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.
Structure Alaska Statutes
Title 46. Water, Air, Energy, and Environmental Conservation
Chapter 03. Environmental Conservation
Article 3. Water Pollution Control and Waste Disposal.
Sec. 46.03.060. Water pollution control plan.
Sec. 46.03.070. Pollution standards.
Sec. 46.03.080. Quality and purity standards.
Sec. 46.03.100. Waste management, disposal, and discharge authorization.
Sec. 46.03.110. Waste disposal permit procedure.
Sec. 46.03.120. Termination or modification of waste management and disposal authorization.