OPINION ON REHEARING
BRYNER, Justice.
I. INTRODUCTION
In 1990, after the EXXON VALDEZ spilled more than 230,000 barrels of crude oil into Prince William Sound, the Alaska legislature strengthened Alaska's oil spill contingency plan statute by adding to the existing provisions, which required the use of "best available technology," a new provision that required all contingency plans to meet a set of specified response planning standards....
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