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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWood-Peat Municipal Solid Waste Agricultural Byproducts Alaska Bioenergy Program Semi-annual Report Jan-Jun 1995wood - peat municipal solid waste agricultural byproducts Alaska Bioenergy Program Semi-annual Report January - June 1995 State of Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs Division of Energy TABLE OF CONTENTS I. TASK FORCE ACTIVITIES 200.0... ccccccceeeceseneeeesenetecsseseeessesseesenee ee 1 ll. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE ................ 1 lll INTERAGENCY AND INDUSTRY CONTACTS & PROJECT DEVELOPMENT. ooo. cece cceeceeseeeeeeeseeeeeecaeeseeeeeeeeseesteeeeeeteres o4 2 IV. RESOURCE AND TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT / SMALL-SCALE RURAL BIOENERGY FACILITY DEMONSTRATION .........0.......ceeee 4 V. INDUSTRY ACTIVITIES IN ALASKA 0000... cccceeecceeeseseeseseeeeseeeteeseeteees 4 Appendix A Partial List of Alaska Bioenergy Program Contacts Appendix B_ Bioenergy News Appendix C Thorne Bay Wood Waste Phase 1 Final Report, Klawock Boiler Retrofit Assessment Report Appendix D = Current Industry-Related News Articles TASK FORCE ACTIVITIES Regional Solicitation. In May the Division of Energy reviewed proposals for the PN&A bioenergy grants and met with other advisory group members in Spokane, Washington to rank proposals for funding. We publicized the solicitation in Alaska through a description in Bioenergy News and by directly contacting potential proposers. Regional Project Monitoring. The Division continued to serve as contracting officer’s technical representative for Entech Inc.’s Thermal Oxidation System Energy Recovery Project in Copper Center. In this capacity we worked with the grantee to ensure that public involvement and environmental issues were addressed through the NEPA process and coordinated activities with co-funder Alaska Science and Technology Foundation. Work with Entech and the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) to resolve ADEC’s concerns on nearness of dwellings to the incinerator resulted in the preparation of a health risk assessment by CH2M Hill for Entech. The assessment, which indicates that air impacts are below the EPA’s accepted “level of concern” for carcinogens and non-carcinogens, will strengthen public acceptance of at least this waste-to-energy technology. Other Task Force Activities The Commissioner of Community and Regional Affairs sent letters to the Alaska Congressional Delegation asking for continued funding of the PNA RBEP in January (see Appendix A). In February we participated in a meeting of the PNA RBEP Advisory Group in Portland, Oregon. The Division provided assistance to the Ethanol Producers Action Committee in March for securing a space at the state fair to exhibit EPAC’s ethanol-fueled vehicle. In April we prepared Alaska project summaries for Craig Chase. In May we submitted an application for the Federal FY95 Bioenergy Technical Assistance Grant. PNA RBEP Manager Jeff James and consultant Craig Chase performed a site review of the Alaska Bioenergy Program in June. Throughout this reporting period, we sent the PNA RBEP consultant weekly status reports. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE During this period the Division of Energy received and responded to 9 requests for marketing information from industry potentially interested in working in Alaska and 34 requests for technical assistance and information regarding energy recovery from municipal solid waste, power consumption statistics, liquid fuel usage, project financing, wood fuel availability, and project status. A partial list of contacts is in Appendix B. This period we distributed over 500 copies of the Bioenergy News to private companies involved in the forest products and solid waste industries; Native corporations; universities; federal, state and local agencies; the Alaska state legislature and media throughout Alaska. A copy of the newsletter and mailing list is in appendix C. This issue contained e Updates on the Copper Center incineration project and Fairbanks Borough and Eielson Air Force Base waste-to-energy plans and projects e Descriptions of the Thorne Bay wood waste and Rural Heat Conservation projects and RFPs e A\listing of upcoming conferences, new publications, and federal funding solicitations. INTERAGENCY AND INDUSTRY CONTACTS & PROJECT DEVELOPMENT Interagency Coordination. The Division of Energy continued to work closely with the Department of Environmental Conservation Anchorage staff on the Copper Center incinerator project (see above). We were also in contact with ADEC staff in Juneau and Fairbanks regarding waste combustion opportunities in the Interior. The Division provided comments on the City of Galena’s RFP for solid waste planning services in April. Project Development. This period we received and responded to proposals for gasification, biomass-fueled Stirling engines, and waste combustion systems. The Division continued to give direction to Sandia National Laboratory in their preparation of a Small-Scale Biomass Energy Technology Compendium toward making the document useful for rural Alaska application. The compendium is scheduled for completion in summer. The Division also provided information to Organic Incineration Technology, Inc. which proposed to burn Fairbanks paper with sewage sludge (the firm decided not to submit a proposal for RBEP funding this year however.) Thorne Bay Wood Waste The Division has worked closely with the City of Thorne Bay in support of the community's energy planning efforts, which include wood waste conversion, continued diesel, and hydropower via an intertie. Division staff work has included providing information to the City and consultants, writing and editing the request for proposals, reviewing proposals and participating in a review committee with City Council members, and providing written review of consultants’ work products. During this period consultant Carroll Hatch and Associates prepared draft and final reports of phase one activities--the review of potential markets for thermal and electrical energy (Appendix D). The report concluded there was considerable promise for the feasibility of a wood-fired power plant linked to lumber drying facility for local mill use. The report also noted industry interest in expanding wood manufacturing in Thorne Bay. Division staff traveled to Thorne Bay for the project kick-off meeting in April and for the City Council presentation of results in June. The Council has decided to continue with a detailed feasibility analysis. Klawock Boiler Conversion Assessment. In March the City of Klawock requested assistance from the Division of Energy to assess to potential for retrofitting the hog fuel boilers at the newly reopened Viking Sawmill in Klawock to burn garbage. Using state funds a small contract was awarded to Carroll Hatch and Associates to travel to Klawock, meet with the mill owner, assess the potential for power plant retrofits for municipal waste combustion, and present the results in a report. The work was applicable to state and regional bioenergy program goals because it followed up on recommendations for further study of Klawock as a potential regional waste-to-energy site that followed from the state- sponsored “Economic Comparison of Power Generation Alternatives for Thorne Bay, Alaska”. The reconnaissance assessment (see Appendix D) assumed co-firing a mixture of MSW and mill residue and indicated that e The boilers were originally fired with oil in a marine installation, and there is little room under the grates to accommodate ash removal and storage. Major work to modernize the grate and ash removal system would be necessary. e Increased condensation of acids from MSW combustion would require substantial modifications to the boiler system. The report concludes that due to high costs and a relatively small MSW stream retrofitting the mill power plant for MSW combustion would not likely be cost-effective. IV. RESOURCE AND TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT/ SMALL-SCALE RURAL BIOENERGY FACILITY DEMONSTRATION Rural Heat Conservation and Fuel Substitution Assessment. During this period the Division of Energy finalized and advertised an RFP for this project, reviewed proposals, and awarded a contract to USKH Engineers and Architects, Anchorage/Fairbanks for the first phase of the project. The first phase 1) prepares a database and report of thermal and electrical usage in major buildings (facilities which use more than 4,000 gallons of oil per year for heating) in 27 rural villages where wood resources are abundant and energy prices high, and 2) makes recommendations for further detailed analysis of biomass fuel substitution and energy conservation measures in particular facilities. Following the Division’s notice to proceed, USKH’s work in June involved literature review and design of a questionnaire which is being used to record and evaluate energy use in the major buildings. V. INDUSTRY ACTIVITIES IN ALASKA A. Southeast Alaska Early in the year in a federal judge halted sales and logging of timber that had been part of Alaska Pulp Company’s (APC) long-term timber contract. The injunction was in response to a claim by environmentalist and Native groups that USFS should prepare a new environmental impact statement and decrease the amount of timber offered since APC’s contract was now void. The 224 mmbf of timber would have been logged or sold to Ketchikan Pulp Company, Rayonier, and other Southeast firms. In April, to stem a resultant layoff of several hundred workers, Sen. Ted Stevens pushed and got passed an amendment which clarified that a new EIS was not necessary. The now powerful Alaska congressional delegation is claiming that environmentalists and federal agencies are breaking the compromise between logging and preservation reached in the Tongass Timber Reform Act (TTRA) of 1990 through court action such as above and excessive salmon, goshawk, and wolf habitat protection measures. In response, Sen. Stevens and Murkowski have filed a rewrite of the TTRA which requires the Forest Service to provide enough timber to support the timber employment levels that existed when TTRA was passed. An aspect of the proposed legislation important for bioenergy development is its goal of increasing value-added processing in Southeast. The bill would prohibit the export of all logs and chips from Forest Service land and allow the state to make similar restrictions on state timber. B. Southcentral and Interior Alaska Timber prices remain high, especially for pulp. This spring pulp logs at saltwater were bringing around $300/mbf, while chips were sold for $140/bdu. Bark beetle salvage is driving timber management on the Kenai Peninusla and Glenallen area. The Forest Service is likely to offer timber sales on 2,000 acres near Seward, and the state plans harvest of 3,000 this year in Kodiak and the Kenai, while boosting harvest to over 30,000 acres over the next few years. A likely buyer of Kenai timber is Circle DE Pacific, whose in-woods chipping operation near Homer has been providing around 800 mcf of solid wood per month to Japan. State sales have been expedited by a recently signed state law that compresses the sale planning timeline. Bioenergy opportunities would likely be enhanced by bills introduced by Governor Knowles and several state legislators. Knowles’ proposal would allow negotiated sales of up to 10 years for small-scale value added processing. The bill would not include such allowances for fiberboard or products meant to be remanufactured, widely considered to be the most likely products for Alaska develdopment. APPENDIX A Partial List of Alaska Bioenergy Program Contacts January to June, 1995 DATE January Jan 3, 11, 13, 31 Jan4 Jan5 CONTACT Ginny Tierney City of Thorne Bay Cindy Heil Alaska Dept. Env. Conservation Anchorage Ron Cochrane Mapco Petroleum Anchorage Bob Cole Texaco Anchorage Roy Whitten Anchorage Marlene Johnson Chitna Village Council Chitna Roger Kolb International Power Systems Anchorage Richard Bonwell Fairbanks North Star Borough Fairbanks Harry Pariso NW Biofuels Boise, ID Information on energy recovery from wood and municipal waste, Thorne Bay wood waste RFP, info request absorption chilling, project scheduling Origin of ethanol oxygenate received in Anchorage Origin of ethanol oxygenate in Mapco’s Anchorage gasoline Origin of ethanol oxygenate in Texaco’s Anchorage gasoline Marketing/developing gasifiers/power plants which use solid waste Info request, interested in Entech and other MSW incinerators in Chitina Solid waste gasifier above, small reciprocal steam engine with favorable steam rate