Cook Inlet Region Inc. and its associated villages hold surface and subsurface rights to a sizable amount of the project area, including the dam site. A specific acreage amount wasn't available from CIRI or the Alaska Energy Authority, the state entity overseeing the project. ...
Tyonek Native Corp. owns surface estate at the dam site, and CIRI or village corporations own "a fair amount of the acreage" that would be flooded, according to Ethan Schutt, CIRI's senior vice president for land and energy development.
CIRI also owns the resource area for sand, rock and gravel for construction and owns "long stretches" of at least one of the routes proposed for an access road and power lines, Schutt said. The road also could bring potential trespass problems from an influx of recreational users entering what's now remote country accessible to few, he said.
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