The following draft resolutions were approved for a 60-day public comment period at the October 14, 2020 Council meeting. Please note these resolutions are drafts and for the purposes of general discussion and public comment. The Draft Resolutions will be discussed by the PAC and Trustee Council at their next meeting (see Events page for updates).
The public comment period was open from October 16, 2020 until December 16, 2020 11:59 pm AST. Public comments are posted below for each Draft Resolution.
Draft Resolution 20-A: Amendment of the 1994 Restoration Plan to eliminate the annual Trustee Council public meeting and funding process and change reporting schedules. Additional documents:
PUBLIC COMMENTS for Draft Resolution 20-A (pdf). There were 119 comments for this draft resolution. This number was updated after duplicate submissions were removed from the count and submissions to the wrong draft resolution were tallied in the correct resolution. This pdf remains unchanged.
Draft Resolution 20-B: Change to procedures for approval of multi-year projects. Additional documents:
PUBLIC COMMENTS for Draft Resolution 20-B (pdf). There were 108 comments for this draft resolution. This number was updated after duplicate submissions were removed from the count and submissions to the wrong draft resolution were tallied in the correct resolution. This pdf remains unchanged.
Draft Resolution 20-C: Combining habitat and research sub-accounts. Draft Resolution C would authorize the Council to combine the habitat and research sub-accounts into a single multi-purpose account. Combining the sub-accounts could be accomplished two ways:
Path 1: Obtain federal legislation to modify restrictions in a 1999 public law (Public Law 106-113, App. C, Section 350) which allowed deposit of the trust funds into “outside accounts” conditioned on continued management and allocation consistent with the March 1, 1999 Trusted Council Resolution that originally divided the trust funds into two sub-accounts. Path 1 would enable the trust funds to remain with the State Department of Revenue where they have earned a good return over the past decade but federal legislation would be needed to combine the sub-accounts.
Path 2: Transfer the trust funds to the Department of Interior’s Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Fund (NRDAR Fund). Path 2 would not require legislation. DOI’s NRDAR Fund has earned minimal returns over the last decade compared to the State invested trust funds.
PUBLIC COMMENTS for Draft Resolution 20-C (pdf). There were 106 comments for this draft resolution. This number was updated after duplicate submissions were removed from the count and submissions to the wrong draft resolution were tallied in the correct resolution.This pdf remains unchanged.
Draft Resolution 20-D: Amendment of the 1994 Restoration Plan to incorporate an ecosystem approach to the oil spill boundary. Additional documents:
PUBLIC COMMENTS for Draft Resolution 20-D (pdf). There were 371 comments for this draft resolution. This number was updated after duplicate submissions were removed from the count and submissions to the wrong draft resolution were tallied in the correct resolution.This pdf remains unchanged.
