Rep. Don Young first introduced a bill authorizing the transfers in January 2021. The act signed last month was named after him.
The Tanana Tribal Council and two Alaska Native health consortiums will receive land transfers from the federal government.
SEARHC marketing director Lyndsey Schaefer said the transfer gives them the two remaining federally-owned properties within the Sitka health campus. It’s been“The land transfer allows SEARHC to self-determine the best uses of the properties, and once construction is complete, it will enable the properties to be repurposed to complement the new Mt. Edgecumbe Medical Center,” Schaefer wrote in an email.
In Anchorage, ANTHC already has a warehouse on the land they’ll receive from IHS. They use that warehouse to prepare for construction projects throughout Alaska, including water treatment improvements. “Every time we have to do improvements, we’re subject to rigorous federal oversight,” Roberts said. “If the land is transferred to us, we loosen up some of those requirements and we have more flexibility. It allows us to construct the actual building in a way that meets our needs.”received a land transfer
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