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Alaska Coastal Management Program — Terminated 2011 (No Statewide Coastal Overlay) (AK)

Tracked preemption from the Alaska overlay bundle.

Overview

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Effective
2011-07-01
Sunset
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Authority
state
Scope
state:AK
Other Alaska preemptions
Alaska — No Statewide Short-Term Rental PreemptionAlaska — No Statewide Density / ADU / IZ / Design PreemptionAlaska AS 29.40.010 — Borough-Level Zoning Enabling (No State Override)Alaska AS 29.10.200 — Home-Rule Procedural FloorAlaska AS 29.40.020 — Comprehensive Plan Consistency DoctrineAlaska AS 29.40.130 — State-Owned Airport Noise & Hazard CoordinationAlaska — Federal & ANCSA Native Lands Parcel Layer (Non-Zoned)Alaska Title 38 — State Proprietary Land Preemption (Parcel-Level)

Trigger predicate

When this evaluates true for a parcel, the law's preempted fields take precedence over base zoning.

always true

Preempted fields

2 fields on the base district schema are rewritten when the trigger fires.

FieldOpValueNote
statewide_coastal_zone_overlayoverrideNoneNo statewide coastal management program exists; ACMP expired by operation of AS 44.66.020 / .030 on 2011-06-30 and was withdrawn from NOAA's National Coastal Management Program on 2011-07-01
czma_federal_consistency_review_appliesoverrideFalseCZMA federal consistency review does not apply in Alaska as of 2026; any coastal overlay in a city record must be local-only (e.g., the Anchorage Coastal Management Plan is municipal, not state)

Citation

Authority source
AS 44.66.020 / .030 (program sunset); NOAA OCM withdrawal notice
§ Federal Register withdrawal notice (2011-07-07); NOAA OCM Alaska page (https://coast.noaa.gov/states/alaska.html)
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2011/07/07/2011-16987/alaska-coastal-management-program-withdrawal-from-the-national-coastal-management-program-under-the

Research notes

Recorded as a negative overlay so coastal-overlay assertions in city records are not auto-assumed. Alaska is the only US coastal state without a federally approved coastal management program. Any 'coastal overlay' surfaced from research must be traced to a local municipal program, not to the state.