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04-09-1997 ARC PacketCITY OF MENDOTA HEIGHTS AIRPORT RELATIONS COMMISSION ' AGENDA Aprii 9, 1997 - 7 p.m. - Large Conference Room 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. � 7. Call to Order - 7 p.m. Introduction of New Cammissioners r,��� C� '� �X'==� (��:���,1��.�, � ��, � �.,.;�. ,.:,� ��-{`2z r * Mary Des Roches and George May Roll Call Approval of March 12,1997 Meeting Minutes. Unfinished and New Business: Presentation of FAA Video - How Noise Contours are Measured Discuss FAA Finding of No Significant Impact and Implementation of Non-Simultaneous Departure Procedures Announcement of Federal Interagency Committee on Aviation Noise (FICAN) Public Forum on Noise Research - May 13, 1997 Discuss MAC Strategic Plan and MAC Response to Councilmember Jill Smith Updates �� Roger's Lake Boundary Block Request . Acknowledge News Articles on Non-Simultaneous Departure ��Procedures Acknowledge Postponement of 1997 Construction on Runway 11 R �� Review MASAC Objectives fior 1997 Acknowledge Recei�t of Various Reports/Correspondence: Ef� 9� MASAC Agenda for March 25, 1997 and February 25, 1997 Minutes MASAC's Technical Advisor's Report for February 1997 MASAC's Monthly Complaint Summary for February 1997 MASAC's Corridor Gate Penetration Analysis for February 1997 MASAC Operations Committee Agenda and Minutes for March 21, 1997 NDCARC Minutes for February 21, 1997 Airport Noise Report 8. Other Comments or Concerns. 9. Adjourn. Auxiliary aids for disabled persons are available upon request at least 120 hours in advance. If a notice � i of less than 120 hours is received, the City of Mendota Heights will make every attempt to provide the aids, however, this may not be possible on short notice. Please contact City Administration at 452- 1850 with requests - CITY OF MEIVDOTA HEIGHTS DAKOTA COUNTY, MINNESOTA AIRPORT RELATIONS COMMISSION MINUTES MARCH 12, 1997 The regular meeting of the Mendota Heights Airport Relations Commission was held on Wednesday, March 12, 1997 in the City Hall �arge Conference Room, 1101 Victoria Curve. The meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m. The following members were present: Beaty, Leuman, Stein and Fitzer. Commissioner Gross was excused. Also present were City Administrator Kevin Batchelder and Senior Secretary Kim Blaeser. CANDIDATE INTERVIEWS The Commission interviewed three appiicants to fill twa vacancies on the Commission. It was noted that a fourth applicant, Mr. James Lilly, was unable to attend the interview session. The Commission interviewed Mr. John Hagman, Ms. Mary Des Roches and Mr. George May. Commissioner Fitzer moved to recommend that the City Council appoint �_� Mary Des Roches and George May to fill the two vacancies on the Airport Relations Commission. Commissioner Leuman seconded the motion. AYES: 4 NAYS: 0 PRESENTATION ON CONSTRUCTION OF RUNWAY 11 R IN 1997 - MR. BRUCE WAGONER - FAA Mr. Bruce Wagoner, FAA Control Tower Manager, was present to discuss operational changes expected during the construction of Runway 11 R. Mr. Wagoner explained that the Runway construction will begin on May 1 and end approximately August 30. He explained that the construction of a feeder taxiway for runway 22 south of the north runway and west of runway 22 will begin on April 1. Chair Beaty inquired if this process will consist of three phases. Mr. Wagoner responded yes. 1 Wagoner stated that the west 3,000 feet of Runway 11 R will be closed which wiil leave 6,000 feet of available runway space. He explained that � narrow body aircraft such as DC-9, 757, 737, 727 and MD-80 can use this \ runway. Mr. Wagoner informed the Commission that there is a concern that Northwest Airlines may decide to block the reconstruction of Runway 11 R. He explained that Northwest is apparently opposed to the reconstruction of Runway 11 R until the North/South Runway is completed. Chair Beaty stated that the Commission was unaware of this development. As a result of the construction process, Mr. Wagoner explained that there will be some major operational changes. He explained that the two main operational modes will be land/depart Runway 11 