The comment deadline is looming on a land-use permit application submitted by a Chehalis, Washington company proposing to build a log transfer facility in Lutak Inlet. 

NSEA Timber, Inc., plans to build the facility to transfer logs from a timber sale in the Haines-area, and seeks to use about 12 acres of surface and 17 acres of submerged land in the Lutak inlet plot through, at least 2030, according to its permit application to the…

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