Legislature(1993 - 1994)
04/15/1994 08:35 AM House FIN
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HOUSE FINANCE COMMITTEE
April 15, 1994
8:35 A.M.
TAPE HFC 94 - 126, Side 1, #000 - end.
TAPE HFC 94 - 126, Side 2, #000 - #588.
CALL TO ORDER
Co-Chair Larson called the House Finance Committee meeting
to order at 8:35 A.M.
PRESENT
Co-Chair Larson Representative Foster
Co-Chair MacLean Representative Martin
Vice-Chair Hanley Representative Navarre
Representative Brown Representative Parnell
Representative Grussendorf
Representatives Therriault and Hoffman were not present for
the meeting.
ALSO PRESENT
David Teal, Director, Division of Administrative Services,
Department of Labor; Chris Gates, Division Director,
Division of Economic Development, Department of Commerce and
Economic Development; Jeff Morrison, Director, Division of
Administrative Services, Department of Military and Veterans
Affairs; Nico Bus, Director, Division of Administration
Services, Department of Natural Resources; Kevin Brooks,
Director, Division of Administrative Services, Department of
Fish and Game; Charles Meacham, Deputy Commissioner,
Department of Fish and Game; Dave Kelleyhouse, Director,
Division of Wildlife Conservation, Department of Fish and
Game.
SUMMARY
HB 535 An Act making appropriations for capital project
matching grant funds and for capital projects; and
providing for an effective date.
OVERVIEW: Labor, Commerce, Military & Veterans
Affairs,
Natural Resources, Fish & Game
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
DAVID TEAL, DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES,
1
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, explained the capital project requests
for the Department.
* Workers compensation Information Handling System
This project request for $1,653.8 million dollars will
automate some of the essential services of the Employment
Service offices in order to accommodate public access self-
registration work stations. In addition, the project will
provide work areas and equipment for the use of staff and
the public.
* Employment Service Automated Client Service
Project
This project request for $499.8 thousand dollars will
provide a system which allows clients to file their weekly
claims for Unemployment Insurance benefits by using a touch-
tone phone.
* Employment Service Voice Response Filing/Telephone
Systems Enhancement
This project request for $585.9 thousand dollars will
provide funding to complete the Workers' Compensation
information handling system.
DEPARTMENT COMMERCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
CHRIS GATES, DIVISION DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT COMMERCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT,
explained the capital project requests for the Department.
* Economic Development Matching Grant Program
This project request for $500.0 dollars thousand would
provide state funds to communities, boroughs and other
eligible applicants to match grants from federal and other
non-state sources. The primary purpose of the EDMGP program
would be to provide an eligible applicant with the necessary
economic development matching funds if that applicant would
be unable to provide such funds from other local sources.
* Alaska Small Business Assistance and Development
This project request for $253.0 thousand dollars outlines a
multifaceted program to enhance Alaska's small business
sector. A strong small business sector is vital if Alaska
is to have a healthy and diversified economy. He added that
small businesses provides up to 95% of the nongovernment
employment in the state, and that it has been shown on a
2
nationwide basis that most of the new jobs created each year
come from small business.
* Chugiak-Eagle River Arctic Winter Games
This project requests $250.0 thousand general fund dollars.
* Procurement Technical Assistance
This project requests $183.0 thousand general fund match
dollars.
DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS
JEFF MORRISON, DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATIVE
SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS,
explained the capital project requests for that Department.
* Major Project Design
This project request for $2 million dollars would provide
for the planning and design of several projects in support
of the Army National Guard including design of projects in
which the construction would be shared funding under a new
program offered by the Army Directorate, National Guard
Bureau. Provision are now available to allow advance
federal funding of the state's design costs of those
projects. He added that the state will be required to
reimburse their share of the design costs at the time of
construction.
* Army Guard Deferred Statewide Maintenance
This request for $665.0 thousand dollars will provide basic
facility repair and renovation statewide. Projects will
consist of mechanical repair/replacement, fencing, lighting,
electrical, repair/upgrade, structural
repair/replacement/additions, grounds, OSHA and other safety
upgrades and related projects.
* Army Guard Renewal and Replacement
This request for $100.0 thousand dollars would address the
scheduled replacement of worn-out major building components
and the retrofitting or replacing of obsolescent and/or
inefficient building systems. Renewal and replacement
funding maintains, and in some instances extends, the useful
life of facilities.