Regional bioenergy solicitation, request copy Info request, interested in marketing ethanol in Alaska Jan6 Tom Walker, PE Sutton wood boiler engineering Eagle River John Pavitt Air quality regulations, availability of information U.S. EPA Anchorage Willie Willebrandt Masters thesis ideas University of Alaska Fairbanks Alex Sifford Advisory group meeting in Oregon Oregon DoE Salem, OR Jan 6, 23 Craig Chase Review of Thorne Bay RFP, Issues for upcoming advisory group meeting in Oregon Cody, WY Jan 11 Curt McGrew Status of Metlakatla Natives sawmill, viability of a dry kiln in Southeast Sitka Sound Seafood Sitka Jan 12, 27 Mike Pope Possible heat recovery incinerator in Barrow, status of Copper Center project Entech, Inc. Anchorage Jan 13 Dorothy Knight Square footage of Thorne Bay schools AK Dept. of Education Juneau Robert McOnee Marketing biomass energy systems in Southeast AK Radar Company Portland, OR Dick Madden Sawmill development in Thorne Bay Ketchikan Pulp Co. Ketchikan Alaska Center for Attend membership meeting Appropriate Technology Wasilla Jan 17 Walt Kahlenberg Absorption refrigeration project in Kotzebue Rim Star Anchorage David Junge Current projects University of Alaska Anchorage Jan 18 Jan 19 Jan 20 Jan 23 Jan 24 Jan 27 Jim Palen Alaska Science and Technology Foundation, Mike Pope Entech, Inc. Anchorage Gene Long Bureau of Indian Affairs Anchorage Sen. Ted Stevens Sen. Frank Murkowski Rep. Don Young Washington, DC Malcolm Leftcourt Heuristic Engineering Burnaby, B.C. CANADA Alan Wain AK. Dept. Environmental Conservation Anchorage Jack Coutts Alaska Dept. Environmental Conservation Fairbanks Herschel Rorex US EPA Washington, DC Bill McClarence Alaska Dept. Environmental Conservation Anchorage Rich Sundet Alaska Dept. Environmental Conservation Anchorage Colleen Granger Copper Valley Electric Association Glennallen Service Oil and Gas Glennallen Brad Hibbard Homer Electric Association Kenai Glenn Miller Alaska Dept. Environmental Conservation Juneau Copper Center incinerator schedule, location, environmental review, public utility regulation Port Graham and English Bay potential for wood processing, wood-fired power plant Request for funding support from commissioner Marketing starved air hog fuel burner State incinerator ash testing policies, concerns Rural incineration potential, air quality management Air quality regulations Permit application for Copper Center incinerator Ash testing requirements Rural heat project: Extent of service area, cost of power in 4 villages Rural heat project, heating oil prices Cost of power in Seldovia and English Bay Chitina bid for state funding of incinerator Jan 30 Feb2 Feb3 Connie Lausten Alternative Energy Development Silver Springs, MD Julian Thompson Critical Mass Project Washington, DC Bill Beebe AK. Division of Forestry McGrath BJ's Fuel McGrath Norm Phillips Doyon, Ltd. Fairbanks Ron Muir Organic Incineration Technology Fairbanks Bill Marshall AK. Public Utilities Comm. Anchorage Paula Cullenberg Anchorage Tom Turner Anchorage Recycling Anchorage Mark Carver Arkenol Las Vegas, NV Jack Jump Circle DE Pacific Homer Les Fortune AK Division of Forestry Fairbanks Dave Wallingford AK Division of Forestry Anchorage Request for info power statistics, Alternative fuels and conservation in Kodiak Alaska alternative fuels and conservation loan, grant , and technical assistance programs Rural heat project: Wood resources on lower Kuskokwim villages Cost of heating oil in McGrath Info request rural heat project, possible cooperation, status of possible coal combustor in McGrath Interest in burning Fairbanks paper with sludge in rotary kiln Copper Center incinerator utility regulation Old Crow, Yukon wood heated school Recycled paper market, info request Fairbanks SW plan Viability of Anchorage ethanol production Status of chip export on Kenai Peninsula Rural heat project: possible wood boiler demonstration locations, timber management status Southcentral timber management status Feb 3, 17 Feb6 Feb7 Feb 7, 24 Feb 8-10 Feb 13 Feb 14 Feb 14, 28 Feb 16 Kris McCumby Alaska DEC Fairbanks Ginny Tierney City of Thorne Bay Carol Purvis US EPA Research Triangle Park, NC Mark Harlan Circle DE Pacific Anchorage Capt. Patty Danowski USAF Eielson, AFB, AK Rick Sundet DEC Anchorage Mike Pope Entech, Inc. Anchorage PNA RBEB Meeting Portland, OR Ron Muir Mark Sanford OIT, Inc. Fairbanks Christi Sustridge Chugachmiut Corporation Anchorage Larry Markley Juneau Doug McLane Government of Yukon Whitehorse, YT Connie Lausten Alternative Energy Development Silver Springs, MD Alex Tatum Alaska Center Approp. Tech. Wasilla Potential for MSW incineration in Galena, Barrow, and Tok. RFP approved by Council, RFP mailing list Status of Environmental Technology Initiative application Logging and chipping operation on Kenai Peninsula Status of paper densification and co-firing project at Eielson AFB Copper Center incinerator: Based on TCLP provided by Entech, ash not hazardous Land use authorization, waste flow control, marketing plan Costs and quantities of waste paper for fuel in Fairbanks Info request Tatitlek incineration, high school class interest AP&T/Thorne Bay negotiations on power sales Contacts for Yukon Territory wood boilers, request bioenergy news Info request bioenergy news, status of current projects in Alaska Rural heat RFP request Feb 23, 28 Feb 24 Richard Bonwell Fairbanks North Star Borough Fairbanks Bill McClarence Alaska Dept. Environmental Conservation Anchorage Ed Kern Alaska Division of Agriculture Palmer Cindy Mulder Nome Utilities Nome Bob Valdeghta Seward Craig Chase Cody, WY Paul Klimas Sandia National Laboratory Albuquerque, NM Richard Atkins Environmental Risk, Ltd. Bloomfield, CT Vivian Maheu NREL Golden, CO Dan Hill Wasilla Jack Whittier NEOS Corp. Lakewood, CO 81005 Rick Rogers University of Alaska, Anchorage Bob Rice Citifor Company Seattle, WA Proposal by OIT for burning wastepaper in Fairbanks Health risk screening model Agricultural waste production in Alaska, use of manure Potential for funding water treatment and landfill projects Seward sawmill ownership status Comments on review of Copper Center incinerator EA, project briefing Progress on small-scale bioenergy technology compendium Info request, Prince of Wales Island load forecast, wood waste study Info request, Tanana wood chip study Info request, Rural heat project, southcentral AK timber development Interest in Thorne Bay wood waste project, info request Timber prices, Rural heat project Support for waste-fired boiler at Seward Feb 28 Mar 1 Conrad Tertian Waste-to-Energy, Inc. Elmhurst, IL Larry Markley Juneau Jake Sprankle Tanana Chiefs Conference Fairbanks Peter Wright Juneau James Vanderpoole McGrath Robert Allain Copper River Native Association Copper Center Norm Phillips DOYON, Ltd. Fairbanks Malcolm Leftcourt Heuristic Engineering Burnaby, BC Cathy Morgan Ted Frothingham Kenai Peninsula Borough Soldotna Ron Garzini Anchorage Louie Bencardino, Seward Port Advisory Council, Jim Harris Seward Forest Products Seward Steve Denton, PE Ketchikan Glen Hart Government of Yukon Whitehorse, YT Marketing fluid bed combustor for waste disposal AP&T/Thorne bay negotiations for power sales Info request, Rural heat project Interest in using biodiesel in charter boat Info request, Rural heat, wood chips Copper Center incinerator, collection and tipping fees McGrath coal combustor. Possible Doyon support for Tok project. Costs and capability of hog fuel boiler Costs of trucking garbage from Seward to Soldotna Purchase of Seward sawmill Purchase of Seward sawmill Info request, rural heat project Contacts for Yukon Territory wood boilers Mar 1,7 Mar 2 Mar 6, 28 Mar 6, 21 Mar 7, 20 Mar 7 Mar 9 Mar 10 Don Laskowski Wood-Mizer Products, Inc. Indianapolis, IN Terry Brady Alaska Husky Wasilla Jack Dewick Apsco Engineering Whitehorse, YT John Muir OIT Fairbanks John Strachan Sandia National Lab Bill McClarence Anchorage Cal Kerr America North/Emcon Anchorage Jim Campbell PN and D Engineering Anchorage John Heberling R.W. Beck and Associates Seattle, WA Jeff James Craig Chase USDoE Seattle Robert Corrigan Pacific Power and Industrial Co. Boise, ID Mark Fryer FPE Roen Engineering Anchorage Mike Ruckhaus FPE Roen Engineering Fairbanks Jeff James Carol Curtis USDoE Seattle Alaska interest in Stirling engines and biofuels, funding support possibilities, progress of joint venture with Sunpower Info request, rural heat project Wood heated schools in Pelley Crossing, Carmac, Haines Junction Proposing waste paper burn to Fairbanks Borough, regional solicitation Outline completed for small bioenergy technology compendium Siting concerns for Copper Center incinerator, Anchorage standards Interest in Rural heat study Info request, Prince of Wales Island load forecast, wood waste study Info request, Prince of Wales Island load forecast, wood waste study Alaska BP site review, upcoming RBEP meeting Info request, Prince of Wales Island load forecast, wood waste study Interest in Rural Heat project Interest in Rural Heat project Grant modification Mar 20 Mar 21 Mar 22 Mar 23 Curt McGrew Sitka Al Wolfson Foster Wheeler Env. Corp. Bellevue, WA Ginny Tierney City of Thorne Bay Roger Davis APFI Edina, MN Richard Bonwell Fairbanks North Star Borough Ron Garzini Anchorage Bob Valdeghta Seward Chad Converse US Forest Service Anchorage Bob Gras Jack Wilbur Design Alaska Fairbanks Chris Riley Hoonah Marvin Yoder City of Klawock Shirley Ball Ethanol Producers MT Eckhardt Stoyke Energy and Environmental Consultants Edmonton, Alberta Gail Burkel Govt. Yukon Economic Development, Whitehorse, YT Wood product manufacturing development in Sitka Info request, Prince of Wales Island load forecast, wood waste study Thorne Bay wood waste project proposals received Assistance to Fairbanks on paper pelletization OIT proposal for paper incineration Seward sawmill waste-to-energy Seward waste-to-energy ideas Dry kilns Info request, waste-to-energy in Seward, Juneau, boilers Info request, waste-to-energy, wood waste availability Interested in potential for retrofitting sawmill power plant to burn MSW Request assistance for ethanol vehicle at state fair Alternative fuels and conservation in Canada Contacts for Yukon wood boilers Mar 28 Mar 29 Mar 30 Mar 31 April Apr 3 Apr 5, 18 Lyla Gill Alaska State Fair Palmer Denny Platteter NRG Energy, Inc. Minneapolis, MN Copper Center TOS Advisory Group meeting, Alaska DEC, Arctic Slope Consulting Group, Alaska Science and Tech, Foundation, Entech Inc. Bob Valdeghta Seward William Campbell Seasoned Energy Development Philadelphia, PA Jim Strandberg Strandberg Engineering Fairbanks Mike Pope Entech, Inc. Anchorage Cindy Johnson City Borough of Juneau Juneau J.D. Cunningham Wood-Mizer Products, Inc. Indianapolis, IN Tom Sparrow Govt. Yukon Dawson, YT Craig Chase Cody, WY Jackie McBride Champagne Asiak First Nation Haines Junction, YT Ginny Tierney Jim Wilson Dale Fife City of Thorne Bay, RBEP needs space at state fair for ethanol vehicle Current NRG/Northern States Power projects Project site, air quality impacts, jurisdiction over MSW hauling, Sen. Stevens’ interest Info request, Seward wood waste report Info request, bioenergy news, Prince of Wales Island wood waste, load forecast Interest in rural heat project Copper Center incinerator EA comment Thorne Bay wood waste proposer’s qualifications, Sterling engine development Experience with wood boilers in Pelley Crossing, Old Crow, and Dawson Entech and Thorne Bay quarterly reports, provided project summaries Haines Junction wood boiler economic performance Review committee for Thorne Bay wood waste proposals 10 Apr 6 Tex Gazzaway Status of wood-fired power plant Annette Hemlock Mill Metlakatla, AK Richard Hoffman Reference for Thorne Bay wood waste proposer New South, Inc. Conway, SC. Arnold Kane Performance of wood-fired boiler in Haines Junction Champagne Asiak First Nation Haines Junction, YT Wayne Rogers Performance of wood-fired boiler in Pelley Crossing Government of Yukon Whitehorse, YT Apr 6,7 Ginny Tierney Briefing with Sen. Stevens and staff of Sen. Murkowsi and Rep. Young on Thorne Bay City of Thorne Bay wood waste, proposer business licenses Apr7 Julie Rodriguez Info request, bioenergy news Channel Corp. Juneau Pam Hewitt Reference for Thorne Bay wood waste proposer Springfield Utility Board Springfield, OR Don Alexander Info request waste-to-energy, status of Kodiak MSW management Kodiak Island Borough Public Works Kodiak Apr 8, 18, 24 Mike Pope Entech proposal to Kodiak, health risk assessment, glow plug technology for power Entech, Inc. production Anchorage Apr9 : Fred Monrean Sent regional solicitation Ketchikan Gateway Borough Ketchikan Michelle Jesperson Cultural/historic sites at Copper Center incinerator