03/28/2011 01:00 PM House RESOURCES

         HB 146-LAND TRANSFER FROM STATE AND ALASKA RR                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
1:15:06 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CO-CHAIR  SEATON announced  that the  next order  of business  is                                                               
HOUSE  BILL NO.  146, "An  Act authorizing  the transfer  of land                                                               
from the State  of Alaska and the Alaska  Railroad Corporation to                                                               
property owners  along the Eielson  Spur Line; and  providing for                                                               
an  effective  date."   [Before  the  committee was  Version  27-                                                               
LS0505\M, Kane, 2/10/11, adopted as the work draft on 3/21/11.]                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
1:15:23 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE TAMMIE WILSON,  Alaska State Legislature, speaking                                                               
as the sponsor, said that her staff would summarize HB 146.                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
1:15:36 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
RICK  VANDERKOLK,  Staff,  Representative Tammie  Wilson,  Alaska                                                               
State Legislature, recapped HB 146,  and stated that although the                                                               
U.S. Congress  had repealed the right-of-way  reversion provision                                                               
in  2003,  proposed HB  146  would  reinstate the  mechanism  for                                                               
landowners  to  regain  ownership  of  their  property  once  the                                                               
easement was no longer in use.                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
1:16:57 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE T.  WILSON, referring  to a  question posed  at an                                                               
earlier  meeting by  Representative  Herron,  explained that  the                                                               
military would  no longer  utilize the  property if  the railroad                                                               
completely left the ground.                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
1:17:50 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
BONNE  WOLDSTAD  referred  to  HB 146  as  "housekeeping"  as  it                                                               
returns the  rights [of  property owners  along the  Eielson Spur                                                               
Line] to their status prior to the reversionary repeal of 2003.                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
1:18:37 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CO-CHAIR SEATON closed public testimony.                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
1:18:55 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE  HERRON asked  if  there were  any other  railroad                                                               
issues that needed to be addressed.                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE T. WILSON  replied that this was the  only area of                                                               
Alaska  that was  homesteaded and  would be  included under  this                                                               
revisionary statute.                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
1:20:01 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE  HERRON  moved to  report  CSHB  146, Version  27-                                                               
LS0505\M,  Kane,  2/10/11,  out   of  committee  with  individual                                                               
recommendations and  the accompanying  zero fiscal notes.   There                                                               
being no  objection, CSHB 146  (RES) was reported from  the House                                                               
Resources Standing Committee.                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
1:20:49 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
The committee took an at-ease from 1:20 p.m. to 1:24 p.m.