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rule or otherwise;

(12)

"other wastes" means garbage, refuse,

decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, trimmings from log-
ging operations, sand, lime cinders, ashes, offal, oil, tar,
dyestuffs, acids, chemicals, and other substances not
sewage or industrial waste which may cause or tend to
cause pollution of the waters of the state;

(13) "person" means any individual, public or private corporation, political subdivision, government agency, municipality, industry, copartnership, association, firm, trust, estate, or any other entity whatsoever;

(14) "pesticide" means any chemical or biological agent intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating plant or animal life and any substance intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant or desicant, including but not limited to insecticides, fungicides, rodenticides, herbicides, nematocides and biocides;

(15) "pollution" means the contamination or altering of waters, land or subsurface land of the state in a manner which creates a nuisance or makes waters, land or subsurface land unclean, or noxious, or impure, or unfit so that they are actually or potentially harmful or detrimental or injurious to public health, safety or welfare, to domestic, commercial, industrial, or recreational use, or to livestock, wild animals, bird, fish, or other aquatic life;

(16) "radiation" means all atomic and electronic product radiation;

(17) "radiation source" means any substance, machine, or electronic product which emits radiation;

(18) "sewage" means the water-carried human or animal wastes from residences, buildings, industrial establishments, or other places, together with ground water infiltration and surface water as may be present; the admixture with sewage of industrial wastes or other wastes is "sewage";

(19) "sewer system" or "sewerage system" means pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, and force mains, and all other appurtenant constructions, devices, and appliances used for conducting sewage, industrial waste, or other wastes to a point of ultimate disposal;

(20) "standard" means the measure of purity of quality for waters in relation to their reasonable and necessary use as established by the department;

(21) "treatment works" means a plant, disposal field, lagoon, pumping station, constructed drainage ditch or surface water intercepting ditch, incinerator, area devoted to sanitary land fills, or other works installed for the purpose of treating, neutralizing, stabilizing or disposing of sewage, industrial waste, or other wastes;

(22) "waters" includes lakes, bays, sounds,

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ponds, impounding reservoirs, springs, wells, rivers,
streams, creeks, estuaries, marshes, inlets, straits,
passages, canals, the Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Alaska, Bering
Sea and Arctic Ocean, in the territorial limits of the
state, and all other bodies of surface or underground
water, natural or artificial, public or private, inland
or coastal, fresh or salt, which are wholly or partially
in or bordering the state or under the jurisdiction of the
state.

* Sec. 4. The following laws are repealed: AS 18.05.040(11), (12) and (16); AS 18.30; AS 18.33; AS 18.60.470 - 18.60.570; AS 44.62.330(a)(26) and (29); AS 46.05; AS 46.10; AS 41.03.

* Sec. 5. All litigation, hearings, investigations and other proceedings pending under any law amended or functions which may be transferred by this Act, continue in effect and may be continued and completed notwithstanding any such transfer or amendment provided for in this Act. Certificates, orders, rules or regulations issued or filed under authority of a law amended by this Act or functions which may be transferred by this Act, remain in effect for the term issued, unless or until revoked, vacated, or otherwise modified under the provisions of this Act. All contracts or other obligations created by any law amended by this Act or by virtue of functions which may be transferred by this Act, and in effect on the effective date of this Act, remain in effect unless or until revoked, or modified under the provisions of this Act.

* Sec. 6. This Act takes effect July 1, 1971.

Approved by governor:
Actual effective date:

-23

May 27, 1971
July 1, 1971

Requesting the establishment of an estuarine research center at Douglas, Alaska.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA :

WHEREAS the combination of existing fisheries with suitable study areas make Southeast Alaska an ideal location for a major subarctic estuarine research center; and

WHEREAS, because the myriad of islands, inlets, fjords and small and large rivers of the region constitute one enormous subarctic estuarine environment and the depth of many of the fjords provide a direct and nearby connection with oceanic waters, many large protected areas have a combination of an estuarine habitat with a nearby deep marine environment comparable with that over the continental shelf; and

WHEREAS, because many species which are fished or mature offshore utilize these estuaries for spawning as well as nursery areas, the region sustains a multimillion dollar fishing industry including salmon, halibut, herring, shrimp, crab and other shellfish; and

WHEREAS the wide variety of environments and marine species available to a Southeastern Alaska estuarine laboratory would lend themselves to several possible research programs, both basic and applied, including marine ecology, the role of estuaries in oceanic productivity, aquaculture and experimental ecosystems; and

WHEREAS a laboratory for estuarine studies in Southeastern Alaska would have application to a wide variety of projects of direct national interest and indirect benefits would accrue to existing fisheries in the area; and

WHEREAS the most reasonable location for such a center would be at Douglas, Alaska since the Douglas Marine Station, which is currently in operation, could be expanded into such a research center with the additional advantage of close proximity to the Auke Bay Biological Laboratory of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, the State of Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the Institute of Northern Forestry which all engage in allied fields of research providing cross-disciplinary exchanges and a congenial environment for the scientific and technical personnel of the proposed center;

BE IT RESOLVED that the U. S. Department of the Interior and the State of Alaska are respectfully requested to take all steps necessary to establish a vitally needed estuarine research center at Douglas, Alaska.

COPIES of this Resolution shall be sent to the Honorable Walter J. Hickel, Secretary, Department of the Interior; the Regents of the University of Alaska; the Honorable Harry L. Rietze, Regional Director, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries; and to the Honorable Ted Stevens and the Honorable Mike Gravel, U. S. Senators, and the

Honorable Howard W. Pollock, U. S. Representative, members of the Alaska delegation in Congress.

Authentication

The following officers of the Legislature certify that the

attached enrolled resolution, House Joint Resolution

was passed in conformity with the

requirements of the constitution and laws of the State of Alaska