HOUSE TRANSPORTATION STANDING COMMITTEE                                                                                   
                   March 7, 2000                                                                                                
                     1:30 p.m.                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
COMMITTEE CALENDER                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
OVERSIGHT HEARING: TRANSPORTATION TAXATION ISSUES                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
TAPE(S)                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
00-17, SIDE(S) A & B                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
CALL TO ORDER                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
Representative Andrew Halcro, Chairman, convened the House                                                                      
Transportation Standing Committee meeting at 1:30 p.m.                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
PRESENT                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
Committee members present at the call to order were Representatives                                                             
Halcro, Masek, Hudson, Cowdery, Kemplen, Kookesh and Kohring.                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
MARK HANLEY, Chairman, Legislative Committee, Alaska Oil & Gas                                                                  
Association, gave testimony regarding the industry's concerns about                                                             
a proposed tanker property tax.                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
DAN DICKENSON, Director, Oil & Gas Audit Division, Department of                                                                
Revenue, provided the committee with figures and effects of the                                                                 
implementation of the tax on state revenue.                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
DAVE COBB, Mayor, City of Valdez, testified regarding the cities'                                                               
implementation of the tax and a brief history of the ordinance.                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
DAVE DENGEL, City Manager, City of Valdez, came before the                                                                      
committee and spoke to the revenue situation from the city's                                                                    
standpoint and addressed the property tax mill rate situation in                                                                
Valdez.                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
BILL WALKER, Legal Counsel, City of Valdez, came before the                                                                     
committee and gave a historical view of the ordinance and discussed                                                             
the relations to the new tanker vessels.                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
JERRY GALLAGHER, Manager, Government Relation, ARCO, Inc.,                                                                      
addressed industry concerns and relation of tax to new millennium                                                               
class vessels.                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
KAREN COWART, General Manager, Alaska Support Industry Alliance,                                                                
provided testimony regarding the affect of the tax on the                                                                       
competition in the industry and its affect on the support                                                                       
operations.                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
COMMITTEE ACTION                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
The committee took no action.                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
ADJOURNMENT                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
The meeting adjourned at 3:05 p.m.                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
NOTE:                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
The meeting was recorded and handwritten log notes were taken.  A                                                               
copy of the tape(s) and log notes may be obtained by contacting the                                                             
House Records Office at 129 6th Street, Suite 229, Juneau, Alaska                                                               
99801, (907) 465-2214, and after adjournment of the second session                                                              
of the Twenty-first Alaska State Legislature this information may                                                               
be obtained by contacting the Legislative Reference Library at 129                                                              
6th Street, Suite 102, (907) 465-3808.