Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act colleague letter · Les AuCoin Collection

Title: Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act colleague letter
Description: A "dear colleague" letter from Representative Les AuCoin regarding the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. A "dear colleague" letter is a piece of official correspondence written by a member of Congress and distributed in bulk to other congressional offices. In this particular letter, Representative AuCoin informs his colleagues in the House of Representatives that he will miss the debate on the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, but encourages others to support the bill. The bill was eventually passed in November 1980. Based on this date, this letter was likely written in May 1980. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives.
Identifier: PUA_MS147_90
Creator: AuCoin, Les
Date Created: 1980
Date: 1980
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Subject: Form letters; Legislators--United States; Natural resources conservation areas--Alaska; Environmental policy
Spatial Coverage: Alaska
Type: Text