Preliminary Decision on Public Easement to Southeast Alaska Land Trust for Puiblic Access Improvements to MWSGR

ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCESNOTICE OF PROPOSED PUBLIC EASEMENTADL 108800SOUTHEAST ALASKA LAND TRUST In accordance with AS 38.05.850, the Division of Mining, Land and Water (DMLW) proposes to issue public easement to the Southeast Alaska Land Trust. The easement would authorize the use of approximately a .10 of an acre of State land for the construction and maintenance of a staircase and related fill material on an unsurveyed parcel of state tideland seaward of Lot 43 U.S. Survey 3173, within the Mendenhall Wetlands State Game Refuge in the Gastineau Channel; Section 8, Township 41 South, Range 67 East, Copper River Meridian. Public notice of this preliminary written decision will be posted on the Alaska Public Notice System website for 30 calendar days. The public may provide written comments to DMLW during that time. Juneau post offices will also be requested to post the notice of this preliminary decision.The public is invited to comment on this preliminary decision.

Written comments must be received by DNR no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, January 12, 2018.   All comments must be submitted to: DNR, Division of Mining, Land and Water, Southeastern Regional Office by mail at 400 Willoughby Avenue, P.O. Box 111020, Juneau, AK 99811-1020, by fax at 907-465-3886, or by electronic mail to adam.moser@alaska.gov in order to ensure consideration. Please include your mailing address and telephone contact. DNR reserves the right to issue additional public notice as it determines necessary.Following the close of the comment period, all timely written comments will be considered, and DNR may make appropriate revisions to the decision or issue the preliminary decision as a final written decision. A copy of the final decision will be sent to all persons who comment on the preliminary decision. Persons who are aggrieved by the final decision will have the right to appeal it.
The Division of Mining, Land and Water reserves the right to waive technical defects in this publication.