2000 Alaska Statutes
Title 46 WATER, AIR, ENERGY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
Chapter 46.14. AIR QUALITY CONTROL
Sec. 46.14.500. Air pollution from outer continental shelf activities.

(a) The department shall seek delegation of authority from the federal administrator to implement and enforce the terms and provisions of 42 U.S.C. 7627 (Clean Air Act, sec. 328) for the Pacific and Arctic Ocean areas offshore of the state. The department may adopt regulations that are necessary to acquire this delegated authority.

(b) In adopting regulations under this section, the department shall ensure that facilities located within 25 miles of the seaward boundary of the state are subject to the same air quality control requirements that would be applicable if the facility were located in the corresponding onshore area. For purposes of this subsection, facilities located within 25 miles of the seaward boundary of the state include a vessel servicing or associated with the facility while at the facility or en route to or from the facility and within 25 miles of the facility.

(c) In this section, "corresponding onshore area" means, with respect to a facility located within 25 miles of the seaward boundary of the state, the onshore attainment or nonattainment area that is closest to the facility, unless the commissioner determines that another area with more stringent requirements relating to control and abatement of air pollution may reasonably be expected to be affected by emissions from the offshore facility; this determination shall be based on the potential for air contaminants from the facility to reach the other onshore area and the potential of the air contaminants to affect the efforts of the other onshore area to attain or maintain a federal ambient air quality standard set under 42 U.S.C. 7470 - 7492 (Title I, Part C, Clean Air Act) or a state equivalent.