Alaska Statutes
Alaska Stat. § 46.03.070 (2026)
Pollution standards
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Sec. 46.03.070. Pollution standards.
After public hearing, the department may adopt standards and make them public and determine what qualities and properties of water indicate a polluted condition actually or potentially deleterious, harmful, detrimental, or injurious to the public health, safety, or welfare, to terrestrial and aquatic life or their growth and propagation, or to the use of waters for domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational, or other reasonable purposes.
After public hearing, the department may adopt standards and make them public and determine what qualities and properties of water indicate a polluted condition actually or potentially deleterious, harmful, detrimental, or injurious to the public health, safety, or welfare, to terrestrial and aquatic life or their growth and propagation, or to the use of waters for domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational, or other reasonable purposes.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1974–1996 · leading case: Stock v. State, 526 P.2d 3 (Alaska 1974).
Stock v. State, 526 P.2d 3 (Alaska 1974). “Under authority of AS 46.03.070 which provides: After public hearing, the department may adopt standards and make them public and determiné what qualities and properties of water indicate a polluted condition actually or potentially deleterious, harmful, detrimental or injurious…”
Kelso v. Rybachek, 912 P.2d 536 (Alaska 1996). “” AS 46.03.070. The Department may establish water quality standards, may establish classes of waters based on quality, and *541 may modify those classifications.”
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