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
NICO BUS, DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES,
3
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, explained the capital
project requests of that Department.
* Contaminated Site Assessment/Cleanup-Isabel Pass
Camp
This request for $45.0 thousand dollars would address
numerous sites throughout the state which have been used by
various agencies, companies, individuals, etc. for different
purposes resulting in the land and water being contaminated
by hazardous substances. Changing these hazardous
substances is a priority not only to protect the public's
health and safety, but also to return the land to an
environmentally safe and marketable condition.
* Multi-Mission Village Work Crew
This request for $500.0 thousand dollars would be used for
fighting fires in a controlled manner to meet land use
objectives and/or the reduction of high risk forest fuels
and would require a work force organized and trained in
skills and ability common to those necessary for the
suppression of wild land fires. Federal land management
agencies have identified a substantial number of projects
which require access to the state's organized fire fighting
work force.
* State Land Acquisition Classification/Assessment
This request for $650.0 thousand dollars would address state
land acquisition. During FY 92-94, the Legislature funded
the state land selection project as it approached the final
land selections deadline of January 3, 1994. The Department
filed over 24 million acres of new selections as a result of
these projects. The state now has nearly 40 million acres
selected, from which it will receive its final 17 million
acres of entitlement.
* Mental Health Trust Lands Reconstitution
This request for $450.0 thousand dollars would continue the
essential process of Mental Health Trust Lands
reconstitution started in 1991 under the authority and
requirements of Chapter 66, SLA 1991. Substantial aspects
of the trust reconstitution process were completed in FY 93
& 94, including most comparability, valuation and the title
evaluations of non-conveyable original trust land and
proposed substitute land. The work effort in FY 95 will
continue the previous effort to convey original trust land
and replace encumbered trust land with state land of
comparable character and equal value.
4
* Fire Fighting Equipment Upgrade Replacement
The request for $50.0 thousand dollars will fund equipment
replacement and upgrades to maintain and increase fire
protection capabilities on private land, public land and
communities in the state and will enhance public and fire
fighter safety.
* State Park System Emergency Repairs
The $50.0 thousand dollar request will fund the repairs
needed in State park areas due to the forces of nature and
man. These activities have been delayed and now the state
park system requires emergency repairs to prevent major loss
of natural and historic resources.
* State Land Status/Inventory Database
The $250.0 thousand dollar request will complete the state's
land status database (the public land records), including
capturing relevant hydrography information, and merge that
database in a common computer system with the state's
resource inventory data.
* Geological Mineral Inventory
The Geophysical/Geological Mineral Inventory Project request
of $225.0 thousand dollars would be a multi year project
which was originally designed to systematically interpret
the geophysical areas and, when necessary, geologically
survey about 40 million acres of state-owned uplands within
a seven year period. Funding restrictions have led to
decreasing the scope of the project although the goal
remains the same to identify and delineate mineral zones on
Alaska state lands that have major economic value and that
can offset the future loss of Prudhoe Bay oil to the state's
economy.
(Tape Change, HFC 94-126, Side 2).
* Forest Practices Act Effectiveness Research
This request for $300.0 thousand dollars would provide
funding to meet the requirements for protecting state water
quality from the effects of timber harvest operations as
required under Section #319 of the Clean Water Act, and
would establish the fish habitat protection standards and
policy and review processes. He added that the necessary
monitoring of the effectiveness of the riparian standards
and the best management practices would be funded by this
project.
5
* Forest Resource Inventory
This request for $100.0 thousand dollars would provide for
responsible forest management including wood utilization and
would provide a dependable economic base in areas of Alaska
that can benefit from further development of such a
renewable resource. A sustainable forest resource is
dependent on inventory information by species, location,
size and growth and would provide managers with information
for harvest analysis and layout. The information has to be
gathered and updated periodically in order to provide an
accurate data base. This project will provide new
information and update old information on the forest
resource inventory in the Interior Region.
* National Historic Preservation Fund/Federal Grants
Program
This request for $640.0 thousand dollars would provide the
state's portion of the of the 60/40 matching grant for State
Historic Preservation Programs, which were identified and
defined in the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.
The NHPF provides money for the administration of Alaska's
State Historic Preservation Program which includes the
programs necessary to maintain the state's eligibility to
receive federal NHPF monies and provides a basic
preservation program.
