04/15/2012 09:00 AM Senate FINANCE

CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 89(RES)                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
     "An Act relating to the disposal of certain bed load                                                                       
     material in conjunction with a flood mitigation plan."                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
9:43:35 AM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE  PAUL SEATON,  stated  that  HB 89  addressed                                                                    
flooding,  and numerous  emergency  declarations that  occur                                                                    
almost  annually.  Much  of the  flooding  occurred  because                                                                    
gravel  builds  up  in  riverbeds,  and  then  the  flooding                                                                    
damaged  commercial  or  private property.  The  bill  would                                                                    
allow DNR to  consider the mitigation of  those disasters as                                                                    
part of  the fair  market value. Currently,  DNR had  to get                                                                    
the  fair market  value  of  the sand  and  gravel that  was                                                                    
removed under-navigable  rivers. The problem was  that there                                                                    
was  an  up-front  fee  of  up  to  $5  a  yard,  which  was                                                                    
uneconomical for removal.  The bill would allow  DNR to take                                                                    
a net profit  of a minimum of 12.5 percent  of the extracted                                                                    
value,  instead of  a gross  value at  extraction. It  would                                                                    
allow  operators to  remove the  gravel and  save the  State                                                                    
money at the same time.                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair Stedman discussed the fiscal note in the packet.                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair  Hoffman  MOVED  to  report  CSHB  89(RES)  out  of                                                                    
committee   with   individual    recommendations   and   the                                                                    
accompanying fiscal notes. There  being NO OBJECTION, it was                                                                    
so ordered.                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair Stedman discussed the fiscal note in the packet.                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
CSHB 89(RES) was REPORTED out  of committee with a "do pass"                                                                    
recommendation  and with  a  new  indeterminate fiscal  note                                                                    
from the Department of  Transportation and Public Facilities                                                                    
and  new  indeterminate  fiscal   note  from  Department  of                                                                    
Natural Resources.