(a) The state may timely intervene as a party in a superior court action potentially involving a determination of the validity, quantity, use, reservation, or priority of water rights.
(b) The commissioner may accept a remand from a state or federal court of a water rights dispute and may administratively adjudicate the dispute under AS 46.15.165.
(c) The commissioner may enter into arbitration to resolve a water rights dispute.
(d) The commissioner may incorporate and apply as binding upon the parties to an administrative adjudication under AS 46.15.165 any court decree concerning the state hydrologic regime involved in the adjudication.
Structure Alaska Statutes
Title 46. Water, Air, Energy, and Environmental Conservation
Article 2. Appropriation and Use of Water.
Sec. 46.15.030. Water reserved to the people.
Sec. 46.15.037. Sale of water by the state.
Sec. 46.15.040. Right to appropriate.
Sec. 46.15.060. Existing rights.
Sec. 46.15.065. Determination of existing rights.
Sec. 46.15.080. Criteria for issuance of permit.
Sec. 46.15.090. Preference in granting permits.
Sec. 46.15.100. Terms of permit.
Sec. 46.15.110. Time for construction and completion.
Sec. 46.15.133. Notices; objections.
Sec. 46.15.140. Abandonment, forfeiture, and reversion of appropriations.
Sec. 46.15.145. Reservation of water.
Sec. 46.15.150. Preferred use.
Sec. 46.15.155. Authorization for temporary use of water.
Sec. 46.15.160. Transfer and change of appropriations.
Sec. 46.15.165. Administrative adjudications.
Sec. 46.15.166. Judicial adjudications.
Sec. 46.15.167. Effect of decision.
Sec. 46.15.168. Other actions.
Sec. 46.15.169. Federal reserved water rights.
Sec. 46.15.170. Effect of recording.