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Kiewit Infrastructure West Company's stated purpose is to upgrade and expand approximately 12 miles of existing dirt road FH43 to current ADOT&PF standards and improve safety for motorized and non-motorized users. Placement of 333,340 cubic yards of fill material in 33.48 acres of waters of the U.S, including wetlands. Please contact Estrella Campellone at (907) 753-2518, toll free from within Alaska at (800) 478-2712, by fax at (907) 753-5567, or by email at Estrella.f.campellone@usace.army.mil if further information is desired concerning this notice.
Please contact Estrella Campellone at (907) 753-2518, toll free from within Alaska at (800) 478-2712, by fax at (907) 753-5567, or by email at Estrella.f.campellone@usace.army.mil if further information is desired concerning this notice.
POA-2010-772_El Capitan Passage, PN
POA-2010-772_El Capitan Passage, PN Drawings
POA-2010-772_El Capitan Passage, PN DRAFT Compensatory Mitigation Options Statement
POA-2010-772
FH-43 Improvements Project
El Capitan Passage
Applicant: Kiewit Infrastructure West Company
Agent: PND Engineers, Inc.
February 8, 2013
DRAFT Compensatory Mitigation Options Statement
The applicant is proposing a combination of an approved In-Lieu-Fee program and permittee responsible
compensatory mitigation in order to mitigate for impacts to jurisdictional wetlands and waters of the U.S. due
to the proposed upgrading of a 12-mile segment of FH43. At this time, the applicant and U.S. Forest Service
(FS) have presented several projects that may qualify as compensatory mitigation. Upon approval by the
Corps, these FS projects would be incorporated into the formal project Draft Mitigation Plan for approval by
the district reviewer prior to permit issuance. The Draft Mitigation Plan will include baseline information and
methodology for determination of credits. The Final Mitigation Plan would be submitted for approval by the
district engineer before the permittee commences work in waters of the United States.
Permittee Responsible Mitigation
The applicant is actively working with the FS to identify projects that are ecologically beneficial in terms of
projected changes in functions and values of wetlands or streams involved, are located on Prince of Wales
Island near the impacted watershed, and can be implemented within an approved time frame relative to
permit issuance. The applicant will partially or entirely fund these projects. Applicant and FS will enter into a
collection agreement to establish means of payment and outline project commitments and objectives.
Location
The FS projects under consideration are primarily within the Staney Creek watershed located due south of the
proposed road upgrading project on Prince of Wales Island. The Staney Creek Watershed has been listed as a
priority watershed by the Tongass National Forest and as a very high priority for restoration by the Nature
Conservancy (2008) due to its high biological value and its moderate to high modification of riparian habitat.
Staney Creek supports three species of anadromous salmon coho, pink and chum, as well as, resident and
anadromous coastal cutthroat, rainbow/steelhead trout, and Dolly Varden char.
Background
A significant percentage of riparian areas in alluvial large wood-dependent channels have been harvested or
roaded. Thirty-three percent of the riparian area has been harvested since 1965. Both road density and road
proximity to streams pose potential long term risk to the hydrologic function and fish habitat condition in
Staney Creek. Timber harvest practices and construction of timber extraction roads took place prior to the
environmental safeguards of today.
Proposed Projects
The nature of the projects proposed to offset debits incurred by the upgrading of FH-43 are intended to
address these impacts through enhancement and restoration of fish streams, riparian thinning, and red culvert
removal or replacement to allow for fish passage. These projects will improve sediment transport, habitat
complexity, future large wood recruitment, hydrologic connectivity, and provide fish passage.
1. In-Stream Enhancement: In-stream restoration of small tributaries and large channel reaches
includes placement of large woody debris (LWD), rocks and bank repair using heavy machinery
and/or hand tools pending accessibility, to restore stream bank and channel processes.
Enhancement is specific to fish bearing reaches that have lost their depth, pool frequency, and large
wood as a result of past timber harvest and road construction.
2. Riparian Thinning: Perform timber thinning within areas adjacent to fish bearing streams to
encourage faster growth of natural and beneficial sources of large woody debris over the short- and
long-term. Riparian thinning improves floodplain function by increasing the growth rate of young
trees for future large woody debris which in turn increases bank stability and understory growth. In
some cases conifers cut when thinning are large enough to use for as woody debris structures in
small channels.
3. Fish Barrier Culvert Removal or Replacement: Where possible, complete removal of existing "red"
category culverts characterized by a high certainty of not providing juvenile fish passage. If
retention of a structure is necessary at a particular location, it will be replaced with a structure that
allow for natural migration by adult and juvenile fish during various flows such as a bridge or a
culvert that allows for fish passage.
Ecological Benefits and Objectives
Ecological benefits that help to qualify these projects for use as compensatory mitigation include:
1. Improvement or restoration of the natural range and frequency of aquatic habitat conditions that
sustain the diversity and production of fish and other freshwater organisms.
