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Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the “Capacity Enhancement Project” at Philadelphia International Airport is Published

Posted on October 18, 2008 by Steven M. Taber

The FAA recently published the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for its “Capacity Enhancement Project” (CEP) (warning! this is a large file, the DEIS is broken up into Chapters at the end of this post) at the Philadelphia International Airport … Continue reading →

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GAO Issues Report On The FAA’s East Coast Airspace Redesign

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Steven M. Taber

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued its long awaited “FAA Airspace Redesign:  An Analysis of the New York/New Jersey/Pennsylvania Project.”  Although the GAO promised to publish the report by August 1, 2008, it waited until the same day the … Continue reading →

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FAA’s Presumed to Conform Rule Will Affect Communities Around Airports

Posted on August 8, 2008 by Steven M. Taber

In February, 2007, almost as an after-thought, theFAA included changes to air traffic control procedures to its Presumed to Conform rule. This last minute addition has the potential to seriously impact communities around the airports where these changes to air traffic … Continue reading →

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