12 May 2021

POA-2021-00211, Smith Creek_PN

Expiration date: 6/11/2021

Mr. Brett Nelson, with ADOT&PF, states the project is to construct safety and operational repairs to provide the community of Deering with safe and efficient, all-season airport access. The project purpose is also to bring the airport to current standards and meet criteria identified in the Alaska Plan, the Alaska Aviation System Plan, and current Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) design standards. Work being proposed, Resurface the existing runway, rehabilitate runway embankments, replace the airport lighting, improve airport drainage, and construct a new access road to the airport with a bridge over Smith Creek. The new bridge will have earthen abutments and approaches on either side of Smith Creek. The new road will provide all season access to the Deering Airport. Fill material (sand and gravel) will be excavated from up to five material sites in the Inmachuk River. The new access road to the Deering Airport requires fill placement into approximately 8.1 acres of wetlands. To stabilize thawing permafrost around the runway new fill material will be placed on existing runway embankments and into adjacent wetlands. Airport fill will total approximately 10.4 acres in wetlands. The rip rap protecting the bridge embankments will impact 0.2 acres of waters of the U.S. (WOTUS). A total of 18.8 acres of WOTUS will be filled. Temporary work space of 4.8 acres, will buffer the evacuation and access road. Vegetation grubbing for the project will take place before May 20th or after July 20th to avoid impacts to nesting migratory birds. All work would be performed in accordance with the enclosed plan (sheets 1-2), dated October 2020. The project site is located within Section 24, 25, 36, T. 8 N., R. 20 W., Kateel River Meridian; USGS Quad Map Kotzebue A-2; Latitude 66.0743º N., Longitude 162.7463º W.; 55 miles south of Kotzebue, in Deering, Alaska. Please contact Janet Post at (907) 753-2831, toll free from within Alaska at (800) 478-2712, by fax at (907) 753-5567, or by email at: Janet.L.Post@usace.army.mil if further information is desired concerning this notice.

12 May 2021

POA-2018-00463, Mariner Park Slough_PN

Expiration date: 6/11/2021

Mr. Aaron Yeaton, with the City of Homer, states the projects purpose is to reestablish tidal flushing within Mariner Park Slough. Tidal flushing is important in maintaining the area’s shorebird habitat. Work being proposed, excavate 275 cubic yards of native beach material from a 6,000 square foot (sf) area below the high tide line (HTL), 23.4 foot above the mean lower low water (MLLW) elevation of 0.0 foot) of Mariner Park Slough and Kachemak Bay, a navigable water of the U.S., and discharge the dredged material into a 6,000 sf area below the HTL in order to Public Notice of Application for Permit reestablish the tidal outlet between Mariner Park Slough and Kachemak Bay which would reestablish natural flows in Mariner Park Slough. Discharged material would block an existing side channel which frequently becomes naturally dammed and does not provide adequate tidal flushing. Material would be excavated/moved with a bulldozer, excavator or similar machinery during lower tide cycles. No work would occur below the mean high water mark (MHWM, 17.3 foot above the MLLW elevation of 0.0 foot) of Kachemak Bay. Work would be performed on a recurring basis, as needed to address future slough mouth closures. All work would be performed in accordance with the enclosed plan (sheets 1-4), dated November 29, 2018. The project site is located within Section 28, T. 6 S., R. 13 W., Seward Meridian; USGS Quad Map Seldovia C-5; Latitude 59.6324º N., Longitude 151.4980º W.; Kenai Peninsula Borough (KPB); KPB Parcel # 181-010-25; northwest of Mariner Park off of Homer Spit Road, in Homer, Alaska. Please contact Jen Martin at (907) 753-2730 or by email at: Jen.L.Martin@usace.army.mil if further information is desired concerning this notice.

10 May 2021

POA-2018-00123, Bonanza Channel/Safety Sound_PN_Extended

Expiration date: 6/1/2021

On April 16, 2021, the Alaska District Corps of Engineers published a Public Notice for Department of the Army (DA) permit number POA-2018-00123, Bonanza Channel/Safety Sound for a DA permit application from IPOP LLC, to discharge 4,827,161 cubic yards of dredged material into 195 acres of waters of the United States (U.S.) over a period of six years to gather scientific information and mine for gold by constructing and maintaining an access channel, dredge disposal areas, and mining channel, and constructing a man camp in approximately 1.2 acres of uplands. The project site is located approximately 25 miles east of Nome, Alaska, in Bonanza Channel and at approximately Mile Post 28.5 along the Nome-Council Road, between Latitude 64.5044° N., Longitude 164.6169° W., on the western limit and Latitude 64.52866° N, Longitude 164.5447° W. on the eastern limit; within the following sections, townships, and ranges: Section 24, T. 11 S., R. 30 W., Kateel Meridian; Section 25, T. 11 S., R. 30 W., Kateel Meridian; Section 26, T. 11 S., R. 30 W., Kateel Meridian; Section 18, T. 11 S., R. 29 W., Kateel Meridian; Section 19, T. 11 S., R. 29 W., Kateel Meridian; USGS Quad Map Solomon C-6. The PN showed the agent contact email address of billnurnett@yukuskokon.com and an expiration date of May 17, 2021. This information is incorrect and should instead read billburnett@yukuskokon.com. Additionally, the comment period has been extended and the expiration date now reads June 1, 2021. Please contact Ms. Tiffany Kwakwa at (907) 474-2167, by fax at (907) 753-5567, or by email at: Tiffany.D.Kwakwa@usace.army.mil if further information is desired concerning this notice.