L/R, depart Runway 22 and land/depart 29L/R, depart runway 22. Mr. Wagoner explained that Runway 29L/R/22 will be used as much as 75 percent of the time during the summer. He explained that this configuration is the least complex and has the least amount of potential for delays due to the independent operations that can be conducted on Runway 29R/11 L and Runway 22. Wagoner explained there will be more jet operations on the north runway than normal due to runway length with more props utilizing the south �� runway due to increased jet traffic on the north runway. The Commission expressed concern regarding the amount of aircraft landing over Mendota Heights and whether the City should be concerned with safety issues. Mr. Wagoner responded that the City should not be concerned. Mr. Wagoner informed the Commission that all heavy departures will require the north runway or the cross runway. Regarding the taxiway construction, Mr. Wagoner stated that there will be increased taxiway traffic and that each controller will be responsible for not only air traffic but also taxiway traffic. Mr. Wagoner stated that this will be a very complex time for the air traffic controllers. Commissioner Fitzer inquired if there will be an increased use of Runway 4. Mr. Wagoner responded no and that it will only be used during severe weather patterns. 2 � Mr. Wagoner stated that the operational changes may cause delays and that the regular "rushes" may last a little longer than normal. In response to a question from Commissioner Stein regarding Northwest Airlines opposition, Mr. Wagoner stated that the IVIAC feels this project is a "go". He stated that he believes that Northwest Airlines is concerned with the possible delays and the fact that delays cause airlines to lose money. He stated that Northwest Airlines wants to push the construction of the north/south runway. Mr. Wagoner stated that the City can expect a significant increased use af Runway 22 for departures, a minimum of 50 percent will depart on Runway 22 when the wind allows. He stated that it is anticipated that the airport capacity will remain close to what it presently is. He stated Dakota County can expect more arrivals with departures an 29R and 22. In response to a question from Administrator Batchelder, Mr. Wagoner stated that 6,000 feet of available runway is an adequate amount of runway for an aircraft. He further informed the Commission that pilots have the option to decide whether they are comfortable in departing or arriving on a specific runway. �' � Commissioner Stein inquired about air traffic projections in the next ten - years. Mr. Wagoner responded that the traffic is expected to grow three percent per year. He stated that even with the construction of the north/south runway, the amount of traffic will be significant. He stated that right now, there are 8 or 9"pushes" a day and that 2 of these "pushes'° are at or over the capacity. /_\:7 �:Z�1�/�\ �i - ► i ► Commissioner Leuman moved approval of the February 12, 1997 IVlinutes. Commissioner Stein seconded the motion. AYES: 4 NAYS: 0 DISCUSS STAGE 11 BACKSLIDING - LETTER FROM NORTHWEST AIRLINES The Commission acknowledged receipt of a letter from Jennifer Sayre, Northwest Airlines, regarding Stage II and Stage III aircraft operations at MSP. The Commission acknowledged receipt of information regarding NWA !� ? 3 Fleet Conversion Plan. ��. It was noted that Ms. Sayre states that NWA is in full compliance with the federal law mandating complete Stage II elimination by the year 2000. Ms. Sayre pointed out that NWA continues to hushkit their DC9-30 fleet at an accelerated rate, reaching a total of 80 in February of 1997. NDCARC LEl?ER TO JEFF HAMIEL, IVIAC The Commission acknowledged receipt of a March 3, 1997 letter from Mr. Jon Hohenstein, representing NDCARC, to Mr. Jeffrey Hamiel, requesting that the MAC make a better effort in communicating information to City representatives. It was noted that the NDCARC letterhead should be given to the City of Eagan. MSP MITIGATION PROGRAM - LEl?ER TO MR. SANDY GRIEVE, MAC CHAIR The Commission acknowledged receipt of a letter from the NDCARC to fVlr. Sandy Grieve requesting that a work plan or timeline for the implementation of the Mitigation Program be established. ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT OF VARIOUS REPORTS/CORRESPONDENCE The Commission acknowledged receipt of the MASAC Agenda for February 25, 1997 and January 28, 1997 Minutes. The Commission noted that the MASAC Minutes record two representatives from each business/city. The Commission felt it necessary to review the MASAC By-Laws for further clarification. The Commission acknowledged receipt of the MASAC's Technical Advisor's Report for January 1997. It was pointed out that the Furlong neighbor received the third highest measurement of noise in January. The Commission acknowledged receipt of the MASAC monthly complainfi summary for January 1997. The Commission acknowledged receipt of the MASAC Corridor Gate Penetration Analysis for January 1997. The Commission acknowledged receipt of the MASAC Operations Committee Minutes for February 21, 1997. Administrator Batchelder 0 C pointed out that the Committee discussed pursuing public relations efforts in i relation to runway construction projects. It was noted that the City of Bloomington has created an effort to inform its own residents of the construction process which was contrary to what the MASAC Operations Committee had originally discussed. Batchelder stated that the original discussions focused on the MAC informing all of the surrounding cities of constructian process. The Commission acknowledged receipt of an Agenda for Eagan's Airport Commission for March 11, 1997. Chair Beaty asked that a copy of the NDCARC Agenda be included on all future Airport Relations Commission agendas. The Commission acknowledged receipt of MASAC's Current Roster and By- �aws. The Commission acknowledged receipt of the MSP 1994 Runway Configuration Use Charts. The Commission acknowledged receipt of MASAC's request for Information Program from City of Bloomington. ADJOURNMENT There being no further business, the Airport Relations Commission adjourned its meeting at 9:45 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Kimberlee K. Blaeser Senior Secretary �� � 5 ( C � U.S. Department of Transportation Federai Aviafiion ! Administration ifl�rsi: � w ��G�- Great Lakes Region Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin Mr. Jon Hohenstein Assistant to the City Administrator City of Mendota Heights 1101 Victoria Curve Mendota Heights, MN 56118 Mr. Hohenstein: 2300 East Devon Avenue Des Plaines, iilinois 60018 Encfosed please find the results of our environmental evaluation of modification to the noise abatement procedures utilized in the Eagan-Mendota Heights Corridor. On the basis of the evaluation in the enclosed Environmentai Assessment (EA), the Great Lakes Region Air Traffic Divisian, Operations 8ranch, has approved and issued a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSi). The FUNS1 approval is attached to the EA document. The FONSI indicates that the proposed action is consistent with existing environmentai policies and objectives as set fo�th in the Nationai Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and wiil not significantiy affect the quality of the environment. The noise abatement procedures to be impiemented are as foilows: Whenever possible, under non-simuitaneous conditions; Aircraft departing Runway 11 R will be assigned a heading to maintain an approximate ground tracfc of 105° magnetic (M), and Aircraft departing Runway 11 L wili be assigned a heading to maintain a ground tracic along the extended centerfine, approximately 118° M. A depiction of the propose�i fiight track fo� Runway 1'i L can be found in Figure 2 of the EA. No change is associated with the present day flight tracic for Runway 11 R. Spe�ific questions regarding the EA/FONSI may be directed to Ms. Annette Davis, at 847-294-7832. Thank you for your active participation in this project. Sincerely, � �� � ��`�ohn A. Claybom Manager, Operations B Enciosure C �� Cf ��.� 3 ������5ll�i L1i��11�� 1.