Nolan Cloutier
13:30 - 14:23
“in the NDAA, both the Senate and the House version, the National Defense Authorization Act, that we have language in both bills that would convey land at the landfill, at the Anchorage landfill that's adjacent to landfill that we've actually been leasing from, um, Jaybear for a long time, that would be conveyed to the Municipality of Anchorage for the purposes of ultimately hosting a waste-to-energy plant.”
- Speaker
- Nolan Cloutier
- Timestamp
- 13:30 – 14:23
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- August 6, 2026
From the transcript
Sure, Mr. Chair. We can go through a few of our federal pieces, I think, if that was your intent. We are— and I think we've shared with this committee before, at least with several members, that in the NDAA, both the Senate and the House version, the National Defense Authorization Act, that we have language in both bills that would convey land at the landfill, at the Anchorage landfill that's adjacent to landfill that we've actually been leasing from, um, Jaybear for a long time, that would be conveyed to the Municipality of Anchorage for the purposes of ultimately hosting a waste-to-energy plant. And so, um, that's something we've been actively working on with all, all three offices of our congressional delegation, um, in particular in the bill language and getting it moving with, with Senator Sullivan's office and with Representative Begich's office.
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