Designated Material Site

What in the world, or at least in Alaska, is a "DESIGNATED MATERIAL SITE"?  

• It is a defined, long-term extraction area, in this case 113 ACRES, owned by the State of Alaska. It tells the state where it can do all the industrial things necessary to extract and process rock of all sizes, within a defined boundary.
• Once a site is designated, any kind of extraction, scaled for any size operation, can take place indefinitely, and the designation, by design, removes the right of the public to ever comment on, or otherwise have any say about what is going on there.

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