OLYMPIA — Todd Pacific Shipyards effort to restrict future use of the proposed state Department of Transportation graving yard in Port Angeles appears dead for this legislative session.
“They don’t have the votes. So my guess is the issue dies for this year,” Rep. Jim Buck, R-Joyce, said. “Whether they come back and try again next year is yet to be seen.”
Transportation officials put the $16 million graving yard, planned for 23 waterfront acres east of the Daishowa America Co. Ltd. paper mill, out for construction bids in late February.
Bid opening is scheduled for April 23, and construction could begin as early as this summer.
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