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0:27
Justin Ruffridge“I think, Mr. Chair, of just a molecule of gas. For example, a molecule of gas in this state, if we are to produce a project, it's going to go through royalty payment. That's step number 1. It's going to be taxed for its production. It's going to be taxed for its gas treatment, taxed for its transport, taxed for its export, and then also pay sales tax on its use in the state.”
Alaska Legislature: Conference Committee On HB 381, 7/2/26, 10:30am ·
0:40
Erik Gunderson“The removed language would have sunset the required RLC for the AVT 5 years after the final investment decision, also known as FID, on Phase 2. Modeling from Director Payne Painter and the Department of Revenue indicated this sunset would have effectively prevented any RLC from being paid on the AVT.”
Alaska Legislature: Conference Committee On HB 381, 7/2/26, 10:30am ·
0:22
Calvin Schrage“I know we've had some positive feedback from stakeholders that we're moving in a good direction, including from the project developers, that we've made— that they're encouraged by the conversations that we're having here.”
Alaska Legislature: Conference Committee On HB 381, 7/2/26, 10:30am ·
1:01
Erik Gunderson“Adds new subsection D6 specifying non-confidential documents filed and approvals received since the last report in connection with the natural gas pipeline project, including filings with FERC under the Natural Gas Act, filings and approvals from the U.S. Department of Energy related to free trade and non-free trade export authorizations and notices or declarations filed with the U.S. Department of Energy for review by CFIUS shall be included in the biannual report.”
Alaska Legislature: Conference Committee On HB 381, 7/2/26, 10:30am ·
1:08
Justin Ruffridge“In effect, by taking out Section 3, you are saying that the Senate version did not allow AVT to be required to apply to required local contribution, and the House version did not require AVT to apply to local contribution, but now you're saying by the removal of Section 3 that AVT can apply to require local contribution, thereby making a substantive change in this conference committee to the effect of the bill on required local contribution.”
Alaska Legislature: Conference Committee On HB 381, 7/2/26, 10:30am ·
0:39
Erik Gunderson“We amend Section 3509-020 to clarify when the alternative volumetric tax takes effect. Based on a Department of Revenue request for clarification, this clarification makes clear when the annual inflation adjustment begins, which is the year after Phase 1 begins for both the 6.2 cents starting rate for Phase 1 and 10.6, um, for Phase 2. This also changes Alaska CPI to US CPI to conform with changes made in Section 24.”
Alaska Legislature: Conference Committee On HB 381, 7/2/26, 10:30am ·
0:26
Justin Ruffridge“I'm referencing the fact that the entirety of Section 3, which was the amendment on the Senate floor that essentially allowed the Senate floor version to match the House version, which was to effectively remove AVT from required local contribution, is entirely removed in this draft document before me.”
Alaska Legislature: Conference Committee On HB 381, 7/2/26, 10:30am ·
0:33
Calvin Schrage“I want to emphasize that this draft committee substitute is not a final decision on conferenceable items, and I look forward to continued conversations with all of you as we further work to refine HB 381.”
Alaska Legislature: Conference Committee On HB 381, 7/2/26, 10:30am ·
1:10
Adam Prestidge“the scope of the amendment that was offered on the floor is very broad and doesn't reflect the careful discussion that the two parties worked on over the course of a 6-month negotiation and doesn't reflect the level of detail and complication that goes into labor planning for a mega project like this. And so I talked at the outset a little bit about the scope, how there are some exclusions. Most of the— a significant part of the project is allocated to be worked on by labor unions. The amendment that was proposed removes all of that and simply says all phases, all scopes, all contractors, all subcontractors must sign a PLA.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
0:19
Bert Stedman“on this amendment, the rate would be the highest in the country for states that don't have income tax. I think the other one is maybe 7% range or something like that, and this is a little over 9%.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
0:42
Adam Prestidge“having a bright line 15% requirement creates a lot— creates unworkable challenges for the project. First of all, there's no consideration in the amendment if there weren't available enough personnel to perform 15% of the hours as apprentices. It's just a flat requirement, 15% of the hours must be done by apprentices. And so the question would immediately come up, Well, if there weren't enough apprentices available to perform that much work, would we lose our tax eligibility?”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
0:19
Adam Prestidge“Representative Rutherford, through the chair, that's exactly correct. It's another reason why we would make the argument that this isn't necessary, because the bill already had a very clear requirement requiring a project labor agreement for the project.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
0:32
Adam Prestidge“On June 11th, uh, Glenn Fahren signed, executed, and announced a binding memorandum of understanding with the building trades councils from Fairbanks and Anchorage. And so, uh, what did that do? It set up a framework for future project labor agreements.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
0:53
Adam Prestidge“Amendment 12 introduced Inflation language relating to the gas sales contracts from the pipeline to customers. Just to reiterate a bit of what we described earlier, this makes sense, but we'd suggest that it takes into account the inflation agreed between the project and the customer. That contract, of course, gets reviewed and approved by the RCA, and the project would not object to having a cap on that inflation of 3%. We just suggest that being US CPI, not Alaska CPI.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
1:04
Adam Prestidge“our suggestion is that instead of having a broad amendment that dictates a few high-level principles about project labor agreements, we could instead legislate into law a requirement that the PLAs entered into will be substantially consistent with the binding MOU that was already executed between the project developer, between Glenfarm and the building trades councils.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
