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Salazar’s Third Visit to Alaska Focuses on Development Issues

Photo by Annie Feidt, APRN - Anchorage: Deputy Secretary David J. Hayes (Left), Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar (Middle), and Senator Mark Begich (Right) met with business leaders in Anchorage on Monday, August 8, 2011 at CIRI.
Photo by Annie Feidt, APRN - Anchorage: Deputy Secretary David J. Hayes (Left), Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar (Middle), and Senator Mark Begich (Right) met with business leaders in Anchorage on Monday, August 8, 2011 at CIRI.

Business leaders in Alaska got a chance to meet with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Monday morning. He is in the state for a third time in as many years to discuss development issues. At Monday morning's roundtable, representatives from Native Corporations oil companies and other industries pressed the need for a more streamlined permitting process for development.

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Annie Feidt is the broadcast managing editor at Alaska Public Media. Reach her at afeidt@alaskapublic.org.