Just another case of corporate welfare and government workers job security. IT is rampant and has been for a long long time. Another great example is spending 2.3 million to design a new school. Could not possibly just use the design of one of 200,000 other schools already designed and built. Remember the Haul Road. Built by the State for the oil companies and closed to the public. Then opened to tour buses but still closed to the public.  We could have built the Susitna dam with the money spent studying it. The bad part is how far we bend over backwards for these foreign mining companies who will pay next to nothing in royalties.