Approve the Ambler Road project in Alaska
What the document says“the new Administration must immediately approve the Ambler Road Project”
The chapter says approval would permit construction of a 211-mile roadway on the south side of the Brooks Range, and that it should proceed under the Secretary's authority in the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act and on the basis of the project's final environmental impact statement. It describes Alaska as having vast untapped mineral potential.
What the document actually says“the new Administration must immediately approve the Ambler Road Project”
Approve the Ambler Road plan right away.
A mining road is planned in Alaska. It would run 211 miles. The book says it should be approved at once.
Unleashing Alaska's Extraordinary Resource Potential
2025-01-20 · 90 FR 8347
The chapter asked for immediate approval of the Ambler Road project. This order pauses activity under the 2024 record of decision pending review and reinstates the 2020 record of decision, which is a step toward that outcome by a different route than immediate approval.
The book asked that a road project in Alaska be approved at once. This order pauses work under the 2024 decision and brings back the 2020 one. That moves toward the same end by a different route, not by quick approval.
1 agency rule
- Subsistence Management Regulations for Public Lands in Alaska-2025-26 and 2026-27 Subsistence Taking of Fish and Shellfish RegulationsAgriculture Department, Forest Service, Interior Department, Office of the Secretary of the Interior · July 18, 2025
Each of these names the order above in its own summary, preamble or filing. That is a fact about the document, not a finding that it carries out this proposal: it is one step further away than the order is, and what it does about the proposal is a reading nobody has made here.