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Jim Clark is interviewed by Charles Fedullo, Dave Donaldson and Paul McCarthy in Juneau, AK on May 20, 2007. [sound recording]
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Jim Clark is interviewed by Charles Fedullo, Dave Donaldson and Paul McCarthy in Juneau, AK on May 20, 2007. [sound recording]
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[sound recording]
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1 sound cassette tape (ca. 90 min.) analog.
Series Title:
Murkowski Administration Exit Interviews
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Recorded May 20, 2007 in Juneau, AK.
Abstract:
Part 1 - Clark begins by discussing how he became Murkowski's Chief of Staff, Legislation the Administration got through in the first year, Stranded Gas Act, Legislation dealing with permitting, changes to the coastal management bill, introducing the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDS) and Public Interest Litigant (PIL), moving the Habitat Division, developing permitting plans and changes, Murkowski's style of getting things done, Murkowski's process of bouncing ideas off people, organizing all of Murkowski's plans and ideas, Murkowski's idea that the state Legislature should run like the U.S. Senate, talks about various commissioners, failures in the Administration, using the Constitutional Budget Reserve (CBR), the Percent of Market Value (POMV) plan, Clark and Renkes relationship, difficulties within the Administration, the Gregg Renkes controversy, the Randy Ruedrich issue, Paula Dobbyn, process of the Stranded Gas Act, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), working out a deal with TransCanada and Mid America, and dealing with ConocoPhillips.

Part 2 - Clark continues his discussion with more about the Stranded Gas Act, price of building the gas line, concern over risks with the gas line such as capacity risk and market risk, net profits tax plan, the Economic Limiting Factor (ELF), importance of the gas line, process of getting a pipeline across Canada, economics of getting the gas to market, getting more wells at Point Thompson, the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA), fiscal certainty, Petroleum Production Tax (PPT), getting the gas line contract completed to help Murkowski in the primaries, and the split of the Republicans in the Legislature.

Part 3 - Clark continues his discussion with more on the gas line negotiations, the Interim Fiscal Interest Finding, changes in the personell working on the gas line negotiations, disappointment in Palin not carrying over members of the Murkowski Administration, hostile news coverage of Administration, the accomplishments of the administration, teacher and trooper housing, mentoring program, increase in education funding, teacher licensure changes, help to the fishing industry, airport renovations in Anchorage and Fairbanks, the Knick Arm project, and some major changes in the worker's compensation law.
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