muon2
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« on: March 25, 2024, 08:59:52 AM » |
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There is a proposal for Xunaa Borough to be created in the parts of unorganized AK centered on the city of Hoonah. It would include Glacier Bay NP. The petition has been filed with the AK Boundary Commission and the comment period has closed. There will be brief, hearings, and a preliminary report, leading to a final report this fall. If approved it becomes a new borough and the Census Bureau and state will have to reconfigure what is now the Hoonah-Angoon Census Area (which serves as a county-equivalent for federal purposes).
The most recent changes to federal county-equivalents were the previously mentioned change from 8 counties to 9 planning regions in CT in 2022, and the division of the Valdez-Cordova Census Area into the Chugach CA and the Copper River CA in 2019.
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