A backhoe on a dirt road
Porcupine Trail Road during Phase I of the road rebuild. (HNS Site Inspection Report Phase I, 6/2023 via FEMA determination memo)

The Haines borough manager said she thinks the Federal Emergency Management Agency erred when it found that the borough had broken federal rules in rebuilding Porcupine Trail Road last summer. 

In a Dec. 22 memo,FEMA wrote that the borough, through its contractor Southeast Road Builders, had violated the conditions of its $1.4 million…