LifeFuel PLANNING FOR ALASKA'S REGIONAL PORTS AND HARBORS

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Challenges Facing Alaska’s Marine and Riverine Infrastructure Port and harbor maintenance and development are impeded by several challenges, among them:

- High construction costs and intense competition for limited statewide funding

- Pressure from global trends in shipping and maritime transportation

- Rural population centers with a lack of existing infrastructure due largely to geographic and seasonal constraints and small populations and financial bases

- Poor communication among stakeholders; poor alignment of agency policies and priorities

- The absence of a long-term marine and riverine transportation plan

Addressing these challenges requires an understanding of both the existing transportation network and of the policies that influence the agencies within the port and harbor realm. The following synopsis and the analyses attached provide this understanding and outline the steps toward development of a statewide port and harbor plan.

 

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In the fourth stage of the study, we identified multiple impediments to efficient port and harbor
development and made recommendations to improve the way federal, state, and local governments
work together on marine and riverine infrastructure improvements. Some of these recommendations
come from stakeholder interviews, some from the literature we reviewed for this project, and others
from our experience in the marine and riverine infrastructure development process.


Interagency Coordination: Multiple state and federal agencies are involved in port and harbor
development in Alaska. Given the differences in their policies and priorities and the need to enhance
coordination, both an interagency task force and an interagency task group should be formed.


The task force would focus on policies and larger issues surrounding marine and riverine infrastructure
development, such as how best to quantify social or subsistence effects, and the working group would facilitate communication.

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