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AK Stat § 30.30.170 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities|Chapter 30. Derelict Vessels Act; Abandoned Vessels|Article 3. Miscellaneous.|Sec. 30.30.170. Definitions.

In this chapter, (1) “abandoned” means a vessel has been left unattended on private, state, or municipal land or waters of the state without the consent of the landowner or lessee for more than 30 days; (2) “department” means the Department of Natural Resources; (3) “municipality” has the meaning given in AS 29.71.800; (4) “owner” means a person who (A) has a property interest, other than a financial or security interest, in a vessel; (B) is the last named owner of a vessel with the Department of Administration or the United States Coast Guard; or (C) is designated as having an interest in a vessel in an agreement with a municipality, state agency, or political subdivision of the state; (5) “state agency” means a department, agency, division, or office in the executive branch of state government; (6) “vessel” means every description of watercraft, floating facility, or other artificial contrivance, other than a seaplane on the water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on or through the water; (7) “waters of the state” means the navigable waters within the territorial limits of the state, and the marginal sea adjacent to the state, as defined in AS 44.03.
AK Stat § 30.30.180 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities|Chapter 30. Derelict Vessels Act; Abandoned Vessels|Article 3. Miscellaneous.|Sec. 30.30.180. Short title.

This chapter may be cited as the Derelict Vessels Act.
AK Stat § 31.05.005 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 31. Oil and Gas|Chapter 05. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 31.05.005. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission created.

(a) There is created as an independent quasi-judicial agency of the state the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, composed of three commissioners appointed by the governor and confirmed by the legislature in joint session. In making appointments to the commission under AS 31.05.009 and this subsection, the governor shall consider and give preference to a person who demonstrates experience in oil and gas operations in the state. (b) The governor shall designate one member of the commission as chair of the commission. This member shall serve as chair for a term of four years, but may not be appointed for successive terms as chair of the commission.
AK Stat § 31.05.007 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 31. Oil and Gas|Chapter 05. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 31.05.007. Term of office; vacancy; removal.

(a) The term of office of each member is six years. A commissioner, upon the expiration of a term, shall continue to hold office until a successor is appointed and qualified. (b) A vacancy arising in the office of a commissioner shall be filled by appointment by the governor and confirmed by the legislature in joint session, and, except as provided in AS 39.05.080(4), an appointee selected to fill a vacancy shall hold office for the balance of the full term for which the predecessor on the commission was appointed. (c) A vacancy in the commission does not impair the authority of a quorum of commissioners to exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of the commission. (d) The governor may remove a commissioner from office for cause including but not limited to incompetence, neglect of duty or misconduct in office. A commissioner, to be removed for cause, shall be given a copy of the charges and afforded an opportunity to be publicly heard in person or by counsel in the commissioner's own defense upon not less than 10 days' notice. If a commissioner is removed for cause, the governor shall file with the lieutenant governor a complete statement of all charges made against the commissioner and the governor's finding based on the charges, together with a complete record of the proceedings.
AK Stat § 31.05.009 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 31. Oil and Gas|Chapter 05. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 31.05.009. Qualifications of members.

Members shall be qualified as follows: (1) one member shall be a petroleum engineer who (A) holds a certificate of registration as an engineer under AS 08.48 and, under regulations adopted to implement that chapter, has qualified as a petroleum engineer; or (B) has earned a degree from a university in the field of engineering and has at least 10 years of professional subsurface experience in the oil and gas industry in drilling, well operations, production process operations, reservoir engineering, or a combination thereof; for the purposes of this subparagraph, a person meets the requirement of earning a degree in the field of engineering if the person obtains an undergraduate or graduate degree in engineering that meets the requirements for program accreditation by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology and the person completes university or industry training specific to petroleum engineering that illustrates application of engineering principles to the problems encountered and methods used in the petroleum industry, including drilling, production, reservoir engineering, fluid flow through subsurface formations, and hydrocarbon transportation; (2) one member shall be a geologist who (A) holds a certification as a professional geologist under AS 08.02.011 and has professional experience in the field of petroleum geology; or (B) has earned a degree in the field of geology from a university accredited in the field of geology and has a minimum of 10 years professional experience in the field of petroleum geology; and (3) one member who shall have training or experience that gives the person a fundamental understanding of the oil and gas industry in the state.
AK Stat § 31.05.011 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 31. Oil and Gas|Chapter 05. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 31.05.011. Quorum.