* Land and Water Conservation Fund Federal Grants-
Outdoor Recreation Facilities
This request for $500.0 thousand dollars would provide the
state's portion of the matching grants to state and local
communities for planning, acquisition and development of
outdoor recreation facilities. The operating costs for
administration of the program would be paid from a surcharge
to the federal apportionment and the recipient's share of
the grant.
* RS 2477 Assertions and Mapping
The $400.0 thousand dollars would cover the second year of a
two year project to gather historical information and
adjudicate potential RS 2477 rights-of-way. The first year
was aimed at identifying routes to clarify "criteria"
differences between the state and federal governments. The
first year allowed the State to position for legal
challenges through established criteria cases. In addition,
the first 500 key routes were researched and adjudicated.
Any additional funding in future years will be for legal and
court challenges and route land surveys.
6
DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME
CHARLES MEACHAM, DEPUTY COMMISSIONER, DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND
GAME, commented on the over all capital project budget
request for the Department of Fish and Game.
KEVIN BROOKS, DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES,
DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME, explained the individual
components of the Department's capital project budget.
* Statewide Facilities Maintenance Repair and
Replacement
The Department of Fish and Game has numerous facilities in
every geographical area of the State. Many are located in
rural and/or inaccessible areas. Many of the facilities
have suffered from years of deferred maintenance activity
and are in dire need of repairs/maintenance in order to stop
further deterioration. Many of these facilities owned by
the Department also serve public interests in the community,
as a contact point with the projects and programs of the
Department. Due to considerable concern for the
deteriorating condition of these facilities, and a concern
for the health and welfare of departmental employees, the
CIP request of $650.0 thousand dollars is rated as the
highest priority for ADF&G. The efficient conduct of the
program is now jeopardized by past inattention which was due
to funding scarcity for these facilities.
* Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwin Salmon Fisheries Stock
Assessment Equipment
This CIP request for $300.0 thousand dollars will fund
equipment as well as support funding for the public
participation projects and Norton Sound salmon restoration.
* Alaska Peninsula Chum and Coho Salmon Stock
Study/Equipment
This request for $150.0 thousand dollars will provide funds
to obtain samples from the June fishery in 1995 and 1996,
and using genetic stock identification techniques, identify
and quantify chum salmon stocks. Current research conducted
by the Department has shown that the difference in genetic
markers between stocks of interest are great enough to allow
statistically significant discrimination.
* Fisheries Resource Assessment Vessels Maintenance
This request for $250.0 thousand dollars will cover costs
for general maintenance work as performed on the R/V Media,
7
R/V Sundance, R/V Montague, R/V Pandalus and R/V Resolution.
These vessels support fishery monitoring efforts involved in
salmon, herring, and shellfish stock assessment programs
contained in the Department's FY 94- 96 policy budget.
* Assert/Project State's Right to Manage Alaska's
Resource under ANILCA
The request for $500.0 thousand dollars would be for a
coordination effort to assert and protect the State of
Alaska's fish and wildlife management rights on State and
private lands and waters. A major portion of the request
would be dedicated to the federal legislative
reauthorization process for the Endangered Species Act.
* Trail and Habitat Area Clearing/Enhancement
This request for $350.0 thousand dollars would improve
habitat for a variety of wildlife species that thrive best
among the young deciduous trees and shrubs that follow site
disturbances and would improve consumptive and
nonconsumptive opportunities to see and use wildlife and
improve wintering conditions for moose to reduce threat of
die-off during the severe winter.
* Rural Fur Market Protection/Development
This request for $400.0 thousand dollars would provide a two
year project to protect Alaska's fur market to Europe,
expand existent markets in North America and Asia, and
assist Alaskans in understanding and coping with the
European Economic Community (EEC) fur import ban and
international Standard Organization requirements for more
humane traps.
* Public Access Land Purchase and Facilities
Construction/Renovation
This request for $1,550.0 million dollars would provide
funds to the Sport Fish BRU to construct boating access
facilities and purchase land along waterways. The access
sites that will result from this project are needed to
improve public recreational boating and sport fishing access
throughout the state. The amount of federal funds in this
request include the mandatory boating access set-aside plus
an additional amount for angler access projects that do not
necessarily qualify as boating access.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting adjourned at 9:55 A.M.
