Sec. 29.60.810. Grant applications.
A municipality or regional housing authority that owns a harbor facility may submit to the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities an application for a harbor facility grant to be used for construction, expansion, major repair, or major maintenance of a harbor facility. The application must include information about the project requested by the department. […]
Sec. 29.60.820. Award of grants.
(a) The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities may award a harbor facility grant during a fiscal year only for a proposed project eligible under AS 29.60.810 based on a grant application filed during the immediately preceding fiscal year before February 1. The total amount of grant money made available to a municipality or regional […]
Sec. 29.60.830. Definition.
In AS 29.60.800 – 29.60.830, “regional housing authority” means a regional housing authority established under AS 18.55.996.
Sec. 29.60.850. Community Assistance Fund.
(a) The community assistance fund is established in the general fund for the purpose of making community assistance payments to municipalities, reserves, and communities for any public purpose. The fund consists of appropriations. Income earned on money in the fund may be appropriated to the fund. Money in the fund does not lapse. (b) Each […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]