112 STAT. 2940 PUBLIC LAW 105-309—OCT. 30, 1998 SEC. 11. INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC RESEARCH CENTER. The Congress finds that the International Arctic Research Center is an internationaly-supported effort to conduct important weather and climate studies, and other research projects of benefit to the United States. It is, therefore, the sense of the Congress that, as with similar research conducted in the Antarctic, the United States should provide similar support for this important effort. Approved October 30, 1998. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 1274: HOUSE REPORTS: No. 105-64 (Comm. on Science). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: Vol. 143 (1997): Apr. 24, considered and passed House. Vol. 144 (1998): Oct. 9, considered and passed Senate, amended. Oct. 13, House concurred in Senate amendment. WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 34 (1998): Oct. 30, Presidential statement.