an environmental risk questionnaire.
The Division of Land, Mining and Water may require the applicant to submit a performance guaranty to cover the cost of restoration.
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State Park Non-compatible Use Permit
Please obtain the permit application from the office that will issue the permit. A list of state park offices is provided on DNR's webpage.
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Temporary Water Use Permit
Requirement: Response action contractors or the responsible party must obtain a Temporary Water Use Permit from the Division of Land, Mining and Water in the Department of Natural Resources when the operator must appropriate fresh water for spill response and cleanup purposes such as dust abatement and material compaction during construction activities; ice bridge and ice road construction; diverting and recovering surface and ground water, hydrotesting pipelines and storage tanks; drilling operations; remediation with a mobile thermal desorption unit; and hydroseeding.
Procedures: The contractor or responsible party files the application with the Division of Land, Mining and Water prior to any appropriation of water. Public notices are not required unless the Commissioner of DNR determines that the proposed water use is likely to affect the water rights of other persons or in the public interest.
Applications must include:
the type and size of equipment used to withdraw the water.
The Division of Land, Mining and Water may require the applicant to monitor the water use and to submit meter records.
The Temporary Water Use Permit is issued for a period not to exceed 5 years. The duration of each permit is specified on a case-by - case basis. Extensions maybe granted one time for good cause for a period not to exceed five years.
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Additional Information on Cultural Resource Report and Permits
| Reports should include completed Alaska Heritage Resource Survey (AHRS) cards or sufficient information in a similar format such as AHRS personnel can readily fill out an AHRS card for each new site found. For sites already listed, information for updating AHRS cards should be included. Site locations should be accurately plotted on 1:63,360 USGS maps. Site sketch maps should be included where possible. After collections are accessioned by the approved repository, the accession numbers should be forwarded to this office so that the collection can be located when necessary.
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More detailed information on research designs may be found in "Archeology and Historic Preservation: Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines: Archeological Documentation." Copies of this document are available on request from the Office of History and Archaeology, Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation.
Permits are processed by Tim Smith, Review and Compliance Archaeologist, who may be reached at (907) 269-8722, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, Monday through Friday. Applications can be foxed to (907) 269-8908, although this is not encouraged due to degradation of readability of the forms.
Alaska Heritage Resources Survey
The Alaska Heritage Resources Survey (AHRS) is an inventory of all reported historic and prehistoric sites within the State of Alaska and is maintained by the Office of History and Archaeology. This inventory of cultural resources includes objects, structures, buildings, sites, districts and travel ways, with a general provision that they be over 50 years old. To date nearly 15,000 sites have been reported within Alaska (however this is probably only a small percentage of the sites which may actually exist but are as yet unreported).
The fundamental use of the AHRS is to protect cultural resource sites from unwanted destruction. Various state and federal agencies and private companies use the inventory when planning or reviewing development projects. By knowing of possible cultural remains prior to construction, efforts can be made to avoid project delays and prevent unnecessary destruction of these non-renewable resources. Listing on the AHRS does not in and of itself, provide protection for sites. But it does allow for knowledgeable decisions to be made concerning the future of these sites.
The AHRS is primarily a map based system. We maintain a complete set of USGS topographic maps at 1:250,000 scale and 1:63,360 (1" = 1 mile) scale with the site locations plotted on them. Each site is given an individual designation consisting of a trigraph for the quadrangle in which it is located and a unique sequential number within that quadrangle, i.e., SIT-010 is the AHRS number for the tenth site recorded within the Sitka Quadrangle.
For each individual site we maintain a site record card containing such information as the site name, a description of the physical remains, data on the site's location, and a list of bibliographic citations, as well as a variety of additional information relevant to management and research needs. We are currently in the process our original manual record system to a computer database to facilitate information retrieval. To supplement these record cards, we maintain a reprint file of published reports and unpublished manuscripts.
Not least of all, the Office of History and Archaeology is a human resource - we like to think we collectively have a relatively significant amount of personal knowledge in a number of dimensions of Alaska's cultural resources, and we are happy to share our knowledge.
Access to site location information contained in the AHRS is closed to the general public (as required by PL 96-95; AS 9.25.120, exception 4; Policy and Procedure No. 50200). Authorized users are representatives of federal, state or local governments on official business; researchers engaged in legitimate scientific research; individuals or representatives of organizations conducting cultural resource surveys aimed at protection of such information or sites; or such individuals determined by the Chief of the office maintaining the Alaska Heritage Resources Survey as having a legitimate needs for access.
Office of History and Archaeology
Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation
3601 C Street, Suite 1278
Anchorage, Alaska 99503-5921
(907) 269-8722
