State of Alaska with distinction in the Senate for 
over 40 years from 1968 to 2009 and played a sig-
nificant role in the transformation of the State of 
Alaska from an impoverished territory to a full- 
fledged State through the assistance he provided in 
building energy facilities, hospitals and clinics, 
roads, docks, airports, water and sewer facilities, 
schools, and other community facilities in the State 
of Alaska, which earned him recognition as ‘‘Alaskan 
of the Century’’ from the Alaska Legislature in 
2000; 
(2) Ted Stevens distinguished himself as a 
transport pilot during World War II in support of 
the ‘‘Flying Tigers’’ of the United States Army Air 
Corps, 14th Air Force, earning 2 Distinguished Fly-
ing Crosses and other decorations for his skill and 
bravery; 
(3) Ted Stevens, after serving as a United 
States Attorney in the territory of Alaska, came to 
Washington, District of Columbia in 1956 to serve 
in the Eisenhower Administration in the Department 
of the Interior, where he was a leading force in se-
curing the legislation that led to the admission of 
Alaska as the 49th State on January 3, 1959, and 
then as Solicitor of the Department of the Interior; 
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(4) in 1961, Ted Stevens returned to the State 
of Alaska and, in 1964, was elected to the Alaska 
House of Representatives, where he was subse-
quently elected as Speaker pro tempore and majority 
leader until his appointment on December 24, 1968, 
to the Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death 
of Senator E.L. Bartlett; 
(5) Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican 
Senator in the history of the Senate, served as 
President pro tempore of the Senate from 2003 
through 2007 and as President pro tempore emer-
itus from 2008 to 2009, and over the course of his 
career in the Senate, Ted Stevens served as assist-
ant Republican leader, Chairman of the Select Com-
mittee on Ethics, Chairman of the Committee on 
Rules and Administration, Chairman of the Com-
mittee on Governmental Affairs, Chairman of the 
Committee on Appropriations, and Chairman of the 
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor-
tation; 
(6) Ted Stevens worked tirelessly for the enact-
ment of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act 
(43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), which provided for the 
conveyance of approximately 44,000,000 acres of 
land in the State of Alaska to the Aleut, Eskimo, 
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and Indian peoples and created Native Corporations 
to secure the long-term economic, cultural, and polit-
ical empowerment of the Native peoples of the State 
of Alaska; 
(7) Ted Stevens was a leader in shaping the 
communications policies of the United States, as he 
helped to establish the spectrum auction policy, ne-
gotiated the Telecommunications Act of 1996, au-
thored the Digital Television Transition and Public 
Safety Act of 2005 (47 U.S.C. 309 note; Public Law 
109–171), and passionately advocated for the con-
nection of rural America to the rest of the world and 
to improve the lives of the people of the United 
States through the use of telemedicine and distance 
learning; 
(8) Ted Stevens was a conservationist who 
championed the safe development of the natural re-
sources of the United States, as illustrated by his 
authorship of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authoriza-
tion Act (43 U.S.C. 1651 et seq.), the Magnuson- 
Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act 
(16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), which established the 200- 
mile exclusive economic zone and led to a reduction 
in the dominance of foreign fishing fleets in the fish-
eries of the United States, the Magnuson-Stevens 
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Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthoriza-
tion Act of 2006 (Public Law 109–479; 120 Stat. 
3575), which established conservation measures de-
signed to end overfishing, and the High Seas 
Driftnet Fisheries Enforcement Act (16 U.S.C. 
1826a et seq.), which provided for the denial of 
entry into ports of the United States and the imposi-
tion of sanctions on vessels carrying out large-scale 
driftnet fishing beyond the exclusive economic zone 
of any nation; 
(9) Ted Stevens was committed to health and 
fitness in his personal life and in his legislative ac-
complishments, as illustrated by his authorship of 
the Ted Stevens Amateur and Olympic Sports Act 
(36 U.S.C. 220501 et seq.), his encouragement of 
providing equality to female athletes through the en-
actment of title IX of the Education Amendments of 
1972 (20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.), and his leadership 
in improving physical education programs in schools 
through the Carol M. White Physical Education Pro-
gram (20 U.S.C. 7261 et seq.); 
(10) Ted Stevens unconditionally supported the 
needs of the Armed Forces of the United States 
through visits to soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, 
and Coast Guardsmen in every major military con-
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flict and war zone where United States military per-
sonnel have been assigned during his service in the 
Senate, including Vietnam, Kuwait, Bosnia, Kosovo, 
Iraq, and Afghanistan, and in his role as Chairman 
and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on De-
fense Appropriations for more than 20 years; 
(11) Ted Stevens was a devoted husband, fa-
ther, and grandfather who worked to promote fam-
ily-friendly policies in the Federal government; 
(12) Ted Stevens was well-respected for reach-
ing across the aisle to forge bipartisan alliances and 
enjoyed many close friendships with colleagues in 
both political parties and with his staff, who were 
deeply loyal to him; and 
(13) the designation of the unnamed highest 
peak in the State of Alaska, along with an icefield 
in the Chugach Forest in that State, in honor of 
Ted Stevens would be a fitting tribute to his honor-
able life and legacy. 
SEC. 3. DESIGNATION OF MOUNT STEVENS. 
(a) DESIGNATION.—Not later than 30 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the United States Board 
on Geographic Names (referred to in this Act as the 
‘‘Board’’) shall designate the unnamed, 13,895-foot peak 
in the Alaska Range near Denali Park in the State of 
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Alaska, located at latitude 62.920469308 and longitude 
151.066510314, as the ‘‘Mount Stevens’’. 
(b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, reg-
ulation, document, paper, or other record of the United 
States to the peak referred to in subsection (a) shall be 
deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Mount Stevens’’. 
SEC. 4. DESIGNATION OF TED STEVENS ICEFIELD. 
(a) DEFINITION OF ICEFIELD.—In this section, the 
term ‘‘icefield’’ means the icefield in the northern Chugach 
Forest in the State of Alaska— 
(1) comprising approximately 8,340 square 
miles, as delineated by such map as shall be pro-
vided and made available for public inspection by the 
Forest Service; and 
(2) including the Harvard, Yale, Columbia, 
Nelchina, Tazlina, Valdez, and Shoup Glaciers. 
(b) DESIGNATION.—Not later than 30 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Board shall designate 
the icefield as the ‘‘Ted Stevens Icefield’’. 
(c) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, reg-
ulation, document, paper, or other record of the United 
States to the icefield shall be deemed to be a reference 
to the ‘‘Ted Stevens Icefield’’. 
Æ 
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