Legislative Mandate
In 2010, the Alaska Legislature passed House Bill 369, which established the mission for the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC). That mission is to produce by July 1, 2011, “a project plan for developing an in-state natural gas pipeline (ASAP). The plan must specify and document how an in-state natural gas pipeline can be designed, financed, constructed, and made operational by December 31, 2015.” The project plan must also include an analysis of alternative possible routes and the selection of a route that:
- Is economically feasible;
- Makes natural gas available to residents at the lowest possible cost;
- Allows for connecting lines to serve industrial, residential, and utility customers along the entire route, and in other regions of the state that can be served at commercially feasible rates;
- Uses state land and existing state highway and railroad rights-of-way to the maximum extent feasible;
- Uses existing highway and railroad bridges, gravel sources, equipment yards, maintenance facilities, and other existing facilities and resources to the maximum extent feasible.
Click here to view House Bill 369.