Legislature(1999 - 2000)
02/01/1999 03:18 PM Senate RES
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SB 12-FOREST PRACTICES: STREAMS/TRIBUTARIES CHAIRMAN HALFORD announced SB 12 to be up for consideration. JEFF JAHNKE, Director of the Division of Forestry and Presiding Officer for the Board of Forestry, stated that this is a good bill resulting from a two-year effort to resolve some issues with the Forest Practices Act in Region I. It had broad support from all segments of Alaskan society, including the Board of Forestry and the three agencies, and was based on the best available science and had public involvement in all its aspects. It provides additional protection to the key water bodies in Alaska, is workable for the timber industry, and has broad support. Number 113 JACK PHELPS, Executive Director of the Alaska Forest Association, noted his written statement saying the committee has seen the bill before and knows why it's good policy. CHAIRMAN HALFORD asked if it said "area" or "difference?" MR. PHELPS replied, from an operational standpoint, we need it to say "area," although the technical language problem was duly noted. His second comment was that the forest industry agreed last year after the Legislature failed to pass this legislation, to implement the provisions of this law beginning with the current operating season. No matter how quickly you act, given the 90-day effective date issue, there is no way this would become law until the current operating season is well in hand. Number 148 SENATOR TAYLOR moved to pass SB 12 from committee with individual recommendations. There were no objections and it was so ordered.
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