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Second ‘Big Beautiful’ lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet planned after first sale flops

States Newsroom · October 12, 2026

The Trump administration on Friday announced that it will hold an offshore lease sale in federal waters of Cook Inlet next March, about a year after a similar federal lease sale offering the same acreage drew no bids . The auction — to offer 1 million acres of federal offshore territory — is part of a series mandated…

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Second ‘Big Beautiful’ lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet planned after first sale flops

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