NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations; POC: Mr. Greg Raymond; 8403 Colesville Road, Suite 500, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, states the purpose is to recapitalize the property to enable NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) to provide critical management and operational and logistical support to the NOAA Ship Fairweather and intermittently to other NOAA and non-NOAA vessels. Additionally, the project would meet the congressional mandate of the Frank LoBiondo Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2018 (see Additional Information). Discharge up to 4,920 cubic yards (CY) of fill material into 0.27-acre of Tongass Narrows, a navigable water of the U.S., below High Tide Line (HTL) and remove up to 200 remnant piles and install up to 18, 24-inch diameter steel piles in order to construct a floating pier, transfer bridge and support float, small boat dock, gangway, and catwalk, and small boat launch ramp. The project site is located at Latitude 55.3356º N., Longitude 131.6293º W.; 1040 Stedman Street, in Ketchikan, Alaska. Please contact Roberta Budnik at (907) 753-2785, toll free from within Alaska at (800) 478-2712, by fax at (907) 753-5567, or by email at roberta.k.budnik@usace.army.mil if further information is desired concerning this notice.
POA-2003-00442, Tongass Narrows_PN