2. Increased channel and habitat complexity in the Staney Creek watershed.
3. Increased growth of understory vegetation and species diversity.
4. Faster return of riparian vegetation to pre-harvest conditions.
5. Improved salmon and steelhead rearing and refugia habitat in the watershed.
6. Increased steelhead spawning habitat in watershed.
7. Increased Coho and Chum spawning habitat in the watershed.
8. Improved or restored biological, physical, and chemical integrity of the watershed.
9. Improved or restored stream bank and stream channel processes.
10. Improved or restored recruitment of LWD over the short and long term.
Performance Standards and Monitoring
Monitoring of these projects to ensure that performance standards are met will include implementation and
effectiveness parameters. Implementation monitoring will ensure that treatments were applied as planned
and will be conducted through as-built surveys, documentation and geo-referencing of structures constructed
and habitat associated with each structure relative to pre-treatment baseline data. Pre- and post-treatment
photography will also be included. Effectiveness monitoring will be used to detect trends in biota and habitat
conditions over time. Performance indicators will include measures such as juvenile fish abundance and
species diversity, pool frequency, riffle length, and substrate characterization.
Maintenance and Long Term Management
Detailed maintenance obligations, adaptive management strategies, and long term management of the
mitigation areas will be based on the Tongass-wide Stream Restoration Effectiveness Monitoring Program
currently administered by the FS and described in detail within the Draft Mitigation Plan. Methods of
financial assurances that may be deemed necessary to provide funding for the long term will be included in
the agreement between the applicant and the FS as well as the Draft Mitigation Plan.
In Lieu Fee Program
If the Corps determines that the FS' proposed projects are not eligible or only provide partial credit for the
compensatory mitigation required, the applicant would make use of the In-Lieu-Fee program for the balance
of the mitigation. In-Lieu-Fee program would be executed through the Southeast Alaska Land Trust or other
entity approved by the Corps.
PRINCE
OF WALES
ISLAND
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
0
6
12
18
24MI
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 1 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17113
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 2 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 3 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 4 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 5 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 6 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 7 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 8 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 9 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 10 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 11 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 12 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 13 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 14 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 15 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 16 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 17 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 18 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 19 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 20 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 21 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 22 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 23 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 24 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 25 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 26 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 27 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 28 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 29 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 30 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
TYPICAL
TWO LANE SECTION
TYPICAL EXCAVATION FOR
TWO LANE SECTION IN WETLAND AREA
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 31 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
TYPICAL PIPE CULVERT INSTALLATION - NON-FISH STREAMS
TYPICAL PIPE CULVERT INSTALLATION - FISH STREAMS
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 32 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
SOFT SUBGRADE
TYPICAL FISH CULVERT
CROSS SECTION
STABLE SUBGRADE
TYPICAL FISH ARCH PIPE
CROSS SECTION
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
STABLE SUBGRADE (UNYIELDING MATERIAL)
FOUNDATION DETAILS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 33 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
US Army Corps
of Engineers
Alaska District
Regulatory Division (1145)
CEPOA-RD
Post Office Box 6898
JBER, Alaska 99506-0898
Public Notice
of Application
for Permit
PUBLIC NOTICE DATE:
February 12, 2013
EXPIRATION DATE:
March 14, 2013
REFERENCE NUMBER:
POA-2010-772
WATERWAY:
EL CAPITAN PASSAGE
Interested parties are hereby notified that a Department of the Army permit
application has been received for work in waters of the United States as described
below and shown on the enclosed project drawings.
Comments on the described work, with the reference number, should reach this office
no later than the expiration date of this Public Notice to become part of the
record and be considered in the decision. Please contact Estrella Campellone at
(907) 753-2518, toll free from within Alaska at (800) 478-2712, by fax at (907)
753-5567, or by email at Estrella.f.campellone@usace.army.mil if further
information is desired concerning this notice.
APPLICANT: John Dunbar, Kiewit Infrastructure West Company, 2000 W. International
Airport Road C-6, Anchorage, Alaska 99502. Telephone: 907-518-1847.
AGENT:
98104.
Laura Gurley, PND Engineers, Inc., 811 First Avenue, Suite 570, Seattle, WA
Telephone: 206-624-1387.
LOCATION: The project is located in the Tongass National Forest, southeast Alaska,
within Township 67 S, Range 79 E, Sections 4, 5, 8, 9, 17-20 and 29-32 and Township
68 S, Range 79 E, Sections 5-8 and 17-20, Copper River Meridian, USGS Quad Map
Craig D-4 and Petersburg A-4. The north end of the project (at Neck Lake) starts at
Latitude 56.0898 N, Longitude -133.2160 W; the end location (approximately Sarkar
Creek) is at Latitude 55.4513 N, Longitude 133.2667 W between Whale Pass and
Naukati, and between milepost 81.4 and milepost 93.4, on Prince of Wales Island,
Alaska.
SPECIAL AREA DESIGNATION:
Forest.
