{"data":{"id":"us-ak/as-27.21.930","jurisdiction":"us-ak","citation":"AS 27.21.930","heading":"Water rights and replacement.","body":"(a) Nothing in this chapter may be construed to affect the right of a person to protect the person's interest in water resources affected by a surface coal mining operation.\n(b) An operator shall replace the water supply of an owner of an interest in real property who obtains all or part of the owner's supply of water for domestic, agricultural, industrial, or other beneficial use from an underground or surface source, if the supply has been affected by contamination, diminution, or interruption proximately resulting from the operator's surface coal mining operation.","path":["Title 27. Mining.","Chapter 21. Alaska Surface Coal Mining Control and Reclamation Act.","Article 4. General Provisions."],"source_url":"https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp#27.21.930","current_through":"Alaska Statutes 2025 (34th Legislature, 2025-2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T06:18:05Z","sha256":"63320648a27e4ef3230e5377140adc421298524a685db4d799e58aa803c574e4","source_id":"us-ak","stale":false,"prev":"us-ak/as-27.21.920","next":"us-ak/as-27.21.940"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}