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HCR 2                                                                                                                         
SENATE CS FOR CS FOR HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION                                                                                
NO. 2(FIN) Urging the Governor to commit to providing energy                                                                    
security for all Alaskans by supporting the in-state gas pipeline project                                                       

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and assisting the project in its efforts to secure needed permits, rights-                                                      
of-way, engineering specifications, and other approvals necessary or                                                            
desirable, to bundle the approvals for sale on the market to interested                                                         
private sector pipeline companies, and in all other ways to act in due                                                          
haste to move the in-state natural gas pipeline to a construction phase;                                                        
urging the Governor to support the persons working on the in-state gas                                                          
pipeline project in discussions with and obtaining of letters of intent                                                         
from potential industrial users of natural gas, including the Agrium                                                            
U.S., Inc., facility, the ConocoPhillips/Marathon facility, mining                                                              
companies, and other businesses interested in value-added processing                                                            
of petroleum gases transported in a natural gas pipeline from the North                                                         
Slope or Brooks Range foothills for the purpose of providing jobs for                                                           
Alaskans and ensuring the economic viability of the pipeline; urging                                                            
the Governor to pursue the renewal of the license issued by the United                                                          
States Department of Energy to export natural gas produced on the                                                               
North Slope or in the Brooks Range foothills that exceeds the needs                                                             
and demands of Alaskans for affordable natural gas; urging the                                                                  
Governor to continue negotiations with one or more entities capable of                                                          
producing and supplying natural gas from the North Slope or Brooks                                                              
Range foothills to Southcentral and Interior Alaska on commercially                                                             
reasonable terms and in sufficient quantities to support the energy                                                             
needs of Alaskans and the economic viability of a pipeline; urging the                                                          
Governor to expedite the permits necessary or desirable to construct                                                            
and operate a gas-to-liquids facility at Point Mackenzie if a feasibility                                                       
document shows that it is economically viable; and urging the                                                                   
Governor to take the actions requested in this resolution, as necessary                                                         
and appropriate, immediately and with all reasonable speed and effort,                                                          
was engrossed, signed by the President and Secretary and returned to                                                            
the House for consideration.