6 AAC 93.017. CDQ program standards

To carry out the state's role under 50 C.F.R. 679 and this chapter, the CDQ team shall apply the standards listed in (1) - (9) of this section, as applicable. The CDQ team shall determine whether

(1) a CDP provides specific and measurable benefits to each community participating in the CDP;

(2) as part of a CDP, a CDQ project provides benefits to individual residents of a participating community, to a single participating community, or to all participating communities;

(3) a proposed CDP has the support of all participating communities;

(4) each CDQ project listed in a CDP has the support of the applicant's or CDQ group's board of directors, reflected by official action of the board;

(5) before initiating a proposed CDQ project, a CDQ group exercised a level of due diligence that reflects the value of the investment, the risk involved, and the type of project;

(6) a reasonable likelihood exists that a for-profit CDQ project will earn a financial return to the CDQ group;

(7) the CDQ group has minimized legal and financial risk;

(8) the CDQ group has clearly demonstrated how a proposed CDQ project will further the goals and purpose of the CDQ program as stated in 50 C.F.R. 679.1(e); and

(9) in areas of fisheries harvesting and processing, the CDQ group, to the greatest extent possible, has promoted conservation-based fisheries by taking actions that will minimize bycatch, provide for full retention and increased utilization of the fishery resource, and minimize impact to essential fish habitats.

History: Eff. 8/19/99, Register 151

Authority: Ak. Const., art. III,

sec. 1

Ak. Const., art. III,

sec. 24

AS 44.33.020 (11)

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