The project is located within the Tongass National
PURPOSE: The applicant's stated purpose is to upgrade and expand approximately 12
miles of existing dirt road FH43 to current ADOT&PF standards and improve safety
for motorized and non-motorized users.
PROPOSED WORK: Placement of 333,340 cubic yards of fill material in 33.48 acres of
waters of the U.S, including wetlands, as per the following table:
Table 1: Total Impacts in waters of the U. S., including wetlands.
Wetland
Forested Wetlands
Mosaic Forested Wetlands
Forested/Scrub-shrub
Scrub-shrub
Emergent
Total Wetlands
Area (acres)
25.20
0.45
1.48
3.51
2.21
32.85
Other Waters of the U.S.(WOUS)
Intermittent Streams
Perennial Streams
Beaver Pond
Total WOUS
0.15
0.33
0.15
0.63
TOTAL IMPACTS
33.48
Fill amount (cubic yards)
332,340
1,000
333,340
The expansion and upgrading of FH43 would include the widening and paving of FH43
from 22 feet wide to 24 feet wide drive lane. Safety features include signage,
guardrails, shoulders, and pullouts. Also, approximately 70 substandard culverts
would be replaced and 17 culverts would be upgraded to allow for fish passage. Two
new bridges at Chum Creek and Tunga Creek would be installed. The above project
also includes the construction of retaining walls for road stability and access
roads to waste disposal sites. All work would be performed in accordance with the
enclosed plan (sheets 1-33), dated January 17, 2012.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
This is a design-build project proposal.
APPLICANT PROPOSED MITIGATION: The applicant proposes the following mitigation
measures to avoid, minimize, and compensate for impacts to waters of the United
States from activities involving discharges of dredged or fill material.
a. Avoidance and minimization: Every attempt has been made to avoid
environmental impacts resulting from this project, including the use of the
existing road alignment and choosing whenever possible, upland areas as
waste disposal sites. Upon review of the wetland delineation, initially
proposed disposal sites were eliminated when containing high value
wetlands. Also, the footprint of waste disposal sites was reshaped to
exclude high value wetlands. Sites initially proposed for material
disposal were reevaluated and the number of sites reduced. Overall, the
project was reduced from the proposed 40.66 acres of fill evaluated during
the NEPA process to 33.48 (including streams) acres for avoidance and
minimization purposes. Best management practices are proposed including
ensuring avoidance of impacts to waters beyond the project footprint, no
construction of new staging areas, heavy equipment or work performed
outside of the authorized impact area, and stabilization of all disturbed
areas, stockpiles, and fill areas during project construction using
temporary erosion control measures. Minimization measures were also
incorporated in the design, selecting existing quarries and logged sites
over pristine areas. Minimization would also include implementing water
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quality measures and monitoring as per the APDES general permit, prevention
of deleterious material from entering the waters of the U.S., and timing
restriction when working in anadromous streams.
b. Compensatory Mitigation: The applicant is proposing permittee-responsible
compensatory mitigation. This includes a combination various restoration
and enhancement projects to be implemented in cooperation with the U.S.
Forest Service on Prince of Wales Island, Tongass National Forest. These
projects include in-stream enhancement, riparian thining, and removal or
replacement of fish barrier culverts (see attached draft Compensatory
Mitigation Options Statement). The applicant is working with U.S. Forest
Service to determine the extent of their projects in terms of existing and
projected change in functions and values of the enhanced streams, stream
classification, areas, lineal feet, monitoring protocol, etc. If the
proposed permittee-responsible mitigation projects are not eligible or only
provide partial credit for the compensatory mitigation required, the
applicant would make use of the In-Lieu-Fee program for the balance of the
mitigation. The In-Lieu-Fee program would be executed through the
Southeast Alaska Land Trust or other entity approved by the Corps.
WATER QUALITY CERTIFICATION: A permit for the described work will not be issued
until a certification or waiver of certification, as required under Section 401 of
the Clean Water Act (Public Law 95-217), has been received from the Alaska
Department of Environmental Conservation.
CULTURAL RESOURCES: The latest published version of the Alaska Heritage Resources
Survey (AHRS) has been consulted for the presence or absence of historic
properties, including those listed in or eligible for inclusion in the National
Register of Historic Places. There is a registered or eligible property in the
vicinity of the worksite. It has been designated PET-00004. Because it has been
determined to be outside of the project area, the Corps has made a `no potential to
cause effects' determination. No further action is required.
ENDANGERED SPECIES:
project area.
No threatened or endangered species are known to use the
We have determined the described activity would have no effect on any listed or
proposed threatened or endangered species, and would have no effect on any
designated or proposed critical habitat, under the Endangered Species Act of 1973
(87 Stat. 844). Therefore, no consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
or the National Marine Fisheries Service is required. However, any comments they
may have concerning endangered or threatened wildlife or plants or their critical
habitat will be considered in our final assessment of the described work.