������u���Vlti r�P'P'{''S Sq,tir Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport �:� t'� 6040 - 28th Avenue South • Minneapolis, I�IN 55450-2799 mt o Phone (612) 726-8100 • Fax (612) 726-5296 a � t N O y c F o �, 9H 4iRPpRTS GO March 27, 1997 Ms. Jill Smith Mendota Heights City Council 1101 Victoria Curve � Mendota Heights, MN 5�118 Dear Counciiwoman: �q���Y .4 Jeff Hamiel asked me to follow up with you and send a copy of the "draft" strategic plan for _ the Metropolitan Airports Commission. The latest version is enclosed for your review. A draft % ) of this document will be presented to our Commission in April, with the final plan being presented to the Commission in May for approval. Please feel free to call either Jeff or myself if you have any questions regarding this material. Thank you. Sincerely, � ' an Nielsen Manager of Staff Development 726-8136 Enclasure cc: Jeff Hamiel The ivfetropolitan Airports Commission is an affirmative action employer. Reliever Airports: AIRLAKE . ANOKA COLJNTY/BLAii�1E • CRYSTAI. • FLYING CLOUD . I.AKE El,:bf0 • S�'.IiVT PAUL DOWNTOWN i' 0 , � � � � • � • ■ •s � °= c � ��o � C � '_ ' O�� p C N U> O� t"""II > .... � 'a tLII .�-� � � � t�n � � Q U i 'O tQ .S �C S] ,O � C O N Ri -a . v- .G]., N� CA j N� C�.� N V O � � � � CNQ .0 N tn ..., ,� U L L �%% � � (n � � � p � � p U � � ... p. �` N�,,, a� � tn N -,}' C 3 `O 0 C � ,� � � � ,C � � L � � � .tn c4 Q N� U�� � 3 N Q N C� Q � tII uf � 'II U ' � (U � 'a Y UI ,O� RJ �� � � ':r ,� •?+ O -� N C �.�. 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C ca �� � s�,. �. � <_::: _- 0 3 cc� �,�'aoc . � v�i N'.- : p, m: � N cu 'cv _ ����Ir '..•a� ' .��DO -' - .,� _ s- CV e�i a}i � � N c'� -d' – mmm c�? ��.c.�cac.�c.�. � .� . - � , �j - . ,•-. � - ... �, _ .. . .: . � - :;:_1 . . . .... . . _ _ <- � � �;�: � . � . ♦�eA�el ,, � � April l, 1997 Mr. Robert 7ohnson, Chair - Policy Advisory Committee MAC Part 150 Sound Insulation Program 6040 28th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55450 Dear Mr. Johnson: This letter is to formally request the Policy Advisory Committee's consideration of the eligibility of four properties that may be within the 1996 DNL 65 Contour, and thus eligible for sound insulation as a boundary block. The subject properties are 2301 Swan Drive, 2303 Swan Drive, 2311 Swan Drive and 2319 Swan Drive and aze shown in the shaded azea. on the atta.ched map. The City of Mendota. Heights considers these four properties to be part of one block, immediately north of Block 22 (which was included as a boundary block in 1996). It appears that the 1996 DNL 65 Contour crosses, or intersects, the properties' boundaries and that they should be included in program. In November 1995, the FAA approved eligibility of all �� ' "boundary blocks" (i.e., blocks partially intersected by the outermost DNL 65 contour line of the certified 1996 DNL Noise Exposure Map). The attached map includes a best estimate of the location of the FAR Part 150 1996 DNL 65 Contour. Mr. Steve Vecchi, MAC Part 150 Manager, suggested that the Policy Advisory Committee consider this item at their next scheduled meeting in April. I would urge the Policy Advisory �� � Committee to recommend the inclusion of these homes as eligible for the Part 150 Sound Insulation Program, as it appears they may have been inadvertently left off the list of eligible properties according to the FAA's boundary block decision. The City of Mendota. Iieights is prepared to provide any additional information that may be necessary for the Policy Advisory Committee's considera.tion of this request. Thank you for your consideration of this matter. Sincerely, ����n����r— Kevin Batchelder City Admuustrator cc: Steve Vecchi, MAC Part 150 Manager ( ) 1101 �lictoria. Cu�ve • 1Vi.endota Heights, 1�I� ��511� 4�2 • 1850 ( � C • l� � • • ,�• C C� C C� March 26, 1997 Mr. Kevin L. Batchelder City Aci�ninistrator City of Mendota Heights 1101 Victoria Curve Mendota Heights, MN 55118 Dear Mr. Batchelder: Because of the unique boundary line anangements associated with each of our properties, we believe that we may be entitled to relief provided by the MAC Part 150 Sound Insulation Program. As you can see from the attached chart, our boundary lines appear to fall within the eligibility area of the 1996 LDN noise contour. We respectfully request that you bring this matter to the attention of the MAC at their ne:tt scheduled meeting on March 31, 1997. Please phone any of us if you have any questions or need further information. Sincerely, / ' � 1L-�1'° �,",_ � G _ � Darwin P. Prewitt 2301 Swan Drive Mendota Heights, MN 55120 686-0695 �` , , C topher and Maureen Nachtsheim 2303 Swan Drive Mendota Heights, MN 55120 454-1065 Enclosure � and Karie Wood 2319 Swan Drive Mendota Heights, MN 55120 452-9139 ► _�.