A Native corporation's cleanup arm is monitoring a fuel spill in the Sound

A company owned by one of Alaska's largest Native corporations has won a federal contract to keep watch on a contaminated site in Prince William Sound, where the government has been cleaning up spilled diesel and an old buried dump.

Brice Solutions landed the roughly $89,000 job from the FAA to handle long-term environmental monitoring at Johnstone Point, near Cordova, running through spring 2028. The site sits on Chugach National Forest land around a small FAA-owned airport, where the agency has been cleaning up spilled diesel fuel and a buried dump and installing groundwater monitoring wells — the kind of slow, years-long environmental follow-up that outlasts the cleanup itself.

Brice Solutions is part of Calista Brice, a family of roughly 20 companies under Calista Corporation — the regional Native corporation for the Yukon-Kuskokwim region of western Alaska, and one of the largest ANCs in the state. The Brice companies specialize in environmental restoration and contaminated-site cleanup in remote places, running their own fleets of equipment and transportation to reach them. Like many Native corporation subsidiaries, Brice does much of its federal work through the Small Business Administration's 8(a) program — though as an Alaska Native corporation, it can take sole-source federal contracts of any size, without the dollar cap that limits other 8(a) firms. The earnings flow back to Calista's shareholders in western Alaska.

The Johnstone Point award is one of six FAA environmental contracts the firm picked up in August alone.