ESSENTIAL FISH HABITAT: The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management
Act, as amended by the Sustainable Fisheries Act of 1996, requires all Federal
agencies to consult with the NMFS on all actions, or proposed actions, permitted,
funded, or undertaken by the agency, that may adversely affect Essential Fish
Habitat (EFH).
No EFH species are known to use the project area.
We have determined the described activity would not adversely affect EFH in the
project area.
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TRIBAL CONSULTATION: The Alaska District fully supports tribal self-governance and
government-to-government relations between Federally recognized Tribes and the
Federal government. Tribes with protected rights or resources that could be
significantly affected by a proposed Federal action (e.g., a permit decision) have
the right to consult with the Alaska District on a government-to-government basis.
Views of each Tribe regarding protected rights and resources will be accorded due
consideration in this process. This Public Notice serves as notification to the
Tribes within the area potentially affected by the proposed work and invites their
participation in the Federal decision-making process regarding the protected Tribal
right or resource. Consultation may be initiated by the affected Tribe upon
written request to the District Commander during the public comment period.
PUBLIC HEARING: Any person may request, in writing, within the comment period
specified in this notice, that a public hearing be held to consider this
application. Requests for public hearings shall state, with particularity, reasons
for holding a public hearing.
EVALUATION: The decision whether to issue a permit will be based on an evaluation
of the probable impacts, including cumulative impacts of the proposed activity and
its intended use on the public interest. Evaluation of the probable impacts, which
the proposed activity may have on the public interest, requires a careful weighing
of all the factors that become relevant in each particular case. The benefits,
which reasonably may be expected to accrue from the proposal, must be balanced
against its reasonably foreseeable detriments. The outcome of the general
balancing process would determine whether to authorize a proposal, and if so, the
conditions under which it will be allowed to occur. The decision should reflect
the national concern for both protection and utilization of important resources.
All factors, which may be relevant to the proposal, must be considered including
the cumulative effects thereof. Among those are conservation, economics,
aesthetics, general environmental concerns, wetlands, cultural values, fish and
wildlife values, flood hazards, floodplain values, land use, navigation, shore
erosion and accretion, recreation, water supply and conservation, water quality,
energy needs, safety, food and fiber production, mineral needs, considerations of
property ownership, and, in general, the needs and welfare of the people. For
activities involving 404 discharges, a permit will be denied if the discharge that
would be authorized by such permit would not comply with the Environmental
Protection Agency's 404(b)(l) guidelines. Subject to the preceding sentence and
any other applicable guidelines or criteria (see Sections 320.2 and 320.3), a
permit will be granted unless the District Commander determines that it would be
contrary to the public interest.
The Corps of Engineers is soliciting comments from the public; Federal, State, and
local agencies and officials; Indian Tribes; and other interested parties in order
to consider and evaluate the impacts of this proposed activity. Any comments
received will be considered by the Corps of Engineers to determine whether to
issue, modify, condition or deny a permit for this proposal. To make this
decision, comments are used to assess impacts on endangered species, historic
properties, water quality, general environmental effects, and the other public
interest factors listed above. Comments are used in the preparation of an
Environmental Assessment and/or an Environmental Impact Statement pursuant to the
National Environmental Policy Act. Comments are also used to determine the need
for a public hearing and to determine the overall public interest of the proposed
activity.
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AUTHORITY:
This permit will be issued or denied under the following authorities:
(X) Discharge dredged or fill material into waters of the United States
Section 404 Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1344). Therefore, our public interest
review will consider the guidelines set forth under Section 404(b) of the Clean
Water Act (40 CFR 230).
Project drawings and a Notice of Application for State Water Quality Certification
are enclosed with this Public Notice.
District Commander
U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers
Enclosures
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SEAN PARNELL, GOVERNOR
STATE OF ALASKA
DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
DIVISION OF WATER
401 Certification Program
Non-Point Source Water Pollution Control Program
JUNEAU
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
WQM/401 CERTIFICATION
410 WILLOUGHBY AVENUE
JUNEAU, ALASKA 99801-1795
PHONE: (907) 465-5321/FAX: (907) 465-5274
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
FOR
STATE WATER QUALITY CERTIFICATION
Any applicant for a federal license or permit to conduct an activity that might
result in a discharge into navigable waters, in accordance with Section 401 of the
Clean Water Act of 1977 (PL95-217), also must apply for and obtain certification
from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation that the discharge will
comply with the Clean Water Act, the Alaska Water Quality Standards, and other
applicable State laws. By agreement between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and
the Department of Environmental Conservation, application for a Department of the
Army permit to discharge dredged or fill material into navigable waters under
Section 404 of the Clean Water Act also may serve as application for State Water
Quality Certification.
Notice is hereby given that the application for a Department of the Army Permit
described in the Corps of Engineers' Public Notice No. POA-2010-772, El Capitan
Passage, serves as application for State Water Quality Certification from the
Department of Environmental Conservation.
