 President Barack Obama signed it into law on July 25, 2014.Herbert Frost, the Associate Director of National Resource Stewardship and Science for the National Park Service, testified before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs on February 5, 2014.Frost said that the Department of the Interior was in favor of the bill because it "provides for the restoration of an important cultural connection to Glacier Bay by the Huna Tlingit, and provides for the environmentally preferred action identified in our studies."