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The Gravina Access Bridge Mega-Project
This nearly $400 million project was cancelled by Governor Sarah Palin on September 21, 2007. During fall 2008, however, the state completed building the $26 million 3-mile Gravina Access Highway on lightly-populated Gravina Island using funds from a federal earmark rather than requesting Congress to reallocate the money to a higher-priority transportation project(s) in Alaska. This “highway” ends at a beach, where the bridge was supposed to be built. As a result of not wanting to repay the money spent to the federal government for the Gravina Access Highway, federal rules require the state to develop a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) that shows how it will utilize the new highway. The state is developing that SEIS as of early 2010.
This nearly $400 million project was cancelled by Governor Sarah Palin on September 21, 2007. During fall 2008, however, the state completed building the $26 million 3-mile Gravina Access Highway on lightly-populated Gravina Island using funds from a federal earmark rather than requesting Congress to reallocate the money to a higher-priority transportation project(s) in Alaska. This “highway” ends at a beach, where the bridge was supposed to be built. As a result of not wanting to repay the money spent to the federal government for the Gravina Access Highway, federal rules require the state to develop a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) that shows how it will utilize the new highway. The state is developing that SEIS as of early 2010.