8
HOUSE FINANCE COMMITTEE
April 15, 1994
8:35 A.M.
TAPE HFC 94 - 126, Side 1, #000 - end.
TAPE HFC 94 - 126, Side 2, #000 - #588.
CALL TO ORDER
Co-Chair Larson called the House Finance Committee meeting
to order at 8:35 A.M.
PRESENT
Co-Chair Larson Representative Foster
Co-Chair MacLean Representative Martin
Vice-Chair Hanley Representative Navarre
Representative Brown Representative Parnell
Representative Grussendorf
Representatives Therriault and Hoffman were not present for
the meeting.
ALSO PRESENT
David Teal, Director, Division of Administrative Services,
Department of Labor; Chris Gates, Division Director,
Division of Economic Development, Department of Commerce and
Economic Development; Jeff Morrison, Director, Division of
Administrative Services, Department of Military and Veterans
Affairs; Nico Bus, Director, Division of Administration
Services, Department of Natural Resources; Kevin Brooks,
Director, Division of Administrative Services, Department of
Fish and Game; Charles Meacham, Deputy Commissioner,
Department of Fish and Game; Dave Kelleyhouse, Director,
Division of Wildlife Conservation, Department of Fish and
Game.
SUMMARY
HB 535 An Act making appropriations for capital project
matching grant funds and for capital projects; and
providing for an effective date.
OVERVIEW: Labor, Commerce, Military & Veterans
Affairs,
Natural Resources, Fish & Game
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
DAVID TEAL, DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES,
9
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, explained the capital project requests
for the Department.
* Workers compensation Information Handling System
This project request for $1,653.8 million dollars will
automate some of the essential services of the Employment
Service offices in order to accommodate public access self-
registration work stations. In addition, the project will
provide work areas and equipment for the use of staff and
the public.
* Employment Service Automated Client Service
Project
This project request for $499.8 thousand dollars will
provide a system which allows clients to file their weekly
claims for Unemployment Insurance benefits by using a touch-
tone phone.
* Employment Service Voice Response Filing/Telephone
Systems Enhancement
This project request for $585.9 thousand dollars will
provide funding to complete the Workers' Compensation
information handling system.
DEPARTMENT COMMERCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
CHRIS GATES, DIVISION DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT COMMERCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT,
explained the capital project requests for the Department.
* Economic Development Matching Grant Program
This project request for $500.0 dollars thousand would
provide state funds to communities, boroughs and other
eligible applicants to match grants from federal and other
non-state sources. The primary purpose of the EDMGP program
would be to provide an eligible applicant with the necessary
economic development matching funds if that applicant would
be unable to provide such funds from other local sources.
* Alaska Small Business Assistance and Development
This project request for $253.0 thousand dollars outlines a
multifaceted program to enhance Alaska's small business
sector. A strong small business sector is vital if Alaska
is to have a healthy and diversified economy. He added that
small businesses provides up to 95% of the nongovernment
employment in the state, and that it has been shown on a
10
nationwide basis that most of the new jobs created each year
come from small business.
* Chugiak-Eagle River Arctic Winter Games
This project requests $250.0 thousand general fund dollars.
* Procurement Technical Assistance
This project requests $183.0 thousand general fund match
dollars.
DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS
JEFF MORRISON, DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATIVE
SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS,
explained the capital project requests for that Department.
* Major Project Design
This project request for $2 million dollars would provide
for the planning and design of several projects in support
of the Army National Guard including design of projects in
which the construction would be shared funding under a new
program offered by the Army Directorate, National Guard
Bureau. Provision are now available to allow advance
federal funding of the state's design costs of those
projects. He added that the state will be required to
reimburse their share of the design costs at the time of
construction.
* Army Guard Deferred Statewide Maintenance
This request for $665.0 thousand dollars will provide basic
facility repair and renovation statewide. Projects will
consist of mechanical repair/replacement, fencing, lighting,
electrical, repair/upgrade, structural
repair/replacement/additions, grounds, OSHA and other safety
upgrades and related projects.
* Army Guard Renewal and Replacement
This request for $100.0 thousand dollars would address the
scheduled replacement of worn-out major building components
and the retrofitting or replacing of obsolescent and/or
inefficient building systems. Renewal and replacement
funding maintains, and in some instances extends, the useful
life of facilities.