site Alaska DNR Office Historic Preservation Anchorage Bill Beebe Sent regional solicitation Alaska DNR Division of Forestry McGrath Marvin Yoder Sent regional solicitation City of Klawock Jim Stimpfle Sent regional solicitation Chamber of Commerce Nome 11 Ron Garzini Sent regional solicitation Anchorage John Fischer Review of RFP for Galena MSW management plan City of Galena April 9, 24 Louis Bencardino Sent regional solicitation, Seward sawmill sale Seward Apr 11 Patience Fredrickson Info request, bioenergy news State of Alaska Library Juneau Apr 12 Howard Walton Info request, renewable energy programs at Division of Energy USDoE Energy Information Administration Washington, DC. Larry Harmon Construction debris at waste-to-energy plant, Sent regional solicitation Public Works Dept. Sitka Apr 14 Karen Holzer Info request, anaerobic digestion Alaska Center for Appropriate Technology Wasilla John White Anaerobic digestion contacts in Oregon Oregon DoE Salem Carol Curtis Grant application USDoE Seattle Bob Grimm Klawock sawmill MSW retrofit Alaska Power and Telephone Port Townsend, WA Apr 17 Kris McCumby Solid waste management situation in Tok, Delta, Galena, Denali Borough, and Nenana Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation Fairbanks Kerwin Krause Tok coal lease status Alaska DNR Div. of Mining Anchorage Apr 18 Steve Phillips Interagency approach to forest inventory in Tanana Valley Alaska DNR Div. Forestry Anchorage 12 April 19-21 Apr 21 Apr 25 Apr 26 Apr 27 May May 1, 15, 23 May 1 Dick Malchow Alaska DNR Div. Forestry Tok Steve Husten Dry Creek Jim Gould US Forest Service Thorne Bay Craig Chase Jeff James USDoE. Seattle, WA Crimp trip to Thorne Bay Jennifer Wamboldt Environmetrics Seattle, WA Greg Mikkelson Alaska Power and Telephone Klawock Maury White Stirling Technology Richland, WA. Mark Sanford OIT Fairbanks Bob Watson Stuart Densloe Sheldon Jackson College Sitka Paul Oliver Oliver Engineering Beaverton, OR. John Vranizan Carroll, Hatch, and Associates Portland, OR USDoE Energy Information Administration Washington, DC Interior timber management, processing, and export Info request, wood-fired space heating boilers Long-term timber flow through Thorne Bay sortyard Copper Center incinerator funding Met with Thorne Bay City Council, Carroll Hatch and Associates Info request, Fairbanks MSW plan Klawock mill load Info request, Alaska state energy plan, Stirling engines and biomass combustion Results of test paper burn in rotary kiln Chipping construction debris at WTE facility Klawock mill boilers Preliminary results for Thorne Bay wood waste study, contacts at Ketchkan Pulp Company, economic model, Klawock trip Info request, Alaska state energy programs 13 May 2 May 3 May 8& May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 15 Alex Tatum Alaska Center for Appropriate Technology Wasilla Bob Gras Design Alaska, Inc. Fairbanks Carol Curtis USDoE Seattle, WA Steve Stassel Alaska Energy Engineering Anchorage Bill McClarence Alaska Dept. Environmental Conservation Anchorage Craig Chase Cody, WY Lee Spratt Palmer Correctional Facility Sutton Jim Palin Alaska Science and Technology Foundation Anchorage Marvin Yoder City of Klawock Bill Marshall Alaska Public Utilities Commission Anchorage Lou Bravakis Chiptec South Burlington, VT Clyde Moody Dumont Stoker Monmouth, ME Ginny Tierney City of Thorne Bay Info request, anaerobic digestion of MSW Regional biomass solicitation and client OIT’s application State biomass grant application Publication request, inquiry into Rural Heat study Health risk assessment format for Copper Center incinerator Alaska bioenergy program site review Alaska bioenergy program site review, wood-fired boiler costs Copper Center incinerator utility regulation Klawock mill boiler characteristics Copper Center incinerator utility regulation Costs of wood-fired space heating boilers Dumont Tempest boilers availability and cost Thorne Bay wood waste project administration 14 May 17 May 18 May 19 May 22-26 May 23 May 26 May 31 Rick Rogers University of Alaska Anchorage Teleconference with City of Thorne Bay and consultants David Crimp Clearwater Engineering Summit, OR Mike Pope Entech, Inc. Anchorage Coal/MSW/Wood-fired power development meeting Tok George Pine Pine’s Sawmill Tok Steve Clautice Alaska DNR Division of Forestry Fairbanks Mel Lovsovski Gilbert Commonwealth Reading, PA Scott Bell USKH Engineers Fairbanks Phil Lusk Resource Development Associates Washington, DC Northeat Anchorage, AK Neil Jansen-VanDoren Portage and Main Manitoba Robinson Mini-Mart Kenai, AK Wood-fired space heating systems, log market Project schedule Anaerobic digestion. Information for regional proposal review. Status of Copper Center incinerator risk assessment Meiners met with Alaska Power and Telephone, Morgantown Energy Technology Center, Doyon, Ltd. to discuss project planning Dennis Meiners toured sawmill Crimp attending PNA RBEP Advisory Council meeting in Spokane, WA Utility of remote control yarder, costs of logging components in small timber. Info request on district heat system costs in Tok, publication. Rural heat project contract cost Anaerobic digestion of MSW Available wood-fired boilers Wood-fired boiler system capability and cost Experience with Garn wood boiler for space heating 15 June June 1, 7, 13, 22 June 5 June 6 June 7-9 June 8 June 12 June 13 Jeff James USDoE Seattle, WA Mike Pope Entech Inc. Anchorage Carl Propes MTNT, Ltd. McGrath Narv Somdahi MN Dept. Public Service St. Paul, MN Martin Lunde Dectra Corporation St. Anthony, MN Stuart Densloe Sheldon Jackson College Sitka Ginny Tierney City of Thorne Bay Jeff James and Craig Chase, USDoE Leland Spratt Palmer Correctional Facility Sutton Jeff Doty, Copper River Native Association, Nick Jackson, AHTNA Construction Copper Center John Vranizan Carroll, Hatch, and Associates Portland, OR Jack Ventura Sealaska Timber Corporation Ketchikan Paul Oliver Oliver Engineering Beaverton, OR Scheduling for Alaska BP site review Copper Center incinerator progress, meeting with Copper River Native Association Native corporation interest in alternatives to diesel, request for information, Rural Heat project, district heat system in McGrath Wood boilers manufactured in midwest Garn wood boilers performance and costs Merits of chipping waste wood debris as supplementary fuel at Sitka incinerator Meeting with wood waste project consultant, project status Alaska Bioenergy Program site review Tour wood boiler facility Incinerator project, public support, site review, environmental assessment Klawock mill power plant retrofit assessment Likelihood of wood product manufacturing development on Prince of Wales Island Discussions with forest product firms re Thorne Bay wood waste project, interest in processing 16 June 14 June 19 June 20 June 21 June 23 June 22 Dwight Energy Research Company Denver, CO John Olofson University of Alaska Fairbanks Michael Ruckhaus FPE Roen Engineers Fairbanks/Anchorage Ginny Tierney City of Thorne Bay Anne Mcinerney Sen. Ted Stevens Washington, DC John Strachan Sandia National Lab Albuquerque, NM Steve Stassel, Alaska Energy Engineering, Scott Bell, USKH Engineers Anchorage/Fairbanks Jeff James USDoE Seattle Ginny Tierney City of Thorne Bay Scott Bell USKH Engineers Fairbanks Info request, Alaska contact for air quality management Anaerobic digestion in rural Alaska Rural heat project award debriefing Competing certificate of public convenience for power supply in Thorne Bay filed by Alaska Power and Telephone Sen. Stevens’ inquiry on levels of FY95 funding for Alaska Bioenergy Program Status of bioenergy technology assessment, Alaska review of draft Rural heat project planning, database, questionnaire Anaerobic digestion, Copper Center incinerator EA, budget Comments on draft Phase 1 report, Thorne Bay Wood Waste assessment Rural heat project 17 Division of Energy Bioenergy News No. 36 January 1995 CRNA and Alaskan Firm to Alaska Convert Waste to Energy Department of Community and Regional Affairs Division of Energy Copper River Native Association and Entech, Inc. of Anchorage are planning to develop a small waste-to-energy system in Copper Center. Funded in part by the Alaska Science and Technology Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest and Alaska Bioenergy Program, Entech's "Thermal Oxidation System" (TOS) will burn 350 tons of municipal solid waste from Copper Center per year. Heat from combustion will be distributed to a nearby shop complex for space heating and domestic hot water. Project plans are 333 West Fourth Avenue Anchorage, AK 99501 (907) 269-4500 (office! (907) 269 4645 (tax) As a participant in the to develop the TOS this summer, operate and monitor it for five tae Renunat Bloeneene years, and if the project is successful, continue operation for an Program, the Division of indefinite period Energy promotes the use of roms by previ an Entech, CRNA, and other project sponsors hope to demonstrate the technical assistance and small-scale, clean-burning incineration and energy recovery system a as a useful waste management and energy option in rural Alaska. Landfilling continues to present problems in some rural areas. The purpose of this Available land is often limited because of competing uses, steep newsletter is to give readers slopes, and unsuitable soils. Poorly designed and operated disposal trends in sites can threaten surface and ground water, draw bears and other wildlife, and harm the scenery of relatively pristine areas. The state is currently rewriting its solid waste regulations in response to stricter federal standards for landfills required in Subtitle D of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. But the new standards will present a costly difficulty for many Alaskan communities, especially those which are isolated and located off the road system. At the same time, energy costs remain high in remote communities th fuels for energy The newsletter also keep readers regulatory and public policy issues that affect the development of new on Biomass resources include wood, peat, age byproducts and municipal solid waste Operation The TOS, a scaled-down, modular version of a 28 ton per day incinerator which operates in Anchorage, will be fabricated in Anchorage and located in a fenced area in Copper Center. Individuals will drive up an access ramp and load garbage directly from their vehicles into the primary combustion chamber. A CRNA facility operator will inspect waste delivered to the facility to minimize inclusion of batteries and other waste which could cause ash toxicity or operation problems. Noncombustible "white goods" will continue to be hauled to the landfill in Glenallen. Bioenergy News is wsletter of the Alaska ». For on projects or program activities, or for technical assistance on bioeneray projects, contact: more into Peter Crimp Alaska Bioenergy Program DCRA Division of Eneray (907) 269 4631 Division of Energy Bioenergy News The TOS is operated on a batch basis. After approximately 12 cubic yards (1 ton) of waste are loaded into the primary chamber, the lid will be closed and the waste ignited. Based on the projected waste stream, it is expected that around one ton of waste will be burned every day. During the automated 10-hour burn cycle, the operator will be on-call but not required at the site. Heat will be recovered from flue gas in the form of hot water, stored in an accumulator tank at the TOS, and piped approximately 150 feet to the maintenance facility. Heat from the TOS is expected to offset around 8,000 gallons of fuel each year. Ash will be manually raked out of the TOS primary chamber once per week, placed into three to four 55-gallon drums, and transported to Glenallen. Ash will be subjected to regular toxicity testing. Due to the low combustion temperature in the primary chamber, aluminum, steel, and glass will remain in tact and can be separated from the ash for recycling. Air Quality and Ash Toxicity Tests over the past seven years on a 1 ton per day prototype in Laramie, Wyoming and the 28 ton per day unit operating in Anchorage have demonstrated air emissions and ash toxicity well within current and proposed federal and state standards. The Anchorage unit is operating under an air quality permit from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. Among other stipulations, the permit requires that carbon monoxide emissions average less than 100 ppm at 7% oxygen over one hour and particulates are less than 0.08 gr/dscf at 12% CO2. A recent independent test burn of burning medical waste and oily absorbents estimates carbon monoxide at 0.3 ppm and particulate at 0.0016 gr/dscf. The same permit requires that ash leachate be regularly tested for concentration of eight heavy metals. A