will collect them and distribute them. After you have completed 

 testifying please exit the stage through the center stair. 



While I am finishing this maybe we could have the first panel 

 and the second panel come up now, the first panel might come up 

 and take their places, the first panel includes Mr. Ralph Gregory, 

 Mayor of Ketchikan, Mr. Ted Ferry, the Major of Ketchikan Bor- 

 ough, Adrian LeCornu, Mayor of Hydaburg, Robin Taylor, State 

 Representative Cheri L. Davis, State Representative Joe Sebastian, 

 Representing The Point Baker Community Association, Fern Nei- 

 meyer, Mayor of Wrangell and Bruce Botelho, the Mayor of 

 Juneau. 



If all of you can please take your seats we would appreciate it 

 and maybe we can get the second group. Panel II, to come up and 

 take the spots behind, if they might do so, that's Greg Steveler 

 from Gustavus Community Association, Leslie Bartholomew, Cliff 

 Taro, Roger Stone, Marlene Clarke and Lew Williams. 



This way it is going to allow us to move this hearing and hear as 

 many witnesses as we can. 



As all of you know we will limit each panel member's oral testi- 

 mony to three minutes. I know that's not very long but I ask you to 

 summarize your testimony and your testimony will of course be in- 

 cluded in full in the record. 



Please keep an eye on the timer; in front of me is a timer — there 

 is a red light and a green light, and the green light will be going on 

 during your testimony and when the red light comes on I am going 

 to intervene, unfortunately, and say that we have got to move on. 

 It is tough to try to cram everything you know about this impor- 

 tant issue into three minutes and we know that as well. 



As I said your entire record will be included in full in the record 

 and the record will be open for two weeks for additional written 

 statements. 



If any one of the witnesses or anyone else wants to submit a 

 statement for the record please send it to the Energy and Natural 

 Resources Committee in the United States Senate in Washington, 

 D.C. and we will see that it is included or if anybody today is here 

 and is not going to be able to testify and wants to submit a state- 

 ment for the record please make sure that we have that before we 

 leave so with that let us begin, if we might. Start with Mr. Botelho, 

 who has agreed to kick us off and then go to Mr. Gregory, Mr. 

 Ferry, Adrian LeCornu, Robin Taylor and Cheri Davis and Joe Se- 

 bastian and Fern Neimeyer and all of you, thank you very much 

 for coming and being here so bright and early and bushy-tailed so 

 early in the morning. We appreciate it. 



Mr. Botelho. 



STATEMENT OF BRUCE BOTELHO, MAYOR OF THE CITY AND 



BOROUGH OF JUNEAU 



Mr. Botelho. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and Mr. Murkowski, 

 Senator Murkowski and Senator Burns. We hope you have seen a 

 little bit of the big skies that we share here in Alaska with your 

 great state. 



I am Bruce Botelho, I am the Mayor of the City and Borough of 

 Juneau and here to represent the official view of the Assembly 



