§719d Federal and State Officer or Agency and Other Interested Persons’ Reports

Summary

Federal officers and agencies may send written comments to the President by July 1, 1977 about the Commission’s recommendation and different ways to move Alaska natural gas to the contiguous States. The President must make those comments public when they are sent, unless he uses the exemption in 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(1). Federal comments must cover eight topic areas, including environmental effects (air, water, noise), safety, international issues (like needed Canadian approvals and timing), national security, financing, competition, effects on the national and regional economy, and how the plan fits into national energy policy. Governors, cities, state utility commissions, and any other interested people may also send written comments to the President by July 1, 1977. Each federal agency must report to the President by that date on what it will do under section 719g(a) for each system the Commission described and must say whether any laws should be waived under section 719f(g) if the President approves a system. After the President gets the Commission’s recommendations, the Council on Environmental Quality will let people give oral and written views on the Commission’s environmental impact statements and must send the President a report by July 1, 1977 summarizing those views, saying whether the statements are legally and factually adequate, and making that report public at the same time.