Legislature(2015 - 2016)BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
04/01/2015 01:30 PM Senate JUDICIARY
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| Start | |
| SB23 | |
| HCR3 | |
| SB82 | |
| Adjourn |
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| + | SB 23 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| *+ | SB 82 | TELECONFERENCED | |
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| = | HCR 3 | ||
HCR 3-ENDORSING ANWR LEASING
2:27:41 PM
CHAIR MCGUIRE announced the consideration of HCR 3, Urging the
governor and the attorney general to pursue all legal and
legislative options to open the coastal plain of the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge and areas of the Chukchi and Beaufort
Seas to oil and gas exploration, development, and production.
2:27:58 PM
TOM WRIGHT, Staff, Representative Mike Chenault, introduced HCR
3 on behalf of the sponsor speaking to the following sponsor
statement:
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 3: Urging the governor and
the attorney general to pursue all legal and
legislative options to open the coastal plain of the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and areas of the
Chukchi and Beaufort Seas to oil and gas exploration,
development, and production.
House Concurrent Resolution 3 urges the Governor and
the Attorney General to "pursue all legal and
legislative options to open the coastal plain of the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and areas of the
Chukchi and Beaufort Seas to oil and gas exploration
and development."
This resolution is being offered in response to
actions taken by the Obama administration that
requests Congress to designate the coastal plain of
ANWR as wilderness and designating 9.8 million acres
in the waters of the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas off
Alaska's coast as off limits to consideration for
future oil and gas leasing.
The Alaska Statehood Act recognized the need for
resource development to ensure the economic viability
of the state; section 6(i) of the Act ensured that the
state would have the right to minerals on land
received from the federal government and 30 U.S.C.
191provides for the sharing of federal royalties with
the state from federal lands in the state.
2:29:58 PM
CHAIR MCGUIRE motioned to adopt Amendment 1, labeled 29-
LS0452\H.1.
AMENDMENT 1
OFFERED IN THE SENATE BY SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
TO: CSHCR 3(RLS)
Page 1, line 3, following "production":
Insert "; and urging the governor and the
Legislative Budget and Audit Committee to work with
the United States Congress to enact measures necessary
to prevent President Barack Obama and other federal
agencies from implementing regulations that place
landscape characteristic restrictions on the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge that are equivalent to the
restrictions placed on land given a wilderness
designation"
Page 5, following line 4:
Insert new material to read:
"FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State
Legislature urges the governor and the Legislative
Budget and Audit Committee to work with the United
States Congress to enact measures necessary to prevent
President Barack Obama, the United States Fish and
Wildlife Service, the Department of the Interior, and
other federal agencies from implementing regulations
that place landscape characteristic restrictions on
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that are
equivalent to the restrictions placed on land given a
wilderness designation; and be it"
SENATOR COGHILL objected for discussion purposes.
2:30:23 PM
REPRESENTATIVE BOB HERRON, sponsor of HCR 3 explained that the
amendment recognizes the new federal code phrase for wilderness
called "landscape characteristics." The amendment also gives the
Legislative Budget and Audit Committee the authority to hire the
right people to further the intent of the resolution.
2:31:58 PM
SENATOR COGHILL removed his objection.
CHAIR MCGUIRE found no further objection and announced that
Amendment 1 is adopted. Finding no public testimony, she closed
it.
2:32:38 PM
SENATOR COGHILL moved to report CS for HCR 3, as amended, from
committee with individual recommendations [and zero fiscal
note.]
CHAIR MCGUIRE announced that without objection, SCS CSHCR 3(JUD)
is reported from the Senate Judiciary Standing Committee.