After reviewing the application, the Department may certify there is reasonable
assurance the activity, and any discharge that might result, will comply with the
Clean Water Act, the Alaska Water Quality Standards, and other applicable State
laws. The Department also may deny or waive certification.
Any person desiring to comment on the project, with respect to Water Quality
Certification, may submit written comments to the address above by the expiration
date of the Corps of Engineer's Public Notice.
US Army Corps
of Engineers
Alaska District
Regulatory Division (1145)
CEPOA-RD
Post Office Box 6898
JBER, Alaska 99506-0898
Public Notice
of Application
for Permit
PUBLIC NOTICE DATE:
February 12, 2013
EXPIRATION DATE:
March 14, 2013
REFERENCE NUMBER:
POA-2010-772
WATERWAY:
EL CAPITAN PASSAGE
Interested parties are hereby notified that a Department of the Army permit
application has been received for work in waters of the United States as described
below and shown on the enclosed project drawings.
Comments on the described work, with the reference number, should reach this office
no later than the expiration date of this Public Notice to become part of the
record and be considered in the decision. Please contact Estrella Campellone at
(907) 753-2518, toll free from within Alaska at (800) 478-2712, by fax at (907)
753-5567, or by email at Estrella.f.campellone@usace.army.mil if further
information is desired concerning this notice.
APPLICANT: John Dunbar, Kiewit Infrastructure West Company, 2000 W. International
Airport Road C-6, Anchorage, Alaska 99502. Telephone: 907-518-1847.
AGENT:
98104.
Laura Gurley, PND Engineers, Inc., 811 First Avenue, Suite 570, Seattle, WA
Telephone: 206-624-1387.
LOCATION: The project is located in the Tongass National Forest, southeast Alaska,
within Township 67 S, Range 79 E, Sections 4, 5, 8, 9, 17-20 and 29-32 and Township
68 S, Range 79 E, Sections 5-8 and 17-20, Copper River Meridian, USGS Quad Map
Craig D-4 and Petersburg A-4. The north end of the project (at Neck Lake) starts at
Latitude 56.0898 N, Longitude -133.2160 W; the end location (approximately Sarkar
Creek) is at Latitude 55.4513 N, Longitude 133.2667 W between Whale Pass and
Naukati, and between milepost 81.4 and milepost 93.4, on Prince of Wales Island,
Alaska.
SPECIAL AREA DESIGNATION:
Forest.
The project is located within the Tongass National
PURPOSE: The applicant's stated purpose is to upgrade and expand approximately 12
miles of existing dirt road FH43 to current ADOT&PF standards and improve safety
for motorized and non-motorized users.
PROPOSED WORK: Placement of 333,340 cubic yards of fill material in 33.48 acres of
waters of the U.S, including wetlands, as per the following table:
Table 1: Total Impacts in waters of the U. S., including wetlands.
Wetland
Forested Wetlands
Mosaic Forested Wetlands
Forested/Scrub-shrub
Scrub-shrub
Emergent
Total Wetlands
Area (acres)
25.20
0.45
1.48
3.51
2.21
32.85
Other Waters of the U.S.(WOUS)
Intermittent Streams
Perennial Streams
Beaver Pond
Total WOUS
0.15
0.33
0.15
0.63
TOTAL IMPACTS
33.48
Fill amount (cubic yards)
332,340
1,000
333,340
The expansion and upgrading of FH43 would include the widening and paving of FH43
from 22 feet wide to 24 feet wide drive lane. Safety features include signage,
guardrails, shoulders, and pullouts. Also, approximately 70 substandard culverts
would be replaced and 17 culverts would be upgraded to allow for fish passage. Two
new bridges at Chum Creek and Tunga Creek would be installed. The above project
also includes the construction of retaining walls for road stability and access
roads to waste disposal sites. All work would be performed in accordance with the
enclosed plan (sheets 1-33), dated January 17, 2012.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
This is a design-build project proposal.
APPLICANT PROPOSED MITIGATION: The applicant proposes the following mitigation
measures to avoid, minimize, and compensate for impacts to waters of the United
States from activities involving discharges of dredged or fill material.
a. Avoidance and minimization: Every attempt has been made to avoid
environmental impacts resulting from this project, including the use of the
existing road alignment and choosing whenever possible, upland areas as
waste disposal sites. Upon review of the wetland delineation, initially
proposed disposal sites were eliminated when containing high value
wetlands. Also, the footprint of waste disposal sites was reshaped to
exclude high value wetlands. Sites initially proposed for material
disposal were reevaluated and the number of sites reduced. Overall, the
project was reduced from the proposed 40.66 acres of fill evaluated during
the NEPA process to 33.48 (including streams) acres for avoidance and
minimization purposes. Best management practices are proposed including
ensuring avoidance of impacts to waters beyond the project footprint, no
construction of new staging areas, heavy equipment or work performed
outside of the authorized impact area, and stabilization of all disturbed
areas, stockpiles, and fill areas during project construction using
temporary erosion control measures. Minimization measures were also
incorporated in the design, selecting existing quarries and logged sites
over pristine areas. Minimization would also include implementing water
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quality measures and monitoring as per the APDES general permit, prevention
of deleterious material from entering the waters of the U.S., and timing
restriction when working in anadromous streams.
b. Compensatory Mitigation: The applicant is proposing permittee-responsible
compensatory mitigation. This includes a combination various restoration
and enhancement projects to be implemented in cooperation with the U.S.
