The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities will spend $21 million to build an airport in a Native village with less than 50 people.
The state received the money from the federal Department of Transportation. The grant amounts to about $500,000 per person in the village of Takotna.
“It doesn’t matter in terms of airport costs whether it’s 50 people or 250 people or 500 people. It still requires the same airport facility," Roger Maggard, the state's airport development manager, told The Fairbanks Daily News Miner.
The village is about 300 miles west of Fairbanks.
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Takotna to get $21 million airport
(The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner 6/24)
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