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State of Alaska
                                                            Fiscal Note
                                                                                              Bill Version:                     HB 258
 2020 Legislative Session
                                                                                              Fiscal Note Number:               2
                                                                                              (H) Publish Date:                 2/19/2020
 Identifier:        LL 2019-2008094                                            Department:        Department of Natural Resources
 Title:             STATE LAND SALES; PLATS; RIVERS                            Appropriation: Fire Suppression, Land & Water Resources
 Sponsor:           RLS BY REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR                             Allocation:        Mining, Land & Water
 Requester: Governor                                                           OMB Component Number:               3002
 Expenditures/Revenues
 Note: Amounts do not include inflation unless otherwise noted below.                                                                 (Thousands of Dollars)
                                                 Included in
                                    FY2021       Governor's
                                Appropriation      FY2021                                            Out-Year Cost Estimates
                                  Requested       Request
 OPERATING EXPENDITURES               FY 2021        FY 2021       FY 2022                      FY 2023           FY 2024             FY 2025        FY 2026
 Personal Services                       493.6                        493.6                       493.6             493.6               493.6          493.6
 Travel                                   15.0                         15.0                         15.0              15.0                15.0          15.0
 Services
 Commodities                              59.5                         34.5                         34.5                 34.5             34.5             34.5
 Capital Outlay
 Grants & Benefits
 Miscellaneous
 Total Operating                         568.1            0.0         543.1                        543.1             543.1              543.1             543.1
 Fund Source (Operating Only)
 1005 GF/Prgm (DGF)                            568.1                            543.1              543.1             543.1              543.1             543.1
 Total                                         568.1              0.0           543.1              543.1             543.1              543.1             543.1
 Positions
 Full-time                                        5.0                                 5.0             5.0                 5.0              5.0              5.0
 Part-time
 Temporary
 Change in Revenues
 None                                                                                 ***             ***                 ***              ***              ***
 Total                                            0.0             0.0                 ***             ***                 ***              ***              ***
 Estimated SUPPLEMENTAL (FY2020) cost:                                   0.0                (separate supplemental appropriation required)
 Estimated CAPITAL (FY2021) cost:                                        0.0                (separate capital appropriation required)
 Does the bill create or modify a new fund or account?       Yes
 (Supplemental/Capital/New Fund - discuss reasons and fund source(s) in analysis section)
 ASSOCIATED REGULATIONS
 Does the bill direct, or will the bill result in, regulation changes adopted by your agency?                 Yes
 If yes, by what date are the regulations to be adopted, amended or repealed?                                 06/30/21
 Why this fiscal note differs from previous version/comments:
 Not applicable, initial version.
 Prepared By:              Marty Parsons, Director                                                                  Phone:          (907)269-8625
 Division:                 Mining, Land & Water                                                                     Date:           02/18/2020 03:00 PM
 Approved By:              Raquel Solomon-Gross, Administrative Services Director                                   Date:           02/18/20
 Agency:                   Office of Management and Budget
Printed 2/19/2020                                                       Page 1 of 2                                                          Control Code: SNVUA
                                                                                                                 HB 258 - Fiscal Note 2
                                                 FISCAL NOTE ANALYSIS
STATE OF ALASKA                                                                  BILL NO.
2020 LEGISLATIVE SESSION
Analysis
   This proposed bill makes DNR the platting authority on DNR managed lands and lands of others except municipalities that
   exercise platting authority. To implement the bill, DNR will require one additional Land Surveyor I for plat review and
   approval work of land survey plats on DNR managed lands, lands of others in the unorganized borough and in
   municipalities that do not have or are not exercising the power of land use regulation or platting authority, and municipal
   entitlement surveys. This funding source will be out of the Land Disposal Income Fund (LDIF).
   Land survey platting authority for all state land administration, Staff
   PERSONAL SERVICES COST - $120.19 total annually (LDIF)
                   Land survey personnel
   One Land Surveyors (LS) I (range 21) at $120.19/year for a total of $120.19
   TRAVEL - $0.0 total
   COMMODITIES - $12.0 total in FY21, $7.0 annually in FY22 and beyond (LDIF)
   Commodity costs include:
                   $5.0 for one position for initial office set up in FY21 (1 position)
                   $6.5 annually for office space, telephones, core service charges and related expenses for the new
                   position (1 positions x $6.5 =$6.5 total)
                   Supplies are budgeted at $0.5 annually total
   This proposed bill revises AS 38.04.022 to increase the LDIFs current $5,000.0 balance limit to $7,500.0. Revenue from
   land sales enabled by this bill would begin in FY22, and any receipts exceeding the new LDIF limit will be deposited into
   the General Fund (GF). As the department cannot predict whether, or by what amount, the proposed higher LDIF cap will
   be exceeded, the additional GF revenue beginning in FY22 is indeterminate.
   This proposed bill also creates a new statute providing for the disposal of state lands deemed suitable for commercial
   development through a lease to sale program.
   To implement the bill, DNR will need to evaluate land nominations, identifying land offering areas, prepare documents
   relating to planning and classification/reclassification of lands to be offered and the preparation of best interest findings
   under AS 38.05.035(e) and appraisal of the land under AS 38.05.840. This will require a minimum of one additional Natural
   Resource Specialist (NRS) III, two additional NRS IIs (one in the Land Sales Section and one in the Resource Assessment and
   Development Section), and one Appraiser I as well as implementation costs. DNR anticipates the funding source will be
   from the LDIF and not the General Fund.
   Land Sales/Contract administration, staff
   PERSONAL SERVICES COST - $373.42 total annually (LDIF)
                    Land sales/Contract administration personnel
   One NRS III (range 18) at $101.47/year
   Two NRS II (range 16) at $90.65/year for a total of $181.3
   One Appraiser I (range 16) at $90.65/year
   TRAVEL - $15.0 total (LDIF)
   Travel would be at least $15.0 annually for field verification of parcel locations/conditions
   COMMODITIES - $47.5 in FY21, $27.5 annually in FY22 and beyond ($26 +$1.5) (LDIF)
   Commodity costs include:
                   $5.0 for each position for initial office set up in FY21 (4 positions x $5 = $20 total).
                   $6.5 annually for office space, telephones, core service charges and related expenses for the new
                   position (4 positions x $6.5 = $26 total)
                   Supplies are budgeted at $1.5 per year total
(Revised 10/22/19 OMB/LFD)                                                                                         Page 2 of 2
LL 2019-2008094                                                Page 2 of 2                                              Control Code: SNVUA
Statutes affected: 
HB0258A, AM HB 258, introduced 02/19/2020: 19.30.080, 19.30.060, 19.30.100, 29.03.030, 29.35.180, 40.15.070, 29.40.010, 29.40.040, 29.40.030, 29.40.190, 38.04.020, 38.05.055, 38.05.057, 38.04.022, 38.04.045, 38.05.070, 38.04.050, 38.05.035, 03.09.010, 38.05.065, 38.05.078, 38.05.300, 44.62.175, 44.37.011, 38.05.073, 38.05.090, 38.05.965, 38.09.080, 40.15.020, 37.14.001, 37.14.099, 41.15.010, 41.15.960, 41.17.010, 41.17.955, 41.21.010, 41.21.990, 41.23.010, 41.23.630, 40.15.200, 40.15.010, 29.40.070, 29.40.160, 29.33.150, 29.33.240, 40.15.305, 29.10.200, 29.40.200, 38.08.010, 41.23.400, 41.23.410, 41.23.420, 41.23.430, 41.23.440, 41.23.450, 41.23.460, 41.23.470, 41.23.480, 41.23.490, 41.23.500, 41.23.510