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
NICO BUS, DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES,
11
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, explained the capital
project requests of that Department.
* Contaminated Site Assessment/Cleanup-Isabel Pass
Camp
This request for $45.0 thousand dollars would address
numerous sites throughout the state which have been used by
various agencies, companies, individuals, etc. for different
purposes resulting in the land and water being contaminated
by hazardous substances. Changing these hazardous
substances is a priority not only to protect the public's
health and safety, but also to return the land to an
environmentally safe and marketable condition.
* Multi-Mission Village Work Crew
This request for $500.0 thousand dollars would be used for
fighting fires in a controlled manner to meet land use
objectives and/or the reduction of high risk forest fuels
and would require a work force organized and trained in
skills and ability common to those necessary for the
suppression of wild land fires. Federal land management
agencies have identified a substantial number of projects
which require access to the state's organized fire fighting
work force.
* State Land Acquisition Classification/Assessment
This request for $650.0 thousand dollars would address state
land acquisition. During FY 92-94, the Legislature funded
the state land selection project as it approached the final
land selections deadline of January 3, 1994. The Department
filed over 24 million acres of new selections as a result of
these projects. The state now has nearly 40 million acres
selected, from which it will receive its final 17 million
acres of entitlement.
* Mental Health Trust Lands Reconstitution
This request for $450.0 thousand dollars would continue the
essential process of Mental Health Trust Lands
reconstitution started in 1991 under the authority and
requirements of Chapter 66, SLA 1991. Substantial aspects
of the trust reconstitution process were completed in FY 93
& 94, including most comparability, valuation and the title
evaluations of non-conveyable original trust land and
proposed substitute land. The work effort in FY 95 will
continue the previous effort to convey original trust land
and replace encumbered trust land with state land of
comparable character and equal value.
12
* Fire Fighting Equipment Upgrade Replacement
The request for $50.0 thousand dollars will fund equipment
replacement and upgrades to maintain and increase fire
protection capabilities on private land, public land and
communities in the state and will enhance public and fire
fighter safety.
* State Park System Emergency Repairs
The $50.0 thousand dollar request will fund the repairs
needed in State park areas due to the forces of nature and
man. These activities have been delayed and now the state
park system requires emergency repairs to prevent major loss
of natural and historic resources.
* State Land Status/Inventory Database
The $250.0 thousand dollar request will complete the state's
land status database (the public land records), including
capturing relevant hydrography information, and merge that
database in a common computer system with the state's
resource inventory data.
* Geological Mineral Inventory
The Geophysical/Geological Mineral Inventory Project request
of $225.0 thousand dollars would be a multi year project
which was originally designed to systematically interpret
the geophysical areas and, when necessary, geologically
survey about 40 million acres of state-owned uplands within
a seven year period. Funding restrictions have led to
decreasing the scope of the project although the goal
remains the same to identify and delineate mineral zones on
Alaska state lands that have major economic value and that
can offset the future loss of Prudhoe Bay oil to the state's
economy.
(Tape Change, HFC 94-126, Side 2).
* Forest Practices Act Effectiveness Research
This request for $300.0 thousand dollars would provide
funding to meet the requirements for protecting state water
quality from the effects of timber harvest operations as
required under Section #319 of the Clean Water Act, and
would establish the fish habitat protection standards and
policy and review processes. He added that the necessary
monitoring of the effectiveness of the riparian standards
and the best management practices would be funded by this
project.
13
* Forest Resource Inventory
This request for $100.0 thousand dollars would provide for
responsible forest management including wood utilization and
would provide a dependable economic base in areas of Alaska
that can benefit from further development of such a
renewable resource. A sustainable forest resource is
dependent on inventory information by species, location,
size and growth and would provide managers with information
for harvest analysis and layout. The information has to be
gathered and updated periodically in order to provide an
accurate data base. This project will provide new
information and update old information on the forest
resource inventory in the Interior Region.
* National Historic Preservation Fund/Federal Grants
Program
This request for $640.0 thousand dollars would provide the
state's portion of the of the 60/40 matching grant for State
Historic Preservation Programs, which were identified and
defined in the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.
The NHPF provides money for the administration of Alaska's
State Historic Preservation Program which includes the
programs necessary to maintain the state's eligibility to
receive federal NHPF monies and provides a basic
preservation program.
