Current through October 17, 2024
Section 5 AAC 92.005 - Policy for changing board agenda(a) The Board of Game (board) may change the board's schedule for considering proposed regulatory changes in response to an agenda change request, submitted on a form provided by the board, in accordance with the following guidelines: (1) an agenda change request must be to consider a proposed regulatory change outside the board's published schedule and must specify the change proposed and the reason the proposed change should be considered out of sequence. An agenda change request is not intended to address proposals that could have been submitted by the deadline scheduled for submitting proposals;(2) the board will accept an agenda change request only (B) to correct an error in a regulation; or(C) to correct an effect of a regulation that was unforeseen when a regulation was adopted; or (D) if the request identifies a biological concern for the population or a threat to meeting objectives for the population;(E) if the request identifies an unforeseen, unexpected event or effect that would otherwise restrict or reduce a reasonable opportunity for customary and traditional wildlife uses. as defined in AS 16.05.258(0: or(F) if the request identifies an unforeseen, unexpected resource situation where a biologically allowable resource harvest would be precluded by delayed regulatory action and such delay would be significantly burdensome because the resource would be unavailable in the future;(3) the board will not accept an agenda change request that is predominantly allocative in nature in the absence of new information that is found by the board to be compelling;(4) a request must be received by the executive director of the boards support section by November 1 of the regulatory year in which the meeting is scheduled to occur;(5) if one or more agenda change requests have been timely submitted, the board shall meet to review the requests within 30 days following the submittal deadline in subsection (4), and may meet telephonically for this purpose. (6) when considering an agenda change request, the board should take into consideration 5 AAC 96.625(d) and 5 AAC 96.625(e);(7) if the board accepts an agenda change request, the board will develop and consider proposals for all agenda change requests for those specified regulations.(b) The board may change the board's schedule for consideration of proposed regulatory changes as reasonably necessary for coordination of state regulatory actions with federal agencies, programs, or laws.Eff. 7/5/85, Register 95; am 5/5/93, Register 126; am 7/1/98, Register 146; am 7/1/2012, Register 202; am 7/1/2015, Register 214, July 2015; am 7/1/2018,Register 226, July 2018