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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2003

The House Resources Committee is holding a field hearing on Saturday in Kaktovik, an Inupiat Eskimo village.

Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif.), chairman of the committee, called the hearing to address two bills. One would open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling. The other would make the coastal plain of the refuge a wilderness area.

Most Inupiat Eskimos, who own a regional corporation that has subsurface rights to 92,000 acres within the coastal plain, support development. The Kaktovik village corporation has surface rights to the acreage.

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