LITTLE ROCK, AR.-A proposal to hike Arkansas' relatively new severance tax could be on the November 2012 general election ballot, reports the Arkansas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association. With the state's highway department estimating it will need more than $20 billion through the next decade, Arkansas policymakers are looking for ways to bridge the gap between those needs and existing funding mechanisms, says AIPRO Executive Vice President J. Kelly Robbins. He predicts there likely will be legislative attempts to achieve the same end, but a ballot initiative filed with Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel in early February would raise Arkansas' natural gas severance tax to 7.0 percent and earmark the revenue for state highways.
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机译：阿肯色州独立生产者与特许权所有者协会报告称，提议提高阿肯色州相对较新的遣散费的提议可能是在2012年11月的大选中进行。 AIPRO执行副总裁J. Kelly Robbins说，根据州高速公路部门的估计，到下一个十年将需要超过200亿美元，阿肯色州的决策者正在寻找弥合这些需求与现有资金机制之间差距的方法。他预计可能会有立法上的努力来达到同样的目的，但是2月初向阿肯色州总检察长达斯汀·麦克丹尼尔（Dustin McDaniel）提出的投票倡议将把阿肯色州的天然气遣散税提高到7.0％，并将专款用于国家高速公路。
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