SPECIFIC QUALIFICATIONS

Airports

Appraisals of fee simple interest, surface and subsurface estates and avigation and hazard easements in conjunction with site acquisition for the expansion and/or development of more than twenty airports throughout Alaska. All appraisals were made according to guidelines developed by Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities in conjunction with Federal Aviation Agency requirements relative to federally-funded projects.

Tidelands

As a former staff and chief appraiser for Alaska Division of Lands (1967-74), Mr. Olson appraised tide and submerged lands tracts throughout Alaska, including the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands. As an independent fee appraiser, he has continued to appraise tide and submerged lands in such locations as Dutch Harbor, Togiak, Sand Point, Chignik, Kodiak, Cook Inlet, Prince William Sound, Knik Arm, Prudhoe Bay, and various locations throughout southeast Alaska.

Gravel

Appraisals of royalty values of earth materials (gravel, etc.) for: airport projects in Ruby, Council, Shaktoolik, Deering, Shungnak and Kobuk; materials sites on State lands for use by Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. in conjunction with pipeline operation and maintenance; sales in the Fairbanks area from University of Alaska to Great Northwest, Inc. and from Alaska DNR to Fairbanks North Star Borough; use by the oil industry for pad construction on DNR North Slope Lease Tracts; commercial development on state lands in Yakutat, Thomas Bay area near Petersburg and Stikine River near Wrangell; dispute resolution between St. George Tanaq Corporation and The Aleut Corporation regarding rock value on St. George Island; and sale of gravel from Alaska DNR to M-B Contracting Co., Inc. for road construction near Delta Junction.

Rights of Way

A variety of rights of way, throughout Alaska, for such uses as oil pipelines, electric transmission and distribution lines, roads, highways, and trails. Of particular significance are six major projects: trans-Alaska oil pipeline between Prudhoe Bay and Valdez; MFSNT fiber-optic cable between Valdez and Prudhoe Bay; Tyee Lake Hydroelectric Transmission Line in Petersburg and Wrangell; Willow to Healy Intertie Electric Transmission Line; Dimond Boulevard Widening Project; and Bethel Seawall Project.

Unique Assignments

Appraisals of bulk oil tank farms in Nenana, Fort Yukon, Galena, St. Mary's, St. Michael, Hooper Bay, Delta Junction, Glennallen, and Palmer; Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council small parcel appraisals near Homer, Ninilchik and Soldotna, including Perl Island; appraisal of Ketchikan Shipyard for A.I.D.E.A. financing; Alyeska oil pipeline right of way corridor evaluation; Captain Cook Recreation Area for Alaska Division of Parks acquisition; Monashka Creek watershed for Kodiak Island Borough; Homer Red Meat Center for University of Alaska; agriculture rights and fee value of the state-owned prison farm in the Pt. Mackenzie area; and State foreclosed lands on the Alaska Peninsula, Shumigin Islands, and Aleutian Islands.

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