PORT ANGELES — Rep. Norm Dicks will meet with Lower Elwha Klallam tribal and state Department of Transportation officials Monday over stalled negotiations on the graving yard.
Tribal and Transportation officials met Friday for about five hours in advance of the congressman’s meeting to discuss drafts of an agreement to move the project forward.
“Both parties left feeling that a great deal of progress was made,” Lower Elwha Chairman Dennis R. “Sully” Sullivan said.
“Personally, this is the first time I feel like something was really accomplished.”
Tribal, state and federal officials have been negotiating for more than four months on how to restart the project, and to handle recovery and reburial of Native American remains and artifacts discovered on the waterfront property.
The $17 million graving yard is part of the $204 million Hood Canal Bridge renovation project.
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The rest of the story appears in the Sunday Peninsula Daily News.