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AK Stat § 43.82.220 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 43. Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 82. Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act|Article 3. Contract Development.|Sec. 43.82.220. Contract terms relating to royalty.

(a) Notwithstanding any contrary provisions of AS 38, the commissioner of natural resources, with the concurrence of the commissioner of revenue and the affected parties holding a state lease or unit agreement, may develop proposed terms for inclusion in a contract under AS 43.82.020 that modify the timing and notice provisions of the applicable oil and gas leases and unit agreements pertaining to the state's rights to receive its royalty on gas in kind or in value if (1) the viability of the approved qualified project depends on long-term gas purchase and sale agreements; (2) certainty over time regarding the quantity of royalty gas that the state may be taking in kind is needed to secure the long-term purchase and sale agreements; (3) the specified period of the state's commitment to take its royalty share in value or in kind does not exceed the term of the purchase and sale agreements; and (4) the modification does not impair the ability of the approved qualified project or the state to meet the reasonably foreseeable demand in this state for gas within economic proximity of the project during the term of the contract developed under AS 43.82.020. (b) Notwithstanding any contrary provisions of AS 38, the commissioner of natural resources, with the concurrence of the commissioner of revenue and the affected parties holding a state lease or unit agreement, may develop proposed terms for inclusion in a contract under AS 43.82.020 that establish a valuation method for the state's royalty share of the gas production from an approved qualified project. (c) The commissioner of revenue shall include any proposed terms relating to royalty developed in accordance with this section in the proposed contract under AS 43.82.400. (d) Nothing in this chapter permits modification of the state's rights that relate to timing, notice, and rights to receive oil royalty in kind or in value under oil and gas leases or unit agreements.
AK Stat § 43.82.240 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 43. Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 82. Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act|Article 3. Contract Development.|Sec. 43.82.240. Use of an independent contractor.

(a) The commissioner may use independent contractors to assist in the evaluation of an application or in the development of contract terms under AS 43.82.200. The commissioner may condition the development of a contract under AS 43.82.020 on an agreement by the applicant to reimburse the state for the reasonable expenses of independent contractors under this section. A reimbursement of expenses that is required in an agreement authorized by this subsection may not exceed $1,500,000 for each application. (b) An independent contractor selected under this section must sign an agreement regarding confidentiality and disclosures consistent with the determinations made under AS 43.82.310 before the contractor may review information that is determined confidential under AS 43.82.310. (c) Selection of an independent contractor under this section is not subject to AS 36.30 (State Procurement Code).
AK Stat § 43.82.250 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 43. Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 82. Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act|Article 3. Contract Development.|Sec. 43.82.250. Term of contract; effective date.

The term of a contract developed under AS 43.82.020 may be for no longer than is necessary to develop the stranded gas that is subject to the contract; however, the term of the contract may not exceed 35 years from the commencement of commercial operations of the approved qualified project.
AK Stat § 43.82.260 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 43. Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 82. Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act|Article 3. Contract Development.|Sec. 43.82.260. Change of parties to an application or a contract; assignment of interests.

(a) A qualified sponsor or member of a qualified sponsor group may assign an interest in or add or withdraw a party to an application under AS 43.82.120 only if the commissioner has (1) made a finding that the assignment, addition, or withdrawal is consistent with the requirements of AS 43.82.110; and (2) given prior written approval for the assignment, addition, or withdrawal. (b) A contract developed under this chapter may provide for the assignment to or withdrawal of a qualified sponsor or member of a qualified sponsor group. (c) Upon being added to an application under this section, a party becomes a qualified sponsor or a member of a qualified sponsor group, as appropriate, for the relevant project. (d) The commissioner may not unreasonably withhold approval under (a) of this section, but may condition the approval in any way reasonably necessary to protect the fiscal interests of the state and to further the purposes of this chapter. (e) For purposes of this section, an assignment includes a transfer of stock or a partnership interest in a manner that changes control of a qualified sponsor or member of a qualified sponsor group.
AK Stat § 43.82.270 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 43. Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 82. Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act|Article 3. Contract Development.|Sec. 43.82.270. Project plans and work commitments.

