2015-02-27                     House Journal                      Page 0327
HJR 16                                                                                                                        
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 16 by Representatives ORTIZ,                                                                         
Kreiss-Tomkins, Kito, Josephson, and Gara:                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
    Urging the United States government to continue to work with the                                                            
    government of Canada to refer the issue of transboundary                                                                    
    development in the Alaska-British Columbia region to the                                                                    
    International Joint Commission, and to use any and all powers                                                               
    under the Boundary Waters Treaty to investigate the long-term,                                                              
    region-wide downstream effects of proposed and existing                                                                     
    industrial development and to develop measures to ensure that                                                               
    state resources are not harmed by upstream development in British                                                           
    Columbia.                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
was read the first time and referred to the Resources Committee.