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AK Stat § 29.60.410 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 60. State Programs|Article 1. Community Facilities Grants.|Sec. 29.60.410. Grant procedures.

(a) An application for a grant under AS 29.60.400 shall be made in a form prescribed by the commissioner. (b) A grant shall be allotted in accordance with an agreement made between the commissioner on behalf of the state and the grantee. The agreement may include any provision agreed upon by the parties and must include in substance the following provisions: (1) estimates of reasonable costs of the study or project as approved by the commissioner after consultation with the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities; (2) a schedule of disbursements of money from the grant if the commissioner determines that the grant money is not to be disbursed in one sum; (3) agreement by the grantee (A) to proceed with and complete the proposed study or project expeditiously; (B) not to discontinue operation or dispose of all or part of a community facility for which it receives a grant without the approval of the commissioner; (C) to apply for and make reasonable efforts to secure federal assistance that may be available for the study or project, subject to any conditions the commissioner may require to maximize the amounts of that assistance available for all projects in the state; (D) to provide for payment of the grantee's share of the cost of the study or project; (E) that, if federal assistance for a study or project becomes available to the grantee that was not included in the calculation of the amount of the grant, the value of the federal assistance shall be subtracted from the total value of the project and the balance shall be equally divided between the grantee and the state; (4) alteration or modification of an approved study or project; (5) alteration or modification of an existing facility that would have qualified for a grant at the time of initial construction if AS 29.60.400 - 29.60.440 had been in effect; (6) remedies in case of failure to perform the agreement or noncompliance with regulations adopted under AS 29.60.420. (c) The commissioner shall require in negotiations and in each grant agreement that continued maintenance of the community facility is the responsibility of the municipality. The municipality must show the feasibility of continuing to maintain the facility before state money may be authorized for a grant.
AK Stat § 29.60.420 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 60. State Programs|Article 1. Community Facilities Grants.|Sec. 29.60.420. Regulations.

(a) [Repealed, § 35 ch 126 SLA 1994.]  (b) The commissioner shall adopt regulations to carry out the purposes of AS 29.60.400 - 29.60.440.
AK Stat § 29.60.430 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 60. State Programs|Article 1. Community Facilities Grants.|Sec. 29.60.430. Allocation of money.

If the amount of money appropriated by the legislature for grants under AS 29.60.400 is not adequate to satisfy amounts required for approved grant applications, money shall be allocated on the basis of priority established by regulations of the department.
AK Stat § 29.60.440 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 60. State Programs|Article 1. Community Facilities Grants.|Sec. 29.60.440. Limitation.

AS 29.60.400 - 29.60.440 do not require that a recipient of a grant for a feasibility study must proceed with construction of the project, regardless of whether the project is determined to be feasible.
AK Stat § 29.60.500 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 60. State Programs|Article 3. Oil and Hazardous Substance Municipal Impact Assistance.|Sec. 29.60.500. Purpose and policy.

(a) The legislature finds and declares that a major release of oil or hazardous substances into the environment presents a real and substantial threat to the economy and public welfare of the municipalities, villages, and school districts that are affected by the release and the resultant activities to contain and clean up the release. (b) The legislature concludes that it is in the best interest of the state and its citizens to provide a readily available fund for the payment of the expenses incurred by municipalities, villages, and school districts to mitigate the social and economic effects that arise out of a major release of oil or hazardous substances and resultant cleanup activities. (c) It is the intent of the legislature and declared to be the public policy of the state that money to defray the cost of social and economic effects on municipalities, villages, and school districts arising from a major release of oil or a hazardous substance and resultant cleanup activities and to pay for efforts to abate that release will be immediately available upon a determination that the release was sudden and that it exceeds 2,500 barrels of oil, or exceeds an amount of a hazardous substance that when released into the environment presents a real and substantial threat to the economy and public welfare of the municipalities, villages, or school districts affected by it.
AK Stat § 29.60.520 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 60. State Programs|Article 3. Oil and Hazardous Substance Municipal Impact Assistance.|Sec. 29.60.520. Purposes of municipal impact grants.

