00SENATE BILL NO. 173                                                                                                     
01 "An Act relating to the authority of the Department of Natural Resources to                                             
02 make grants of state land after natural disasters.                                                                      
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1.  AS 38.05.870(a) is amended to read:                                                                    
05  (a)  The director may make grants of state land to persons and municipal                                              
06 corporations to replace land that [WHICH] is rendered unusable by a natural disaster                                  
07 for the purposes for which it was (1) used before the natural disaster, (2) intended for                             
08 use if the land was obtained from the state by lottery sale.  The director shall                                       
09 designate state land which is available to replace land rendered unusable.