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"whoever approves it had better be ready to take over the maintenance of it."

“whoever approves it had better be ready to take over the maintenance of it.”
Speaker
Unidentified speaker
Community
Alaska News
Location
Nome
Captured at
September 22, 2026

From the transcript

And does this—. Well, whoever's have to review it, well, whoever approves it had better be ready to take over the maintenance of it. Yeah, that's—. Those are—. And then the other thing is if the people that are— it's not going to be living in there and paying the electric bill, you got to have your heat trace on.

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