A contract under AS 43.82.020 must include the qualified project plan approved under AS 43.82.140 and provisions for updating the plan at reasonable intervals until the commencement of commercial operations of the approved qualified project. The commissioner of revenue, in consultation with the commissioner of natural resources, may, as a term in a contract under AS 43.82.020, include work commitments or other obligations in the contract to be accomplished before the commencement of commercial operations of the approved qualified project.
AK Stat § 43.82.300 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 43. Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 82. Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act|Article 4. Requests for Information; Confidentiality; Disclosure of Information.|Sec. 43.82.300. Requests for information.

The commissioner of revenue or the commissioner of natural resources may request from an applicant information that the respective commissioner determines is necessary to perform the respective commissioner's responsibilities under AS 43.82.140. If the application is approved under AS 43.82.140, the respective commissioner shall require the successful applicant to provide financial, technical, and market information regarding the qualified project that the respective commissioner determines is necessary for the purpose of developing contract terms for the qualified project under AS 43.82.200. If requested information is not provided, the commissioner of revenue may not continue to review the application under AS 43.82.140 or develop the contract under AS 43.82.200 - 43.82.270, as applicable.
AK Stat § 43.82.400 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 43. Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 82. Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act|Article 5. Contract Review, Approval, and Termination.|Sec. 43.82.400. Preliminary findings and determination regarding the contract.

(a) If the commissioner develops a proposed contract under AS 43.82.200 - 43.82.270, the commissioner shall (1) make preliminary findings and a determination that the proposed contract terms are in the long-term fiscal interests of the state and further the purposes of this chapter; and (2) prepare a proposed contract that includes those terms and shall submit the contract to the governor. (b) To make the preliminary findings and determination required by (a)(1) of this section, the commissioner shall compare the projected public revenue anticipated from the approved qualified project with the estimated operating and capital costs of the additional state and municipal services anticipated to arise from the construction and operation of the approved qualified project. The commissioner shall address the reasonably foreseeable effects of the proposed contract on the public revenue. (c) In conjunction with the making of preliminary findings and determination required by (a)(1) of this section, the commissioner shall describe the principal factors, including the projected price of gas, projected production rate or volume of gas, and projected recovery, development, construction, and operating costs, upon which the determination made under (a)(1) of this section is based. If the commissioner has previously submitted a proposed contract to the governor, the commissioner shall describe any material differences between the terms of the currently proposed contract and the previously proposed contract.
AK Stat § 43.82.410 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 43. Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 82. Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act|Article 5. Contract Review, Approval, and Termination.|Sec. 43.82.410. Notice and comment regarding the contract.

The commissioner shall (1) give reasonable public notice of the preliminary findings and determination made under AS 43.82.400; (2) make copies of the proposed contract, the commissioner's preliminary findings and determination, and, to the extent the information is not required to be kept confidential under AS 43.82.310, the supporting financial, technical, and market data, including the work papers, analyses, and recommendations of any independent contractors used under AS 43.82.240 available to the public and to (A) the presiding officer of each house of the legislature; (B) the chairs of the finance and resources committees of the legislature; and (C) the chairs of the special committees on oil and gas, if any, of the legislature; (3) offer to appear before the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee to provide the committee a review of the commissioner's preliminary findings and determination, the proposed contract, and the supporting financial, technical, and market data; if the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee accepts the commissioner's offer, the committee shall give notice of the committee's meeting to the public and all members of the legislature; if the financial, technical, and market data that is to be provided must be kept confidential under AS 43.82.310, the commissioner may not release the confidential information during a public portion of a committee meeting; and (4) establish a period of at least 30 days for the public and members of the legislature to comment on the proposed contract and the preliminary findings and determination made under AS 43.82.400.
AK Stat § 43.82.420 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 43. Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 82. Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act|Article 5. Contract Review, Approval, and Termination.|Sec. 43.82.420. Coordination of public and legislative review.

To the extent practicable, the commissioner shall coordinate the public comment opportunity provided under AS 43.82.410(4) with a review by the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee under AS 43.82.410(3).
AK Stat § 43.82.430 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 43. Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 82. Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act|Article 5. Contract Review, Approval, and Termination.|Sec. 43.82.430. Final findings, determination, and proposed amendments; execution of the contract.