Two members of the commission constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, for the performance of a duty, or for the exercise of a power of the commission.
AK Stat § 31.05.013 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 31. Oil and Gas|Chapter 05. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 31.05.013. Oath of office.

Each commissioner, before entering upon the duties of office, shall take and subscribe to the oath prescribed for principal officers of the state.
AK Stat § 31.05.015 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 31. Oil and Gas|Chapter 05. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 31.05.015. Compensation of members of the commission.

Members of the commission are in the exempt service and shall receive an annual salary.
AK Stat § 31.05.017 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 31. Oil and Gas|Chapter 05. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 31.05.017. Principal office; seal.

(a) The commission shall establish a principal office and branch offices necessary to discharge its business efficiently. For the convenience of the public or of parties to a proceeding the commission may hold meetings, hearings, or other proceedings at other locations. (b) The commission shall have an official seal.
AK Stat § 31.05.021 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 31. Oil and Gas|Chapter 05. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 31.05.021. Legal counsel.

(a) The Department of Law shall provide full-time legal counsel to the commission. The legal counsel provided by the Department of Law is subject to the approval of the commission. (b) The commission may, subject to the approval of the attorney general, contract for the services of additional specialized legal counsel or legal consultants.
AK Stat § 31.05.023 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 31. Oil and Gas|Chapter 05. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 31.05.023. Commission staff.

(a) The commission shall employ such staff as it considers necessary to carry out its responsibilities. (b) The professional staff of the commission and the personal secretary of each commissioner are in the exempt service under AS 39.25.110. (c) The secretarial and clerical staff of the commission, except the personal secretary of each commissioner, are in the classified service. (d) In addition to its staff of regular employees, the commission may contract for and engage the services of consultants and experts the commission considers necessary.
AK Stat § 31.05.025 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 31. Oil and Gas|Chapter 05. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 31.05.025. Conflict of interest.

(a) Members and employees of the commission, except clerical and secretarial staff, are subject to AS 39.50. (b) A member of the commission is disqualified from voting upon any matter before the commission in which the member has a conflict of interest.
AK Stat § 31.05.026 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 31. Oil and Gas|Chapter 05. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 31.05.026. Relationship to Department of Natural Resources.

(a) The Department of Natural Resources shall have standing before the commission to raise all issues relating to state-owned land without regard to the type of proprietary interest held by the state in that land. (b) With respect to federal land from which the state or any subdivision of the state is entitled under federal law to receive a share of the federal royalty interest, the Department of Natural Resources shall have the same standing before the commission as if it were the holder of the equivalent royalty interest. (c) When both the Department of Natural Resources and the commission have the authority to require, and do require, the submission of substantially the same information from persons subject to this chapter, the commission, in order to alleviate the administrative burdens placed on those persons, may by regulation enter into an agreement with the Department of Natural Resources whereby either the commission or the Department of Natural Resources shall have the responsibility to collect the information lawfully required by both. (d) For budget and audit procedures and considerations, the commission shall have the same standing as any other major state agency. Whenever practicable the commission may enter into state interagency agreements concerning administrative, employee relations, and fiscal duties. (e) The Department of Natural Resources shall have the same standing (no more or less) before the commission as granted by law to any other proprietary interest.
AK Stat § 31.05.027 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 31. Oil and Gas|Chapter 05. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 31.05.027. Land subject to commission's authority.

The authority of the commission applies to all land in the state lawfully subject to its police powers, including land of the United States and land subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. The authority of the commission further applies to all land included in a voluntary cooperative or unit plan of development or operation entered into in accordance with AS 38.05.180(p).
AK Stat § 31.05.032 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 31. Oil and Gas|Chapter 05. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 31.05.032. Certification of gas storage capacity.

(a) An owner of a gas storage facility that seeks an exemption under AS 38.05.180(u) or a credit under AS 43.20.046 shall apply to the commission for certification of the facility's working gas storage capacity and certification of the facility's gas withdrawal capability. The application shall be on a form prescribed by the commission. (b) Within six months after receiving an application under (a) of this section, the commission shall determine and certify (1) the working gas storage capacity of the facility on the date the facility commences commercial operation rounded to the nearest 500,000,000 cubic feet; (2) whether the gas storage facility is capable of withdrawing a minimum of 10,000,000 cubic feet of gas a day; and (3) that the facility qualifies as a gas storage facility for the purposes of this section. (c) The commission shall provide a copy of the certifications required by (b) of this section to the owner of the gas storage facility that requested the certification, the commissioner of natural resources, and the commissioner of revenue. (d) If a gas storage facility ceases commercial operation, an owner of the gas storage facility shall give written notice to the commission that commercial operation has ceased. The notice must be filed with the commission before April 1 of the year immediately following the year in which the gas storage facility ceases commercial operation. (e) In this section, (1) “ceases commercial operation” means that the gas storage facility fails to inject or withdraw more than 100,000,000 cubic feet of gas during a calendar year following the year in which a gas storage facility commences commercial operation; (2) “commences commercial operation” means the first injection of non-native gas into a gas storage facility for purposes other than testing; (3) “cushion gas” means native and non-native gas in a gas storage facility that is needed to pressurize the facility and that allows the facility to function; (4) “gas storage facility” means a tank or a depleted or nearly depleted reservoir or pool in the state that is available for the storage of gas; (5) “native gas” means gas in a gas storage facility that was not injected; (6) “non-native gas” means gas that is produced elsewhere and injected into a gas storage facility; (7) “pool” has the meaning given in AS 31.05.170; (8) “working gas storage capacity” means the maximum volume of non-native gas a gas storage facility may safely contain without creating or causing waste; the maximum volume of non-native gas does not include the volume of cushion gas present or the volume required for proper functioning of the gas storage facility at the working gas storage capacity certified under (b) of this section.
AK Stat § 31.05.035 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 31. Oil and Gas|Chapter 05. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 31.05.035. Confidential reports.

(a) For all wells for which a permit to drill has been issued by the commission, the commission may require (1) the making and filing of reports, well logs, drilling logs, electric logs, lithologic logs, directional surveys, and all other subsurface information on a well for which a permit to drill has been issued by the commission; (2) the filing of flow test information and all logs, except experimental logs and velocity surveys run on a well and not required by (1) of this subsection; and (3) the operator to make available for copying the digitized log information, if it is available, on any log required to be filed under (1) or (2) of this subsection. (b) Reports and information required under (a)(1) and (2) of this section shall be filed within 30 days after the completion, abandonment, or suspension of a well. However, under (a)(1) of this section, the commission may not require the making of a log on a well completed, abandoned or suspended before June 19, 1970. (c) The reports and information required in (a) of this section that relate to an exploratory or stratigraphic test well and those portions of an application for a permit to drill an exploratory or stratigraphic test well that the commission determines contain proprietary engineering or geotechnical information shall be kept confidential for 24 months following the 30-day filing period unless the owner of the well gives written permission to release the application and reports and information at an earlier date. If the commissioner of natural resources finds that the required reports and information contain significant information relating to the valuation of unleased land in the same vicinity, the commissioner shall keep the reports and information confidential for a reasonable time after the disposition of all affected unleased land, unless the owner of the well gives written permission to release the reports and information at an earlier date. Well surface and bottom hole locations, well depth, well status, production data, and production reports required by the commission to be filed subsequent to the 30-day filing period shall be considered public information and may not be classified confidential. Production data, as used in this subsection, means volume, gravity, and gas-oil ratio of all production of oil or gas after the well begins regular production. (d) Engineering, geological, and other information not required by (a) of this section but voluntarily filed with the commission shall be kept confidential if the person filing the information so requests. (e) Notwithstanding (c) of this section, claims of confidentiality will be denied for information disclosed to the commission under AS 31.05.030(h) that is required to be disclosed under 42 U.S.C. 300h-4. (f) Confidentiality under (d) of this section is not applicable to information submitted with or as part of a petition for a commission order or to information submitted for or as part of a hearing before the commission.
AK Stat § 31.05.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 31. Oil and Gas|Chapter 05. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 31.05.040. Regulations and orders.

