PORT ANGELES — State, federal and Lower Elwha Klallam tribal officials met Wednesday to discuss the future of the graving yard project.
The meeting — the first one in more than a week — lasted for about eight hours, according to sources that requested anonymity.
No progress was made toward resumption of construction work — beyond discussion of plans for the installation of a stormwater drainage system to protect the site, a source told the Peninsula Daily News.
Officials from the tribe, Transportation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Highways Administration and the state Office of Archeology and Preservation have been negotiating for the past two months on an archaeological plan and other terms.
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The rest of the story appears in the Thursday Peninsula Daily News.