(a) A grant made under AS 29.60.510 may be made (1) only for (A) provision of subsistence resources on which the residents of the municipality, village, or school district rely for subsistence needs; (B) the additional costs of a reasonable and appropriate function or service, including administrative expenses for the incremental costs of providing the function or service, limited to: (i) public health and welfare functions and services, including hospital, clinic, and emergency medical services; alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health services; family support services; and the operation of waste disposal systems and water quality improvement systems; (ii) public safety functions and services, including police protection, search and rescue, and fire protection; (iii) public utility functions and services, including the operation of electric generating plants and distribution systems, water supply systems, telephone systems, and fuel distribution systems; and (iv) housing functions and services, limited to leasing or making other arrangements for temporary housing to be occupied by persons associated with containment or cleanup of the release; (C) costs associated with leasing transportation facilities for use in activities associated with the containment or cleanup; (D) costs of repair or replacement of equipment or a capital asset associated with a function or service set out in (B) of this paragraph the useful life of which has been substantially reduced by use associated with the containment or cleanup; and (2) to compensate the municipality, village, or school district for (A) the reduction of revenue attributable to the release of the oil or hazardous substance; and (B) the actual costs of projects or activities that are delayed or lost because of the efforts of the municipality, village, or school district responding to the release or associated with the containment or cleanup of oil or the hazardous substance. (b) If money received under this section is used for a capital expenditure, the commissioner may require the municipality, village, or school district that acquired the item as a capital expenditure to transfer it to the state at the end of the period during which the item is actually used for spill response if the commissioner finds that retention of the item would confer an inappropriate benefit on the municipality, village, or school district.
AK Stat § 29.60.530 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 60. State Programs|Article 3. Oil and Hazardous Substance Municipal Impact Assistance.|Sec. 29.60.530. Criteria to evaluate grant applications.

(a) In determining whether an expenditure or proposed expenditure by a municipality, village, or school district is eligible for a grant under AS 29.60.510, the department shall consider the (1) degree to which the effect on the municipality, village, or school district is directly caused by the oil or hazardous substance release or the response to the release; (2) availability of money to the recipient from other sources that can meet the costs of providing the functions or services; and (3) severity of the effect addressed in the grant application. (b) The department may reject an application for a grant under AS 29.60.510 or approve an application for a grant in an amount that is less than the amount requested by a municipality, village, or school district if the department determines that payment of the amount requested is not warranted under (a) of this section. (c) The department shall adopt, by regulation, criteria by which to rank all or a portion of applications for the purpose of establishing the priority order of awarding grants if money requested by eligible municipalities, villages, and school districts under this section exceeds the amount available. The criteria must be based on the elements set out in (a) of this section. If the total amount of money requested by eligible municipalities, villages, and school districts under this section exceeds the amount available, the department shall rank applications for the purpose of establishing the priority order of awarding grants in accordance with the regulations.
AK Stat § 29.60.540 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 60. State Programs|Article 3. Oil and Hazardous Substance Municipal Impact Assistance.|Sec. 29.60.540. Limitations on uses of grants by municipalities and villages.

(a) A municipality may not use a grant made under AS 29.60.510 to reduce current municipal tax rates or to retire its existing bonded indebtedness. (b) Money received by a municipality, village, or school district under AS 29.60.500 - 29.60.599 may not be used for a capital improvement, as that term is defined in AS 46.08.900.
AK Stat § 29.60.550 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 60. State Programs|Article 3. Oil and Hazardous Substance Municipal Impact Assistance.|Sec. 29.60.550. Records.

The department shall maintain records showing the income and expenses of grants made under AS 29.60.510, and shall develop procedures governing the expenditure of, and accounting for, money expended.
AK Stat § 29.60.560 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 60. State Programs|Article 3. Oil and Hazardous Substance Municipal Impact Assistance.|Sec. 29.60.560. Impact assessment and remedial plans.

(a) For each disaster emergency declared by the governor under AS 26.23.020 based on a release of oil or a hazardous substance or for each other release of oil or a hazardous substance for which money may be expended under AS 46.08.040, the commissioner, after consulting with and securing the written approval of the attorney general and after consulting with other state agencies, shall (1) make an assessment of the social and economic effects of the release of the oil or hazardous substance; (2) develop a plan to (A) recover the cost of release-related expenditures; and (B) mitigate the social and economic effects of the release of the oil or hazardous substance on the municipalities, the villages, the school districts, and the region in which the discharge occurs. (b) The commissioner may make the assessment and plans required by (a) of this section by (1) using staff of the department; (2) contracting with a municipality or other entity; or (3) authorizing a municipality or other entity to perform that work and supporting that effort by a grant. (c) Only one assessment and one plan may be completed under this section for each declaration of a disaster emergency. (d) The commissioner may pay the costs of the assessment, the plan, and the recovery of the cost of release-related expenditures from money available in the fund. (e) Expenditures made under this section may be made only from the amount transferred to the commissioner under AS 29.60.510(c), unless (1) the commissioner and the commissioner of environmental conservation mutually agree that payment may be made from money in the oil and hazardous substance release response account in the oil and hazardous substance release prevention and response fund not transferred under AS 29.60.510(c); or (2) the commissioner pays them from another source.
AK Stat § 29.60.590 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 60. State Programs|Article 3. Oil and Hazardous Substance Municipal Impact Assistance.|Sec. 29.60.590. Regulations.

