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Aviation and the environment : airport operations and future growth present environmental challenges

  • 2000-08-01

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    • Corporate Contributors:
      United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration
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    • Publication/ Report Number:
      GAO/RCED-00-153
    • Resource Type:
      Research Paper
    • Geographical Coverage:
      United States
    • Corporate Publisher:
      United States. General Accounting Office
    • Abstract:
      Many of the nation?s commercial service airports are operating at or near capacity and are under increasing pressure to expand their operations to accommodate the growing demand for domestic air travel?forecast by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to increase by 3.6 percent annually through 2011. This growing demand has heightened concerns among some communities, environmental groups, and others that airport operations may have an increasingly detrimental effect on the environment. Recognizing this concern, officials from almost all of the nation?s busiest commercial service airports have reported that balancing operations with their impact on the environment is more difficult than it was a decade ago. For example, actions to lessen environmental effects, such as performing required environmental reviews and limiting flights to certain hours, have increased the time and cost of development and have imposed restrictions on flight patterns, airport use, and airport capacity. Representatives of airports, communities, and federal and state regulatory agencies are

      striving to balance these competing demands. Balancing these demands is

      particularly relevant given that the Congress recently authorized nearly $10 billion for airport infrastructure development?including associated environmental concerns?over the next three years.

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