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Project Election Project Title Cost Project Description Location District (1,000'S) Klawock Airport Hardstands 130.0 Install FY2013 Aviation - Deferred Maintenance Inventory/Backlog Project Election Project Title Cost Project Description Location District (1,000's) Klawock Airport Install new hardstands for increased jet traffic in Klawock 130.0 2 Hardstands order to minimize pavement damage Kake Kake Airport Security 50.0 Repair over 100 holes in security fence 5 Fence Hole Repairs Gustavus Airport Gustavus Supplemental Lighted 35.0 Install new supplemental Lighted Wind cone 5 Wind Cone Haines Lease Lot Haines 25.0 Place and compact D-1 on lease lot access taxiway 5 Access Improvement Gustavus Vegetation Cut vegetation on Runway Safety Areas 11/29 and Gustavus 20.0 5 Control 2/20 At Cordova Airport identify and remove trees that Valdez Tree Removal Cordova 50.0 5 penetrate runway 16-34 glide slope District Total HD 5 180.0 Stoney River Airport 400.0 Runway rehabilitation Stoney River 6 Interior Airport Cut Vegetation at five interior airports – Rampart, 75.0 Interior 6 Vegetation Control Stevens Village, Beaver, Hughes, Huslia Total HD 6 475.0 Healy River Airport lighting is in need of updating Healy River Airport 300.0 using conduit and cans instead of direct burial and Denali District 8 Lighting lights which are stuck in traffic cones Tazlina Lake Louise Airport 60.0 Apply dust palliative to Lake Louise Airport. District/ 12 Dust Palliative Nelchina Kake Vegetation Kake 75.0 Cut Vegetation on Runway Safety Area 11/29 35 Control Klawock Vegetation Klawock 35.0 Cut vegetation on Runway Safety Area 2/20 35 Control Total HD 35 110.0 Old Harbor Airport 150.0 Surface course Old Harbor 36 Larson Bay Airport 25.0 Lighting system repairs, windsock pole replacement Larson Bay 36 Total HD 36 175.0 King Salmon Airport 75.0 Fence and gate repair King Salmon 37 Chignik Chignik Lagoon Airport 25.0 Windsock, poles and markers 37 Lagoon Total HD 37 100.0 Red Devil Airport 150.0 Gravel surfacing Red Devil 38 Replace approx. 35 damaged & barrel (old style) Segmented Circle Northern 250.0 segmented circles with current design standard 1-40 Replacement Region (panel-type circles) for various rural airports. D-1 (crushed Provide D-1 aggregate stockpiles at various airports Northern 500.0 1-40 surfacing) Stockpiles throughout the Northern Region Region Northern Region Northern Airport Lighting 250.0 Airport lighting and electrical repairs 1-40 Region Repairs 231-1 FY2013 Aviation - Deferred Maintenance Inventory/Backlog Project Election Project Title Cost Project Description Location District (1,000's) This funding allows the department to respond to Commissioner's unforeseen conditions that require immediate action. 70.0 Statewide 1-40 Reserve This funding is used statewide to respond, as needed, as unsafe conditions arise. Total HD 1-40 1,070.0 Seldovia/ Chenega Bay/ Quartz Crk./ Kasilof/ Lawing/ Peninsula District Replacement of threshold markers and/or edge Nanwalek/ Pt. 100.0 35, 36 Repairs cones Graham/ Old Harbor/ Larsen Bay/ Ouzinkie/ Karluk / Akhiok Southwest District Various lighting replacement and repair in Southwest Southwest 150.0 36-38 Lighting Repairs District District Gravel stockpiles to assist with runway, taxiway, and Y-K Delta Airports 500.0 Various 37, 38 apron maintenance. Total Aviation Deferred $3,500.0 Maintenance Allocation: 231-2.
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