Sec. 41.06.305. Long-term monitoring and maintenance.

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(a)The department shall conduct long-term monitoring and maintenance of a storage facility that has been issued a certificate of completion under AS 41.06.170 .

(b)Under this section, the authority of the department applies to all land in the state lawfully subject to the police power of the state, including private land, municipal land, state land, land of the United States, and land subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. The department may enter, at a reasonable time and in a reasonable manner, the site of a storage facility that has been issued a certificate of completion under AS 41.06.170 .

(c)The state, the department, and the commission have no obligation to pay costs associated with long-term monitoring and maintenance of a storage facility in an amount greater than the amount attributable to that storage facility and separately accounted for under AS 37.14.850 .

(d)The department may adopt regulations under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) to carry out the purposes of this section.

(e)In this section,

(1)“commission” means the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission created under AS 31.05.005 ;

(2)“long-term monitoring and maintenance” means an activity associated with monitoring and maintenance of a storage facility that has been issued a certificate of completion under AS 41.06.170 and may include

(A)operational and long-term inspecting, testing, and monitoring of the storage facility site, wells, and remaining facilities;

(B)remediation measures arising from the storage facility site, including remediation of property and mechanical problems associated with wells and remaining facilities;

(C)repairing mechanical leaks at the storage facility site;

(D)plugging and abandoning wells;

(E)converting wells for use as observation wells;

(F)purchasing or paying insurance costs for a storage facility, whether commercially or through government funding;

(3)“storage facility” has the meaning given in AS 41.06.210 .