recent test showed measurable concentrations of only arsenic and lead, and No. 36 January 1995 these were at levels well below EPA toxicity standards. Project Costs The TOS and heat recovery equipment costs, estimated at $275,000, will be supported by the Alaska Science and Technology Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy. Entech, Inc. will provide design engineering, technical support, operator training, and monthly consultation during the five year period. Copper River Native Association will own and operate the facility A major goal of the demonstration project is to generate detailed information on system economics, operation requirements, and environmental data for the TOS. Based on this information, rural communities will be better able to decide whether such a system is right for them. Fairbanks Chooses to Burn Densified Paper to Extend Landfill The Fairbanks North Star Borough has finalized a solid waste plan which includes using densified mixed waste paper (MWP) as a fuel in local coal-fired boilers. Facing a landfill nearing capacity, the Borough began a formal process in 1992 to assess alternatives for dealing with its 75,000 ton per year solid waste stream. Alternatives considered included paper recovery for use as fuel, mixed waste composting, refuse derived fuel production and incineration, development of a mass burn waste-to-energy facility, and two landfill options (see table). The mixed waste paper alternative was estimated by consultants Dames & Moore/R.W. Beck to be the least cost solution. Conventional landfilling ran a close second; however the public had voiced strong ‘support for resource recovery throughout the planning process. Consistent with state and federal waste management policy, all alternatives included Division of Energy Bioenergy News relatively aggressive waste reduction and recycling programs, as well as improved household hazardous waste management and transfer facilities The final plan calls for development of a $5 million mixed waste paper pelletizing facility by 1998. In the meantime, the Borough will monitor the progress of nearby Eielson Air Force Base’s paper cubing project (see below), refine estimates of available source separated MWP, conduct test burns at University of Alaska or Fairbanks Municipal Utilities, and resolve permitting issues for co-firing paper in coal boilers. Eielson Air Force Base Developing Paper Cubing Facility The US. Air Force has awarded an $800,000 contract to Warren & Baerg Company of Dinuba, California to design and construct a 6 No. 36 January 1995 ton per hour paper cubing facility at Eielson AFB, 25 miles southeast of Fairbanks. Scheduled for completion this summer, the facility is being designed to utilize 50% mixed waste paper, 35% cardboard, and 15% scrap wood. Much of the base's average waste stream of 3,000 to 4,000 tons of wood and paper per month are to be processed and fired with sub-bituminous coal in the base's six boilers. Biomass will compose 5-10% of the fuel. The system will include a horizontal feed rotary grinder, conveyors, metering and storage bins, and a Warren & Baerg Model 250 cuber. For more information, contact the Alaska Bioenergy Program or the Eielson Air Force Base Public Affairs Office at 907/377-2116. Thorne Bay Requests Proposals to Study Converting Wood Waste to Energy The City of Thorne Bay has released a request for proposals (RFP) to conduct a study of the Sen Disposal Alternative No. 1 ined Waste Composting pansexr feasibility of converting sort — yard waste into energy. Ketchikan Pulp Company’ log COL landfill expansion of exiting HHW system, use existing landfill unil 2009. tem Disposal Alternative No. 2 fefuse-Derlved Fuel Production/Incineration RDF facility, wae 1 Sisters Disposal Alternative No. 3 c-to-Energy Facility me 1 waste reduction and recycling program, upgrade custing Compost facility, waste reduction and recycling program. upgrade costing comtainer sites. new | gay ion and recycling program, upgrade exising container sites, new CDL | 54. Landfil, expansion of ensting HHW syxtem, use of existing landfil! for waste until 2008 alien iny, waste redaction and recycling program. upgrade custing container sites ‘ichman Landtill expansion of esting HHW cvstem, use of exiting | S*7 million ste reduction and recycling program, upgrade existing Dt landfill, expansion of existing HHW system, ose of existing landfill 578 eailice 1 landfill, cepansion of exiting HHW system, wie of existing landfill sortyard in Thorne Bay, the largest in Southeast Alaska, generates around 40,000 tons of wood waste each year. Although a number of small local mills are able to manufacture products from low grade logs, the majority of the material --log butts, trim, bark, and other debris-- continues to be landfilled or open-burned in Thorne Bay. The Forest Service projects that a new wood waste landfill site will be necessary in two years. Estimated Cost of Fairbanks solid waste management alternatives, in 1993 dollars. From the FNSB Solid Waste Plan ,Dames & Moore./RW Beck, 1994. The study, funded 50% by the City and 25% each by the Alaska Department of Division of Energy Bioenergy News Community and Regional Affairs and U S Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest and Alaska Regional Bioenergy Program, will be conducted in two phases The first phase of the study will examine potential markets and revenue sources for a biomass to energy facility, including Electrical Power. Thorne Bay currently relies on diesel generators for its power. Although Thorne Bay hopes to be connected by an intertie to less expensive hydropower on the west side of Prince of Wales Island, island electrical demand is expected to outstrip hydropower supply by 2004. Location of large sawmills and other processing facilities on the islandwide grid would require more power sooner. Heat. The contractor will analyze the potential for heat sales to existing facilities in Thorne Bay, including schools, other public buildings, and sortyard facilities. Kiln drying capability has been noted in island economic development plans as a key requirement for value-added processing. Feasibility of developing a kiln drying operation in Thorne Bay is expected strongly influence viability of a waste-to-energy facility. Waste disposal. A waste-to-energy facility could charge a tipping fee for wood waste from sawmill and sortyard operations and for municipal solid waste from Thorne Bay and other Southeast communities. The second phase of the study will result in a detailed concept design, siting analysis, and feasibility study based on the direction developed in the first phase and agreed upon by the community. If the City proceeds with the project, the assessment will provide the information necessary for project financing, permitting, design, and construction. Proposals are due at the City of Thorne Bay on March 17, 1995. For a copy of the RFP, contact: No. 36 January 1995 Ginny Tremey Adonnste ates City of Thorne Bay PO Box 19110 Thorne Bay, Alaska 99919 phone 907/828-3380 fax: 907/828-3374 Division of Energy Targets Rural Energy Efficiency and Fuelwood Substitution The Division of Energy is looking for ways to help rural communities use less oil for space heating. Recently the Division has released a request for proposals (RFP) which identifies candidates for energy conservation and wood fuel retrofits in some 30 Alaskan communities. Rural Alaskan communities use over twice as much energy for space heating as they use for electrical generation. Schools and other public buildings use about half of the space heating energy in a typical community, while private residences consume the rest. While wood heating is generally predominant in rural Southeast and Interior residences, fuel oil is the major source of energy in larger buildings. Waste heat produced by diese! power generation has been used effectively in a number of communities for heating larger buildings; however, in other villages substantial quantities of oil must be imported and stored for space heating. Purchase of fuel oil can present a significant financial drain for cash-poor rural communities The purpose of the RFP is to identify site- specific cost-effective measures that will reduce the amount of oil used for space heating major buildings in select rural Alaskan communities. Specifically, the RFP focuses on wood fuel substitution and energy conservation measures as alternatives for offsetting fuel oil usage. The study will consist of 1) a comprehensive inventory of energy cost and consumption in major buildings in targeted villages, and 2) identification of a set of practical, site-specific “Division of Energy Bioenergy News “Biomass Power for Rural Development’ is a recent solicitation of the USDoE and USDA The two agencies are offering 50% cost share support for projects which use dedicated woody or herbaceous energy crops, agricultural or forest wastes or residues, and/or forest thinnings to produce power. Applications are due April 4, 1995. For more information and applications, contact the Alaska Bioenergy Program or Ruth Adams US Department of Energy Golden Field Office, 1617 Cole Blvd, Golden, CO 80401 Ph. 303/275-4722, Fax: 303/275-4790, Recent Publications “Pacific Northwest and Alaska Regional Bioenergy Program, Project Summaries”, gives the status of 36 current bioenergy projects in the areas of direct combustion, biogas, and liquid fuels, The recently published summary, compiled for the U.S. Department of Energy Seattle Regional Support Office, is available from Craig Chase, Biomass Energy systems, 1380 Southfork Road, Cody, WY 82414, 307/527.6918 “Wood Chip Heating Systems, A Guide for Institutional and Commercial Biomass Installations”, prepared by Energy Efficiency Associates, Calais, Vermont, presents an detailed, unbiased guide for developing wood heating systems in schools and other larger buildings. It is designed for a range of readers--from school board members who wish to gain general familiarity with the pros and cons of wood heat, to consulting engineers who are analyzing feasibility or designing systems. The practically-oriented book contains many photographs, illustrations, and descriptive case studies of various successful installations in New England and Canada. Topics addressed include: components of biomass energy systems: types and efficiency of biomass systems, assessing cost-effectiveness, project development and financing, and operation and maintenance. Contact the Alaska Bioenergy Program or Tom Critzer, CONEG Policy Research Center, Inc. 400 N. Capitol St., NW, Suite 382, No. 36 January 1995 Washington, DC, 20001, 202/624-8450 or fax 202/624-8463. Copies are $10 each. “Oregon Bioenergy Guidebook”, prepared by International Resource Unlimited, Inc., Eugene Oregon for Oregon Department of Energy provides an overview of bioenergy resources, technology, facilities, and permitting in a state with a long track record of using waste wood, agricultural residue, garbage, and other waste to produce a substantial portion of its energy. Contact Alex Sifford, Oregon Department of Energy, 625 Marion St., NE, Salem, OR, 97310 503/378 2778. “Bioenergy ‘94, Proceedings of the Sixth National Bioenergy Conference”, presents papers delivered at the national bioenergy conference in Reno, Nevada in October, 1994. Contact Dave Swanson at Western Regional Biomass Program, c/o Western Area Power Administration, A7100 PO Box 3402, Golden, CO 80401-0098. 