1996-02-28                     House Journal                      Page 2902
HJR 59                                                                       
The Resources Committee has considered:                                        
                                                                               
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 59                                                 
Respectfully requesting the Environmental Protection Agency to                
issue a final National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System                  
permit for Cook Inlet oil and gas operations that omits the                    
incremental permittee monitoring and reporting obligations                     
identified in the Agencys draft permit and, consistent with the                
philosophy of the Agencys 1996 National Water Program Agenda,                  
allows the permittees to operate under pollutant discharge                     
monitoring and reporting requirements that are not more rigorous               
than those requirements of the National Pollutant Discharge                    
Elimination System permits in place.                                           
                                                                               
and recommends it be replaced with:                                            
                                                                               
CS FOR HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 59(RES)                                     
Respectfully requesting the Environmental Protection Agency to                
issue a final National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System                  
permit for Cook Inlet oil and gas operations that omits the                    
incremental permittee monitoring and reporting obligations                     
identified in the Agencys draft permit and, consistent with the                
philosophy of the Agencys 1996 National Water Program Agenda,                  
allows the permittees to operate under pollutant discharge                     
monitoring and reporting requirements that are not more rigorous               
than those requirements of the Cook Inlet National Pollutant                   
Discharge Elimination System permit in place.                                  
                                                                               

1996-02-28                     House Journal                      Page 2903
HJR 59                                                                       
The report was signed by Representative Green, Co-chair, with the              
following individual recommendations:                                          
                                                                               
Do pass (6):  Long, Ogan, Kott, Austerman, Barnes, Green                       
                                                                               
The following fiscal note applies to CSHJR 59(RES):                            
                                                                               
Zero fiscal note, House Resources Committee/Legislature, 2/28/96               
                                                                               
HJR 59 was referred to the Rules Committee for placement on the                
calendar.