text: This reporter needs to look more closely at history.  The 1980 Alaska Lands Act did not make the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge "available for drilling."  This landmark act mandated a 5-year study to assess the biological values and the impacts from possible oil and gas development on the coastal plain. Seismic exploration was authorized to determine resource values but any drilling was prohibited without a future act of Congress.  The coastal plain is the most sensitive biological area of the entire refuge, as the report to Congress well describes.  Oil drilling brings major impacts and is not compatible with the purposes of this wildlife refuge.  Congress would have to circumvent current law to drill in the Arctic Refuge.  To think that the State of Alaska is pushing to invade a unique and magnificent wildlife refuge that belongs to all Americans, when the National Petroleum Reserve and adjacent state lands offer clear development opportunities, is just pure greed.