1982-53 Requesting Financial Assistance From The Federal Government For The Removal Of The Former "Navy Metal Dump" From Borough Property.1 2
A RESOLUTION OF THE KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH ASSEMBLY REQUESTING
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR THE REMOVAL OF THE FORMER
"NAVY METAL DUMP" FROM BOROUGH PROPERTY.
WHEREAS, the United States Navy established a metal dump for its
use on real property now owned by the Kodiak Island Borough and described as
Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, Block 5, Tract A, Bells Flats Alaska Subdivision; and
WHEREAS, five hundred vehicles, numerous aircraft parts, countless
fuel drums, building materials, kitchen equipment, and miscellaneous debris
were deposited on the property involved during the Navy's tenure on Kodiak
Island; and
WHEREAS, the presence of these unburied materials constitutes a
public health and safety problem by their presence in and near the Russian
River and the Womans Bay Community; and
WHEREAS, the former Navy Metal Dump constitutes eyesore and public
nuisance on land designated for future development as a community park and
recreation site; and
WHEREAS, the Kodiak Island Borough has, of its own volition,
initiated action to remove a portion of the metal dump at an estimated cost of
$100,000.
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KODIAK ISLAND BOROUGH
RESOLUTION NO. 82 -53-R
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Kodiak Island
Borough
requests matching federal funds for the removal of the "Navy Metal Dump" which
the Island by an agency of the United States government and whose
ties should have included the removal or proper burial of the
o its departure.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED the copies of this resolution and appropriate
correspondence be forwarded
to the following persons:
1 ! Senator Ted Stevens, Alaska Congressional Delegation
Senator Frank Murkowski, Alaska Cogressional Delegation
Representative Donald Young, Alaska Congressional Delegation
Secretary of the Navy, John Lehman
Casper Weinberger, Secretary of Defense
Jay Hammond, Governor, State of Alaska
PASSED AND APPROVED THIS 5th DAY OF A..
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BY:
KODIAK I
Borough ayor
BOROUGH'
19132.