STATE OF MINNESOTA FORTY-FIRST MEETING
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTY-SIXTH SESSION
HOUSING POLICY AND FINANCE AND PUBLIC HEALTH FINANCE
MINUTES
Representative Karen Clark, Chair, called the forty-first meeting to order at 10:41 a.m. on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 in the Basement Hearing Room of the State Office Building.
The Committee Legislative Assistant noted the roll.
Members present:
CLARK, Karen, Chair
LAINE Carolyn, Vice-Chair
BENSON, John
BLY, David
HAYDEN, Jeff
HOWES, Larry
HUNTLEY, Thomas
MCFARLANE Carol
MCNAMARA, Denny
MORGAN, Will
ROSENTHAL, Paul
SAILER, Brita
SCOTT, Peggy
SEVERSON, Dan
A quorum was present.
Chair Laine assumed the gavel at 10:43 a.m.
Representative Clark moved that HF 3519 (Clark) Prairie Island; work group established to design a plan to monitor air and groundwater emissions from the Prairie Island nuclear plant, design of a monitoring network contracted to measure thermal discharges, reports required, and money appropriated, be returned to the Committee on Finance.
Representative Clark moved an oral amendment to HF3519 as follows:
Page 2, after line 2.2 Insert, "(9) one representative of the Xcel Energy Prairie Island nuclear generating plant;
(10) one representative from each Pearce and Goodhue counties;
Page 2, line 3 Delete (9)
Insert (11)
Page 2, line 5, Delete (10)
Insert (12)
THE MOTION PREVAILED AND THE AMENDMENT WAS ADOPTED.
Testified on HF3519 as amended:
JoDee Gamst, Government Relations Specialist, Prairie Island Indian Community
Paula Maccabee, Attorney, Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant Study Group
Kristen Eide-Tollefson, Resident, Frotenac, MN
Patrick Flowers, Manager, Water Quality, Xcel Energy
Linda Bruemmer, Director, Environmental Health Division, MN Department of Health
Sherrie Flaherty, Health Physicist, MN Department of Health
Representative McNamara moved an amendment to HF3519 as amended (See attached amendment
H3519A1).
Chair Laine ruled the amendment not germane.
Representative McNamara moved to appeal the ruling of the chair.
Representative McNamara requested a roll call vote. The results were as follows:
Ayes:
Laine
Clark
Benson
Bly
Hayden
Huntley
Morgan
Rosenthal
Nayes:
McFarlane
McNamara
Scott
Severson
On a vote of 8 Ayes and 4 Nayes, the ruling of the Chair was upheld.
Representative Clark renewed the motion that HF3519 as amended be returned to the Committee on Finance.
Representative McNamara requested a roll call vote. The results were as follows:
Ayes:
Laine
Clark
Benson
Bly
Hayden
Huntley
Morgan
Rosenthal
Nayes:
McFarlane
McNamara
Scott
Severson
On a vote of 8 Ayes and 4 Nayes, the motion prevailed.
Representative Laine moved that the minutes of March 16, 2010 be adopted. THE MOTION PREVAILED AND THE MINUTES WERE ADOPTED.
The meeting was adjourned at 12:08 p.m.
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Karen Clark, Chair
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Jake Johnson, Committee Legislative Assistant