Forest Service on Prince of Wales Island, Tongass National Forest. These
projects include in-stream enhancement, riparian thining, and removal or
replacement of fish barrier culverts (see attached draft Compensatory
Mitigation Options Statement). The applicant is working with U.S. Forest
Service to determine the extent of their projects in terms of existing and
projected change in functions and values of the enhanced streams, stream
classification, areas, lineal feet, monitoring protocol, etc. If the
proposed permittee-responsible mitigation projects are not eligible or only
provide partial credit for the compensatory mitigation required, the
applicant would make use of the In-Lieu-Fee program for the balance of the
mitigation. The In-Lieu-Fee program would be executed through the
Southeast Alaska Land Trust or other entity approved by the Corps.
WATER QUALITY CERTIFICATION: A permit for the described work will not be issued
until a certification or waiver of certification, as required under Section 401 of
the Clean Water Act (Public Law 95-217), has been received from the Alaska
Department of Environmental Conservation.
CULTURAL RESOURCES: The latest published version of the Alaska Heritage Resources
Survey (AHRS) has been consulted for the presence or absence of historic
properties, including those listed in or eligible for inclusion in the National
Register of Historic Places. There is a registered or eligible property in the
vicinity of the worksite. It has been designated PET-00004. Because it has been
determined to be outside of the project area, the Corps has made a `no potential to
cause effects' determination. No further action is required.
ENDANGERED SPECIES:
project area.
No threatened or endangered species are known to use the
We have determined the described activity would have no effect on any listed or
proposed threatened or endangered species, and would have no effect on any
designated or proposed critical habitat, under the Endangered Species Act of 1973
(87 Stat. 844). Therefore, no consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
or the National Marine Fisheries Service is required. However, any comments they
may have concerning endangered or threatened wildlife or plants or their critical
habitat will be considered in our final assessment of the described work.
ESSENTIAL FISH HABITAT: The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management
Act, as amended by the Sustainable Fisheries Act of 1996, requires all Federal
agencies to consult with the NMFS on all actions, or proposed actions, permitted,
funded, or undertaken by the agency, that may adversely affect Essential Fish
Habitat (EFH).
No EFH species are known to use the project area.
We have determined the described activity would not adversely affect EFH in the
project area.
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TRIBAL CONSULTATION: The Alaska District fully supports tribal self-governance and
government-to-government relations between Federally recognized Tribes and the
Federal government. Tribes with protected rights or resources that could be
significantly affected by a proposed Federal action (e.g., a permit decision) have
the right to consult with the Alaska District on a government-to-government basis.
Views of each Tribe regarding protected rights and resources will be accorded due
consideration in this process. This Public Notice serves as notification to the
Tribes within the area potentially affected by the proposed work and invites their
participation in the Federal decision-making process regarding the protected Tribal
right or resource. Consultation may be initiated by the affected Tribe upon
written request to the District Commander during the public comment period.
PUBLIC HEARING: Any person may request, in writing, within the comment period
specified in this notice, that a public hearing be held to consider this
application. Requests for public hearings shall state, with particularity, reasons
for holding a public hearing.
EVALUATION: The decision whether to issue a permit will be based on an evaluation
of the probable impacts, including cumulative impacts of the proposed activity and
its intended use on the public interest. Evaluation of the probable impacts, which
the proposed activity may have on the public interest, requires a careful weighing
of all the factors that become relevant in each particular case. The benefits,
which reasonably may be expected to accrue from the proposal, must be balanced
against its reasonably foreseeable detriments. The outcome of the general
balancing process would determine whether to authorize a proposal, and if so, the
conditions under which it will be allowed to occur. The decision should reflect
the national concern for both protection and utilization of important resources.
All factors, which may be relevant to the proposal, must be considered including
the cumulative effects thereof. Among those are conservation, economics,
aesthetics, general environmental concerns, wetlands, cultural values, fish and
wildlife values, flood hazards, floodplain values, land use, navigation, shore
erosion and accretion, recreation, water supply and conservation, water quality,
energy needs, safety, food and fiber production, mineral needs, considerations of
property ownership, and, in general, the needs and welfare of the people. For
activities involving 404 discharges, a permit will be denied if the discharge that
would be authorized by such permit would not comply with the Environmental
Protection Agency's 404(b)(l) guidelines. Subject to the preceding sentence and
any other applicable guidelines or criteria (see Sections 320.2 and 320.3), a
permit will be granted unless the District Commander determines that it would be
contrary to the public interest.
