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by The Associated Press
Thursday, May 7, 2009
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A former Alaska legislator will be the Department of Interior's special assistant for the state.
Pat Pourchot, a policy representative for Audubon Alaska, was named special assistant for Alaska Affairs on Thursday.
Pourchot spent seven years in federal service starting in 1970.
He was an outdoor recreation planner and he worked for the Bureau of Land Management on environmental issues surrounding the transport of Alaska oil to U.S. markets.
Pourchot was elected to both the state House and Senate as an
Anchorage Democrat and he was Department of Natural Resources commissioner under Gov. Tony Knowles.
He joins another former Alaska state lawmaker in the Obama administration, former Juneau Sen. Kim Elton, the Interior Department's director of Alaska Affairs.
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