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House Approves Electrical Restructuring Committee

Joint House-Senate Committee Would Study Restructuring

For Immediate Release April 27, 1998 Contact: Rep. Norman Rokeberg at (907) 465-4968.

Juneau -- The Alaska House of Representatives Monday unanimously approved House Concurrent Resolution 34, which would establish a joint House-Senate Committee to study the electric utility restructuring in Alaska.

"This joint House-Senate Committee will provide the next legislature with written recommendations on whether and how to implement electric utility restructuring in Alaska," said Representative Norman Rokeberg (R-Anchorage), Chairman of the House Labor and Commerce Committee, which sponsored HCR 34. "This is a highly complicated issue and it will take time and a good deal of work to make sure that all sides are heard and the issue is fully aired," Rokeberg said.

HCR 34 permits the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to determine the make-up of the committee.

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