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Ryan Anderson “that's, that's separate from the STIP that we're doing right now. There will be a public comment period devoted to the West Sacinna Access Environmental Assessment when we put that out for public review. And so there's a standard 30-day public review period and a public meeting that will go along with that.”

Alaska DOT&PF: 10062026 Virtual Public Meeting Draft 2027-2030 STIP · Oct 7, 2026

Katherine Keith “your projects about West Sissetna, we can certainly include that in the project record.”

Alaska DOT&PF: 10062026 Virtual Public Meeting Draft 2027-2030 STIP · Oct 7, 2026

Steve Perrins

“I don't know what the future cost for maintaining this is going to be, but there are a lot of people that are against this, and my theory is all the comments— there's going to be a lot of comments against it, And it's just going to remain in there regardless of what people say.”

Alaska DOT&PF: 10062026 Virtual Public Meeting Draft 2027-2030 STIP · Oct 7, 2026

Ryan Anderson “West Basin Access, right, access millions of acres of state lands in Alaska. We have very limited road connections to our state lands, and of course, you know, state lands for recreational purposes, all those uses are very valuable to Alaskans. And so that's really the primary purpose and need of this project.”

Alaska DOT&PF: 10062026 Virtual Public Meeting Draft 2027-2030 STIP · Oct 7, 2026

Stephanie Tompkins

“one of our big concerns, which means a lot of the tribe's concern, is that this is a connected action. This road really— this project part stops at the Big Sioux— well, 22 miles. And what Ada and their last enclosure just showed, that it's a connected action to a gold mine, which brings it to that what we're looking at will have a huge impact, a bigger impact on the whole part, which needs to be considered.”

Alaska DOT&PF: 10062026 Virtual Public Meeting Draft 2027-2030 STIP · Oct 7, 2026

Ryan Anderson “this is on the West Desitna Access Project that we're going through, and we are going through the environmental, you know, the environmental process, which will culminate, you know, in the environmental document and a public review on the project. And so, you know, this is the process we're going through. It's not going to be any different than, you know, the project processes that we use for other projects. It's very much structured and founded in federal law and regulation”

Alaska DOT&PF: 10062026 Virtual Public Meeting Draft 2027-2030 STIP · Oct 7, 2026

Angelica Stabs

“West Usitna alone appears to carry roughly $189 million in planned advanced construction with those conversions pushed beyond FY 2030.”

Alaska DOT&PF: 10062026 Virtual Public Meeting Draft 2027-2030 STIP · Oct 7, 2026

Angelica Stabs

“to clarify, there will be a second comment period on West 2 with all environmental analysis documents available for comment?”

Alaska DOT&PF: 10062026 Virtual Public Meeting Draft 2027-2030 STIP · Oct 7, 2026

Steve Perrins

“I want to just comment about the West Sioux Bridge and Roads that's in there. You know, we're looking at about $250 million almost for these projects. Um, I want to say that I am, uh, very strongly against this.”

Alaska DOT&PF: 10062026 Virtual Public Meeting Draft 2027-2030 STIP · Oct 7, 2026

Steve Perrins

“the boat launch that would be there would actually take longer to get to by driving that road than it would be to, uh, access the current Deschka boat launch to access those same rivers. It's, uh, deep water, steep banks, fast-flowing rivers, and just not a very practical place for a boat launch. Uh, furthermore, flying over that area, the, um, the other side of that river is just all marshland. So we're building, uh, a road and what I believe would be the largest bridge in Alaska, um, if you can confirm or correct me on that, um, to just end across that river in swampland when 90% of the community and 20+ wilderness tourism lodges are all against this project.”

Alaska DOT&PF: 10062026 Virtual Public Meeting Draft 2027-2030 STIP · Oct 7, 2026

Stephanie Tompkins

“We're concerned on the impact, not only with the human impact it's going to have on our villages and tribes, over the region, the fish, the rivers, the habitat that are there, and that needs to be included before and if this goes forward. So you are there to answer our questions on Friday, and also that the APE needs to be enlarged. Because of this.”

Alaska DOT&PF: 10062026 Virtual Public Meeting Draft 2027-2030 STIP · Oct 7, 2026

Kirk Miller “I think this has some danger of slipping because we only got a couple weeks left in June. So, Gonna hold that June date, but it could very well pop to July by next week. We'll see how the funding process goes.”

Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: June 2026 · Jul 20, 2026

Kirk Miller “The first project's fully design all ready to go. Second project has some permit complications we're struggling with. Long story short, we're going to hold August for now and see what we can do to pin down that date better by next month.”

Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: June 2026 · Jul 20, 2026

Luke Bowland “it'll be a late obligation here for us this year and hoping to hold a bid there in September. But that's a big one, that's one we're definitely pushing on.”

Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: June 2026 · Jul 20, 2026

Kirk Miller “Ketchikan seaplane ramp. We got some issues there with a Corps permit and some FAA juggling, so I gave that kind of a red box there for this month. I don't think it's going to make June, but I'm going to hold June for now and probably change it within a week. I'm hoping we can turn this around real quickly and get it out by July.”

Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: June 2026 · Jul 20, 2026

Kirk Miller “Juneau Egan Drive lighting improvements, all we're doing is waiting on funding approvals. We've submitted that to headquarters, should be on its way to FHWA.”

Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: June 2026 · Jul 20, 2026

Kirk Miller “The design is all done. We're kind of ready to go. But we need a focus meeting over here and figure out what month that one could potentially advertise, considering the FTA funding complications. So for now it shows June, but highly suspect that's going to slip a bit.”

Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: June 2026 · Jul 20, 2026

Luke Bowland “Sterling Highway 157 to 169 reconstruction. This project is pending final utility agreement and we're meeting regularly with that utility, a lot of ongoing coordination there and still tracking to get this one certified and Big, big project to push out here this year. So excited to see that one go into bid, hopefully September timeframe.”

Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: June 2026 · Jul 20, 2026

Kirk Miller “Goon gets a big red square this month. I don't know what to do with this date. We're wrapped up in some very difficult FDA funding issues.”

Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: June 2026 · Jul 20, 2026

Luke Bowland “ANC gates N1/C3 passenger boarding bridge replacement design-build. For this project, environmental clearances have been received, no utility agreements, and right now coordinating with contracts to get this design-build out to bid and should be seeing that here late July.”

Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: July 2026 · Jul 20, 2026

Luke Bowland “Hollywood Vine to Big Lake pavement preservation. Right-of-way is looking like critical path on this. Looking at 35 to 40 property interests, and so we'll see how fast we can advance those right-of-way efforts. Showing November for right now.”

Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: July 2026 · Jul 20, 2026

Luke Bowland “Wasilla Fishhook Main Street rehab. This PDA has been advancing, this one's certified, the funding request is over at Federal Highways for approval. They had some questions on the conditional right-of-way cert for this project, which we got resolved yesterday.”

Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: July 2026 · Jul 20, 2026

Luke Bowland “KGB, this is a huge priority for the department, safety corridor improvements. We've got over 100 property acquisitions needed to deliver this also. And I think we're hitting every utility within the corridor. And so pushing for March and keep you updated as we advance on that.”

Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: July 2026 · Jul 20, 2026

Luke Bowland “critical path is utilities on this. We're meeting weekly with the last remaining utility company to get that agreement in place. Also working on extension to floodplain permit that's going to be required for this, but utilities is looking at critical path.”

Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: July 2026 · Jul 20, 2026

Kirk Miller “Ketchikan-Saxman to Surf Street pavement rehabilitation, South Tongass. Big project here, major right-of-way effort ongoing right now. Definitely some risks for that December date there. There's some local issues as well, but I'm holding that as best as we can.”

Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: July 2026 · Jul 20, 2026

Kirk Miller “Ketchikan Airport seaplane ramp has a permit problem, but we're making progress. If we can resolve that Corps of Engineers permit, that's going to pop out in July. So we're all ready to go. Good chance that there could be an issue there, but we're not sure.”

Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: July 2026 · Jul 20, 2026

Kirk Miller “Gustavus Ferry Terminal generator replacement. We are waiting for a a design— a funding authorization from FHWA. For some reason, this has not been signed yet, but we're all ready to advertise. If we can get that authorization back from FHWA, that will hit July. If not, we're probably going to scoot that one into August.”

Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: July 2026 · Jul 20, 2026

Kirk Miller “Juneau Egan Drive lighting improvements. We have everything we need to advertise this project. We're going to do an internal check of the final bid docs this week and next week, and that should be advertised by late next week. So expecting no issues there.”

Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: July 2026 · Jul 20, 2026

Kirk Miller “Prince of Wales, Three Mile Creek improvements. We moved that one to March. That was— I have to look at my other list here. Was formerly in November, so there's quite a bit of delay on that. And the reason for that delay was funding complications on the FHWA grant end.”

Alaska DOT&PF: Tentative Advertise Schedule Monthly Update: July 2026 · Jul 20, 2026

Ryan Anderson “Director Pinon hit on it a bit with the budget and the cost of energy and how that just goes across the board, you know, to so many different things, because when the cost of energy picks up everything, the cost of everything goes up. And so working through that, I think, is going to be important for us”

20260522 Commissioner All-Staff- · May 22, 2026