The Interior secretary announced plans for the review in March and withdrew a land exchange approved by the Trump administration, raising concerns in King Cove and with state officials.
plans for the review in March and withdrew a land exchange approved by the Trump administration, raising concerns in King Cove and with state officials that she won’t ultimately approve a land swap.
A spokesperson with the Interior Department said in an email that with the new review, called a supplemental environmental impact statement, the agency is “committed to engaging in meaningful nation-to-nation consultation with Tribes, upholding the mission and intent of the national wildlife refuge system for the American people, and delivering on the tenets that guide land management in Alaska, as laid out in the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.
The controversial road would slice through the refuge at the tip of the Alaska Peninsula, some 600 miles southwest of Anchorage. The road has been at the center of a decades-long battle between the largely Indigenous people of King Cove, who say it will provide lifesaving access to a jet-accessible runway in Cold Bay, and environmental groups who say a road will harm the refuge.
The proposed land exchange would transfer 200 acres within the refuge to the state of Alaska for a road, while the federal government would receive more than 50,000 acres from the state and the King Cove Corp., the Alaska Native corporation for the village. Haaland in March withdrew a different land swap for the road that had been authorized in 2019 by the Trump administration, after Interior determined it contained procedural flaws and did not properly consider subsistence impacts. That has raised concerns in the village of 850 and at the state level that Haaland does not intend to approve the road when the environmental review is complete.for the road.
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