For Release September 13, 2005

Contact Maxine Weaver, Staff Attorney

To Reach (307) 777-7881

Joint minerals, business and economic

development Committee

Cheyenne –Senator Bill Hawks and Representative Tom Lockhart, Cochairmen, Joint Minerals, Business and Economic Development Interim Committee, have announced the Committee will meet:

September 19, 2005

Oil and Gas Commission

8:00 a.m.

2211 King Blvd

Casper, WY

The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the community landfill remediation, value added for minerals, economic development programs, the Wyoming Business Technology Center, Energy Institute and pipeline and utility location rights-of-way for state highways. A tentative agenda will be sent at a later date.

Please direct questions about this meeting to Legislative Service Office Committee staff Maxine Weaver. Persons with disabilities requiring special accommodations to attend this meeting should contact the Legislative Service Office at (307) 777-7881 for assistance.

Individuals who plan to provide written information to the Committee during the meeting should bring sufficient copies of the information for members of the Committee, Committee staff, and interested members of the audience. In addition, please provide an electronic copy of the materials to Committee staff at the meeting. All materials provided to the Committee in written form will be part of the official record of the Committee’s meeting and will be on file at the Legislative Service Office. Minutes of the meeting will be available on the legislative Web site at http://legisweb.state.wy.us/.

Members of Joint Minerals, Business and Economic Development Interim Committee:

Senators: Hawks, Cochairman; Coe, Jennings, Townsend and Vasey

Representatives: Lockhart, Cochairman; Brechtel, Esquibel, Latta, Hammons, Harvey, Hinckley Quarberg and Samuelson