[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 162 (Tuesday, August 22, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43642-43643]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-20796]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement and To Hold 
Environmental Scoping Meetings for Airside Improvements at Boston-Logan 
International Airport, East Boston, MA

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of public environmental scoping meetings.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is issuing notice to 
advise the public that an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) will be 
prepared for a series of airside improvements under consideration by 
the Federal Aviation Administration and Massachusetts Port Authority 
(Massport) for Boston-Logan International Airport, in the City of 
Boston, Massachusetts. To ensure that all significant issues related to 
this planning effort are identified, public scoping meetings will be 
held.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Silva, Manager, Environmental 
Programs, Federal Aviation Administration, New England Region, Airports 
Division, 12 New England Executive Park, Burlington, Massachusetts 
01803. Telephone number: 617-238-7602.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FAA, in cooperation with Massport, will 
prepare an EIS on a proposal to implement a program of airside 
improvements to reduce congestion and delay at Logan and to improve 
airfield operating efficiency. Logan is presently 

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America's 13th busiest airport for passengers and ranks 14th for total 
aircraft operations. Growth is projected to occur even as other air 
facilities in the region relieve some of the anticipated increase.
    The EIS will evaluate a range of actions, including a new commuter 
unidirectional Runway 14/32; a new Centerfield Taxiway; several runway 
extension/realignment options; changes to arrival and departure 
procedures; upgrading of the Runway 33L Instrument Landings System 
(ILS) to Category III; modifications to aircraft instrument operations; 
and a pricing structure to reduce demand levels during peak period.
    Comments and suggestions are invited from federal, state, and local 
agencies, and other interested parties, in order to ensure that a full 
range of issues related to the airside improvements under consideration 
is identified and addressed in the scope of work for the EIS. The EIS 
will be jointly prepared as an Environmental Impact Report (EIR), as 
required by regulations pursuant to the Massachusetts Environmental 
Policy Act.

PUBLIC SCOPING MEETINGS: In order to provide for both agency and public 
input, two scoping sessions have been scheduled on September 21, 1995. 
An afternoon scoping session will be held for federal, state and local 
agencies at 2:00 pm in the Massport Media Room, Logan International 
Airport Old Tower Building, 2nd level (next to the Communications 
Department). This will be preceded by a bus tour of the Airside 
Improvement Projects. Agency personnel interested in the tour should 
assemble in the Media Room at 12:30 pm. An evening scoping session for 
public input will be held at 6:00 pm. This meeting, at which agency 
personnel are invited to attend, will be held at the State 
Transportation Building, 10 Park Plaza, Conference Rooms 1 and 2, 
Boston, Massachusetts.

    Issued in Burlington, Massachusetts, on August 14, 1995.
Vincent A. Scarano,
Manager, Airports Division FAA, New England Region.
[FR Doc. 95-20796 Filed 8-21-95; 8:45 am]
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