TENTATIVE  AGENDA

(May 3, 2006 - Subject to Revision)

 

Joint Minerals, Business and

Economic Development Interim Committee

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Building

2211 King Boulevard

Casper, Wyoming

 

This meeting is to collect background information, present an initial overview, develop a common understanding between the agencies, industries and the Committee and to determine the direction the Committee will take with the following topics.  Follow-up meetings will be scheduled as deemed necessary by the Committee. 

 

This agenda sets forth the order in which the Committee will consider each topic.  The times stated are tentative – if a topic is concluded early, the Committee will proceed to the next topic.  The names stated are tentative – if the named person is unable to make the presentation, another person may be substituted.  The Committee will take a one-hour lunch break and will conclude its work by 5:00 p.m.

 

Thursday, May 25, 2006

8:00 a.m.            Call to order/Roll call

 

8:05 a.m.         Review Incentives to Compete for New Power Plants and New Fuels Development

 

8:05 a.m.     New Projects/ New Technologies:

            - Wyoming Pipeline Authority – Bryan Hassler, Executive Director

                        - Wyoming Infrastructure Authority – Steve Waddington, Executive Director

                        - Wyoming Mining Association – Marion Loomis

                        - Wyoming Clean Coal Working Group – Rob Hurless

 

9:15 a.m.            Continuity of existing industrial facilities:

                        - Oil and Gas – Petroleum Association of Wyoming – Bruce Hinchey

                        - Electricity - Black Hills Power – Rick Kaysen

                                                - Basin Electric – Bill Stafford

                                                - PacifiCorp – Bob Tarantola

                        Trona – Trona Representative

                        Coal/Uranium/Gold – Wyoming Mining Association – Marion Loomis

                        Ethanol – Big Horn Basin Ethanol – Ken Weekes

                                    Bentonite – Black Hills Bentonite – Tom Thorson

 

10:15 a.m.             Break

 

 

 

 

 

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10:30 a.m.       Workforce training and development; workforce housing infrastructure.

10:30 a.m.            Training/Education

                                    1)  Voc-Ed - K-12 - Dr. James McBride, State Superintendent of Public Instruction

                                    2)  Community Colleges – Dr. Jim Rose, Executive Director

                        3)  BOCES/Job Corps Center – Sandy Barton, Executive Director, Fremont County

 

11:00 a.m.            Workforce development.

                                    - WyoTech – Guy Warpness, President

                                    - Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Training Center – Chris Corlis, Director

                                    - Department of Workforce Services – Kathy Emmons – Director

                        - Campbell County Training Center – Jeff Wasserburger

 

12:00 – 1:00 pm.      Lunch Break

 

1:00 p.m.            Workforce housing infrastructure.

                        - Wyoming Community Development Authority - History – Rick Tempest/George Axlund

                        - Fannie Mae Statewide Advisory Committee – Randall Dancliff

                        - Wyoming Association of Municipalities – George Parks

                        - Sweetwater Economic Development Association - Pat Robbins

                         -Wyoming Association of Realtors – Laurie Urbigkit

 

2:00 p.m.            Integrated Resource Plans (IRPs).

                        Public Service Commission –Steve Furtney, Chairman

                        PacifiCorp – Bob Tarantola

 

2:45 p.m.            Break

 

3:00 p.m.            Department of Environmental Quality leaking underground storage tanks.

John Corra, Director, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality

                                              John Wagner, Water Quality Administrator

3:30 p.m.            Industrial Siting Act.

John Corra, Director, Department of Environmental Quality

                                    Todd Parfitt, Industrial Siting Administrator

 

4:00 p.m.            Reports, updates and public comment.

                        - Report #233, Wyoming Partnership Challenge Loan Program, Wyoming Business Council

                        - Report – Coalbed Methane Water Task Force – Senator Jennings

 

4:30 p.m.            General Committee discussion – Next steps

 

5:00 p.m.            ADJOURN