00CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 274(O&G)                                                                                        
01 "An Act relating to the qualifications of the members of the Alaska Oil and Gas                                         
02 Conservation Commission; and providing for an effective date."                                                          
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
04    * Section 1. AS 31.05.005(a) is amended to read:                                                                   
05  (a)  There is created as an independent quasi-judicial agency of the state the                                        
06 Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, composed of three commissioners                                             
07 appointed by the governor and confirmed by the legislature in joint session.   Before                                  
08 making an appointment, the governor may solicit the recommendations of                                                  
09 professional or industry representatives for appointment of a commissioner.                                            
10    * Sec. 2.  AS 31.05.009 is amended to read:                                                                        
11  Sec. 31.05.009.  Qualifications of members.  Members shall be qualified as                                          
12 follows:                                                                                                                
13    (1)   one member shall be a  petroleum  [LICENSED PROFESSIONAL]                                                 
14 engineer  who                                                                                                          

01   (A)  holds a certificate of registration as an engineer under                                                       
02 AS 08.48 and, under regulations adopted to implement that chapter, has                                                  
03 qualified as a petroleum engineer; or                                                                                   
04   (B)  has earned a degree from a university  [WITH                                                                  
05 EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND] in the field of                                                                
06 [PETROLEUM] engineering  and has at least 10 years of professional                                                     
07 subsurface experience in the oil and gas industry in drilling, well                                                     
08 operations, reservoir engineering, or a combination thereof; for the                                                    
09 purposes of this subparagraph, a person meets the requirement of earning                                                
10 a degree in the field of engineering if the person obtains an undergraduate                                             
11 or graduate degree in engineering that meets the requirements for                                                       
12 program accreditation by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the                                                
13 Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology including and                                                        
14 completing course work specific to petroleum engineering that illustrate                                                
15 application of engineering principles to the problems encountered and                                                   
16 methods used in the petroleum industry, including  drilling, production,                                                
17 reservoir engineering, fluid flow through subsurface formations, and                                                    
18 hydrocarbon transportation;                                                                                             
19   (2)   one member shall be a geologist  who                                                                         
20   (A)  holds a certification as a professional geologist under                                                        
21 AS 08.02.011; or                                                                                                        
22   (B)  has earned a degree in the field of geology from a                                                             
23 university accredited in the field of geology and has a minimum of 10                                                   
24 years professional experience in the  [WITH EDUCATIONAL AND                                                            
25 PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND IN THE] field of petroleum geology ; and                                                       
26   (3)   one member  who  need not be  certified,  trained , or  [AND]                                           
27 experienced in  either  the  field  [FIELDS] of petroleum engineering or  the field of                            
28 petroleum geology.                                                                                                      
29    * Sec. 3.  APPLICABILITY.  The provisions of AS 31.05.009, as amended by sec. 2 of this                            
30 Act, apply to persons appointed under AS 31.05.009 on and after the effective date of this                              
31 Act.                                                                                                                    

01    * Sec. 4.  This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).