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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 6197 

To designate a mountain and icefield in the State of Alaska as the ‘‘Mount 

Stevens’’ and ‘‘Ted Stevens Icefield’’, respectively. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010 

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Natural Resources 

A BILL 

To designate a mountain and icefield in the State of Alaska 

as the ‘‘Mount Stevens’’ and ‘‘Ted Stevens Icefield’’, 

respectively. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mount Stevens and 

5 Ted Stevens Icefield Designation Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 Congress finds that— 

8 (1) Theodore ‘‘Ted’’ Fulton Stevens, who began 

9 serving in the Senate 9 years after Alaska was ad10 mitted to Statehood, represented the people of the 


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1 State of Alaska with distinction in the Senate for 

2 over 40 years from 1968 to 2009 and played a sig3 nificant role in the transformation of the State of 

4 Alaska from an impoverished territory to a full5 fledged State through the assistance he provided in 

6 building energy facilities, hospitals and clinics, 

7 roads, docks, airports, water and sewer facilities, 

8 schools, and other community facilities in the State 

9 of Alaska, which earned him recognition as ‘‘Alaskan 

10 of the Century’’ from the Alaska Legislature in 

11 2000; 

12 (2) Ted Stevens distinguished himself as a 

13 transport pilot during World War II in support of 

14 the ‘‘Flying Tigers’’ of the United States Army Air 

15 Corps, 14th Air Force, earning 2 Distinguished Fly16 ing Crosses and other decorations for his skill and 

17 bravery; 

18 (3) Ted Stevens, after serving as a United 

19 States Attorney in the territory of Alaska, came to 

20 Washington, District of Columbia in 1956 to serve 

21 in the Eisenhower Administration in the Department 

22 of the Interior, where he was a leading force in se23 curing the legislation that led to the admission of 

24 Alaska as the 49th State on January 3, 1959, and 

25 then as Solicitor of the Department of the Interior; 


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1 (4) in 1961, Ted Stevens returned to the State 

2 of Alaska and, in 1964, was elected to the Alaska 

3 House of Representatives, where he was subse4 quently elected as Speaker pro tempore and majority 

5 leader until his appointment on December 24, 1968, 

6 to the Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death 

7 of Senator E.L. Bartlett; 

8 (5) Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican 

9 Senator in the history of the Senate, served as 

10 President pro tempore of the Senate from 2003 

11 through 2007 and as President pro tempore emer12 itus from 2008 to 2009, and over the course of his 

13 career in the Senate, Ted Stevens served as assist14 ant Republican leader, Chairman of the Select Com15 mittee on Ethics, Chairman of the Committee on 

16 Rules and Administration, Chairman of the Com17 mittee on Governmental Affairs, Chairman of the 

18 Committee on Appropriations, and Chairman of the 

19 Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor20 tation; 

21 (6) Ted Stevens worked tirelessly for the enact22 ment of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act 

23 (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), which provided for the 

24 conveyance of approximately 44,000,000 acres of 

25 land in the State of Alaska to the Aleut, Eskimo, 


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1 and Indian peoples and created Native Corporations 

2 to secure the long-term economic, cultural, and polit3 ical empowerment of the Native peoples of the State 

4 of Alaska; 

5 (7) Ted Stevens was a leader in shaping the 

6 communications policies of the United States, as he 

7 helped to establish the spectrum auction policy, ne8 gotiated the Telecommunications Act of 1996, au9 thored the Digital Television Transition and Public 

10 Safety Act of 2005 (47 U.S.C. 309 note; Public Law 

11 109–171), and passionately advocated for the con12 nection of rural America to the rest of the world and 

13 to improve the lives of the people of the United 

14 States through the use of telemedicine and distance 

15 learning; 

16 (8) Ted Stevens was a conservationist who 

17 championed the safe development of the natural re18 sources of the United States, as illustrated by his 

19 authorship of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authoriza20 tion Act (43 U.S.C. 1651 et seq.), the Magnuson21 Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act 

22 (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), which established the 200- 

23 mile exclusive economic zone and led to a reduction 

24 in the dominance of foreign fishing fleets in the fish25 eries of the United States, the Magnuson-Stevens 


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1 Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthoriza2 tion Act of 2006 (Public Law 109–479; 120 Stat. 

