Sec. 44.42.400. Administration and designated areas.
(a) The department shall designate a single employee who reports to the commissioner to oversee the duties assigned to the department in AS 44.42.400 – 44.42.430 and to serve as the point of contact for inquiries related to projects using gravel or other aggregate material containing naturally occurring asbestos. (b) An area that includes land […]
Sec. 44.42.410. Site-specific use plan.
(a) To qualify for the immunity provided under AS 09.65.245(a)(2), a contractor intending to use, within an area designated by the department under AS 44.42.400(b) or (c), gravel or other aggregate material that, when tested using a bulk test method prescribed by the department in regulation, is determined to have a content equal to or […]
Sec. 44.42.420. Regulations.
(a) The department, after consultation with the Department of Environmental Conservation, the Department of Health, the Department of Natural Resources, the Department of Law, and the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, shall prescribe in regulation a bulk testing method for gravel or other aggregate material containing naturally occurring asbestos. (b) The department, after consultation […]
Sec. 44.42.430. Definitions.
In AS 44.42.400 – 44.42.430, (1) “contractor” means the principal construction contractor or, in the absence of an identified principal construction contractor, the person having legal authority for the design and construction of the project; (2) “naturally occurring asbestos” means chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, fibrous tremolite, fibrous anthophyllite, and fibrous actinolite asbestos-containing material that has not […]