Having been caught willfully polluting in Alaska waters and knowing that they were going to face head taxes, the cruise lines got Don Young to put a rider into a transportation bill to ensure that they had say on how the head taxes are spent. 

Don Young didn't go to the communities and the state and ask how the cruise industry rider would work for them. There was no public notice at all that I could find (it has been quite a few years since I spent time researching this), just a few words slipped into a massive transportation bill.