Legislature(2005 - 2006)BUTROVICH 205
04/27/2006 03:30 PM Senate RESOURCES
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HB419 | |
HB307 | |
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* first hearing in first committee of referral
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+= | HB 57 | TELECONFERENCED | |
+ | HB 307 | TELECONFERENCED | |
+= | HB 415 | TELECONFERENCED | |
+= | HB 419 | TELECONFERENCED | |
HB 419-REPEAL UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK LAWS CHAIR THOMAS WAGONER announced HB 419 to be up for consideration. KAREN LIDSTER, staff to Representative Coghill, described HB 419 as a repealer bill. She paraphrased the sponsor statement, which reads as follows. In 1990 the Alaska Legislature passed HB 220 to create the state Underground Storage Tank Program and a Storage Tank Assistance Fund in order to assist tank owners that were required to meet the deadlines set in the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Underground Storage Tank Program. In 1999, the year after EPA's deadline, the program began to phase out and was formally ended by the Legislature on June 30, 2004. A loan program to assist owners with completing cleanup was established by SB 128, passed in 1999. The Storage Tank Assistance Fund was converted to the Underground Storage Tank Revolving Loan Fund in 2002. The original legislation, HB 220, also created the Board of Storage Tank Assistance to oversee state grants and loans. The Board is no longer needed since the grant program has been terminated and no loan applications have been received. SB 128 established a June 30, 1999 sunset date for the board. Subsequent bills extended that date to June 30, 2007. HB 419 will modify the end date for the board in order to be consistent with the end date for formal termination of the loan program. Additionally the bill lists out the statutes that relate to the board, the reporting, regulations, fees, revolving loan fund, loan program, definitions, uses of the fund, the respective administrative codes, the orderly completion of the boards obligations, and renumbering instructions related to those statutes repealed. CHAIR WAGONER commented it's always nice to take a law off the books. 4:03:39 PM SENATOR RALPH SEEKIKNS moved to report HB 419 from committee with individual recommendations and attached fiscal note(s). There being no objection, and it was so ordered.
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