MINUTES 
                                           
                    SENATE COMMITTEE ON BORDER AFFAIRS - SPECIAL 
                             Tuesday, February 22, 2000 
                                     12:30 p.m. 
                   Carpenter Performance Hall, Irving Arts Center 
                                           
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         Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule  
         11.18, a public hearing of the Senate Committee on Border  
         Affairs - Special was held on Tuesday, February 22, 2000, at the  
         Irving Arts Center in Irving, Texas. 
          
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                          MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr.                Senator Teel Bivins 
         Senator David Sibley                    Senator Robert Duncan 
         Senator Eliot Shapleigh                 Senator Carlos Truan 
                                                 Senator Judith Zaffirini 
                                           
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         The Senate Committee on Border Affairs and the Senate Committee  
         on State Affairs held a joint hearing.  Senator Shapiro and  
         Senator Lucio chaired the Joint Hearing. 
          
         Senator Lucio called the meeting to order at 1:12 p.m.  The  
         following business was transacted:   
          
         Senator Lucio gave opening remarks. 
          
         Mr. Patrick Drennon, representing the Design-Build Institute of  
         America, testified on interim charge #1. 
          
         Chairman David Laney, representing the Texas Transportation  
         Commission, testified on interim charge #1. 
          
         Mr. Robert Daigh, representing the Texas Turnpike Authority  
         Division of the Texas Department of Transportation, testified on  
         interim charge #1. 
          
         Mr. Bob Lanham, representing the Associated General Contractors  
         of Texas, testified on interim charge #1. 
          
         At 1:50 p.m. Senator Shapiro assumed the chair.      
          
         Mr. James Randall, representing the Texas Department of  
         Transportation, testified on interim charge #1. 
         Mr. Mark Yachmetz, representing the Federal Railroad  
         Administration, testified on interim charge #1. 
          
         At 2:50 p.m. Senator Lucio assumed the chair. 
          
         Commissioner Robert L. Nichols, representing the Texas  
         Transportation Commission, testified on interim charge #1. 
          
         Mr. Harold Weddle, representing the Burlington Northern Santa Fe  
         Railway, testified on interim charge #1. 
          
         At 3:00 p.m. Senator Shapiro assumed the chair. 
          
         Mr. Christopher Aadnesen, representing the Texas Mexican Railway  
         Company, testified on interim charge #1. 
          
         Mr. Dennis Kearns, representing the Burlington Northern Santa Fe  
         Railway, testified on interim charge #1. 
          
         Mr. John Helsley, representing the Rail District Advisor, Inc.,  
         testified on interim charge #1. 
          
         Mr. Alvin Luedecke, representing the Texas Department of  
         Transportation, testified on interim charge #1. 
          
         Mr. Clint Winters, representing the Office of the Texas  
         Comptroller of Public Accounts, testified on interim charge #1. 
          
         Ms. Pamela Bailey-Campbell, representing the Comptroller in  
         Boulder Colorado and Hagler Bailly, testified on interim charge  
         #1. 
          
         Mr. James Crites, representing the Dallas/Fort Worth  
         International Airport, testified on interim charge #1. 
          
         Mr. Vic Suhm, representing the North Texas Commission and the  
         Texas Transportation Funding Coalition, testified on interim  
         charge #1. 
          
         Mr. Ron Davis, representing the First Southwest Company,  
         testified on interim charge #1. 
          
         Mr. Bob Cass, representing TEX-21, testified on interim charge  
         #1. 
          
         Mr. Grady Smithey, representing self, testified on interim  
         charge #1. 
          
         Mr. Lee Jackson, representing Dallas County and the Dallas  
         County Regional Mobility Coalition, testified on interim charge  
         #1. 
          
         Senator Shapleigh requested that TxDOT provide a NAFTA DEMAND  
         Model and a list of potential sources of federal funding. 
          
         There being no further business, at 4:30 p.m. Senator Lucio  
         moved that the Committee stand recessed subject to the call of  
         the chair.  Without objection, it was so ordered.   
  
                               SENATE COMMITTEE ON BORDER AFFAIRS - SPECIAL 
                                                                    Minutes 
                                                 Tuesday, February 22, 2000 
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         Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr., Chair 
          
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         Stephanie R. Hoover, Clerk