As the Kenai Peninsula Borough’s North Road Extension plans wait for an environmental impact exclusion, another plan from Apache Corporation is also in the works.
Borough Chief of Staff Paul Ostrander gave an update on the projects at the last assembly meeting.
Ostrander: “The borough’s continuing to work on getting a categorical exclusion approved through federal highways to allow us to spend the federal grant monies that were given to the borough back in the late 1990s, that would improve the first four miles of the north road. In addition to that Apache is actively pursuing a core application for the extension of the road out there and also a road service area permit. So those two are working in parallel.”
Apache submitted an application to the borough road service area to construct an extension from the end of the Spur Highway at the Captain Cook State Park to Otter Creek in the Gray Cliffs subdivision.
They have also applied for their Clean Water Act Section 404 wetlands permit with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and are awaiting approval on that.