The Corps of Engineers is soliciting comments from the public; Federal, State, and
local agencies and officials; Indian Tribes; and other interested parties in order
to consider and evaluate the impacts of this proposed activity. Any comments
received will be considered by the Corps of Engineers to determine whether to
issue, modify, condition or deny a permit for this proposal. To make this
decision, comments are used to assess impacts on endangered species, historic
properties, water quality, general environmental effects, and the other public
interest factors listed above. Comments are used in the preparation of an
Environmental Assessment and/or an Environmental Impact Statement pursuant to the
National Environmental Policy Act. Comments are also used to determine the need
for a public hearing and to determine the overall public interest of the proposed
activity.
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AUTHORITY:
This permit will be issued or denied under the following authorities:
(X) Discharge dredged or fill material into waters of the United States
Section 404 Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1344). Therefore, our public interest
review will consider the guidelines set forth under Section 404(b) of the Clean
Water Act (40 CFR 230).
Project drawings and a Notice of Application for State Water Quality Certification
are enclosed with this Public Notice.
District Commander
U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers
Enclosures
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SEAN PARNELL, GOVERNOR
STATE OF ALASKA
DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
DIVISION OF WATER
401 Certification Program
Non-Point Source Water Pollution Control Program
JUNEAU
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
WQM/401 CERTIFICATION
410 WILLOUGHBY AVENUE
JUNEAU, ALASKA 99801-1795
PHONE: (907) 465-5321/FAX: (907) 465-5274
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
FOR
STATE WATER QUALITY CERTIFICATION
Any applicant for a federal license or permit to conduct an activity that might
result in a discharge into navigable waters, in accordance with Section 401 of the
Clean Water Act of 1977 (PL95-217), also must apply for and obtain certification
from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation that the discharge will
comply with the Clean Water Act, the Alaska Water Quality Standards, and other
applicable State laws. By agreement between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and
the Department of Environmental Conservation, application for a Department of the
Army permit to discharge dredged or fill material into navigable waters under
Section 404 of the Clean Water Act also may serve as application for State Water
Quality Certification.
Notice is hereby given that the application for a Department of the Army Permit
described in the Corps of Engineers' Public Notice No. POA-2010-772, El Capitan
Passage, serves as application for State Water Quality Certification from the
Department of Environmental Conservation.
After reviewing the application, the Department may certify there is reasonable
assurance the activity, and any discharge that might result, will comply with the
Clean Water Act, the Alaska Water Quality Standards, and other applicable State
laws. The Department also may deny or waive certification.
Any person desiring to comment on the project, with respect to Water Quality
Certification, may submit written comments to the address above by the expiration
date of the Corps of Engineer's Public Notice.
POA-2010-772
FH-43 Improvements Project
El Capitan Passage
Applicant: Kiewit Infrastructure West Company
Agent: PND Engineers, Inc.
February 8, 2013
DRAFT Compensatory Mitigation Options Statement
The applicant is proposing a combination of an approved In-Lieu-Fee program and permittee responsible
compensatory mitigation in order to mitigate for impacts to jurisdictional wetlands and waters of the U.S. due
to the proposed upgrading of a 12-mile segment of FH43. At this time, the applicant and U.S. Forest Service
(FS) have presented several projects that may qualify as compensatory mitigation. Upon approval by the
Corps, these FS projects would be incorporated into the formal project Draft Mitigation Plan for approval by
the district reviewer prior to permit issuance. The Draft Mitigation Plan will include baseline information and
methodology for determination of credits. The Final Mitigation Plan would be submitted for approval by the
district engineer before the permittee commences work in waters of the United States.
Permittee Responsible Mitigation
The applicant is actively working with the FS to identify projects that are ecologically beneficial in terms of
projected changes in functions and values of wetlands or streams involved, are located on Prince of Wales
Island near the impacted watershed, and can be implemented within an approved time frame relative to
permit issuance. The applicant will partially or entirely fund these projects. Applicant and FS will enter into a
collection agreement to establish means of payment and outline project commitments and objectives.
Location
The FS projects under consideration are primarily within the Staney Creek watershed located due south of the
proposed road upgrading project on Prince of Wales Island. The Staney Creek Watershed has been listed as a
priority watershed by the Tongass National Forest and as a very high priority for restoration by the Nature
Conservancy (2008) due to its high biological value and its moderate to high modification of riparian habitat.
Staney Creek supports three species of anadromous salmon coho, pink and chum, as well as, resident and
anadromous coastal cutthroat, rainbow/steelhead trout, and Dolly Varden char.
Background
A significant percentage of riparian areas in alluvial large wood-dependent channels have been harvested or
roaded. Thirty-three percent of the riparian area has been harvested since 1965. Both road density and road
proximity to streams pose potential long term risk to the hydrologic function and fish habitat condition in
Staney Creek. Timber harvest practices and construction of timber extraction roads took place prior to the
environmental safeguards of today.
