Mount Stevens and Ted Stevens Icefield Designation Act
PL 111-284 (S.3802), enacted 10/18/2010

124 STAT. 3050 
PUBLIC LAW 111–284—OCT. 18, 2010 
Public Law 111–284 
111th Congress 
An Act 
To designate a mountain and icefield in the State of Alaska as the ‘‘Mount Stevens’’ 
and ‘‘Ted Stevens Icefield’’, respectively. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mount Stevens and Ted Stevens 
Icefield Designation Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds that— 
(1) Theodore ‘‘Ted’’ Fulton Stevens, who began serving in 
the Senate 9 years after Alaska was admitted to Statehood, 
represented the people of the State of Alaska with distinction 
in the Senate for over 40 years from 1968 to 2009 and played 
a significant 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, hos-
pitals and clinics, roads, docks, airports, water and sewer facili-
ties, schools, and other community facilities in the State of 
Alaska, which earned him recognition as ‘‘Alaskan of the Cen-
tury’’ 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 Distin-
guished Flying 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 securing 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; 
(4) in 1961, Ted Stevens returned to the State of Alaska 
and, in 1964, was elected to the Alaska House of Representa-
tives, where he was subsequently elected as Speaker pro tem-
pore 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 emeritus from 2008 to 2009, and over the course 
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of his career in the Senate, Ted Stevens served as assistant 
Republican leader, Chairman of the Select Committee on Ethics, 
Chairman of the Committee on Rules and Administration, 
Chairman of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, Chair-
man of the Committee on Appropriations, and Chairman of 
the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; 
(6) Ted Stevens worked tirelessly for the enactment 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, and Indian peoples and created Native Corporations 
to secure the long-term economic, cultural, and political 
empowerment of the Native peoples of the State of Alaska; 
(7) Ted Stevens was a leader in shaping the communica-
tions policies of the United States, as he helped to establish 
the spectrum auction policy, negotiated the Telecommunications 
Act of 1996, authored 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 connection 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 resources of the United 
States, as illustrated by his authorship of the Trans-Alaska 
Pipeline Authorization Act (43 U.S.C. 1651 et seq.), the Magnu-
son-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 fisheries of the United States, 
the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management 
Reauthorization Act of 2006 (Public Law 109–479; 120 Stat. 
3575), which established conservation measures designed to 
end overfishing, and the High Seas Driftnet Fisheries Enforce-
ment 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 accomplishments, as 
illustrated by his authorship of the Ted Stevens Amateur and 
Olympic Sports Act (36 U.S.C. 220501 et seq.), his encourage-
ment of providing equality to female athletes through the enact-
ment 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 Program (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 conflict and war zone where United States military 
personnel have been assigned during his service in the Senate, 
including Vietnam, Kuwait, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghani-
stan, and in his role as Chairman and Ranking Member of 
the Subcommittee on Defense Appropriations for more than 
20 years; 
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(11) Ted Stevens was a devoted husband, father, and grand-
father who worked to promote family-friendly policies in the 
Federal government; 
(12) Ted Stevens was well-respected for reaching 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 National 
Forest in that State, in honor of Ted Stevens would be a 
fitting tribute to his honorable 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 in Denali 
National Park and Preserve in the State of Alaska, located at 
latitude 62.920469308 and longitude –151.066510314, as the 
‘‘Mount Stevens’’. 
(b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, regulation, 
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 National Forest in 
the State of Alaska— 
(1) comprising approximately 8,340 square miles, as delin-
eated by the map entitled ‘‘Ice Field Name Proposal in Honor 
of Stevens’’ dated September 24, 2010, as prepared by the 
Forest Service and available for inspection at Forest Service 
headquarters in Washington, District of Columbia; 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’’. 
Deadline. 
Deadline. 
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124 STAT. 3053 
PUBLIC LAW 111–284—OCT. 18, 2010 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S. 3802: 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 156 (2010): 
Sept. 27, considered and passed Senate. 
Sept. 29, considered and passed House. 
(c) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, regulation, 
document, paper, or other record of the United States to the icefield 
shall be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Ted Stevens Icefield’’. 
Approved October 18, 2010. 
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