As Bandon and other small ports wait to see whether the federal government will fund maintenance dredging, the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay is moving ahead to continue its own.

A notice of application published Tuesday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers shows the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay has applied for a permit to dredge approximately 57,000 feet of material to maintain access to 18 deep draft docks.

The hopes of the Bandon and Port Orford ports for dredging funding in the near future rest largely on the fate of the 2013 Water Resources Development Act.

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