Corps extends comments for Umiat EIS - July 24, 2011

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industryJuly 2011

Vol. 16, No. 30

Week of July 24, 2011

Corps extends comments for Umiat EIS

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has extended the public comment period for the scoping portion of its environmental review of a proposed road to Umiat.

The Army Corps will now take comments through July 26.

The Alaska District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is currently preparing a draft environmental impact statement for an all-season gravel road connecting the Dalton Highway to oil and gas prospects in the foothills of the Brooks Range Mountains, a project outlined last year by the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities.

The Army Corps recently completed five scoping meetings — in Fairbanks, Anchorage, Nuiqsut, Barrow and Anaktuvuk Pass — and plans to issue a scoping report this fall.

Comments can be made online at www.foothillswesteis.com/submit-a-comment.

—Eric Lidji

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