The only order of business to come before the committee was SB 198 (ALLOW DOT/PF TO SET AIRPORT FEES W/O APA) CHAIRMAN SHARP asked the Commissioner of DOT/PF to explain the bill. COMMISSIONER BRUCE CAMPBELL, DOT/PF, said the bill is a housekeeping bill. Legislation for the State of Alaska allows certain fees at all airports to be set by order of the commissioner. This procedure has been followed since 1960 by all administrations. All fees at all airports, especially the international airports, have been set by the commissioner. He said a couple of years ago a program was initiated to put landing fees on rural airports. Those landing fees were also determined by the commissioner. Commissioner Campbell said three airlines that use the rural airports filed a law suit saying that the order of the commissioner should be adopted under the Administrative Procedures Act. The courts found that it was correct for the commissioner to do so for the rural airports. The fees at the two international airports, Anchorage and Fairbanks, have been determined by order of the commissioner for over 30 years. The state is in jeopardy of loosing all those fees and having to adopt minor fees by the Administrative Act. Commissioner Campbell said SB 198 exempts the international airport fees from going through the Administrative Procedures Act and allows them to be set by the commissioner in the same manner that they have been set over the past 33 years. There being no further testimony on the measure, SENATOR KERTTULA moved and asked unanimous consent to pass SB 198 out of the Senate Transportation Committee with individual recommendations. Hearing no objection, the motion carried.