Todd Pacific Shipyards of Seattle is lobbying state legislators and the state Department of Transportation to prohibit private use of the graving yard being built on Port Angeles’ waterfront for the Hood Canal Bridge renovation project.

Todd doesn’t want the possible competition.

The ability to use the 23-acre graving yard for private-enterprise work that would create family-wage jobs in between state Transportation contracts — commercial work such as renovating ships, or for building other floating bridges — was crucial in selling the project to the Port Angeles community last fall.

The surprise opposition by the multimillion-dollar Seattle shipyard began to surface late last week.

It is being resisted by the state legislators representing Port Angeles and the rest of Jefferson and Clallam counties.

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