0:47
Bryce Edgmon“I guess I'll circle back for a third time to either Mr. Prestidge or Mr. Mahoney. Is this about opposition to the tax itself or is this about the need to fix it?”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
0:35
Adam Prestidge“I can't speak to that. I've got the only— the same language as you, and that's certainly one of the types of details that I'd prefer to work out in a detailed discussion with the unions rather than having it settled in legislation.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
0:48
Adam Prestidge“Amendment 16 requires notification of any relationship with a foreign entity. That goes significantly beyond, beyond just ownership. It's really any contract, any joint venture, any type of agreement. That type of disclosure requirement would be unique and burdensome and would be a deterrent to counterparties potentially from wanting to be associated with the project, recognizing that they wouldn't have any commercial confidential protections.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
1:28
Adam Prestidge“Amendment 14, uh, um, Summarizing, relates to the state's clawback option, which we discussed at some length in the hearing yesterday. It basically takes the carefully negotiated arrangement between Glenfarm and AGDC and removes all of the, I guess, the careful considerations around it and institutes an automatic reversion to the state with no compensation to, to the developer in the event that a milestone is lapsed. It's— we'd view that as extremely punitive to the project. Our legal counsel advises us that that could potentially qualify as an unconstitutional taking and potentially a violation of the Contracts Clause of the U.S. Constitution and would severely hinder the developer's ability and willingness to continue to operate in the state of Alaska.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
0:44
Dan Stickel“the reason that we present that as indeterminate in terms of state impact is that we don't know for certain whether the project goes forward. So to say with certainty that we— that if you enact this provision, we will get X dollars of revenue for a provision that we don't know with certainty whether the project will go forward, we've built on assumptions which are uncertain, and then there's the uncertain impact of implementation implementing this policy on the project. And we have heard concern from industry that it would affect their investment decisions.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
0:32
Adam Prestidge“as it stands, Amendment 16 would really chill off-takers and investors in the project.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
0:38
Adam Prestidge“This labor MOU was negotiated on a very careful, very intensive basis. A lot of time, a lot of meetings, a lot of people involved in a 6-month negotiation process to reach an agreement that worked for both sides.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
0:26
Bryce Edgmon“why wasn't this analysis done with other states? 99 Days later. You know, why on behalf of Alaska's interests did we not do the benefits? Because when I see these numbers, Alaska's PT, Proposed Rate, of 9.4% essentially tower over what other states that have non-elective taxes.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
0:34
Adam Prestidge“my understanding is that this was not requested by the labor representatives themselves. That's what I've been told. But that it was instead offered by legislators who were intending to be helpful and make sure that labor's requirements were being met. We think that labor requirements are being met”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
0:31
Adam Prestidge“Amendment 3 provided force majeure allowance, basically that if there is a date, a deadline for the project, it can be reasonably extended by the Department of Revenue Commissioner in the event of a force majeure. That is a helpful addition. It is good for the project.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
0:35
Adam Prestidge“It could be a little bit broader because force majeure is really kind of acts of God outside of the control of the project. There can be other delays to a project like this that wouldn't necessarily be picked up within a force majeure definition, such as archaeological finds or shipping delays. And so we'd advocate that it would be beneficial to the project to look at broadening that definition a little bit.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
0:58
Dan Stickel“We estimated under our baseline modeling first payments of the pass-through entity tax of $29 million in 2036, increasing to $65 million in 2041 and up to $358 million by 2051”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
0:37
Adam Prestidge“Senator Steadman, I don't think there's any question on the labor side that this is a binding agreement. I think there was confusion or there was a concern that others out there thought that it wasn't, but I certainly believe that they agree that it's binding, want it to be binding. We feel the same way. It just seems that unfortunately some have interpreted it based on those headlines as non-binding, and that might be why some legislators thought it would be helpful to insert this amendment.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
0:47
Adam Prestidge“Putting this pass-through entity tax in the place where it would assign the pass-through entity tax of 9% at the LNG LLC level would be a unique burden on any project finance vehicle. Typically a project finance vehicle is set up as a pass-through entity and the upstairs shareholders pay tax on that because— so that they can all invest under their different arrangements.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
0:21
Adam Prestidge“the language of the amendment says 15 hours— 15% of all hours across the project must be performed by apprentices. I want to be totally clear, we are fully supportive of having an apprenticeship program on the Alaska LNG Project. We think it's fantastic. We want to be part of building a workforce for Alaska.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
0:28
Adam Prestidge“if we take the example of some of the offsite fabrication that could be done internationally, paying Alaska prevailing wages at a fabrication yard in Korea, for just one example, doesn't make any sense and wouldn't be economically viable for the project.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
0:56
