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 124 STAT. 3050 PUBLIC LAW 111–284—OCT. 18, 2010 Public Law 111–284 111th Congress An Act To designate a mountain and icefield in the State of Alaska as the ‘‘Mount Stevens’’ and ‘‘Ted Stevens Icefield’’, respectively. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mount Stevens and Ted Stevens Icefield Designation Act’’. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds that— (1) Theodore ‘‘Ted’’ Fulton Stevens, who began serving in the Senate 9 years after Alaska was admitted to Statehood, represented the people of the State of Alaska with distinction in the Senate for over 40 years from 1968 to 2009 and played a significant role in the transformation of the State of Alaska from an impoverished territory to a full-fledged State through the assistance he provided in building energy facilities, hos- pitals and clinics, roads, docks, airports, water and sewer facili- ties, schools, and other community facilities in the State of Alaska, which earned him recognition as ‘‘Alaskan of the Cen- tury’’ from the Alaska Legislature in 2000; (2) Ted Stevens distinguished himself as a transport pilot during World War II in support of the ‘‘Flying Tigers’’ of the United States Army Air Corps, 14th Air Force, earning 2 Distin- guished Flying Crosses and other decorations for his skill and bravery; (3) Ted Stevens, after serving as a United States Attorney in the territory of Alaska, came to Washington, District of Columbia in 1956 to serve in the Eisenhower Administration in the Department of the Interior, where he was a leading force in securing the legislation that led to the admission of Alaska as the 49th State on January 3, 1959, and then as Solicitor of the Department of the Interior; (4) in 1961, Ted Stevens returned to the State of Alaska and, in 1964, was elected to the Alaska House of Representa- tives, where he was subsequently elected as Speaker pro tem- pore and majority leader until his appointment on December 24, 1968, to the Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator E.L. Bartlett; (5) Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican Senator in the history of the Senate, served as President pro tempore of the Senate from 2003 through 2007 and as President pro tempore emeritus from 2008 to 2009, and over the course Mount Stevens and Ted Stevens Icefield Designation Act. Oct. 18, 2010 [S. 3802]