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City of Kenai
RESOLUTION NO. 98-19
A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASICa,
REQUESTING THE U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS TO IMMEDIATELY
REISSUE THOSE NATIONWIDE PERMITS THAT WERE EXCLUDED FROM THE
KENAI RIVER COMPREHENSIVE MANAGEMENT PLAN BOUNDARIES IN SPN
97-02.
WHEREAS, nationwide permits were put in place to accommodate citizens and
businesses needing to make minor intrusions into wetlands; and
WHEREAS, these nationwide permits were instituted to expedite the permitting
process where the impact of the wetlands intrusion did not warrant the
extensive permitting process otherwise required; and
WHEREAS, without these nationwide permits utility companies cannot operate
in a timely and proper manner in providing service to their consumers; and
WHEREAS, without these permits the costs incurred by utility companies could
have an effect on the rate base and ultimately the cost to consumers; and
WHEREAS, without these nationwide permits citizens are deprived of the
opportunity to make minor intrusions into wetlands for properties with single
family dwellings without going through a time consuming and more expensive
full permitting process; and
WHEREAS, these nationwide permits are no longer available to the citizens
living in, or utility companies and other businesses working in, the whole of the
area encompassed by the Kenai River Management Plan; and
WHEREAS, the revocation of these permits affects all wetlands in the Plan
Boundary and not just those immediately contiguous to the Kenai River; and
WHEREAS, the City of Kenai is surrounded by and has affected wetlands areas
within its corporate limits, a large percentage of which are not contiguous to
the Kenai River; and
WHEREAS, these permits were revoked without adequate notice and
information provided to the pUblic in affected areas.
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Resolution No. 98-19
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
KENAI, ALASKA that it requests that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
immediately reissue those nationwide permits that were excluded from the
Kenai River Comprehensive Management Plan Boundaries in SPN 97-02; and
FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI
opposes conditions being placed on these permits without public hearing after
adequate public notice and information has been provided to the citizens and
businesses of the affected area.
PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, this 1st day of
April 1998.
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ATTEST:
Carol L. Freas, City Clerk
(3/27/98) kh