FONSI, Chandler Lake Mitigation Project Access

The National Park Service (NPS) will be issuing a right-of-way certificate of access (RWCA) to
Ms. Mabel Burris of Anaktuvuk Pass for access through Gates of the Arctic National Park to her
Native allotment to base activities for removal of abandoned Department of Defense (DOD)
debris from lands owned by the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation and individual Alaskan
natives around the Chandler Lakes area within park boundaries. An environmental assessment
(EA) was prepared to evaluate potential impacts to cultural and natural resources associated with
the proposed access project, a no-action alternative and a third alternative. The completed
application for access from Ms. Burris requested permits to authorize two 8-wheeled Argo allterrain
vehicles to travel over NPS lands between Anaktuvuk Pass Village and the Burris
allotment and project cleanup sites in the area during the summers of 2013 and 2014. Other
members of clean-up crews will fly to base camp at the Burris allotment on Little Chandler Lake
from which to stock-pile and bundle debris at seven sites in the area. Bundles of debris will be
removed by snowmobiles and sleds across NPS lands during spring (March-April) of 2014 and
2015. The project is funded by the Native American Land Environmental Mitigation Program
(NALEMP) through a cooperative agreement (CA) between DOD and the village of Anaktuvuk
Pass, a federally recognized Alaska Native tribe. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers manages
the CA. The NPS selected Alternative 2 (Proposed Access Project), which is the NPS Preferred
Alternative in the EA.

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