00                            HOUSE BILL NO. 398                                                                          
01 "An Act requiring the designation of outstanding national resource water to occur only                                  
02 by statute; relating to the management of outstanding national resource water by the                                    
03 Department of Environmental Conservation; and providing for an effective date."                                         
04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
05    * Section 1.  AS 46.03 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                   
06            Sec. 46.03.085. Outstanding national resource water. (a) Water of the state                                  
07       may be designated as outstanding national resource water, as described in federal law,                            
08       only by statute.                                                                                                  
09            (b)  Water of the state may not be managed as outstanding national resource                                  
10       water unless the water has been designated as outstanding national resource water                                 
11       under (a) of this section.                                                                                        
12    * Sec. 2.  This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).