04/20/2022 03:30 PM Senate RESOURCES

            SB 228-OUTSTANDING NAT'L RESOURCE WATER                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
4:29:30 PM                                                                                                                    
CHAIR   REVAK   reconvened   the  meeting   and   announced   the                                                               
consideration  of  SENATE BILL  NO.  228  "An Act  requiring  the                                                               
designation of outstanding national  resource water to occur only                                                               
by statute;  relating to the  management of  outstanding national                                                               
resource water  by the Department of  Environmental Conservation;                                                               
and providing for an effective date."                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
[SB 228 was previously heard on 4/8/2022.]                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
4:29:57 PM                                                                                                                    
SENATOR KIEHL  asked whether the  intention was to seek  the will                                                               
of the committee today.                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR REVAK said that is correct.                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR KIEHL  stated that he  would not object to  reporting the                                                               
bill out  of committee, but  he had  some concerns. He  said that                                                               
bills  that  authorize  the  legislature  to  pass  a  bill  were                                                               
probably  more  about  making  a   statement  than  changing  the                                                               
process. He suggested  that the method to resolve  Tier III water                                                               
issues in SB 228 was not  the preferred way to establish resource                                                               
policy. He  characterized it as  putting politics into  it rather                                                               
than taking it out.                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
4:30:56 PM                                                                                                                    
CHAIR REVAK solicited the will of the committee.                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
4:30:58 PM                                                                                                                    
SENATOR MICCICHE moved to report  SB 228, work order 32-GS2492\A,                                                               
from  committee  with  individual  recommendations  and  attached                                                               
fiscal note(s).                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
4:31:18 PM                                                                                                                    
CHAIR REVAK found no objection, and  SB 228 was reported from the                                                               
Senate Resources Standing Committee.