303/275-1706. “Selection Guidelines for Off-the-Shelf, Commercially Available Biomass Combustion Equipment--1994”, lists direct combustion and gasification equipment vendors, specifications, and models with outputs of less than 10 million Btu/hr. Contact the Division of Energy or Phil Badger, Southeastern Regional Biomass Energy Program, Tennessee Valley Authority, PO Box 1010 Muscle Shoals, AL 35660. Meetings And Conferences Hearth Products Association, Hearth and Home Expo ‘95, March 24-27, 1995, Las Vegas, NV. Contact Hearth Products Association, Lockbox Dept. 4014, Washington, DC 20042-4014. Ph: 202/857-1173, fax: 703/812-8875. Second Biomass Conference of the Americas: Energy, Environment. Agriculture._and Industry, August 21-24, 1995, Portland, OR. Contact Dori Neilsen, Conferences Group, 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393. Ph: 303/275-4350, fax: 303/275-4320. Division of Energy Bioenergy News conservation and fuel substitution measures which can be applied with little additional analysis. Target communities have populations greater than 150, access to significant wood resources, and relatively high energy costs. Working closely with communities, the Division of Energy intends to assist school and other building managers follow through on study recommendations. Proposals are due at the Division of Energy on March 15, 1995. For more information and a copy of the RFP, contact: Peter Crimp Alaska DCRA Division of Energy 333 West 4th Avenue, Suite 220 Anchorage, Alaska 99501-2341 Phone: 907/269-4631 Fax: 907/269-4645 Grants Available for School and Hospital Energy Conservation The Division of Energy has recently begun offering 50% matching grants for energy conservation in schools and hospitals. This federally-funded program, called the Institutional Conservation Program (ICP), provides funds for conducting detailed energy audits, installing energy-efficient equipment, and retrofitting buildings to use renewable energy sources such as wind, biomass, and solar energy. There are two types of grants available: Technical Assistance (TA) grants and Energy Conservation Measure (ECM) grants. TA grants cover half of the cost of hiring a professional engineer or licensed architect to conduct a study of the energy conservation opportunities in a building. The results of this study can then be used as the basis for an ECM grant application. ECM grants cover half of the cost of energy conservation measures in the building. No. 36 January 1995 Projects that have been funded by past ICP grants include high-efficiency lighting occupancy sensors, automatic control systems high-efficiency motors, variable speed drives pipe and roof insulation, boiler retrofits, boiler replacements, swimming pool covers, and heat recovery systems The advantages of participating in the ICP are that grantees receive 50% funding of eligible projects and that the TA studies are reviewed by independent engineers in the Division of Energy who are familiar with energy conservation projects and calculation methods. Currently, there is $185,000 available for ICP grants. For further information, contact David Lockard, ICP Manager, at 907/269-4541. U.S. Department of Energy Solicits Proposals for Biomass Energy Two programs funded by the U.S. Department of Energy are asking for proposals to develop bioenergy projects: The Pacific Northwest and Alaska Regional Bioenergy Program is soliciting proposals for demonstration projects developed and constructed in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. Profit or non-profit organizations and individuals are eligible. Cost- sharing at a minimum ratio of 1:1 is a requirement. The maximum amount of an award will be $100,000, while approximately $500,000 will be available in grants. The grant period is currently scheduled to open on February 28 and close on May 12, 1995. For more information, contact the Alaska Bioenergy Program or USDoE Seattle Regional Support Office, 800 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3950, Seattle, WA 98104. Ph: 206/553-1303, Fax: 206/553-2200. Name Address Ity, olate, Zip Afognak Native Corporation Mr. Jim Carmichael General Manager P.O. Box 1277 Kodiak, AK 99615 Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station Ahina Inc. Alaska Business Monthly Mr. Ed Packee University of Alaska P.O. Box 649 Ms. Judy Fuerst P.O. Box 241288 Fairbanks, AK 99775 Glennallen, AK 99585 “Anchorage, AK 99524 Alaska Center for Appropriate Technology Alaska Center for International Business Alaska Correctional Industries Alaska Correctional Industries Attn: Mr. Alex Tatun P.O. Box 872020 Mr. Eric Downey 4201 Tudor Center Drive Mr. Leland Spratt Production Manager P.O. Box 919 Mr. Wally Roman, Manager P.O. Box T Wasilla, AK 99687 Anchorage, AK 99508 Palmer, AK 99645 Juneau, AK 99811-2000 Alaska Division of Forestry Alaska Forest Association Mr. Paul Maki Assistant Regional Forester 3700 Airport Way 111 Stedman Street, Suite 200 Alaska Gateway School District Mr. Spike Jorgenson, Superintendent P.O. Box 226 Fairbanks, AK 99709-4699 Ketchikan, AK 9990T Ok, AK 99780 Alaska Gateway School District Mr. Bob Malisch District Engineer P.O. 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Box 301 Tok, AK 99780 Bushnell, Dwight ~ OSU Corvallis, OR 97331-600 Dept. of Mechanical Engineerin: lista Corporation 601 West 5th Avenue, Suite Anchorage, AK 9950- ant Products, Inc. 2205 Cole Road Horn Lake, MS 38637 amahan, Mr. John 3201 °C" Street, Suite 602 Anchorage, AK 99503 arroll, Hatch & Associates, Inc. - Tin Viarieah Portland, OR 97207 OX annel Sanitation Corporation Mr. Jerry Wilson Juneau, AK 99802 General Manager P.O. Box 1267 ase, Mr. Craig 4532 Toord Avenue SE Bellevue, WA 98006 errier, Mr. Curtis 2436 Glenwood Street Anchorage, AK 99508 ikoot Lumber Co. Haines Lumber Mill Haines, AK 998 jugach Alaska Corporation Mr. Paul Tweiten Anchorage, AK 99503-4196 Timber Manager 560 E. 34th Ave., Suite 200 hugach Electric Association, Inc. Mr. Phil Steyer Anchorage, AK 99519-6300 P.O. Box 196300 hugach National Forest" Planning Department Anchorage, AK 99503-3958 3301 C Street, #300 ukchi Community College P.O. Box 297 ~ Kotzebue, AK 99752 itifor, Inc. 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Bamette St., #102 PA Carol R. Purvis Research Triangle Park, NC Air & Energy Research Lab MD-63 27711 PA, Air Programs Mr. Chris James Seattle, WA S8T0T 1200 Sixth Avenue R Attn: Ms. Marlene Duckworth, Librarian McLean, VA 22702 8260 Greensboro Drive, Ste. 325 Process Equipment, Inc. Mr. Eric Smith, President Vancouver, WA 98605 9013 NE Highway 99, #4 stes, Dave 236 Irwin Street Juneau, AK 99807 yak Corp. P.O. Box 340 Cordova, AK 90574 ‘airbanks Industrial Development Corp. Mr. Ron Ricketts airbanks, AK 9970 Executive Director 515 7th Avenue, Suite 320 airbanks North Slope Borough Mr. Don Moore airbanks, AK 9970 Public Works Executive Director P.O. Box 1267 ish & Game, Alaska Dept. of Division of Game, SERO Mr. Donald E. McKnight Regional Supervisor P.O. Box 20 Mr. Clare D og 6541 Sexton Rd. N.W., Suite F Ms. Yvonne Weber orestry Sciences Lab rontiersman ibson, Ms. Carol iam, Han Douglas, AK 99824 4043 Roosevelt Way N.E. Mr. Jim Howard, Project Leader Box 3890 Frazee Consulting Service 5258 Kootenai Mr. Allen Baker 1261 Seward Meridian Forestry Consultant 5814 S. Tongass Highway 6510 Imlach 104 2nd Avenue joldbelt Corporation 9097 Glacier Highway, #200 olden Associates, Inc. Mr. Keith Mobley 8740 Hartzell Road, Suite 200 (Olden Valley Electric Association Ms. Vayla Colonel Fairbanks, AK 99707 Ms. Becky Gray P.O. Box 1249 jorsch, Ms. Lori 1700 Trail Circle Wasilla, AK O0654 jovernor, State of Alaska Ms. Nancy Barnes Juneau, AK 99811-0710 Executive Secretary P.O. Box A reat Lakes Governors, Council Mr. Frederic Kuzel Chicago, IL 6060T Project Director ulkona Community Corp. jumley, Tony Hamilton, Ms. Joy 91QA\TIIS18V(5) 35 E. Wacker Drive, Suite 1850 Mr. Lyle Hennager P.O. Box 930 Fischer Brothers Firewood Svc. 300 W. Swanson General Delivery Delta Junction, AK 99737 Wasilla, AK 99654-68 Shageluk, AK 9966 Hanson, Ronald G. 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Mr. William Pickering Sandpoint, 1D 83864 P.O. Box 1706 oiselle, Bob 0624 Starlight Court uneau, AK 9980 Lowe, Mr. Royce P.O. Box 33806 Juneau, AK 99803 umbrecht Forest pun com Grennough, MT 59836 -QO. BOX Lyden, Ms. Eileen 10428 Halitna Circle Eagle River, AK 99 Maniilag Association P.O. Box 256, Kotzebue, AK 99 Mason, Bruce & Girard” Attn: Diane Redding, CA 96099-0278 P.O. Box 990218 Mat-Su Loggers Association Mr. Dit Wemer Palmer, AK 99645 Star Route B, Box 7221 Matanuska Electric Association Mr. Bruce Scott Palmer, AK 99645 Ms. Judy Inabinette P.O. Box 2929 9IQA\TIISI8V(7) Matanuska-Susitna Borough Mr. Roy Carison Public Works Director 350 E. Dahlia Avenue Palmer, AK 90645-0406 Matanuska-Susitna Borough Planning Department Palmer, AK 99645 Mr. John Duffy, Director 350 E. Dahlia Avenue Matanuska-Susitna Community College P.O, Box 899 Palmer, AK 99645 Maupin, Mr. Bert P.O. Box 100877 Anchorage, AK 99510-08 McCauley, Sharon “_ of the Governor Juneau, AK 99877 P.O. Box AM McConnell, Ms. Annalee — of the Governor Juneau, AK 99817 P.O. Box AM, Room 445 McCune, Mr. Phil P.O. Box 591 Nampa, ID 83653-059 McDaniels, Drew Pyro Industries, Inc. Burlington, WA 98233 695 Pease Road McGrath Light and Power Mr. Tom Harris McGrath, AK 99627 P.O. Box 309 McNaughton, Mr. John 2205 Eureka, #43 Anchorage, AK 99503 McNulty, Mr. Kevin 7538 Stanley Drive Anchorage, AK 99 Mechanical Sales, Inc. Mr. Mark Pennington Menasha Corp. Anchorage, AK GSTS 941 East Dowling Road, Suite 304 Ur Ron Eckl Menasha Corporation Metlakatla Indian Communi Michigan State University Miles, Tom Jr. Wasilla, AK 99654 HC 31 Box 5249N Lands and Timber Operations North Bend, OR 97459 Mr. Ron Eckfield Chief Forester P.O. Box 588 Mr. John Bruns, Forester Box 360 Mr. Gordon Thompson Box 359 David Nicholls Dept. of Forestry 208 Natural Resources Blvd. 5475 SW Arrowwood Portland, OR 97225 Miltary & Veterans Affairs, Alaska Dept. of Mr. Roger Patch, Director of Facilities P.O. 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Box 107005 Division of Forestry, SERO Mr. Jim McAllister Anchorage, AK 99910 Juneau, AK 99801 Natural Resources, Alaska Dept. of 400 Willoughby Avenue State of Alaska Mr. Dave Wallingford Division of Forestry, SERO P.O. Box 7-005 Anchorage, AK 99510 NEOS Corporation 3569 Mt. Diablo Bivd., Suite 200 “LaFayette, CA 94549 Nickerson, Andrew 3915 Camino Lindo San Diego, CA 92122-2009 North American Energy Services Mr. Will Evans, Superintendent Tacoma, WA 98421 clo Tacoma Public Utilities iit Taylor Way ayior Wai Northern Light Larry Dobson Seattle, WA 98744 1385 33rd Avenue S. Northwest Enviro Services Mr. Stan Barankiewicz Anchorage, AK 9950T 1813 E. 1st Avenue Northwest Public Power Bulletin NRG Resource Recovery Mr. Rick Kellog, Editor P.O. Box 4576 Ms. Renee Jakubiak 1221 Nicollet Mall, Suite 800 Vancouver, WA 98662-0576 Minneapolis, MN 55403 O'Connell, Russ CONEG Washington, DC 20007 400 N. Capitol St., Suite 382 Oak Ridge National Labs Lynn Lai Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6352 .O. BOX OMB-K 3601 C Street, Suite 370 Anchorage, AK 99503 Oregon Department of Energy Mr. Alex Sifford alem, OR 97310 625 Marion Street, NE Mr. Paul Bell 2600 State Street Oregon State University Organized Village of Kake Dr. Dwight Bushnell Department of Mechanical Engineering Rogers Hall, Room 204 x 316 facitic Energy Systems Pacific Generation Inc. Mr. John R. Martin, PE. General Manager 1700 S.W. 4th Avenue, #103 Mr. Kirk Humphries 500 NE Multnomah Street #900 Palmer Correctional Center astro, Mr. Anthony J. Mr. Art Schmidt, Superintendent P.O. Box 919 P.O. Box 83812 Fairbanks, AK 99708 Pease, Dave Editorial Director Forest Industries 655 N.W. Canyon Drive 06 W. 36th Avenue Redmond, OR 97756 jorage, AK 9950 Peratrovich, Nottingham and Drage Petawawa National Forestry Tnsts Mr. Jeff Monty, Director alk River, Ontario Technology Transfer and Operations KOU 140 CANADA Petersburg, City of _ Mr. El Lucas Petersburg, AK 99833 Public Works Director P.O. Box 329 Pine, Mr. George Box4 PNW Research Station Ms. Susan Willits Timber Quality Research OK AK OO780 Portland, OR 97208 P.O. Box 38: Pope & Talbo Mr. Mike Niebuhr Spearfish, SD 57783 P.O. Box 850 Port Graham Corp. Mr. Pat Norman Port Graham, AK 99603 Price-Chen International, Inc. he Alaska Pacific Trading Co. P.O. Box 462 Anchorage, AK 99570 9IQA\TIISI8V(9) Prince Edward Island Forestry Branch Mr. Paul McKnight arlottetown, Prince Edward Department of Energy & Forestry Island P.O. Box 2000 C1A 7N8 CANADA Prince Wilkam Sound Comm. College P.O. Box 97 Valdez, AK 99686 Radar Companies Mr. Duane Powell Portland, OR 97220 P.O. Box 20128 Ravenscroft, Mr. Bryan Penta Post Company ~ Tuffle, 1D 83314 Interstate 84 Exit 147 RCN Engineering Recycling Council of Ontario Reed, Ms. Linda Mr. Ron Nienas 8430 Rosalind Street Ms. Irene Fedun, Librarian 489 College Street, Suite 504 801 Airport Heights, #129 Anchorage, AK 99507 Toronto, Ontario M6G 1A5 CANADA Anchorage, AK 99508 Resource Development Council Ms. Becky Gay Anchorage, AK 99503-20 121 W. Fireweed Lane #250 Resource Management Mr. Ted Smith Willow, AK 99685 P.O. Box 1026 Resource Recovery Report Mr. Frank McManus Editor and Publisher 5313 - 38th Street NW Washington, D.C. 20015 Robinson, Mr. George Drawer 1120 Kenai, AK 99677 Ruby, Michael G. Envirometrics, inc. eattle, WA 98103-6 4803 Fremont Avenue North Rural Alaska Power Association Ms. Dianne Rabb Anchorage, AK 99510 P.O. Box 100214 Rutledge, Pete heie, Don P.O. 