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Moving into our next steps in the planning process, the draft is available for review that is available digitally on our project website and hard copies will be available in the Forestry office in Haines if folks are interested to come look at a physical copy and we'll ask that you submit your comments by 5pm on June 5th. You're welcome to do that through email to the project email address that you see on this slide or physical mail or if you'd rather submit comments in person. We'll have our final public meeting for this review period tomorrow in Klukwan at the Alaska Native Sisterhood hall, so we'll have options to submit comments in writing or record oral testimony. And in the near ish future you can be expecting public notice of our intent to adopt for this plan. So during the intent to adopt period, the Division will publish an issue response summary where we acknowledge the topics of comments that we received during this review period and the Division's response to those comments will identify any recommended revisions that we'll make to the plan and that information will be available for review for 30 days.

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