1 Jun 2020

POA-1996-00211, Goodpaster River

Expiration date: 7/1/2020

Jilian Ladegard, with Northern Star (Pogo) LLC, states that the project purpose is to “improve operational safety at the existing Pogo Mine while maintaining NSR operational efficiencies. The mine requires additional access to underground resources to continue to maintain mine output to the mill. Surface area increases include road construction to reduce surface truck congestion; changing haul road locations to reduce adverse grades; reduce access road turns; provide additional stopping distances for loaded haul trucks; improve sight distances; increase surface storage space for equipment, increase housing, and increase surface rock storage. The additional space is required to reduce congestion, improve safety, and provide space for required mine equipment to dispose of non-mineralized underground rock in surface rock dumps. The airport portal is a new underground access to provide additional access to underground gold resources. The portal pad requires equipment storage space, laydown area, ventilation support, safety equipment storage, and equipment turnaround and work area to allow haul trucks and mine workers in and out of the underground workings.” Work being proposed includes to fill 43.3 acres of Waters of the U.S. (WOUS) (wetlands and ponds) with approximately 1,184,000 cubic yards of clean non-mineralized rock to complete nine operational changes within the Pogo Mine operation for the improvement of infrastructure and safety. All of the proposed work sites and details of wetland impacts per site are listed on sheets 1-2 of the attached project plans “Table 1: NSR Pogo Project Overviews”. The applicant is also proposing to culvert 1,550 feet of Liese Creek at the 1875 Bench project area. The applicant has included that fill material will come from underground sources and no surface material sites are required for fill material. All work would be performed in accordance with the enclosed plan (sheets 1-9), dated May 18, 2020. The project site is located within Sections 23, 26, 27, 34 and 35, T. 5 S., R. 14 E., Fairbanks Meridian; USGS Quad Map Big Delta B-2; Latitude 64.4485º N., Longitude 144.9445º W.; near Delta Junction, Alaska. Please contact Lindsey McCord at (907) 458-1605 or by email at: Lindsey.N.McCord@usace.army.mil if further information is desired concerning this notice.

8 May 2020

POA-1977-00242-M2, Chiniak Bay

Expiration date: 5/26/2020

The Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak, 312 West Marine Way, Kodiak, AK 99615, state that the project purpose is for moorage of small boats that are used for commercial activities associated with the custom processing building Wildsource as well as future businesses that will occupy the new multi-use structure. Work being proposed includes: 1) Discharge 4,622 cubic yards of shot rock and 250 cubic yards of concrete into an 8,022-square foot area below the High Tide Line (HTL, 10.7 feet above the 0.00-foot Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) contour) to construct a solid fill dock and seawall. The seawall would be 212 linear feet and have an average height of 16 feet. 2) Repair 1,600 square feet of an existing, wooden dock extending beyond the Mean High Water Mark (MHWM, 7.6 feet above the MLLW). The project site is located within Section 31, T. 27 S., R. 19 W., Seward Meridian;USGS Quad Map Kodiak D-2; Latitude 57.786492º N., Longitude 152.415310º W.; Alaska Tideland Survey 49, Tract N17B; 419 Shelikof Street, in Kodiak, Alaska. Please contact Ben Polley at (907) 753-2627 or by email at: Benjamin.L.Polley@usace.army.mil if further information is desired concerning this notice.

1 May 2020

POA-2020-00201, Nenana River

Expiration date: 6/1/2020

Andrew Donato, with Ketchikan Public Utilities Company, states that the project purposeis to install a fiber optic cable within the transportation and utility corridor along Parks Highway to provide infrastructure for expanded telecommunications within this corridor. Work being proposed will involve the installation of a fiber optic cable by plowing an 8 inch wide by 3.5 foot deep trench, and backfilling native soil over the cable, with handholes being placed every 5,000 feet and splice vaults being placed every 20,000 feet. The trench and bury technique used to complete this project will result in temporary impacts to 12.6 acres of wetlands. A wetlands delineation has been provided, and will be reviewed by this office. Directional boring methods will be used to cross below all perennial channels within the project area, including the Nenana River, which is a Section 10 waterway. All work would be performed in accordance with the enclosed plan (sheets 1-27), dated March 23, 2020 & April 8, 20202. The project site is located within Section 5, T. 13 S., R. 7 W., Fairbanks Meridian; beginning at Latitude 64.290º N., Longitude -149.146º W. and ending at Latitude 63.820º N., Longitude -148.986º W; beginning on Clear Highway in Clear Air Force Base and ending at Parks Highway MP 247 south of Healy, Alaska. Please contact Ashley Kraetsch at (907) 458-1606, or by email at: Ashley.M.Kraetsch@usace.army.mil if further information is desired concerning this notice.

30 Apr 2020

POA-2020-00176, Tongass Narrows

Expiration date: 6/1/2020

Andrew Donato, with Ketchikan Public Utilities Company, states that the project purpose is to replace the existing sub-marine power cable that services the Ketchikan Airport and Gravina Island with a new, modern power cable. The proposed project would lay a new 15 kV submarine electrical cable on the seafloor in Section 10 waters (33 U.S.C. 401 et seq.) between Revillagigedo Island and Gravina Island. The project consists of 2,500 linear feet of submarine cable (3.4-inch outer diameter) with 160 linear feet of HDPE sleeve (12-inch outer diameter) at each end. The HDPE necessitates the placement of 10 cubic yards of concrete anchors at about -5 feet of mean high tide (33 U.S.C. 1344). All work would be performed in accordance with the enclosed plan (sheets 1–4), dated April 20, 2020. The project site is located in Sections 22 and 23, T. 75 S., R. 90 E., Copper River Meridian; USGS Quad KTN B-6; Latitude 55.35879° N., Longitude 131.7009° W. on the Revillagigedo Island side and Latitude 55.35493° N., Longitude 131.7053° W. on the Gravina Island end; in Ketchikan, Alaska. Please contact Amy Tippery at (907) 458-1602 or by email at: Amy.C.Tippery@usace.army.mil if further information is desired concerning this notice.

28 Apr 2020

POA-2013-00111-M1, Katlian Bay

Expiration date: 5/13/2020

Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (Alaska DOT&PF), PO Box 112506, Juneau, AK 99811, states that the project purpose is to provide increased recreational and subsistence opportunities on Baranof Island within National Forest System (NFS) lands of the Tongass National Forest, Sitka Ranger District, land access to Native Corporation Public Notice of Application for Permit (Shee Atiká and Sealaska) lands by shareholders, and opportunity for development of new material sources on State, Federal, and Native Corporation lands. Work being proposed includes the discharge of fill material into waters of the U.S., including wetlands, work would also include re-routing a total of 370 linear feet of stream reach from five stream channels. The streams would be returned to the natural drainage route down-gradient of the proposed re-routed stream reaches. All work would be performed in accordance with the enclosed plan (sheets 1-22), dated April 23, 2020. The project site is located within Section 25, T. 54 S., R. 63 E., Copper River Meridian; USGS Quad Map Sitka A-4 and A-5; Latitude 57.155258º N., Longitude 135.330064º W.; proposed project begins at the terminus of Halibut Point Road for the construction of 9.3 miles of new road and the reconditioning of 2.2 miles of existing National Forest Road, near Sitka, Alaska. Please contact Randal Vigil at (907) 790-4491, or by email at: Randal.P.Vigil@usace.army.mil if further information is desired concerning this notice.