1 Letter from Sen. Murkowski to Mary J. Hutzler, dated December 20, 2001. On Feb. 6, 2002, Sen. Murkowoski provided specifications for the scenarios to be considered.

2 Annual Energy Outlook 2002, With Projections to 2020 , U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, DOE/EIA-0383(2002), December 2001.

3 US Geological Survey, USGS Fact Sheet FS-04-98, May 1998.

4 For additional information on NEMS, please see EIA’s The National Energy Modeling System: An Overview, DOE/EIA-0581(2000).

5 All projected prices in this study have been adjusted for inflation and are presented in 2000 dollars.

6 For more information on the Transportation High Technology Case, see EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2002 with Projections to 2020, Dec. 2001, http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/index.html , pg. 71. The case run for this study uses the same assumptions developed for the AEO2002, but as part of an integrated NEMS run rather than as just a transportation analysis, as the AEO2002 did.

7 Fact Sheet, Foothills Pipe Lines Ltd., Nov. 19, 1999

8 Remarks by Ken Konrad, BP, “Progress on an Alaska Gas Pipeline,” Resource Development Council Conference, Nov. 29. 2001, http://www.bp.com/alaska/index_alaska_ngas.htm.

9 CERA, 1999, and phone conversations with Mike Metz, Yukon Pacific, 2000.

10 The Low Oil and Gas Technology side case is described in EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2002 with Projections to 2020, Dec. 2001, http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/index.html , pg. 85.