The winter tours travel the Kenai Peninsula.

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By chance his brother, a teacher in Alaska, put him in touch with a small law firm that wanted help representing fishers in Cook Inlet, a body of water physically separated from the spill by the Kenai Peninsula.

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Federal funding is available to state and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the severe storm, straight-line winds, flooding, and landslides in the areas of Alaska Gateway REAA, Chugach REAA, Denali Borough, Kenai Peninsula Borough, and the Matanuska Susitna Borough.

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