***PUBLIC NOTICE REVISION 2***
On September 1, 2017, the Alaska District Corps of Engineers published a Public Notice for Department of the Army (DA) permit number POA-2015-25, Colville River for a DA permit application from Armstrong Energy, LLC, to discharge 2,756,520 cubic yards (cy) of clean fill material into 271.6 acres of waters of the United States (U.S.) including wetlands to construct the Project. The Project also includes temporary discharges to 5.8 acres of jurisdictional waters of the U.S., (Harrison Bay of the Beaufort Sea), for screeding activities in front of the existing Oliktok Dock and trenching for power and fiber optic cables at pipeline road crossings.
The Project would be located 6.5 miles to the northeast of the village of Nuiqusut, in the North Slope Borough (NSB) in the Pikka Unit between Kuparuk and the Colville River Unit development (Alpine). The Project would extend west from existing Kuparuk infrastructure to the East Channel of the Colville River.
The original Public Notice comment period closed October 15, 2017.
The Public Notice comment period has been extended to November 14, 2017.
The scoping period for the Nanushuk EIS has been extended to November 14, 2017.
All other information contained in the previous notice remains the same. Please bring this announcement to the attention of anyone you know who is or may be interested. Please contact Ellen Lyons at (907) 474-2166, or by email at Ellen.H.Lyons@usace.army.mil if further information is desired concerning this notice.
POA-2015-25, Colville River_PN Revised 2
District Engineer
U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers