MINUTES OF THE

SENATE Committee on Natural Resources

 

Seventy-second Session

May 14, 2003

 

 

The Senate Committee on Natural Resources was called to order by Chairman Dean A. Rhoads, at 2:13 p.m., on Wednesday, May 14, 2003, in Room 2144 of the Legislative Building, Carson City, Nevada. Exhibit A is the Agenda. Exhibit B is the Attendance Roster. All exhibits are available and on file at the Research Library of the Legislative Counsel Bureau.

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS PRESENT:

 

Senator Dean A. Rhoads, Chairman

Senator Mike McGinness, Vice Chairman

Senator Mark E. Amodei

Senator Michael Schneider

Senator Raymond C. Shaffer

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS ABSENT:

 

Senator Maggie Carlton (Excused)

Senator Bob Coffin (Excused)

 

STAFF MEMBERS PRESENT:

 

Fred Welden, Committee Policy Analyst

Lee-Ann Keever, Committee Secretary

 

Chairman Rhoads explained Bill Draft Request (BDR) R-1323 (Exhibit C) consolidated private and public lands in Pershing County.

 

BILL DRAFT REQUEST R-1323: Resolution expressing support for the consolidation of public and private lands in Pershing County under certain circumstances. (Later introduced as Senate Joint Resolution 10.)

 

Chairman Rhoads said the City of Lovelock and the Nevada Land and Resource Company had been working closely on the land exchange proposed by the BDR.

Chairman Rhoads distributed a copy of BDR R-1323 for the committee members’ review (Exhibit C). The committee members would hear testimony on the measure on Monday, May 19, 2003.

 

SENATOR SCHNEIDER MOVED TO INTRODUCE BDR R-1323. (LATER INTRODUCED AS SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 10.)

 

SENATOR SHAFFER SECONDED THE MOTION.

 

THE MOTION CARRIED. (SENATORS CARLTON AND COFFIN WERE ABSENT FOR THE VOTE.)

 

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Chairman Rhoads opened the work session on Assembly Bill (A.B.) 473.

 

ASSEMBLY BILL 473 (1st Reprint): Transfers authority to administer certain accounts that provide financial assistance to public water systems from Health Division of Department of Human Resources to Division of Environmental Protection of State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. (BDR 40-1252)

 

Senator McGinness said the Division of Environmental Protection, State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, was amenable to the proposed amendment.

 

Senator McGinness said he and his Assembly counterparts represented 11 of Nevada’s 17 counties. Many of Nevada’s counties faced non-attainment of federal water standards by the year 2006. The account established by the bill addressed the drinking water problems of all Nevada communities.

 

Senator McGinness said all parties concerned with the bill were agreeable to the proposed amendment. He stated Senator Coffin proposed changing the wording in section 8, subsection 1, paragraph (b), from “carcinogen” to “substances.”

 

SENATOR MCGINNESS MOVED TO AMEND AND DO PASS AS AMENDED A.B. 473.

 

SENATOR SHAFFER SECONDED THE MOTION.

 

THE MOTION CARRIED. (SENATORS CARLTON AND COFFIN WERE ABSENT FOR THE VOTE.

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Chairman Rhoads opened the work session on A.B. 488 introduced by Assemblyman John C. Carpenter.

 

ASSEMBLY BILL 488 (1st Reprint): Makes various changes concerning ditches. (BDR 48-1293)

 

SENATOR AMODEI MOVED TO DO PASS A.B. 488.

 

SENATOR SCHNEIDER SECONDED THE MOTION.

 

THE MOTION CARRIED. (SENATORS CARLTON AND COFFIN WERE ABSENT FOR THE VOTE.)

 

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There being no further business, Chairman Rhoads adjourned the Senate Committee on Natural Resources at 2:18 p.m.

 

RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED:

 

 

 

                                                           

Lee-Ann Keever,

Committee Secretary

 

 

APPROVED BY:

 

 

 

                                                                                         

Senator Dean A. Rhoads, Chairman

 

 

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