(a) The commission shall adopt regulations governing practice and procedure before it under this chapter. (b) All orders issued by the commission shall be in writing, shall be entered in full and indexed in books kept by the commission for that purpose, and shall be public records open for inspection at all times during reasonable office hours. A copy of an order certified by the commission, under its seal, shall be received in evidence in all courts of the state with the same effect as the original.
AK Stat § 31.05.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 31. Oil and Gas|Chapter 05. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 31.05.050. Notice.

(a) A notice required by this chapter shall be given in accordance with AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act). (b) Procedures to be followed under (a) of this section do not apply if the nature of the notice is not of a statewide or general application but is concerned only with operations on a single well or within a single field and the modification of procedure is within the authority delegated to the commission under AS 31.05.030. A notice required by this chapter shall be given by one publication in a newspaper published in the borough in which the hearing is to be held, or if none is published in the borough, in a newspaper published in this state and circulating within the borough, and posted in at least one public place within the borough, at least 10 days before the date of the hearing. The notice shall be issued in the name of the state, shall be signed by the commission, and shall specify the style and number of the proceeding, the time and place of the hearing, and shall briefly state the purpose of the proceeding. The commission may also give, or require the giving of, additional notice in a proceeding, or class of proceeding, which it considers necessary or desirable.
AK Stat § 31.05.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 31. Oil and Gas|Chapter 05. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 31.05.060. Action by commission.

(a) The commission may act upon its own motion, or upon the petition of an interested person. On the filing of a petition concerning a matter within the jurisdiction of the commission under this chapter, the commission shall promptly fix a date for a hearing, and shall cause notice of the hearing to be given. The hearing shall be held without undue delay after the filing of the petition. The commission shall enter its order within 30 days after the hearing. (b) Except as provided in this subsection, any action by the commission under this chapter that has statewide or general application shall be performed in accordance with AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act). Any action by the commission under this chapter that has application to a single well or single field need not comply with the provisions of AS 44.62.330 - 44.62.630, but shall be performed in accordance with regulations of the commission designed to afford persons affected by the action notice and an opportunity to be heard. (c) Notwithstanding the requirements of (a) and (b) of this section that relate to fixing a date for a hearing and causing notice of the hearing to be given, for an action under this chapter that involves the exploration for or development of nonconventional gas and that has application to a single well or a single field, upon the request of a lessee or operator, the commission may, where operations might be unduly delayed, approve a variance from the commission's regulations that apply to the well or field without providing notice and opportunity to be heard. In the exercise of its authority to issue the variance, (1) the commission may approve the variance if (A) the approval provides at least an equally effective means of accomplishing the requirement set out in the commission's regulation; or (B) the commission determines that the request is more appropriate to the proposed operation than compliance with the requirement of the regulation; and (2) the terms of the approval of the variance may include exempting the lessee or operator from a requirement of a regulation if the commission determines that the requirement is not necessary or not suited to the well or field taking into consideration (A) the nature of the operation involved; (B) the characteristics of the well or field for which the variance is sought; and (C) the reasonably anticipated risks of the exemption from the requirement to human safety and the environment. (d) The provisions of (c) of this section do not apply to authorize approval of a variance from the commission's regulations that relate to underground injection.
AK Stat § 31.05.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 31. Oil and Gas|Chapter 05. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 31.05.070. Attendance and testimony of witnesses.

(a) The commission may summon witnesses, administer oaths, and require the production of records, books and documents for examination at a hearing or investigation conducted by it. A person may not be excused from attending and testifying, or from producing books, papers and records before the commission or a court, or from obedience to the subpoena of the commission or a court, on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of that person may tend to incriminate or subject that person to a penalty or forfeiture. This section does not require a person to produce books, papers or records, or to testify in response to an inquiry not pertinent to some question lawfully before the commission or court for determination. A natural person is not subject to criminal prosecution or to a penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which, in spite of objection, that person may be required to testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, before the commission or court, or in obedience to its subpoena. However, a person testifying is not exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying. (b) If a person fails or refuses to comply with the subpoena issued by the commission, or refuses to testify as to any matter regarding which the person may be interrogated, any court of record in the state, upon application of the commission, may issue an attachment for the person and compel that person to comply with the subpoena, and attend before the commission and produce the records, books, and documents for examination, and give testimony. The court may punish for contempt as in the case of disobedience to a subpoena issued by the court, or for refusal to testify in court.