TENTATIVE AGENDA

Joint Minerals, Business and

Economic Development Interim Committee

November 27 and 28, 2006

Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Building

2211 King Boulevard

Casper, Wyoming

 

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.

 

Monday, November 27, 2006

9:00 a.m.         Call to Order/Roll Call/Opening Remarks

9:05 a.m. 

Wyoming Infrastructure Authority

                        Steve Waddington, Executive Director

Proposed Legislation – 07LSO-0167.W5 – State engagement in transmission lines and energy facilities.

Proposed Legislation – 07LSO-0282.W5 – Integrated gasification combined cycle electric generation.

 

Wyoming Pipeline Authority

Mark Doelger, Chairman WPA, Bryan Hassler, Executive Director

Proposed Legislation – 07LSO-0166.W5  – State engagement in pipeline works.

 

Incentives for new projects/new technologies and continuity of existing industrial facilities

                        Robert Tarantola, Pacificorp

                        Rick Kaysen, Cheyenne Light, Fuel and Power

Dan Noble, Excise Tax Administrator, Department of Revenue

                                    Proposed Legislation – 07LSO-0168.W3 – Industrial facilities.

Proposed Legislation – 07LSO-0169.W3 – Clean coal technology.

 

Report #482 – The Effects of the Sales and Use Tax Exemption for Coal Gasification and Liquefaction Facilities – Dan Noble

 

Report #354 – The Effects of Sales and Use Tax Exemption for manufacturing equipment – Dan Noble

 

12:00 – 1:00 pm.        Lunch Break

 

1:00 pm.          Workforce housing infrastructure

Senator John Schiffer and Representative Tom Lockhart

Dave Gruver, LSO Assistant Director

Proposed Legislation – 07LSO-0029.W7 – Wyoming workforce housing infrastructure program.

            Workforce training and development

                        Kathy Emmons, Director of Workforce Services

Senator Tex Boggs, President of Western Wyoming College

Ron Pasco, President of First Interstate Bank

 

4:00 p.m.         Public Comment

4:30 p.m.         RECESS FOR THE DAY

 

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

8:00 a.m.         Call to Order/Opening remarks

8:05 a.m.         Department of Environmental Quality leaking underground storage tanks

John Corra, Director, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality

                        Proposed Legislation – 07LSO-0031.W6 – Storage tank remediation program.

 

9:00 a.m.         Wyoming Tourism Board

Tucker Fagan, Chief Executive Officer Wyoming Business Council

Gene Bryan, Chair Wyoming Tourism Board

Proposed Legislation – 07LSO-0170.W4 – Wyoming Tourism Board.

 

Banking commission

David Johnson, Wyoming Bankers Association

Proposed Legislation – 07LSO-0284.W1 – Public funds time deposit, open account.

 

10:00 a.m.       Break

10:15 a.m.       Community Assistance for Energy Impacts – Update

Office of State Lands and Investments

Brad Miskimmins, Director of Grants and Loans

Report – Clean Water State Revolving Fund – 2007 Intended Use Plan – Brian Mark, Department of Environmental Quality

                        Proposed Legislation – 07LSO-0283.W3 – State water pollution control program.

 

Wyoming Youth Conservation Corps

            Rollin Abernethy, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs

Nicholas Agopian, University of Wyoming student

 

            Reports, updates and public comment (here or Monday afternoon?)

Report #413 –Wyoming Main Street Annual Report

Mary Randolph, Executive Director of Wyoming Main Street Program

 

Report #455 – UW Wyoming Technology Business Center (Technology Business Incubator) – Jon Benson, Director

 

Wyoming Aeronautics Commission - Update

                        Shelly Reams, Aeronautics Administrator

 

General Committee discussion – Next steps

Public Comment

Noon   ADJOURN