(a) Within 30 days after the close of the public comment period under AS 43.82.410(4), the commissioner of revenue shall (1) prepare a summary of the public comments received in response to the proposed contract and the preliminary findings and determination; (2) after consultation with the commissioner of natural resources, if appropriate, and with the pertinent municipal advisory group established under AS 43.82.510, prepare a list of proposed amendments, if any, to the proposed contract that the commissioner of revenue determines are necessary to respond to public comments; (3) make final findings and a determination as to whether the proposed contract and any proposed amendments prepared under (2) of this subsection meet the requirements and purposes of this chapter. (b) After considering the material described in (a) of this section and securing the agreement of the other parties to the proposed contract regarding any proposed amendments prepared under (a) of this section, if the commissioner determines that the contract is in the long-term fiscal interests of the state, the commissioner shall submit the contract to the governor. (c) The commissioner's final findings and determination under (a) of this section are final agency decisions under this chapter.
AK Stat § 43.82.435 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 43. Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 82. Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act|Article 5. Contract Review, Approval, and Termination.|Sec. 43.82.435. Legislative authorization.

The governor may transmit a contract developed under this chapter to the legislature together with a request for authorization to execute the contract. A contract developed under this chapter is not binding upon or enforceable against the state or other parties to the contract unless the governor is authorized to execute the contract by law. The state and the other parties to the contract may execute the contract within 60 days after the effective date of the law authorizing the contract.
AK Stat § 43.82.440 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 43. Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 82. Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act|Article 5. Contract Review, Approval, and Termination.|Sec. 43.82.440. Judicial review.

A person may not bring an action challenging the constitutionality of a law authorizing a contract enacted under AS 43.82.435 or the enforceability of a contract executed under a law authorizing a contract enacted under AS 43.82.435 unless the action is commenced within 120 days after the date that the contract was executed by the state and the other parties to the contract.
AK Stat § 43.82.445 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 43. Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 82. Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act|Article 5. Contract Review, Approval, and Termination.|Sec. 43.82.445. Administrative termination of a contract.

(a) The commissioner shall include terms in a contract developed under AS 43.82.020 that provide for administrative termination of a party's rights under the procedures and conditions set out in this section if the party has (1) ceased to meet the requirements of AS 43.82.110 as a qualified sponsor or qualified sponsor group; (2) intentionally or fraudulently misrepresented, in whole or in part, material facts or circumstances upon which the contract was made; (3) failed to comply with a condition or material term of the contract or a provision of this chapter; or (4) failed to comply with the approved qualified project plan or any updated project plan. (b) Before administrative termination of a contract under this section, the commissioner shall give notice to the parties of the commissioner's intent to terminate the contract and an opportunity to be heard. The commissioner may also provide the parties an opportunity to cure any deficiency that is the basis for the termination if the commissioner determines that curing the deficiency is appropriate under the circumstances. (c) Notwithstanding (a) and (b) of this section, the commissioner may not administratively terminate a contract after the party has committed full project funding except as provided in (e) of this section. (d) A party to a contract who is affected by the commissioner's action to terminate under (a) of this section may file an appeal with the superior court under the Alaska Rules of Appellate Procedure. (e) The commissioner may provide terms and conditions in a contract developed under AS 43.82.020 upon which a party's rights under the contract may be administratively terminated after the party commits full project funding.
AK Stat § 43.82.500 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 43. Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 82. Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act|Article 6. Municipal Participation.|Sec. 43.82.500. Obligation to share payments with municipalities.

If the commissioner develops a contract under AS 43.82.020 that includes terms that exempt a party to the contract, and the property, gas, products, and activities associated with the approved qualified project that is subject to the contract, from a municipal tax or assessment in accordance with AS 29.45.810 or AS 29.46.010(b), or AS 43.82.200 and 43.82.210, the commissioner shall include a term in the contract that the party pay a portion of the periodic payments due under the contract to the revenue-affected municipality.
AK Stat § 43.82.505 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 43. Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 82. Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act|Article 6. Municipal Participation.|Sec. 43.82.505. Payments to economically affected municipalities.

