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Draft Itinerary for Secretary Duffy Trip
August 9
Personal day. Arrival in Anchorage and flying to Kenai via Grant Aviation. Either a meet-andgreet with the Grant Aviation team or a tour of the FAA tower.
Grant Aviation Contact: Gabe Kompkoff, CEO, gkompkoff@flygrant.com, !(~b_)(G)__ _ __,!
August 10 Personal day.
6:00 p: Private event in Seward
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OPTION: Stop at the Cooper Landing Bypass Project on the way to Seward (I -hour drive from Cooper Landing to Seward).
Brief: This is a 10-mile road project designed to improve safety and traffic flow on the Sterling Highway near Cooper Landing to divert traffic away from the current, congested route. It took 35 years for this mega-project to go through the NEPA process and receive an EIS.
Note - 9:30 a: USCGC Icebreaker 'Storis' Commissioning in Juneau There is a USCG charter flight leaving from Anchorage that morning.
August 11 Personal day.
August 12 Morning Meeting with Atlas Air [Senator Sullivan will not be participating].
1:30 - 2:30p: Aviation Roundtable Where: Ted Stevens International Airport Who: What:
3:00p - 3:30p: Potential Press Hold with KTUU
6:00p Coast Guard Foundation Dinner in Anchorage Where: Captain Cook Hotel
Other Options
OPTION: 9:00a - 11:30a Homelessness Roundtable with Secretary Turner Where: Covenant House Alaska (755 A St, Anchorage, AK 99501) Potential 15-minute press time directly afterwards
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Who: HUD Secretary, CODEL, stakeholder participants of this roundtable will be staff from Alaska's two Continuums of Care, homeless service providers, Tribal healthcare providers, municipal homeless task force leadership, and private philanthropic organizations.
What: This roundtable discussion will focus on the scope of homelessness in Alaska. Focus areas will include innovative approaches to coordinate a statewide homeless prevention and response system, strategic partnerships that have yielded positive client outcomes, and future opportunities to enhance our cross-sector systems of care.
Best stakeholder POC for the event is Brian Wilson, Executive Director of the Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness (AKCH2) (director@alaskahousinghomeless.org).
OPTION: 12:00p - 1:lSp Tribal Lunch+ Tour with Cook Inlet Housing Authority Where: Cook Inlet Housing Authority (3510 Spenard Rd # 100, Anchorage, AK 99503) When: 12:00-l:15pm Who: HUD Secretary, CODEL, ANCs, regional nonprofit CEOs, Governor Dunleavy, ANTHC Natasha Singh, Southcentral Foundation April Kyle, Scott Ciambor, Alison Kear, Carol Gore, Alaska Housing Finance Corporation (AHFC), AFN (Ben Mallott), ARA Nicole Borromeo What: Cook Inlet Housing Authority (CIRA) is hosting a Tribal Leader's lunch where the leaders of Alaska's Tribally Designated Housing Entities will have an opportunity to share their direct experience of the challenges in developing and maintaining affordable housing for the people in Rural Alaska. Dialogue between tribal housing leaders and Secretary Turner will help set the stage for the tour of remote-rural Alaska the next day. Tribal housing is the largest HUD program in the state, so face time with the biggest consumers of HUD funding is essential for seeing HUD's impact in Alaska. Best stakeholder POC for the event is Chris Kolerok, Executive Director of CIRA (CKolerok@cookinlethousing.org).
OPTION: Alyeska Pipeline Operation Control PHMSA Center tour in Anchorage POC: Suzanne Cunningham; suzanne.cunningham@alyeska-pipeline.com; ""'l(b'"'"'l('-'-6),....___ ___.I
August 13 8:30a - 6:30p Port Parade Day
8:30 AM - Port of Alaska Site Visit & Briefing o Focus: Modernization project, critical freight hub o Municipality of Anchorage (Mayor), Port Director, Matson/fOTE reps, etc.
9:30 AM - Potential press with KTUU 10:00 AM - Transit to Cook Inlet Tug and Barge (5-minute drive) 10:30 AM- Depart via tug to Port MacKenzie. Maritime transit across Cook Inlet. 11:00 AM- Port MacKenzie Site Visit & Briefing
o Focus: Intermodal freight opportunities and regional economic development
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0 Port Director, Rep. McCabe, Senator Shower, Assembly Member Bill Gambell, Mat-Su Mayor and Manager.
12:00 PM - Potential press with Mat Su Frontiersman and KTUU 12:30 PM - Return via tug to Anchorage 1:00 PM - Transit to Airport 1:30 PM - Flight to Nome 3:00 PM - An-ival & Transfer to Port ofNome 3:15 PM -Port of Nome Site Visit & Briefing
0 Focus: Arctic access, national security, port expansion project 0 City, Borough, and Tribal leaders
4:45 PM - Return Flight to Anchorage 6:30 PM -An-ival in Anchorage 7:30 PM -Dinner in Anchorage with stakeholders
August 14 AM TBDEvent
12:00p Secretary Duffy Departs ANC
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