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Badger "Muscle Shoals, AC 35660 rogram Director, Biomass é Irland Group orestry Consultants Vinthrop, ME 04364 Mr. Lloyd C. Irland : RFD #2, Box 9200 i Tatitlek Corporation Ms. Mary Gordoaoff, President Cordova, AK 99574 Albuquerque, NM 87177 Suite 207 hore Bay, City of Ginny Tiemey Thorne Bay, AK 99979 City Administrator P.O. Box 19110 imberline, Inc. Mr. Reed Oswalt Kodiak, AK 99615 Box 722 ollman, Ed Copper Valley Construction Glennallen, AK 99588 Ox Tansportation and Public Facilities, Mr. Rod Platsky ‘airbanks, AK 99709 Alaska Dept. of 2301 Peger Road Tends Publishing, Inc. National Press Building Me A D.C. 20045 Teston, Mike 117 Benny Benson Drive Kodiak, urmer, Neil Southern Engineering & Equipment Co. Graysville, AL 35073 P.O. Drawer 270 95 - 3rd Street N.E. Mr. Phil Badger Muscle Shoals, AL 35660 CEB IC-M . Forest Service Mr. Michael Barton Regional Forester P.O. Box 21628 uneau, AK 99802-1628 U.S. Forest Service . Forest Service USDA Forest Service - Ketchikan inderwater Construction, Inc. 91Q4\TH1518V(11) Mr. Gene Miller P.O. Box 21628 Mr. Conrad Reinecke Information & Education Office P.O. Box 1628 Mr. Les Paul Box 1628 Ms. Yvonne Weber Forestry Sciences Laboratory 4043 Roosevelt Way, N.E. CL. Chesire 7th & Madison Mr. Chuck Morris 8740 Hartzell Road Juneau, AK 99802-1628 luneau, AK 9980 luneau, AK 9980 Seattle, VA 08105-6490 Ketchikan, AK 99907 Anchorage, AK 9950 University of Alaska University of Alaska-Anchorage Statewide Office of Land Management Rick Rogers, Forester 3890 University Lake Dr. Engineering Department 2651 Providence Drive Anchorage, AK 99508-4630 Anchorage, AK 99508 University of Alaska-Anchorage School of Engineering Anchorage, AK 99508 Or. David Junge 3211 Providence Drive niversity of Alaska-Fairbanks School of Engineering Fairbanks, AK 99775-066 Mr. Ron Johnson 306 Tanana Drive University of Alaska-Fairbanks Geophysical Institute Dr. William J. Stringer Associate Professor University of Alaska-Fairbanks Fairbanks, AK 99775 niversity of Alaska-Fairbanks Caulfield Department of Rural Development Fairbanks, AK 99 niversity of Alaska-Fairbanks niversity of Alaska-Fairbanks 705B Gruenin Utilities Operations Mr. Jerry England 802 South Chandalar Drive Utilities Department, Powerplant Mr. Farhad Mamarzadeh Fairbanks, AK 99775-1660 airbanks, AK 99775-1660 University of Alaska-Fairbanks University of Alaska-Juneau University of Idaho Dr. James Drew, Dean School of Agriculture Resources Management 103 Arctic Health Building Forestry Programs 11120 Glacier Highway Mr. Richard Folk College of Forest Resources Department of Forest Products Fairbanks, AK 99775-0080 luneau, AK 9980 Moscow, ID 8384 University of Idaho Dr. Alton Campbell Moscow, ID 83843 College of Forest Resources University of daho Physical Plant Moscow, ID 83843 University, Alaska Pacific USDA Forest Service USDA Forest Service USDA Forest Service, R-6 Valdeghta, Bob Valdez, City of Valley Sawmi Management Science Mr. Christopher R. Low Associate Professor 4101 University Drive Forest Products Lab Mr. Andy Baker 1 Gifford Pinchot Drive Anchorage Forestry Sciences Lab Mr. Jim LaBau 3301 C Street, #300 Mr. Chad Converse 3301 C Street, #300 Anchorage, AK 99508 Madison, WI 53705 Anchorage, AK 99503-3956 Anchorage, AK 99503-3958 Mr. Robert Lease P.O. Box 3623 Associate Consultants Investment Enterprises Box 1267 ~ Public Works Director Mr. Lee Schlitz P.O. Box 307 Mr. Greg Bell 6231 Old Seward Highway _ Portland, OR 97203 Seward, AK 99664 Valdez, AK 99656 Anchorage, AK 9950 Van Herself, Mr. David Resource Dev. Association Spokane, WA 99207 E. 728 Sprague Van Oss, Mr. Jim HCR 78750 Esl End Road fomer, AK 9960 Vanderpool, James P.O. Box 180 McGrath, AK 996 Vermont State Energy Office Mr. Norm Hudson Montpelier, VT 0560 State Office Buildin VRCA Environmental Services 8700 Artie Spur Road Anchorage, AK 99518-1550 Walkinshaw, Rob 4932 Vance Drive Anchorage, AK 99508-56 Wartsilla Diesel clo Mr. Kord Christianson eattle, WA 9810 1100 NW 51st Street Washington Depart. Natural Resources Mr. John Bergvall Olympia, WA 98504-700 P.O. Box 47001 9IQA\TIISI8V(12) Washington State Energy Office Mr. Jim Kerstetter Olympia, WA 98 809 Legion Way, SE Waste-Marf, Inc. Weiber, Ward Washington Timberland Management Mr ary Hansen, President Union, WA 98592 P.O. Box 130 Washington Water & Power John Steigers “Spokane, WA 99220 Fuel Supply Coordinator E. 1411 Mission P.O. Box 3727 Lorrill E. Washburn Omaha, Nebraska 65144 13304 W. Center Road, #222 P.O. Box 340044 Deadhorse, AK 99734 itesfone Farms “Mr. John Hasz 7255 Lame Park Drive Delta Junction, AK 99737 P.O. Box 1229 Rodney Webner 169 South Main Street Dallas, TX 75225 Appel Consultants Inc. Stevenson Ranch, CA 91381- 25554 Longfellow Place 1505 401 Spring Cr. Drive Mr. Ken Davidson Wrangell, AK 99929 Public Works Director 91QA\TIISI18V(13) P.O. Box 531 Wrangell, City of P.O. Box 631 ‘oung, Mr. Joe Box 42 iz B People Speak ise amines Cali Fort Yukon, AK 99740 -O. BOX APPENDIX C Thorne Bay Wood Waste Phase 7 Final Report “A Feasibility Study for Building and Operating a Biomass Energy Plant for the City of Thorne Bay, Alaska”, Caroll Hatch and Associates/Oliver Engineering, 1995. Klawock Boiler Retrofit Assessment Report “Reconnaissance Study MSW Disposal, Klawock and Craig, Alaska” Carroll Hatch and Associates/Oliver Engineering, 1995. APPENDIX D Current Industry-Related News Articles Tury 35S logging clipped Northern area shut; hundreds to lose jobs By HAL BERNTON Daily News business reporter A coalition of conservation, tourism and Native groups has won a federal court order to block logging across a wide swath of the northern Tongass National Forest, a move that industry officials say will force the layoffs of at least several hun- & CAMPAIGN: En- dred loggers and mill vironmentalists go workers. after Young, Mur- The groups want the kowski. B-1 agency to do more to protect tourism, commercial fishing and recreational forest users, and won the injunction pending a final decision in the case. Timber industry officials say the order is a major setback at a time when they are eager to sell pulp and timber to red-hot world markets. ‘“‘We won't have anywhere else to go to replace that timber,’ said Troy Reinhart, a spokesman for Ketchikan Pulp Co., the state’s largest timber company. . The Tongass is the largest national forest and the main site of virtually all the logging done in Alaska. The logging industry has been in a years] battle with conservation, tourism and other Continued from Page groups over the pace of cutting. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued the new order last Thursday. The order came down just as this year’s cutting season was about to begin in at least one of the contested areas. The order suspends scheduled sales for 128 million board feet of timber, slightly more than a third of the total volume proposed for the 1995 fiscal year, said Steve Ambrose, a Forest Service spokes- man. It also puts a hold on logging 94 million of the 330 million board feet of timber sold in the fiscal year that ended last September. The order targets northern Tongass acreage once promised to Sitka's Alaska Pulp Corp. under a long-term contract. Alaska Pulp shut its mill two years ago, and last year that closure prompted the Forest Service to end the contract. Since then, the Forest Service has been selling the northern timber to independent log- fg and Ketchikam Pulp Co., a Ketch. ‘based mill and logging company that holds the other long-term Tongass con- tract. Late last year, the coalition sued the Forest Service, arguing that the agency should have cut the size of the sales once it voided the Alaska Pulp contract. They argue that the tourism industry and other forest users would be harmed by the Proposed cutting, and that these users didn't get a fair say as the agency moved forward with the sales. “We're trying to serve a booming visi- tor demand, but there are fewer and fewer places to go for a quality experi- ence,” said Karen Martinsen of the Alas- ka Wilderness Recreation and Tourism Association, one of the coalition’s groups. Buck Lindekugel, a lawyer with the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, said the lawsuit doesn't seek to halt all logging. But the plaintiffs want to see a smaller scale of logging now that the Forest Service is no longer bound by the terms of the Alaska Pulp contract. Others plaintiffs in the case include the Natural ces Defense Council, The Wilderness Society, the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund and the Organized Village of Kake. “We think the Forest Service should protect our subsistence needs now as much ... as they used to protect Alaska Pulp’s contract,” Heinrich Kadake, head f the Organized Village of Kake, said in a written statement. A final ruling on the case is expected after a June 5 hearing. Tom Waldo of the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund said the ruling might come before September, when the Forest Ser- vice has scheduled a big sale. But Reinhart, of Ketchikan Pulp, said he feared the final ruling might not come until the fall or later. The order came just as the company was making its seasonal * lle push to build roads and cut timber to feed the mills, he said. Ketchikan Pulp already has idled one of its sawmills because of timber supply problems, and that mill, which can em- ploy more than 125 people, will probably remain closed. Several logging camps also will have to lay off at least 100 workers, Reinhart said. Rayonier, a Washington-based compa- ny, planned to hire several dozen loggers and other workers to cut 24 million board feet for sale to Southeast mills. The court ruling may force the company to scrub the cutting for this year, said Wendy Pugnet- ti, a company spokeswoman Silver Bay Logging another indepen- dent, bought timber in the norhern forest and also planned to cut ‘or Ketchikan Pulp. Dick Buhler. the pany’s presi- dent, likened the ru! 0 a stick of dynamite that goes of! Peep. near it are bound to get hurt he + 4 Anchorage Daily News Friday, April 7, 1995 Senate OKs amendment By DAVID WHITNEY Daily News reporter WASHINGTON — The Senate approved an amendment Thursday that overturns a federal appeals court injunction against logging in a wide area of the Tongass ‘National Forest. s if:enacted by Congress and signed into staweby President Clinton, the amendment would scuttle a lawsuit brought by con- servation, tourism and Native groups try- ing to slow the logging of old-growth timber. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco last month suspended the sale of 128 million board feet of timber planned for this year. The ruling also stopped logging of about 94 million board feet of timber sold last year. The Senate approved the amendment, written by Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, without debate. The amendment was at- + tached to a spending-reduction bill that will go back to the House for consider- ation. Stevens said the amendment will ‘‘keep hundreds of people working in southeast Alaska at a time when we have already lost more than 1,000 timber jobs in Sitka and Wrangell.” Ketchikan Corp., which would have been hard-hit: by the injunction, applauded Thursday’s action. The compa- ny is the forest’s largest operator. “It means that we’re going to be able to get some trees and keep this place open,” company spokesman Troy Reinhart said. The shortage of timber that would have resulted from the injunction probably, would have forced a 50-day closure of the company’s pulp mill late this year, or early next year, he said. It also would have prolonged slowdowns of its sawmill operations, he said: But Tom Waldo Sierra Club Legal: neau that ‘rep: case, called Stevens’ sult to the “It says rr people,” 3 . “The brought it afte le: who hunt and fish est. They are subsis- ate small businesses and tourism ors.” The lawsuit: was brought against the Forest Service by the Alaska Wilderness Recreation and Tourism Association, the village of Kake, the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council and the Natural Resources Defense Council. At issue were timber sales planned for Alaska Pulp Corp. under its long-term contract for Tongass trees. The Forest independent buyers and Ketchikan Pulp. The lawsuit charged the Forest Service should have redone environmental impact studies of the sales before it offered the trees to other buyers. Stevens’ amendment declares that an environmental impact study prepared for selling timber to one buyer “shall be deemed sufficient” if the agency sells it instead to-other buyers. ‘ = “My amendment clarifies congressional intent that. the environmental impact statements are not required simply be- cause there is a different buyer than originally anticipated,’ Stevens said. é Vol. 60 No. 174, (UPD 293-940), 56 pages —— oo? Ketchikan, Alasi@l Alaska senators file bill ' Saturday-Sunday, July 22-23, 1995 $1.25 to boost timber, jobs Legislation would rewrite Tongass Timber Reform Act By BETTY MILLS Daily News Washington Writer WASHINGTON — Alaska Sens. Frank Murkowski and Ted Stevens Fri- day filed legislation to