The commissioner and the commissioner of environmental conservation shall jointly develop and adopt regulations that are necessary to implement the purposes of AS 29.60.500 - 29.60.599.
AK Stat § 29.60.599 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 60. State Programs|Article 3. Oil and Hazardous Substance Municipal Impact Assistance.|Sec. 29.60.599. Definitions.

In AS 29.60.500 - 29.60.599, (1) “barrel” when used with reference to oil has the meaning given in AS 43.20.144; (2) “containment and cleanup” has the meaning given in AS 46.08.900; (3) “disaster emergency” means a disaster declared by the governor under AS 26.23.020; (4) “fund” means the oil and hazardous substance release prevention and response fund established by AS 46.08.010; (5) “hazardous substance” has the meaning given in AS 46.09.900; (6) “oil” and “release” have the meanings given in AS 46.08.900; (7) “school district” means a borough school district, a city school district, or a regional educational attendance area under AS 14; (8) “service” (A) means (i) a function performed or service provided by a municipality under a duty or power authorized by this title or by another provision of law authorizing a municipality to perform functions or provide services; (ii) a comparable function performed or service provided by a village; or (iii) a function performed or service provided by a school district; (B) includes functions not previously performed and services not previously provided by the municipality or village; (9) “village” means a place within the unorganized borough or within a borough if the power, function, or service for which a grant application is submitted under AS 29.60.500 - 29.60.599 is not exercised or provided by the borough on an areawide or nonareawide basis at the time the grant application is submitted, that (A) has irrevocably waived, in a form approved by the Department of Law, any claim of sovereign immunity that might arise in connection with the use of grant money under this chapter; and (B) has (i) a council organized under 25 U.S.C. 476 (sec. 16 of the Indian Reorganization Act); (ii) a traditional village council recognized by the United States as eligible for federal aid to Indians; or (iii) a council recognized by the commissioner under regulations adopted by the department to determine and give official recognition of village entities under AS 44.33.755(b).
AK Stat § 29.60.600 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 60. State Programs|Article 4. Human Services Community Match Program.|Sec. 29.60.600. Human services community matching grants.

(a) Within the limits of appropriations for the purpose, the Department of Health and Social Services shall, upon application, make a matching grant to a qualified municipality equal to 70 percent of the estimated reasonable costs of providing essential human services through private nonprofit agencies within the municipality, including services to persons who travel to the municipality from their residences elsewhere in the state. (b) To qualify for a grant under this section, a municipality is required to (1) provide from other sources 30 percent of the estimated reasonable costs of providing the services to be funded by the grant; other sources may include federal or municipal money or money from other private or public sources; in this paragraph, “municipal money” includes money derived from appropriations, allocations, entitlements, grants, or other payments from the state other than the state grant under this section but does not include locally contributed staff hours, material, equipment, or other in-kind contributions; (2) comply with the grant application procedure and contractual agreements under AS 29.60.610; and (3) establish and consult with a citizens' advisory group, the majority of whose membership consists of persons who do not hold elected municipal office, concerning priorities and allocations among services funded under this section. (c) A city may not receive a human services matching grant during a fiscal year to provide a specific service if, during that same year, the borough within which it is located has received a grant for the same service. A borough may not receive a grant during a fiscal year to provide a particular service if, during that same year, a city within the borough has received a grant for the same service.
AK Stat § 29.60.610 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 60. State Programs|Article 4. Human Services Community Match Program.|Sec. 29.60.610. Grant procedure; contract.

