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HB 128: "An Act establishing an exemption to the requirement of obtaining a waste disposal permit for certain activities that yield water and waste material discharges ancillary to those activities." 

00HOUSE BILL NO. 128                                                                                                      
01 "An Act establishing an exemption to the requirement of obtaining a waste                                               
02 disposal permit for certain activities that yield water and waste material discharges                                   
03 ancillary to those activities."                                                                                         
04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
05    * Section 1.  AS 46.03.100 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:                                            
06  (f)  Except as to discharges arising out of exploration and development drilling                                      
07 for oil and gas resources, this section does not apply to waste material discharges or                                  
08 water discharges that will arise from the following activities if the discharge is                                      
09 incidental to the activity, the activity is carried out in a manner consistent with                                     
10 established industry procedures, and the activity does not produce a direct discharge                                   
11 from a point source, as that term is defined in regulations adopted under this chapter,                                 
12 into any surface water of the state:                                                                                    
13   (1)  mineral drilling, trenching, and similar activities;                                                            
14   (2)  facility construction and maintenance;                                                                          



01   (3)  road or other transportation facility construction and maintenance;                                             
02   (4)  landscaping;                                                                                                    
03   (5)  well drilling, geophysical drilling, or coal bed methane drilling; and                                          
04   (6)  bilge pumping, unless the bilge product pumped includes oily                                                    
05 sludge, oily refuse, or any mixture of oil with the pumped wastes.