3 3575), which established conservation measures de4 signed to end overfishing, and the High Seas 

5 Driftnet Fisheries Enforcement Act (16 U.S.C. 

6 1826a et seq.), which provided for the denial of 

7 entry into ports of the United States and the imposi8 tion of sanctions on vessels carrying out large-scale 

9 driftnet fishing beyond the exclusive economic zone 

10 of any nation; 

11 (9) Ted Stevens was committed to health and 

12 fitness in his personal life and in his legislative ac13 complishments, as illustrated by his authorship of 

14 the Ted Stevens Amateur and Olympic Sports Act 

15 (36 U.S.C. 220501 et seq.), his encouragement of 

16 providing equality to female athletes through the en17 actment of title IX of the Education Amendments of 

18 1972 (20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.), and his leadership 

19 in improving physical education programs in schools 

20 through the Carol M. White Physical Education Pro21 gram (20 U.S.C. 7261 et seq.); 

22 (10) Ted Stevens unconditionally supported the 

23 needs of the Armed Forces of the United States 

24 through visits to soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, 

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1 flict and war zone where United States military per2 sonnel have been assigned during his service in the 

3 Senate, including Vietnam, Kuwait, Bosnia, Kosovo, 

4 Iraq, and Afghanistan, and in his role as Chairman 

5 and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on De6 fense Appropriations for more than 20 years; 

7 (11) Ted Stevens was a devoted husband, fa8 ther, and grandfather who worked to promote fam9 ily-friendly policies in the Federal government; 

10 (12) Ted Stevens was well-respected for reach11 ing across the aisle to forge bipartisan alliances and 

12 enjoyed many close friendships with colleagues in 

13 both political parties and with his staff, who were 

14 deeply loyal to him; and 

15 (13) the designation of the unnamed highest 

16 peak in the State of Alaska, along with an icefield 

17 in the Chugach Forest in that State, in honor of 

18 Ted Stevens would be a fitting tribute to his honor19 able life and legacy. 

20 SEC. 3. DESIGNATION OF MOUNT STEVENS. 

21 (a) DESIGNATION.—Not later than 30 days after the 

22 date of enactment of this Act, the United States Board 

23 on Geographic Names (referred to in this Act as the 

24 ‘‘Board’’) shall designate the unnamed, 13,895-foot peak 

25 in the Alaska Range near Denali Park in the State of 


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1 Alaska, located at latitude 62.920469308 and longitude 

2 151.066510314, as the ‘‘Mount Stevens’’. 

3 (b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, reg4 ulation, document, paper, or other record of the United 

5 States to the peak referred to in subsection (a) shall be 

6 deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Mount Stevens’’. 

7 SEC. 4. DESIGNATION OF TED STEVENS ICEFIELD. 

8 (a) DEFINITION OF ICEFIELD.—In this section, the 

9 term ‘‘icefield’’ means the icefield in the northern Chugach 

10 Forest in the State of Alaska— 

11 (1) comprising approximately 8,340 square 

12 miles, as delineated by such map as shall be pro13 vided and made available for public inspection by the 

14 Forest Service; and 

15 (2) including the Harvard, Yale, Columbia, 

16 Nelchina, Tazlina, Valdez, and Shoup Glaciers. 

17 (b) DESIGNATION.—Not later than 30 days after the 

18 date of enactment of this Act, the Board shall designate 

19 the icefield as the ‘‘Ted Stevens Icefield’’. 

20 (c) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, reg21 ulation, document, paper, or other record of the United 

22 States to the icefield shall be deemed to be a reference 

23 to the ‘‘Ted Stevens Icefield’’. 

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