* Land and Water Conservation Fund Federal Grants-
Outdoor Recreation Facilities
This request for $500.0 thousand dollars would provide the
state's portion of the matching grants to state and local
communities for planning, acquisition and development of
outdoor recreation facilities. The operating costs for
administration of the program would be paid from a surcharge
to the federal apportionment and the recipient's share of
the grant.
* RS 2477 Assertions and Mapping
The $400.0 thousand dollars would cover the second year of a
two year project to gather historical information and
adjudicate potential RS 2477 rights-of-way. The first year
was aimed at identifying routes to clarify "criteria"
differences between the state and federal governments. The
first year allowed the State to position for legal
challenges through established criteria cases. In addition,
the first 500 key routes were researched and adjudicated.
Any additional funding in future years will be for legal and
court challenges and route land surveys.
14
DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME
CHARLES MEACHAM, DEPUTY COMMISSIONER, DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND
GAME, commented on the over all capital project budget
request for the Department of Fish and Game.
KEVIN BROOKS, DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES,
DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME, explained the individual
components of the Department's capital project budget.
* Statewide Facilities Maintenance Repair and
Replacement
The Department of Fish and Game has numerous facilities in
every geographical area of the State. Many are located in
rural and/or inaccessible areas. Many of the facilities
have suffered from years of deferred maintenance activity
and are in dire need of repairs/maintenance in order to stop
further deterioration. Many of these facilities owned by
the Department also serve public interests in the community,
as a contact point with the projects and programs of the
Department. Due to considerable concern for the
deteriorating condition of these facilities, and a concern
for the health and welfare of departmental employees, the
CIP request of $650.0 thousand dollars is rated as the
highest priority for ADF&G. The efficient conduct of the
program is now jeopardized by past inattention which was due
to funding scarcity for these facilities.
* Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwin Salmon Fisheries Stock
Assessment Equipment
This CIP request for $300.0 thousand dollars will fund
equipment as well as support funding for the public
participation projects and Norton Sound salmon restoration.
* Alaska Peninsula Chum and Coho Salmon Stock
Study/Equipment
This request for $150.0 thousand dollars will provide funds
to obtain samples from the June fishery in 1995 and 1996,
and using genetic stock identification techniques, identify
and quantify chum salmon stocks. Current research conducted
by the Department has shown that the difference in genetic
markers between stocks of interest are great enough to allow
statistically significant discrimination.
* Fisheries Resource Assessment Vessels Maintenance
This request for $250.0 thousand dollars will cover costs
for general maintenance work as performed on the R/V Media,
15
R/V Sundance, R/V Montague, R/V Pandalus and R/V Resolution.
These vessels support fishery monitoring efforts involved in
salmon, herring, and shellfish stock assessment programs
contained in the Department's FY 94- 96 policy budget.
* Assert/Project State's Right to Manage Alaska's
Resource under ANILCA
The request for $500.0 thousand dollars would be for a
coordination effort to assert and protect the State of
Alaska's fish and wildlife management rights on State and
private lands and waters. A major portion of the request
would be dedicated to the federal legislative
reauthorization process for the Endangered Species Act.
* Trail and Habitat Area Clearing/Enhancement
This request for $350.0 thousand dollars would improve
habitat for a variety of wildlife species that thrive best
among the young deciduous trees and shrubs that follow site
disturbances and would improve consumptive and
nonconsumptive opportunities to see and use wildlife and
improve wintering conditions for moose to reduce threat of
die-off during the severe winter.
* Rural Fur Market Protection/Development
This request for $400.0 thousand dollars would provide a two
year project to protect Alaska's fur market to Europe,
expand existent markets in North America and Asia, and
assist Alaskans in understanding and coping with the
European Economic Community (EEC) fur import ban and
international Standard Organization requirements for more
humane traps.
* Public Access Land Purchase and Facilities
Construction/Renovation
This request for $1,550.0 million dollars would provide
funds to the Sport Fish BRU to construct boating access
facilities and purchase land along waterways. The access
sites that will result from this project are needed to
improve public recreational boating and sport fishing access
throughout the state. The amount of federal funds in this
request include the mandatory boating access set-aside plus
an additional amount for angler access projects that do not
necessarily qualify as boating access.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting adjourned at 9:55 A.M.
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