On October 5, 2022, the Board of Marine Pilots adopted regulation changes in Title 12, Chapter 56 of the Alaska Administrative Code. The regulations concern amendments to biennial license renewal requirements. The COVID-19 pandemic made pilotage opportunities less available to meet normal regulatory renewal requirements; these regulations set out alternate renewal requirements that do not apply after the current biennial licensing period ends on December 31, 2022.

The regulation changes were reviewed and approved by the Department of Law, signed and filed by the Lieutenant Governor (or designee) on October 21, 2022, and will go into effect on November 20, 2022. See attached copy of the filed version of the regulations.

The new regulation changes will be printed in Register 244, January 2023 of the Alaska Administrative Code.