Proposed Projects
The nature of the projects proposed to offset debits incurred by the upgrading of FH-43 are intended to
address these impacts through enhancement and restoration of fish streams, riparian thinning, and red culvert
removal or replacement to allow for fish passage. These projects will improve sediment transport, habitat
complexity, future large wood recruitment, hydrologic connectivity, and provide fish passage.
1. In-Stream Enhancement: In-stream restoration of small tributaries and large channel reaches
includes placement of large woody debris (LWD), rocks and bank repair using heavy machinery
and/or hand tools pending accessibility, to restore stream bank and channel processes.
Enhancement is specific to fish bearing reaches that have lost their depth, pool frequency, and large
wood as a result of past timber harvest and road construction.
2. Riparian Thinning: Perform timber thinning within areas adjacent to fish bearing streams to
encourage faster growth of natural and beneficial sources of large woody debris over the short- and
long-term. Riparian thinning improves floodplain function by increasing the growth rate of young
trees for future large woody debris which in turn increases bank stability and understory growth. In
some cases conifers cut when thinning are large enough to use for as woody debris structures in
small channels.
3. Fish Barrier Culvert Removal or Replacement: Where possible, complete removal of existing "red"
category culverts characterized by a high certainty of not providing juvenile fish passage. If
retention of a structure is necessary at a particular location, it will be replaced with a structure that
allow for natural migration by adult and juvenile fish during various flows such as a bridge or a
culvert that allows for fish passage.
Ecological Benefits and Objectives
Ecological benefits that help to qualify these projects for use as compensatory mitigation include:
1. Improvement or restoration of the natural range and frequency of aquatic habitat conditions that
sustain the diversity and production of fish and other freshwater organisms.
2. Increased channel and habitat complexity in the Staney Creek watershed.
3. Increased growth of understory vegetation and species diversity.
4. Faster return of riparian vegetation to pre-harvest conditions.
5. Improved salmon and steelhead rearing and refugia habitat in the watershed.
6. Increased steelhead spawning habitat in watershed.
7. Increased Coho and Chum spawning habitat in the watershed.
8. Improved or restored biological, physical, and chemical integrity of the watershed.
9. Improved or restored stream bank and stream channel processes.
10. Improved or restored recruitment of LWD over the short and long term.
Performance Standards and Monitoring
Monitoring of these projects to ensure that performance standards are met will include implementation and
effectiveness parameters. Implementation monitoring will ensure that treatments were applied as planned
and will be conducted through as-built surveys, documentation and geo-referencing of structures constructed
and habitat associated with each structure relative to pre-treatment baseline data. Pre- and post-treatment
photography will also be included. Effectiveness monitoring will be used to detect trends in biota and habitat
conditions over time. Performance indicators will include measures such as juvenile fish abundance and
species diversity, pool frequency, riffle length, and substrate characterization.
Maintenance and Long Term Management
Detailed maintenance obligations, adaptive management strategies, and long term management of the
mitigation areas will be based on the Tongass-wide Stream Restoration Effectiveness Monitoring Program
currently administered by the FS and described in detail within the Draft Mitigation Plan. Methods of
financial assurances that may be deemed necessary to provide funding for the long term will be included in
the agreement between the applicant and the FS as well as the Draft Mitigation Plan.
In Lieu Fee Program
If the Corps determines that the FS' proposed projects are not eligible or only provide partial credit for the
compensatory mitigation required, the applicant would make use of the In-Lieu-Fee program for the balance
of the mitigation. In-Lieu-Fee program would be executed through the Southeast Alaska Land Trust or other
entity approved by the Corps.
PRINCE
OF WALES
ISLAND
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
0
6
12
18
24MI
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 1 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17113
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 2 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 3 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 4 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 5 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 6 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 7 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 8 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 9 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 10 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 11 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 12 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 13 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 14 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 15 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 16 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 17 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 18 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 19 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 20 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 21 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 22 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 23 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 24 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 25 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 26 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 27 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 28 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 29 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 30 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
TYPICAL
TWO LANE SECTION
TYPICAL EXCAVATION FOR
TWO LANE SECTION IN WETLAND AREA
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 31 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
TYPICAL PIPE CULVERT INSTALLATION - NON-FISH STREAMS
TYPICAL PIPE CULVERT INSTALLATION - FISH STREAMS
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 32 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13
SOFT SUBGRADE
TYPICAL FISH CULVERT
CROSS SECTION
STABLE SUBGRADE
TYPICAL FISH ARCH PIPE
CROSS SECTION
PROJECT: FHWA FOREST HIGHWAY 43
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
STABLE SUBGRADE (UNYIELDING MATERIAL)
FOUNDATION DETAILS
LOCATION: TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
T 67, 68 S. R 79 E, COPPER RIVER MERIDIAN
WATERBODY: CHUM CREEK, TUNGA CREEK
AND VARIOUS WETLANDS AND STREAMS
SHEET: 33 of 33
DATE: REV.2 1/17/13