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Amendment No. 2 was offered by Representative Gara:

Page 4, line 4, following "this Act,":
 Insert "and compliance with the requirement of (b) of this
section,"

Page 4, following line 23:
 Insert a new subsection to read:
 "(b)  The Alaska Railroad Corporation may not issue bonds under
the authorization and approval set out in this section unless the
Department of Environmental Conservation certifies that the coal
gasification and electrical power generation facility will be designed
and operated in a manner that does not release more carbon dioxide
into the atmosphere, per megawatt of power produced, than the
average carbon dioxide released per megawatt during calendar year
2006 by the Beluga natural gas power plant, located on the western
coast of Cook Inlet."

Reletter the following subsections accordingly.

Representative Gara moved and asked unanimous consent that
Amendment No. 2 be adopted.

Representative Kelly objected.


The question being:  "Shall Amendment No. 2 be adopted?"  The roll
was taken with the following result:

HB 229 am
Second Reading
Amendment No. 2

YEAS:  11   NAYS:  26   EXCUSED:  3   ABSENT:  0 

Yeas:  Buch, Cissna, Crawford, Doll, Doogan, Gara, Gardner,
Gruenberg, Guttenberg, Holmes, Nelson

Nays:  Chenault, Coghill, Dahlstrom, Edgmon, Fairclough, Gatto,
Harris, Hawker, Johansen, Johnson, Kawasaki, Kelly, Kohring,
LeDoux, Lynn, Meyer, Neuman, Olson, Ramras, Roses, Salmon,
Samuels, Seaton, Stoltze, Thomas, Wilson

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Excused:  Foster, Joule, Kerttula

And so, Amendment No. 2 was not adopted.

Representative Samuels moved and asked unanimous consent that
HB 229 am be considered engrossed, advanced to third reading, and
placed on final passage.

There was objection.

HB 229 am will advance to third reading on tomorrow's calendar.