 BRAC Commission Final COBRA Run - USA-0132v3 Fort Wainwright AK - 1 - Fort Wainwright, AK

2005 BRAC Commission Final COBRA Run - COBRA Air Force 7 Close Kulis - 80Z - Kulis, AK

2005 BRAC Commission Final COBRA Run - Galena cash flow - 195 - Galena AFB, AK

2005 BRAC Commission Final COBRA Run - COBRA Air Force 6 Realign Eielson - 79Z - Eielson

Contains Executive Correspondence regarding Eilson AFB, AK

Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 07/21/2005 to Commissioners General Newton and General Hill from Ted Stevens thanking them for their recent meeting to discuss the impact of Eielson AFB on joint training and readiness

Department of Defense Clearinghouse Response: DoD Clearinghouse response to a letter from the BRAC Commission regarding Environmental Restoration costs for Kulis Air Guard Station.

The Base Realignment and Closure Commission, Alaska Regional Hearing Fairbanks, Alaska

Coalition Correspondence – Resolution No. 05-06 dated 06/22/2005 by the Greater Juneau Chamber of Commerce opposing the DoD recommendation to realign Eielson AFB.

Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 07/21/2005 to General Hill and General Newton from Ted Stevens, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense thanking the commissioners for their time to meet. Mr. Stevens also expressed his continued support for Eielson’s AFB in Alaska.

This report provides background and analysis regarding the legislative history of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in northeastern Alaska. It also discusses actions in the 109th Congress, the energy resources, oil and natural gas and the impact they have on wildlife.

This report discusses one major element of the energy debate in the 108th Congress, which has been whether to approve energy development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in northeastern Alaska, and if so, under what conditions, or whether to continue to prohibit development to protect the area's biological resources. The Refuge is an area rich in fauna, flora, and commercial oil potential. Current law forbids energy leasing in the Refuge.

This report discusses the activities and accomplishments of the Auke Bay Marine Ecology and Stock Assessment Program based in Juneau Alaska.

This is a study on anthropogenic contaminants discharged from uses of petroleum products in Alaskan coastal waters. The reports also looks at metals and hydrocarbons in sediments.

From abstract: Environmental geochemical investigations took place in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve (WRST), Alaska, between 1994 and 1997. Areas studied include the historic Kennecott stratabound copper mines and mill area; the historic mines and mill in the Bremner district, where gold was produced from polymetallic veins; the sporadically active gold placer mines at Gold Hill; the undisturbed, unmined porphyry copper-molybdenum deposits at Orange Hill and Bond Creek; and the historic mines and mill at Nabesna, where gold-bearing iron skarn deposits were exploited. The cooperative study between the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Park Service focused on identifying and characterizing geochemical signatures associated with these mineralized areas. Sample media included surface water, bedload sediment, rock, mine waste, and mill tailings samples.

Amchitka Island, Alaska, was at one time an integral player in the nation's defense program. Located in the North Pacific Ocean in the Aleutian Island archipelago, the island was intermittently inhabited by several key government agencies, including the U.S. Army, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (predecessor agency to the U.S. Department of Energy), and the U.S. Navy. Since 1993, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has conducted extensive investigations on Amchitka to determine the nature and extent of contamination resulting from historic nuclear testing. The uninhabited island was the site of three high-yield nuclear tests from 1965 to 1971. These test locations are now part of the DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Operations Office's Environmental Management Program. In the summer of 2001, the DOE launched a large-scale remediation effort on Amchitka to perform agreed-upon corrective actions to the surface of the island. Due to the lack of resources available on Amchitka and logistical difficulties with conducting work at such a remote location, the DOE partnered with the Navy and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to share certain specified costs and resources. Attempting to negotiate the partnerships while organizing and implementing the surface remediation on Amchitka proved to be …

The Carboniferous Lisburne Group is a major carbonate reservoir unit in northern Alaska. The Lisburne is folded and thrust faulted where it is exposed throughout the Brooks Range, but is relatively undeformed in areas of current production in the subsurface of the North Slope. The objectives of this study were to develop a better understanding of four major aspects of the Lisburne: (1) The geometry and kinematics of folds and their truncation by thrust faults. (2) The influence of folding on fracture patterns. (3) The influence of deformation on fluid flow. (4) Lithostratigraphy and its influence on folding, faulting, fracturing, and reservoir characteristics. Symmetrical detachment folds characterize the Lisburne in the northeastern Brooks Range. In contrast, Lisburne in the main axis of the Brooks Range is deformed into imbricate thrust sheets with asymmetrical hangingwall anticlines and footwall synclines. The Continental Divide thrust front separates these different structural styles in the Lisburne and also marks the southern boundary of the northeastern Brooks Range. Field studies were conducted for this project during 1999 to 2001 in various locations in the northeastern Brooks Range and in the vicinity of Porcupine Lake, immediately south of the Continental Divide thrust front. Results are summarized below …

This report provides a brief review of efforts to develop and construct a natural gas pipeline from Prudhoe Bay, a status report on recent efforts to proceed, and an analysis of major relevant policy issues.

Final Cobra Run 80Z - Kulis Air Guard Station, AK. Contains 15 COBRA files pertaining to Kulis Air Guard Station.

Final COBRA Run 79Z - Realign Eielson AFB, AZ. Contains 14 COBRA files pertaining to realigning Eielson AFB.

COBRA Program - Kulis Air Guard Station and Elmendorf Air Force Base, AK

In 1976, Congress approved legislation to establish the regulatory framework for building a pipeline to bring natural gas from the Alaska North Slope to the lower 48 states. This report focuses on two major issues or uncertainties that may serve as economic constraints on a capital investment undertaking of this major scale.