Adam Prestidge“we'd be fully supportive of taking an additional step to have the bill, the legislation, require that the project establish an apprenticeship program that is consistent with industry standards and would be negotiated between the project and the appropriate labor unions”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM ·
0:19
Dan Stickel“total state benefits under our baseline model assumptions, which which we talked about yesterday, through 2042 would be $7.5 billion to the state.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am ·
1:08
Dan Stickel“in those early years, the vast majority of the revenue is allocated to the communities that the project is directly in. So $109 million of the AVT in 2034 would go to those 5 municipalities, with an additional $13 million spread statewide to community revenue sharing and $12 million to the state. And then the second column shows after the first step up in the alternative volumetric tax, and that additional step up goes entirely to community revenue sharing.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am ·
1:12
Adam Prestidge“our practical expectation is that we will complete the project ahead of these timelines, and so the deadline or the timeline that you said The end of the year for FID maintains— continues to be our target. And we would— if we were to follow a target construction schedule, even with some delays, we would complete the project before December 31st, well before December 31st, 2032.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am ·
1:12
Dan Stickel“in fiscal year 2061, which would be the first full fiscal year after the the second step up of the alternative volumetric tax. At that point in time, after adjusting for the inflation, there would be $212 million shared directly with the communities that the project resides in, an additional $285 million shared across the state based on population for community revenue sharing, and then the state at that point in time would get a little over $500 million.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am ·
1:02
Adam Prestidge“the 2028 deadline, it puts a bit of a risk on the developer and it puts an incentive on the developer, but it does that at a time before billions of construction dollars have been put at risk on the project. And so essentially putting that 2032 deadline puts additional risk on all the investment dollars that doesn't serve the benefit of actually accelerating anything. And the issue that then comes up is if there were a delay in construction, if there were litigation, if there was COVID, you know, an epidemic, that's just, those are all hypothetical risks that could occur, that have occurred on other projects, that lenders and investors are going to be nervous about.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am ·
0:28
Dan Stickel“through 2062, which is the to the extent of our modeling, $32.2 billion to the state. And those are cumulative nominal under our baseline modeling assumptions.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am ·
0:25
Dan Stickel“fixing the percentages does increase some of the certainty and makes it easier to calculate and plan. Removes one item of potential contention going forward.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am ·
0:30
Adam Prestidge“we as the project developer at 8 Star have no objection to the 2028 FID deadline. We're only raising concerns around the 2032 completion of construction deadline.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am ·
0:34
Lyman Hoffman“On the first bullet point where the Senate version removes the calculation complexities, does the department have an opinion on that? Especially since it has the same effective rate as the House version simplification, does that reduce the amount of work to the department.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am ·
1:14
Dan Stickel“under the House version of the bill, the alternative volumetric tax was calculated and levied on a per-component basis as a— using a weighted average of capital expenditures. And so once the full project was complete, we would look at the, the total capital expenditures that were spent on each component of the project, being the treatment plant, the pipeline, and the LNG export facility.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am ·
1:15
Bryce Edgmon“the reason why I'm, I guess, at this juncture supportive of keeping in the 2028 timeline, if anything at all, it's just speaking of risk, poring through the Gaffney Klein document that was presented to the legislature in December 2025 that talks about all these sort of jurisdictions around the globe and the need for property tax relief and some sort of relief to get these very expensive front-end projects, gas line infrastructure, into place, is supported by years of analysis and efforts.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am ·
0:13
Dan Stickel“for the first doubling of the tax rate, 100% of that doubling would go to community assistance, and then for the second doubling of the tax rate, 100% of that that next doubling would go to the state unrestricted general fund.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am ·
0:26
Adam Prestidge“That penalty is— would be losing the tax— the tax treatment of the project. The result of that would be at the front end, investors would look at this as additional risk, And they would have to price in that risk into how they invest in the project. And so the ultimate outcome of this would be making the project more expensive and require more investment capital.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am ·
0:12
Bert Stedman“I think after January 1st, 60, 100% goes to the general fund, not community assistance. Is that right?”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am ·
1:01
Dan Stickel“they moved away from this weighted average approach and instead just put in the flat rates for each component of the project. So they took that about 6 cents per MCF rate on the pipeline component and made that a 6.2 cents per 1,000 cubic feet tax rate for phase 1 of the project. And then they took that 10.6 cents per thousand cubic feet weighted average with the capital expenditures weighting and just made that the tax rate once LNG exports began.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am ·
0:21
Dan Stickel“The first effective 10 years, after 10 years of LNG export operations, where the tax rate doubles. And then the second effective in 2060, where the tax rate doubles. Again.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 10am ·