If the commissioner executes a contract under AS 43.82.020 that will produce one or more economically affected municipalities, the commissioner shall include a term in the contract that provides for a portion of the periodic payments to the economically affected municipalities under the principles in AS 43.82.520.
AK Stat § 43.82.510 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 43. Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 82. Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act|Article 6. Municipal Participation.|Sec. 43.82.510. Municipal advisory group.

(a) If the commissioner approves an application and proposed project plan under AS 43.82.140 and decides to develop a contract under AS 43.82.020 and 43.82.200, the commissioner shall notify each revenue-affected municipality and economically affected municipality. (b) The mayor of a municipality notified by the commissioner under (a) of this section may appoint one representative to a municipal advisory group in relation to the application. (c) Each municipal advisory group serves until a final action is taken on the application for which the group was appointed. (d) Each municipal advisory group shall elect a chair.
AK Stat § 43.82.520 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 43. Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 82. Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act|Article 6. Municipal Participation.|Sec. 43.82.520. Duties of the commissioner of revenue in relation to municipal participation.

(a) The commissioner shall meet with each municipal advisory group periodically to report on the development of the contract provisions that affect the municipalities. (b) In developing a contract under AS 43.82.200 - 43.82.270, the commissioner shall ensure that each revenue-affected municipality and economically affected municipality receives a fair and reasonable share of the payments provided under AS 43.82.210 in accordance with the following principles: (1) the share of the payments to revenue-affected municipalities should be given priority over payments to economically affected municipalities with due regard to the anticipated size of the tax base that the contract would exempt from municipal taxation by revenue-affected municipalities; (2) the share of the payments to municipalities should be determined with due regard to the anticipated economic and social burdens that would be imposed on the municipality by construction and operation of the project; (3) the respective shares of the total payments to the state and to municipalities should be fixed in a manner to ensure that their respective interests are aligned; (4) to the extent practicable, the periodic amounts paid to each of the municipalities should be stable and predictable; and (5) to the extent practicable, the provisions for sharing payments with municipalities should be consistent with the principles established in AS 43.82.210(b). (c) In establishing the municipal shares under (b) of this section, the commissioner shall consult with the pertinent municipal advisory group.
AK Stat § 43.82.600 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 43. Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 82. Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act|Article 7. Miscellaneous Provisions.|Sec. 43.82.600. Governing law.

If a provision of this chapter conflicts with another provision of state or municipal law, the provision of this chapter governs.
AK Stat § 43.82.610 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 43. Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 82. Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act|Article 7. Miscellaneous Provisions.|Sec. 43.82.610. Regulations.

The commissioner of revenue, the commissioner of natural resources, and the commissioner of labor and workforce development may adopt regulations to carry out their respective duties under this chapter.
AK Stat § 43.82.620 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 43. Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 82. Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act|Article 7. Miscellaneous Provisions.|Sec. 43.82.620. Procedures for collection of amounts due; security.

(a) The commissioner may adopt procedures for the collection of amounts due the state under a contract developed under AS 43.82.020, including the collection of interest and penalties. (b) The commissioner may require a party to a contract developed under AS 43.82.020 to provide security sufficient to guarantee amounts due under the contract.
AK Stat § 43.82.630 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 43. Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 82. Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act|Article 7. Miscellaneous Provisions.|Sec. 43.82.630. Reports and audits.

The commissioner may require periodic reports from and may at reasonable intervals conduct audits and inspect the books of a party that has entered into a contract developed under AS 43.82.020 to ensure compliance with the provisions of this chapter and the regulations adopted under this chapter and of the terms of the contract.
AK Stat § 43.82.640 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 43. Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 82. Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act|Article 7. Miscellaneous Provisions.|Sec. 43.82.640. Annual report of the commissioner of labor and workforce development.

On an annual basis, the commissioner of labor and workforce development shall prepare and present to the legislature a comprehensive report on each party to a contract with the state developed under AS 43.82.020, and its contractors, regarding the state residency of the employees working in this state on the approved qualified project that is subject to the contract. The commissioner of labor and workforce development shall use state data bases, including data from the quarterly reports by a party to the contract developed under AS 43.82.020 and its contractors for unemployment insurance purposes, to determine state residency of employees regarding compliance with AS 43.82.230.