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doesn't say only small entiti es. And indeed, which is on page <br />3, lines 21 and 22, it's not limited to feasibility studies or <br />technical assistance. It's also money that can go for projects. <br />And again, that's what the Perpetual Account does. So, that's <br />one reason I'm up here first. <br />And the other is that there are unmet -- there are a number <br />of unmet needs with regard to the adverse impacts from the <br />activities that end up creating the severance tax. And I think <br />that some of them could be mitigated and could end up with <br />beneficial effec ts to the water supply. <br />I'm thinking about a couple of things. For example, we've <br />got no money in this space to clean up abandoned mines. And <br />there are significant adverse water quality impacts from <br />abandoned mines. The Center for the American West, the CU just <br />came out with a plea -- a report, they called it -- but it's a plea <br />for figuring out how to do something. <br />Why not use this money for those kinds of projects? Why <br />not use this money to help the little West Slope community who's <br />battling oil and gas leasing and tried to buy the water in their <br />headwaters to protect their watershed and their drinking water <br />supply? Why not -- I mean, that's directly related to the <br />activities which put into the Severance Tax Fund, and so they're <br />stacked. <br />- 8 - <br /> <br />