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June 15, 2021

MEDIA ADVISORY
June 15, 2021 

Â鶹´«Ã½ Interim President Pat Pitney to testify during Energy & Natural Resources Subcommittee hearing on legislation to resolve the Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s unfulfilled land grant 

WHO: Interim Â鶹´«Ã½ President Pat Pitney will provide invited testimony as part of a panel presentation to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, & Mining. 

WHAT: The Subcommittee will hear testimony from two panels on several bills including , a bill to provide for the conveyance to the Â鶹´«Ã½ of certain public land in the State of Alaska. This legislation would allow the Â鶹´«Ã½ to receive its full allotment of land promised years ago by the federal government.

WHEN: Wednesday, June 16, 2021, the hearing will begin at 3:00 p.m. EST [11:00 a.m. AKDT].   

WHERE: The hearing will be held in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC and will be televised at . 

The list of presenters can be found at: 

Background: The Â鶹´«Ã½ (Â鶹´«Ã½) currently has one of the smallest land endowments —just 110,000 acres— of any land grant institution. This legislation would finally bring an end to Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s status as a land grant university without the land. This legislation would resolve the Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s (Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s) unfulfilled land grant by allowing Â鶹´«Ã½ and the State of Alaska to jointly identify up to 500,000 acres for potential conveyance, which the Department of the Interior (DOI) will survey. The State and Â鶹´«Ã½ will then work with DOI to transfer up to 360,000 acres in total to Â鶹´«Ã½. Any land ultimately transferred to Â鶹´«Ã½ would be deducted from Alaska’s outstanding statehood lands entitlement, which totals several million acres. 

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