require the Forest Service to make enough timber avail- able for sale from the Tongass National Forest to provide 2,400 jobs. The bill is a wholesale rewrite of the Tongass Timber Reform Act of 1990, which was hailed at the time as a com- promise between the timber industry and environmentalists. Since then, however, the delegation has grown increasingly frustrated with the Forest Service as it implemented the 1990 law and as environmentalists filed a series of suits to block timber sales om mal diversity : determines such actioa is necessary to prevent the species from becoming threatened or endangered. Even then, a jobs impact versus an environmental benefit review must be obtained and substitute timber must be provided. ¢ Directs the administration to re- schedule the timber sales which were deferred last your because of the Forest Service withdrawals of Habitat Conser- vation Areas to protect the goshawk and wolf. The administration ruled recent! that the two species are not endangered. ¢ Require second-growth timber to be managed to maximize future produc- See ‘Timber bill,’ page A-5 the 17-million-acre forest. The delegation says direct timber employment on the Tongass has been reduced by 42 percent since 1990, when there were 2,400 jobs. Alaska Pulp Corp. closed its pulp mill in Sitka and a saw- mill in Wrangell, claiming the Forest Service did not provide enough timber for them to operate. The new bill does not revoke any of the wilderness designations in the Tongass, but does allow the Forest Ser- vice to offer timber for sale in any other area. This would include more than 700,000 acres of protected areas where environmentalists do not want to see longing take place. measure also prohibits the ex- port of all saw logs, pulp logs, utility logs and chips from federal lands, and allows the state of Alaska to implement a simi- lar export prohibition on state-owned lands. Legal challenges to timber sales are limited by the new bill and a review under the National Environmental Policy ———_———— ‘Our objective is simply this: restore the compromise, and the jobs inherent in it, in the 1990 act.’ — Sen. Frank Murkowski, R-Alaska eee Act is precluded. The bill also would: Allow the administration to reduce the volume of timber only if it provides Timber tion and to provide habitat for deer. ® Sets aside 80 million board feet of timber each year for small business. ° Directs the administration to study prospects for enco' ing value-added manufacturing in the Tongass, such as the medium density fiberboard plant proposed for Sitka. In a Senate speech, Murkowski said he believes the essential compromise of the 1990 law — to maintain the same level of jobs — has been broken. *Our objective is simply this: restore the compromise, and the jobs inherent in it, in the 1990 act,” he said. Murkowski has tried for weeks to convince the administration to change its management practices on the Tongass, without success. “The final straw that broke the camel's back,” he said Friday, was release by the Forest Service of 10- year projections showing an annual av- erage timber volume of only 278 million board feet. Focus on jobs, not timber Stevens said, “I do think the focus on jobs rather than on timber makes alot of sense. It will solve the problem for Alaska and maintain a constant base of employ- ment opportunity.” Stevens is considered likely to use his ior position on the Senate Appropria- i to include Tongass i in the Forest Service budget measure which will be drafted next week. A spokeswoman for the Forest Ser- vice says the agency does not comment on legislation until it is passed. But Jim Lyons, under secretary for natural resources and environment, said last week that the administration does not favor changes in the 1990 law. In- stead, the administration wants to go forward with the revision of the current forest plan. "The Tongass Land Management Plan is the best way to. that the (1990) law is obeyed,” said. However, Bill Williams, D-Saxman, sai , Timber Reform act is and needs to be fixed.” “| will be reviewing the legislation and tracking this issue very closely. While there are many issues and differ- ing perspectives on the Tongass, one thing is clear — there is currently a timber supply and jobs problem on the Tongass National Forest.” KPC pleased with legsiati=. Ketchikan Pulp Co. said it's pleased with the senators’ legislation. “The Alaska Congressional Delega- tion correctly understands that the pres- ervationists have broken their part of the deal in the Tongass Timber Reform ‘Act of 1990 through relentless appeals and litigation,” said Troy Reinhart, KPC spokesman, in a prepared statement. *KPC looks forward to reviewing this legislation and providing our input and comments. While we have not thor- oughly reviewed the legislation it is clear that it does not gut the Tongass Timber Reform Act of 1990 nor does it pose any threat to the other users of the Tongass National Forest including fish- ermen, hunters or recreationalists. Thi legislation merely reinstates the intent of the Tongass Timber Reform Act of 1990 to preserve special places on the Tongass and also protect those job levels which existed in the timber industry in 1990," Reinhart said. The act will give local industry tools to address market and employment de- mands, said J.C. Conley, president of StandUP!, a group supporting multiple use management on the Tongass. “Business owners, community mem- bers, families and resource industry employees are breathing a sigh of relief at this first sign of a return to respon= sible, resource management on the Tongass,” Conley said. ‘Alaska Forest Association said that the legislation will help replace timber- mental equation. Senator Mi bill addresses the people of the environ- mental equation. Senator Murkowski's bill addresses the people of Southeast, the only forgotten interest in the recent ° . bill eee Continued from page A-1 land managment policies on the Tongass," said Dick Buhler, AFA presi- dent. Kathi Lietz of Black Bear Cedar Prod- ucts in Thorne Bay said that the legisla- tion will help timber communities and timber workers. "While we realize this is only the beginning of a long battle to bring the peace promised in 1990 to the people of the Tongass, it is a welcome start. We see hope for the future. The time has come to end the lock-up politics of the preservationists as well as the political gerrymandering of the U.S. Forest Ser- vice,” Lietz said. However, Bart Koehler, executive director of the Southeast Alaska Conser- vation Council, termed it “a gut and cut bill. It will gut much of the Tongass Timber Reform Act and cut down the sound Forest Service management poli- cies which have been in place for many years. *Now that Alaskans are in power, they want to roll back forest manage- ment of the past 50 years. We will fight this all we can,” he said. Koehler acknowledged that there have been jobs lossesin Southeast Alaska, but said they “were primarily caused by APC shutting down the Sitka mill and sawmill. Those were cold- hearted business decisions by APC.” He said he anticipates action by Stevens to include the new bill in the Forest Service budget measure. This is a slick, quick, easy way that Ted can move this agen tee, said he will hold hearings soon on the bill. He has not committed to further hearings in Alaska. He held one last month in Wrangell. Science and politics collide over goshawk y SCOTT SONNER — ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -—- Transcripts scientists candidly criticizing ‘otection strategies for the gos- iwk in Alaska’s Tongass National orest are heightening tensions as e government nears key deci- ons about logging there. The transcripts, from an Octo- ‘Yr meeting in Juneau, offer a re glimpse of the internal strug- e faced by federal land manag- s and wildlife as they y to maintain some flow of re- urces from public lands while otecting the remaining tracts of nturies-old forests. The documents also help frame e debate over what the govern i ent should do when scientists n’t know is necessary to ve fish and om. “The planners ki i gher points te a aph: aad the science just isn’t on the northern spotted bird’s designation ere yet,” Mark Fullér, a st at the National ce in Boise, Idaho, said e discussion of the g vindling population. “You want the scientists to \ck up your decisions but we’re \ that. If we give you a endation today it’s simply ing to be science,” he told U.S wrest Service managers. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser- ce will decide in the coming 2»eks whether to propose that the 1een Charlotte goshawk in South- st Alaska be listedfor protection der the Endangered Species t. Doing so could trigger signifi- nt logging cutbacks on the ngass - at 17 million acres the tion’s biggest national forest, out the size of West Virginia. Government experts and lobby- s on both sides of the issue ex- from extine- § “is about it yet in a position where we cap, claageuts and very little of ‘Service’s A8 JUNEAU EMPIRE, SUNDAY, MAY 7, 1995 Science... Continued from Page A-1 Forest Service plans to protect the goshawk, the Alexander Archipel- ago wolf and the marbled murrelet in the Tongass. in 1991 has transformed the timber industry. as see going on in Alaska same as where the Pa- cifle Nerthwest. was isa, with extensive 5 § left anymore,” animal ecol- ist Richard Reynolds said in an this past week. Fort Collins, Colo., was among most outspoken dissenters at the October meeting. But several ecologists and wild- life biologists criticized a draft en- vironmental assessment on the goshawk issued by the Forest Ser- vice last fall after a June meeting with the scientists. Here are some excerpts from the transcripts: e “We had three days to do what would take three years to do ct the agency will keep the bird correctly. The draft EA should * the list and defer to pending 8ase turn to Science. Pade A-& never have been put on paper and distributed. These are extremely short-term interim guides,” said Reynolds. “There is no logic in the inter- im plan. We need to fix it,” said Eric Forsman, a research wildlife biologist at the Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Research Sta- ers around nest sites are a prude long-term strategy,” said Titi regional supervisor of the state wildlife conservation division. Environmentalists say the la of scientific certainty is all ti to i ; “The industry doesn’t want do anything to protect those 1 sources unless you can point to corpse in the gutter to prove yo point,” said Allen E. Smith, T! Murkowski, chairman of tl Senate Energy and Natural R sources Committee, says the trai scripts show logging should mov forward “That’s what is so frustratin, when the agency itself has no sc ence,” Murkowski told Forest Se vice Chief Jack Ward Thomas at late April hearing. By BETTY MILLS WASHINGTON — Timber harvest practices in the Tongass National Forest are not adequate to protect salmon habitat, the U.S. Forest Service said Thurs- aay i ill occur to However, the agency said no damage will occur t fish habitat from going ahead with timber sales in the next two years bed the Tongass Land Manage- lan is being revised. mene concussies came in a long-delayed report to Congress, entitled ‘‘Anadromous Fish Habitat As- sessment,” more commonly known as PACFISH. The review was required by a 1993 amendment au- thored by Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, which barred the Forest Service from implementing PACFISH in ka. , Alene Stevens amendment directed the Forest Ser- vice to study the effectiveness of current papoesarce for protecting salmon a and to determine if any dditional protection is needed. __ “ reyes the size of buffer strips drawn around streams in: the Tongass where no timber cutting would be allowed. The current level is 100 feet. ‘ PACFISH was initiated by the federal gevernmes about two years ago to protect declining fish a” be Washington, Oregon, Idaho and California. cludes 300-toot, loggi ‘i streams and trees eater strips around in 1998, Stevens Teacted angril Claiming j needed and logging would be sharply curtailed. In Teacting to the Forest Service study Thursda: Stevens said it “affirms: no new sweeping buffer strip policy is necessary inthe Tongass. Any changes i ong nest Zones will ‘be site-specific and go le regular public review Manag ment process.” — - However, in a conclusion champi i mental groups, the Forest Service sald, bron for More anadromous fish habitat protection on the Tongass Is necessary and practicab le. More compre- hensive watershed yses comparable to those in the PACFISH strategy, if just applied on priori tersheds where timber will be harvested, wil] i both timber harvest and anadromous fish hhabitae