PORT TOWNSEND — Saying that the Jefferson County commissioners violated the company’s civil right, and its Jefferson County work contract for the Shine pit-to-pier project, a Fred Hill Materials attorney said the firm plans to take legal action.

Jim Tracy, Fred Hill Materials land-use planning attorney, told the three commissioners during their weekly meeting Tuesday about the company’s plans.

Tracy said the company plans to go to binding arbitration on the commissioners’ July termination of the county’s work on the project’s environmental impact statement.

An environmental impact statement is being prepared for the Poulsbo-based firm’s proposal for a 4-mile-long conveyor to run gravel from a Shine pit to a 1,000-foot pier south of Hood Canal Bridge.

Commissioners terminated the work because, they said, the company owed the county nearly $100,000 for staff and consultant work on the environmental impact statement.

The commissioners restarted the work a week later after having received a $44,348 check from Fred Hill.

Earlier in July, Baskins mailed a check for $55.333.98 owed the county for staff and consultant hours, which the county received.