00                   HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 13                                                                   
01 Relating to the location of the state's new seafood laboratory.                                                         
02 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
03       WHEREAS Governor Murkowski, in his recent state of the budget address, stated                                   
04 that the state must reduce its budget due to the current state budget crisis; and                                       
05       WHEREAS the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority owns the                                         
06 Alaska Seafood International Building in Anchorage and leases the building to Alaska                                    
07 Seafood International; and                                                                                              
08       WHEREAS Alaska Seafood International is not fully utilizing the more than 250,000                               
09 square feet in the Alaska Seafood International Building; and                                                           
10       WHEREAS the planning for a seafood laboratory is in the beginning stages; and                                   
11       WHEREAS agents for Alaska Seafood International have stated that Alaska Seafood                                 
12 International would welcome the incorporation of the new seafood laboratory into the Alaska                             
13 Seafood International Building; and                                                                                     
14       WHEREAS the Alaska State Legislature has been asked to appropriate $14,285,000                                  
15 for a new seafood laboratory; and                                                                                       
16       WHEREAS, in this time of budgetary crisis, the money saved by incorporating the                                 

01 seafood laboratory into an existing building can be reappropriated to other needy capital                               
02 projects around the state;                                                                                              
03       BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature requests that the Department of                                
04 Environmental Conservation and the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities work                              
05 with the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority and Alaska Seafood                                          
06 International to incorporate the new seafood laboratory into the underutilized Alaska Seafood                           
07 International Building, and thereby save money that can be appropriated to other needed                                 
08 capital projects in the state.                                                                                          
09       COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable Ernesta Ballard,                                       
10 Commissioner, Department of Environmental Conservation; the Honorable Mike Barton,                                      
11 Commissioner, Department of Transportation and Public Facilities; and Ronald W. Miller,                                 
12 Executive Director, Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority.