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Wed Sep 30, 2020, 08:52 AM Sep 2020

Permit, Alaska to Alberta Railway Development Corporation; September 29, 2020

PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDA

Presidential Permit
INFRASTRUCTURE & TECHNOLOGY

Issued on: September 29, 2020

AUTHORIZING THE ALASKA TO ALBERTA RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TO CONSTRUCT, CONNECT, OPERATE, AND MAINTAIN RAILWAY FACILITIES AT THE INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States of America, I hereby grant this Presidential permit, subject to the conditions herein set forth, to the Alaska to Alberta Railway Development Corporation (the “permittee”). The permittee is a private corporation organized under the laws of the Government of Alberta, Canada, and registered in the State of Alaska. Permission is hereby granted to the permittee to construct, connect, operate, and maintain certain railway Border facilities, as described herein, at the international border of the United States and Canada at Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, in the Ladue River Valley at 63°15’N and 141°W, approximately 45 miles due north over land from the Alcan Border Crossing on Alaska Route 2 (also known as the Alaska Highway) and approximately 60 miles due east over land from the town of Tok, Alaska.
This permit does not affect the applicability of any otherwise relevant laws and regulations. As confirmed in Article 2 below, the Border facilities shall remain subject to all such laws and regulations.

The term “Facilities,” as used in this permit, means the portion in the United States of the “Alaska to Alberta Railway” project associated with the permittee’s application for a Presidential permit filed on September 6, 2019, and any land, structures, installations, or equipment appurtenant thereto.

The term “Border facilities,” as used in this permit, means those parts of the Facilities extending 1.0 miles from the international border between the United States and Canada, and any land, structures, installations, or equipment appurtenant thereto.

This permit is subject to the following conditions:

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, have hereunto set my hand this twenty‑eighth day of September, 2020, in the City of Washington, District of Columbia.

DONALD J. TRUMP
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