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Tanana Chiefs change opinion on road to Nome

April 05, 2010

by The Associated Press
Monday, April 5, 2010

FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- Alaskans who want to build a road to Nome will face one less obstacle if they can ever come up with the money for the massive project.

The Tanana Chiefs Conference board of directors, representing many of the villages in the path of a proposed road, has approved a resolution to support the project.

A decade ago, the group strongly opposed a road.

President Jerry Isaac of Tanacross, which has road access, tells the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner that tough economic times and high fuel costs figured into the change.

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He says a road would alleviate high costs for villages.

A main obstacle remains construction costs. A January planning report put the price tag of a road to Nome between $2.3 billion and $2.7 billion.

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