00                           HOUSE BILL NO. 95 am                                                                         
01 "An Act relating to designation of state water as outstanding national resource water;                                  
02 and providing for an effective date."                                                                                   
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1. AS 46.03 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                  
05 Sec. 46.03.085. Outstanding national resource water. (a) Water of the state                                           
06 may be designated as outstanding national resource water, as described in federal                                       
07 regulation, only by statute. A designation of outstanding national resource water made                                  
08       by the state may only be reversed 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 by                              
11       statute.                                                                                                          
12    * Sec. 2. This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).