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HAMMOND v. NORTH SLOPE BOROUGH

Nos. 5550, 5558, 5560 and 5561.

645 P.2d 750 (1982)

Jay HAMMOND, Governor of the State of Alaska, Robert E. LeResche, Commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources, and Frances A. Ulmer, Director, Division of Policy Development & Planning, Appellants, v. NORTH SLOPE BOROUGH, Eben Hopson, Sr., Jacob Adams, City of Barrow, Village of Nuiqsut, Village of Point Hope, Village of Kaktovik, Village of Wainwright, Archie K. Brower, Village of Anaktuvuk Pass and Native Village of Point Lay, Appellees. AMOCO PRODUCTION CO., Atlantic Richfield Co., Conoco, Inc., Exxon Corp., Gulf Oil Corp., Mobil Oil Corp., Phillips Petroleum Co., Shell Oil Co., Sohio Alaska Petroleum Co., Tenneco Oil Co., and Union Oil Co., Appellants, v. NORTH SLOPE BOROUGH, Eben Hopson, Sr., Jacob Adams, City of Barrow, Village of Nuiqsut, Village of Point Hope, Village of Kaktovik, Village of Wainwright, Archie Brower, Village of Anaktuvuk Pass and Native Village of Point Lay, Appellees. VILLAGE OF KAKTOVIK, Village of Wainwright, Archie K. Brower, Village of Anaktuvuk Pass and Native Village of Point Lay, Cross-Appellants, v. Jay HAMMOND, Governor of the State of Alaska, Robert E. LeResche, Commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources, Frances A. Ulmer, Director, Division of Policy Development & Planning, Amoco Production Co., Atlantic Richfield Co., Conoco, Inc., Exxon Corp., Gulf Oil Corp., Mobil Oil Corp., Phillips Petroleum Co., Shell Oil Co., Sohio Alaska Petroleum Co., Tenneco Oil Co., and Union Oil Co., Cross-Appellees. NORTH SLOPE BOROUGH, Eben Hopson, Sr., Jacob Adams, City of Barrow, Village of Nuiqsut and Village of Point Hope, Cross-Appellants, v. Jay HAMMOND, Governor of the State of Alaska, Robert E. LeResche, Commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources, Frances A. Ulmer, Director, Division of Policy Development & Planning, Amoco Production Co., Atlantic Richfield Co., Conoco, Inc., Exxon Corp., Gulf Oil Corp., Mobil Oil Corp., Phillips Petroleum Co., Shell Oil Co., Sohio Alaska Petroleum Co., Tenneco Oil Co., and Union Oil Co., Cross-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

May 7, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce J. Terris & Philip G. Sunderland, Washington, D.C., Conrad Bagne, Barrow, and Charles Cranston, Cranston, Walters & Dahl, Anchorage, for North Slope Borough, et al.

Craig J. Tillery, Alaska Legal Services Corp., Anchorage, Michael I. Jeffrey, Alaska Legal Services Corp., Barrow, for Kaktovik, et al.; Donald E. Clocksin, Anchorage, of counsel.

Wilson L. Condon, Atty. Gen., Juneau, and Michael E. Arruda, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, for Jay Hammond, et al.

Richard O. Gantz & Carl J.D. Bauman, Hughes, Thorsness, Gantz, Powell & Brundin and Theodore E. Fleisher and Paul R. DeStefano, Ely, Guess & Rudd, Anchorage, for Amoco Production Co., et al.

James W. Moorman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., Rene J. Gonzalez, U.S. Atty., Anchorage, Margaret Strand, Washington, D.C., and Cynthia L. Pickering, Anchorage, for the U.S. as amicus curiae.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and CONNOR, BURKE, MATTHEWS and COMPTON, JJ.

BURKE, Justice.

This appeal concerns a decision by the State of Alaska to lease offshore tracts in the Beaufort Sea for oil and gas exploration and development. That decision culminated in a lease sale held on December 11, 1979. The matter is before this court as a result of a suit filed by persons claiming that the lease sale will adversely affect the ecology and wildlife resources of the area and the centuries-old traditions and lifestyle of the Inupiat Eskimo people...

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