protection.” The agency concluded that the highest risks to fish habitat productivity and viability are in watersheds that have been logged intensively. Fish protection ef- forts in these areas should be improved before the Tongass Land Management Plan is completed, the Forest Service said. The Tongass plan is still undergoing revision and is scheduled for completion in 1996. In preparing the report, the Forest Service drew on agency experts in the Alaska and Pacific North- west regions as well as private industry, university and state specialists. The report made the following recommendations: @ Increase monitoring of salmon habitat through- out the Tongass. ¢ As it revises the Tongass Management plan, the delegation is i rim, Moy get its way on Ton ae eee i chairs a gas Management issues. mea hairs the Senate Co; tee Governor signs timber salvage bill ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The state will be able to rush timber sales if it Alaska’s top re- source official decides that insects, disease or wildfires are damaging the wood, under a bill signed by Gov. Tony Knowles. The governor also signed two other bills Wednesday, including a measure to make it easier for at- torneys to introduce DNA evidence in criminal trials. The bill allows the state’s Natu- ral Resource commissioner to ex- empt salvage sales from the usual two-year notice requirement that gives agencies and the public a chance to review the logging pro- posals. Critics say the new law will give the natural resources commission- er a level of authority that could be abused to allow large-scale logging of timber that is not necessarily unhealthy. Environmentalists ‘ unsuccess- fully urged Knowles to veto the bill. He signed it during a ceremo- ny at the Capitol. Critics say the new law will give the natural resources commissioner a level of authority that could be abused to allow large-scale logging of timber. “If used properly, this legisla- tion would give the commissioner of natural resources a useful tool for creating jobs in Alaska and al- low us to receive value from tim- ber that would otherwise become valueless,” Knowles said. The new law goes into effect July 11. It also expands the conditions in a rarely-used law under which the state can negotiate ' timber-sale contracts of up to 25 years. Such contracts currently can be negotiated in areas with high local unemployment, under-used mill capacity, and a source of timber — namely, an “under-utilized allowa- ble cut of state timber.” The bill says timber that is eligible for sal- vage sales also can qualify as the wood source. State Forester Tom Boutin said a developer could propose to build a new mill in an area with high un- employment to help meet the con- tract stipulations.’ “I don’t know if I should be braced for all kinds of applications from people saying they want to build a mill or what,” Boutin said. The state hopes to have compa- nies doing in-state processing of timber, although the state cannot require that, Boutin said. House Bill 121 was the top prior- ity of the pro-industry Alaska For- est Association when Rep. Bill Wil- liams, D-Saxman, introduced the measure March 3, the group’s lob- byist Thyes Shaub said. The Northern Alaska Environ- mental Center in Fairbanks strongly objected to the legisla- tion. The group said in a letter to Knowles that provisions in the bill would “grant the commissioner the unique and quite awesome ability to predict forest health and remove salvage sales from exist- ing public review requirements Senate Bill 13, also signed Wednesday, requires courts to drop the so-called ‘Frye stan- dard” when considering the ad- missibility of DNA evidence. The standard, which dates from the 1920s, makes it difficult to use cutting-edge technology in the court room. It requires that evi- dence be based on science that is generally accepted in the scientific community. A eR | ; . on" om , Timber; 9" & Mae Logging expands in Southcentral Federal and state agencies are stepping up efforts to | do logging, hoping to salvage spruce attacked by bark beetle infestation. The U.S. Forest Service plans to log 2,000 acres of insect-infested white spruce in Chugach National Foreston the Kenai Peninsula over the next two years. Harvesting in the Chugach may be expanded to 5,000 acres in the next few years. The forest service will build 16 miles of temporary roads and also use helicopers and tractors in a selective logging operation. In a parallel effort, the state of Alaska plans to increase harvests on state lands on the Kenai Peninsula and Kodiak from 6,000 acres in Fiscal Year 1996 to 25,000 acres in FY 1998. Beetle- infested timber is best suited for chipping. Harvesters are finding good markets in the pulp industry. Circle DE Pacific, a joint-venture between Oregon- based Circle DE Lumber and local loggers, employs 125 and expects to gross $20 million this year. The company has a 5-year contract with Japanese paper mills. Near Glennallen, Rayonier is sending round logs to British Colunbia pulp mills for newsprint. Spruce bark beetles have infected as much as 1 million acres of timber in Southcentral Alaska, in- cluding 300,000 acres on the Kenai Peninsula. **K Economic briefs: KeyCorp’s economists predict Alaska will gain about 2,700 wage and salary jobs this year, a 2.8 percent increase. The estimate is similar to that by the Alaska Dept. of Labor. Alaska Housing Finance Corp. reported its delinquent homes loans declined from 3.96 percent in March I 994 to 3.87 percent in March 1995. eee e7 Timber: KPC: Response good on test cedar run Ketchikan Pulp Co. said it had good interest from overseas customers in its test run of milling red and yellow cedar in KPC’s Ketchikan sawmill, which was closed at the end of the test run. Cedar constitutes about 15 percent of KPC’s harvests but cedar logs are sold in the round because the economics of marketing a finished product are tough, given ample supply of cedar further south in B.C. and the U.S. Pacific Northwest. The sawmill was closed because of insuf- ficient supply of wood from U.S. Forest Service sales. About 50 workers are affected; KPC will try and absorb as many as possible in its pulp mill operation (the pulp mill employs about 400.) The company’s best hopes for increasing its wood supply, and restarting the sawmill, are through efforts in Congress to get the U.S. Forest Service to ease restrictions on harvesting. RK Replanting: Klukwan Forest Products has re- planting of 250,000 spruce seedlings under way this summer on 1,400 acres of Nilnilchik Native Associa- tion lands logged this year and last. Earth Reclaimers of Fairbanks and JHC of Girdwood are doing the work, expected to take three to four weeks. Seeds were raised from cones collected by Nilnilchik youths around logging sites. Klukwan is in the seventh year of a 10-year contract to log 70,000 acres; about 60 percent of the work has been done. KK 33 AK Econ Rpt s [1/45 Timber markets are hot: The Division of Forestry received a top bid of $180/thousand board feet for state timber near Haines, about $100/MBF over the assessor’ s estimate of $80. But winning bidder Ketchi- kan Pulp Co. left a pile of money on the table, over bids from two other firms. KPC will pay the state $190,400 for the tract totaling 1.8 million board feet. Klukwan Forest Products and Rayonier, bid $124,657 and $99,838 respectively. KPC operates a pulp mill and sawmill in Ketchikan. OK 36 - Governor's bill seeks to bolster timber industry By fun Bradner inked merce . that the Legis stil bee i sanings on umber : interim, and 1 think iis Cruel that the ne directions embodied this hill are cons ered int the discussions. by vexislators the governor sud in a letter 10 state Lawmakers wccompanying the Dill introd But Knowles leais\ NEG plattorm tor amendments bv influential inte rior Vishat legislators whe ensered mer Dilly of their own These ielude Reps Jeanette James and AL Yezes both Republi cans from North Pole, near Anowles satid he wasits to use the iegislat to sumulate local, small-scale value-added roCeyMg. Lo CHeoUragE Hiduntries tha luc finished wood produ cess highs slate he bill would establish wt special iegoul d ner sale program tor umber des or focal manutacture of high value-added | products (i uncertun supply of an Jet some of dhe primar tactors ununs the ] develop value-added woud prod J sets manufacturing facilites in the state, ine | ermor sud J Contracts under the program mas be nego ated tor up to 10 sears. and for up to § y tuthon board tect of umber yearly. Sumpage prices would not be less than a “hase price tablished b Deparment ot Natural Resources. but a purchaser would not be required to bid for umber, as is currendy er sales e Stal done under state uml 146 \ prospectse purchaser would have (0 agree to use at [east 50 percent of the umber from a negouated sale in local manufacture of 4 high-value product That would include kiln or commercially- ned lumber. intenor finish paneling and tnm, Joonng, doors and windows, cabinet stock, furniture, musical instruments or pants, tows. ready-to-assemble building kits. or other finished products designated by the commus- sioner of Natural Resources in regulauons. Not included are plywood. pulp. chips, waferboard, fiberboard, green lumber. cants, slabs or plants intended for remanufacture. Existing state forest planning requirements would apply'to the new program, the governor sud, as well as a requirement for the commus- stoner to do a formal finding that 4 negouated the siate sale is in the best interests The bill also creates a new Alisha Forest laska Journal of Commerce * May 29. 1995 Forest industry officials say Knowles’ bill falls short for any economic development By Tim Bradner ea Journai of Commerce industry officials don't see Gov Tony Knowles’ incenuve bill doing very much to sumuiate new jobs based on state timber resources ‘We appreciate the admunisirauion doing There are two kev defects in th rates said: The amount of umber that would be avulable under ts iy smal 1o support an economuc development of any scale, and the requireme cent of wood taken from state a7 manufacture of final products. such Js 640) nets or musical instruments which sre ne greatly in demand, rath materials for consirucuon. For example, medium-densits £ which has a growing marketin the Pacific nm. is deliberately excluded in the legislauon Also, the limit of 5 million board feet is too small. Most fiberboard plants co: ered for Alaska in feasibility studies req least 35 millon to 40 million board feet Gates said. State Resources Commussivr said the admunistrauon chose to pul > on manufacture o} than componentsor ‘board. ear nsid- endence shows ¢ ar nore obs than manufacture of semi-final products The state inenably gives up munes allows negouated sal system of awarding Ui der, Shively said. He wants (0 mare Alaska gets “the most bang for ne said Ys instead 0 nder to the highest retum for the incentive. Meanwhile. there are small Alaskan woo products makers who would benefi the legislation. Existing small manutaciuirers mostly in the Farrbanks area, are hunpere now by lack of reliable suppis. par. changes in state law in 1990 that cutine sia ability to do snvall negouated sa bill would correct that Bob Zachel. of Furbanks. told a legislau neau that the state was able Alaska Birch Wor > offer Timber bill would create products research, state marketing program ducts Research and Markeung Program in erce and Economic search and arkeung efforts related to value-added wood of Cor to cvordinate products manufactunng. ther umber bills on which legislators will work over the intenm include House Bill 212. troduced by the House State Affairs Commut lee, which is chaired by Rep. Jeanette James, R-North Pole, and House Bill 261, introduced by Rep Al Vezey, R-North Pole Senate Finance co-chair Sen. Steve Frank R-Fairbanks, is interested in local umber de- velopment, and championed a highly-contro- versial but unsuccessful Hickel admunistra- uon bill to establish long-term negouated sales of umber from state forests. HB212 exempts sales of umber under 500,000 board feet. or salvage sales of dead or down umber. from current requirements to publish them in a five-year umber sale schedule. But the key part of the bill is an amendment to laws guiding management of state forests that muluple use management must empha- size “production, uulization and replenish- ment of umber resources.” Current law de- fines multiple use in a way that effectively lumuts or precludes large-sc vesung, sad Rep James HB212 would prohibit s:at ers from declaring umber tna incompauble with other uses. s or recreation, unless the Natural Resources “provides » that clearly jusufies the £ ibility according to the iegisia