Post Scoping Meeting Activities. Public outreach continued on October 7 with local Ketchikan radio interviews with KRBD-FM and KTKN-AM. Project team leaders answered questions about the project— its scope, schedule, funding, and public outreach efforts. The interviewers also wanted a summary of the public comment received at the planning fair. To further encourage public comments, the Ketchikan Daily News published an editorial on October 12, 1999, emphasizing the need for the public to provide input in the scoping phase of the project. The newspaper also published the project comment sheet as a newspaper insert in the October 13, 1999 paper. The combined outreach has resulted in over 70 written comments from the public. Also on October 7, DOT&PF and HDR project team members met with the agency participants to discuss the relationship of their efforts to the Xxxxxxx Access Project, discuss what was heard from the public, and plan future project coordination efforts. A summary of this debriefing is included in Appendix C. The DOT&PF and HDR project team emphasized the importance of the agency input and participation throughout the project and discussed the formation of a project development team (PDT) consisting of agency personnel, project team members, and local government representatives. The PDT meetings will be a forum to present and discuss project study plans, study findings, upcoming field and office work, coordination points, and general project development. The first PDT meeting was held November 4, 1999 in Ketchikan with teleconference links to Anchorage, Juneau, and Seattle. This group will meet regularly throughout project development.
