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ANCHORAGE - Gov. Sean Parnell in May signed the FY2013 capital budget that continues economic development across the state, and to save more surplus revenue for the future. The budget includes numerous projects for Southeast Alaska.
Highlights of capital projects in Southeast Alaska include:
Infrastructure
Alaska Marine Highway System - to a second Alaska State Ferry, $50 million
Ketchikan - airport taxiways and apron rehabilitation, $10 million
Juneau - Glacier Highway reconstruction - Fritz Cove to Seaview Ave, $10 million
Ketchikan Shipyard - AK Industrial Development and Export Authority, $10 million
Ketchikan Gateway Borough - Ketchikan International Airport, $9.9 million
Ketchikan - rehabilitation/replacement of off-system city bridges, $9.25 million
Ketchikan Gateway Borough - Alaska Marine Highway/NOAA moorage, $7.5 million
Sitka - supplemental and emergency diesel generation, $7.12 million
Ketchikan - Berths I and II replacement project, $7 million
Angoon - Thayer Lake hydropower transmission/generation, $7 million
Wrangell - boat yard improvements, $6.1 million
Petersburg - commercial dock drive down facility, $5.6 million
Skagway - small boat harbor, $5 million
Haines Borough - Haines boat harbor/breakwater improvements, $4.5 million
Sitka - commercial passenger vessel/visitors facilities, $4.5 million
Petersburg - Nordic Drive refurbishment, $3.5 million
Petersburg - North Harbor, $3.5 million
Wrangell - travel lift and associated improvements, $2.75 million
Hydaburg - small boat harbor, $2.68 million
Skagway - Klondike Industrial Highway ore haul refurbishment, $2.5 million
Haines Borough - Port Chilkoot cruise ship dock, $2.38 million
Juneau - Aurora Small Boat Harbor, $2 million
Public Safety and Health
Kake - water and sewer replacement, $4.65 million
Cordova - LT2 compliance UV treatment facility, $3.88 million
Ketchikan - Ketchikan Medical Center improvement project, $3 million
Juneau Pioneer Home deferred maintenance, $2.21 million
Sitka - UV water disinfection facility, $2.12 million
Wrangell - hospital and nursing home replacement project, $1.8 million
Hoonah - water transmission line replacement phase 3, $1.73 million
Klawock - public safety building phase II, $1.44 million
Education
Alaska State Library, Archives and Museum facility, $49 million
Juneau - Mendenhall Valley Public Library, $7 million
UAS - Banfield Hall dormitory project, $6.25 million
Sitka - Kettleson Memorial Library, $5.7 million
Sitka - school district vocational education facility, $2.9 million
Klawock - Prince of Wales Vocational Technical Education Center, $900,000
Detailed information on capital projects across the state is available at: http://bit.ly/KjhH8j.
Copies of the budgets and related documents are available at: http://bit.ly/JVoocL.