(a) If a qualified municipality wishes to apply for a grant under AS 29.60.600, the municipality shall apply for a grant for a fiscal year by submitting a form prescribed by the commissioner of health and social services before October 1 of the preceding fiscal year. The application must generally describe the services that are proposed to be funded with the grant and include the following information: (1) a statement that each proposed service will meet the goals established under AS 47.75.010 and an explanation of why the service is necessary to prevent or alleviate serious mental or physical hardship; this explanation must be supported by a needs assessment carried out by the municipality; (2) a description of the categories of individuals to whom the services are to be provided; and (3) an estimate of the expenditures required for each of the services to be provided. (b) A human services community matching grant shall be allotted in accordance with an agreement made between the grantee and the commissioner of health and social services on behalf of the state. The agreement may include any provision agreed upon by the parties and must include the following provisions: (1) a statement by the grantee that the match requirement of AS 29.60.600 has been met by the grantee; (2) estimates of reasonable costs of funding the services; and (3) a requirement that no more than five percent of the grant money received under AS 29.60.600 may be used for municipal administrative costs connected with distributing the grant money to the private nonprofit agencies providing the services.
AK Stat § 29.60.620 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 60. State Programs|Article 4. Human Services Community Match Program.|Sec. 29.60.620. Allocation of money.

(a) If the amount of money appropriated by the legislature for human services community matching grants under AS 29.60.600 is not adequate to satisfy amounts required for the qualified municipalities who have applied for grants, the money shall be allocated proportionately among the qualified municipalities for which a grant has been approved under AS 29.60.600 - 29.60.650 based on the relationship the population of each municipality bears to the total population of the qualified municipalities for which a grant has been approved under AS 29.60.600 - 29.60.650. (b) For purposes of (a) of this section, population shall be determined by the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development based on the latest figures of the United States Bureau of the Census or other reliable population data. If a city within a borough has an approved grant for a service to be provided on an areawide basis, the allocation under (a) of this section shall be based on the population of the borough.
AK Stat § 29.60.650 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 60. State Programs|Article 4. Human Services Community Match Program.|Sec. 29.60.650. Definitions.

In AS 29.60.600 - 29.60.650, (1) “essential human services” and “services” have the meaning given “social services” in AS 47.75.060 except that they include only services whose unavailability would subject persons needing the services to serious mental or physical hardship; (2) “municipality” means a (A) city whose population is over 20,000; (B) unified municipality whose population is over 100,000; or (C) second class borough whose population is over 65,000; population for purposes of this paragraph shall be determined by the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development.
AK Stat § 29.60.700 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 60. State Programs|Article 6. Reimbursement for Costs of Port and Harbor Bonds.|Sec. 29.60.700. Reimbursement for costs of municipal capital projects.

(a) Subject to appropriations for the purpose, during each fiscal year, the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities shall allocate to each municipality an amount to reimburse the costs paid by the municipality during the immediately preceding fiscal year for the principal and interest on outstanding debt for projects listed in (b) of this section. An allocation may be made to a municipality only if (1) the debt was incurred by the municipality before July 1, 2007, or, if the debt is for a small boat harbor, before July 1, 2012; and (2) the project or facility financed with the debt proceeds is located in the municipality and the project or facility is operated or controlled by the municipality. (b) The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities may make an allocation to a municipality under (a) of this section only for reimbursement of costs incurred for the following construction and renovation projects and only for reimbursement of total project costs incurred up to the following amounts:PROJECTValdez$ 3,013,500Nome1,000,000Anchorage (Port of Anchorage expansion)15,000,000Matanuska-Susitna Borough (deep water port and road upgrade)10,000,000Unalaska (LSA small boat harbor)5,000,000Aleutians East Borough/Akutan (small boat harbor)4,000,000Lake and Peninsula Borough/Chignik (dock project)1,000,000Aleutians East Borough/False Pass (small boat harbor)2,000,000Fairbanks North Star Borough (Eielson AFB schools, major maintenance and upgrades)4,500,000City of Fairbanks (fire headquarters station  replacement)7,500,000Saxman (public safety building)1,500,000
AK Stat § 29.60.800 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 60. State Programs|Article 7. Harbor Facility Grant Program.|Sec. 29.60.800. Harbor facility grant fund.

(a) There is established the harbor facility grant fund consisting of money appropriated to the fund. Each fiscal year, the legislature may appropriate money to the fund from the watercraft fuel tax account (AS 43.40.010(f)) and from the fisheries business tax collected under AS 43.75.015 after payments to municipalities are made under AS 43.75.130. The legislature may make other appropriations to the fund. The legislature may appropriate to the fund income earned on money in the fund. (b) Money appropriated to the harbor facility grant fund may be expended by the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities for harbor facility grants without further appropriation. Money in the fund does not lapse and remains available for expenditure in successive fiscal years. (c) Each fiscal year, the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities shall use an amount equal to at least 50 percent of the balance of the harbor facility grant fund on June 30 of the preceding fiscal year for harbor facility grants.