Commerce is required by Alaska State law to conduct a program
of research, training, and technical assistance to coastal resource
districts necessary for the development, implementation and maintenance
of district coastal management plans under AS 46.40.
As part of
its technical assistance to coastal districts, Commerce awards
and manages Alaska Coastal Managment Program (ACMP)
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In Fiscal
Year 2005 (FY 05), the Division of Community and Regional Affairs (DCRA) awarded
and administered grants
to 27 coastal
districts, which includes both municipalities and coastal resource
service areas (CRSAs), totaling nearly $800,000. The grants are
awarded to the coastal districts for the purpose of implementing
their local coastal management programs. FY 05 grant awards ranged
from $38,250 for large boroughs, to $17,800 for small boroughs,
to $6,000 for cities.
Grants for Special Projects are also awarded to coastal districts. Special
Project funds are used to update district coastal management plans and to complete
projects that improve local implementation of district programs. In FY 05 and
FY 06, the entirety of Special Project funding has been used to support amendments
to district coastal management plans to bring them into compliance with the
new ACMP regulations and statute. In FY 05, Special Project funding to coastal
districts totaled $900,000.
In previous years, Special Project grants have provided funding for enhancement
projects such as:
- Mapping of subsistence use areas in the Cenaliulriit CRSA.
- Thorne
Bay Watershed Management Plan.
- North Slope Borough Aerial Photo
Project
- Clover Pass Coastal Development Plan (Ketchikan Gateway
borough)
- Middle Susitna Archaeological Survey & Inventory
- City of
Pelican Waterfront Plan
- Revising the Northwest Arctic Borough’s
coastal policies based on a recently completed community-mapping
project.
Other ACMP program activities undertaken by DCA staff include:
- Reviewing and commenting on draft district plan amendments.
- Assisting
in revisions to the Model Implementation Chapters for district
coastal management plans.
- Organizing regional and statewide
ACMP workshops.
- Developing a website on Non-Point Source Pollution
Ordinances in Alaska
- Managing a project that resulted in the
completion of a new set of profile maps for the communities
located in
the Northwest Arctic
Borough. This project was awarded
- Project of the
Year at the 2001 Alaska Surveying and Mapping Conference.
For more information about DCA’s Coastal Management activities
and community planning assistance opportunities contact: Sally Russell Cox, Planner
Division of Community and Regional Affairs
Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development
550 West 7th Avenue, Suite 1770
Anchorage, AK. 99501
Phone: 269-4588 Fax: 269-4563
E-mail: Sally.Cox@alaska.gov
or
Peter McKay, Planner
Division of Community and Regional Affairs
Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development
P.O. Box 110809
Juneau, AK. 99811-0809
Phone: 465-5550 Fax: 465-4761
E-mail: Peter.McKay@alaska.gov
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