��c_ ����'��� Dick Bjorklund 2311 Swan Drive Mendota Heights, NIN 55120 452-3452 _ C ):t�T_ 1F � t .. .�i�r7f r �s.�x�t���FF..�.1r�� s.�✓ �r..-�..� ��.y•�*-�..T.. . �.; f:' =.. �,.�':n i�.�:#4�it ur .:,-c ''�. i�U: 9',: I�?�s i�.::i,.iA�L 1 L L 18<` 8 U�B U R'8'A N^?N E W S P A P E R �9" • t z� SOUTH'`:WEST{ r„ :��, 1 ` JYl .t 1 -' G ot; � �� t , � � �l �.i� ik;r '� li' �:t rt� h t +"4Ta1i tlil c h' � � i � � � �� C+ t g`t'rR � n! �a r 1t � r�� t � ��e x�ii t ttiYP � t`�.1�� .T,�t ,tG [ r ; ' Serving the communities of , , � ,{ p , � � � �; � , tc bsrz,�� +9 t��,s ' t� a a � � � � \ Y�?n{ . A I,Cl/ . 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' Fnx m-ezea ' �� , '.'Cy�f_ 3y��W� .nr".d�� � , ,. . ., � r ;7�,�tl i'�� ... . . ., . .,1n� �. � . . � r�: . � � � "�'y�. • �. . air�.trainc<: f diversion:'means : � - .quieter�nights..�, sr� � : sY,;�� �. . i;: �. ;in:�Mendota�n�:� �;> � �� . � .� �, .; Heights �;, �, , , z .by Sendy Donovan +� ' ,, ;Stei� Wnter . r � �' ; .� ,:'!�r;.i4� .. a: �:• . `, , : �d,,, IPspboutio get a litqe ensien ', . to sleep:through,lha night in: .``'�•`- b' .Mendota Heights. .J ••' `"' �^.-o�c',: : F �t,';A;study completed last week 6.:':,.i6n .�.Federnt.-,.Aviation .. , way for the diversion of some —" ' nighttime air'trafflc through'a ' ' neazby industrial(boitidor and' ' away from residential Mendola Heighls: . ''"This is a signiGcant factor : . . for`getling some abatement in :;.i '�i the!noise in Mendota Heights,". ' ' commented' Muyor `CNarles . .Mertensotto;.noting that city, � �officinis+� began::;asking the. Metropolitan : Airpor6• ..Commission lo look inro n ttight-� path,change more than a ybar� ago`.�=";"i'::c+�'S: �".:':.:.,... ; � Currenity'runway,ilR, one of ' - :two parnUel runways at the _ ;•ai�poA, has a depadure path that' _ ;pub planes diroctiy over;thc ' tbeidential. 'areus 'South of - Highway" 110 �in . Mendota � 'Heights.'fhe city.had asked.to - ' have iho'sc flighls diverted n few' �:;_; , ,miles soulh during tiines',of � nonaimuilaneous departures or.,. : • when balh'runways are:not in . _� use.' �'r°t'a"","'<<ter y , ' But '.since the ptoposed , : � change in flight paths would ` ' hava those planu tlying closer to _ ; residential arcas in neighboring ': ' -` .Esgan;'ofticinis in that city had � % asked fara study on the how,il - � :would be ��.impacted.'.'The. ' i .; i,rompletion of Ihe study, showing - _ i lhnt,the proposed change would ;-_�.: ' no4,�� .,significantly!:;.affect:: enyimnmeniul quality, provides a . ' - ' ; green.light•fot�the new lake•oFf : �• ni, �c....,.. ;,�; . _plans. v� J:�r, ,.n... . n .. �. _ :, �.::Pritparily�only nighttime. - ' noise will be reduced, since:•'-:�:- generally,•.hours of non-� � simultancous departures arc trom around i i p.m. to 6 a.m. At thosc •= times, iiepurtures from i1R will use a 118•degree heading instend .' of ; lhe ' normal "105-degree' ' �headirig, ivhich will.keep thoso, : planes in lhc center of (he -�.:i industrially zoned rnriidar along� - the Mendota Heights/Eagaq : bordec Becau9e the 118-degree heading wili eross the take-off path of the pnrailel runway, iC :- can only be used during slow times. i ''- ' Mendota Heights City - - Admi�tistralor Kevin Batcheider "� saidresidenis can,expccl quietcr '::��;: nights'"�ycry � soon. Airport , . officinls rcporl Ih�Ccontrollcrs ; are:currcntly bcingirained lo •. direcc flighis along ttic new � hcading. " ' '� � `+•Ji1F Smi,th, a City Council : � Noise.. ` � - , . , Conqnued on Page 12 � ` _,. ,.. •1 ;,� . Noise:.. ` �' - � Continued ftom Pege 1 . mcmbcr.who is also on. the. Mendota ' Hcights � 'Airport Relations Cammittee, agrees that the new'deparWre path will improve the cur�ent noise situntion but said the commission will rnNinuc pushing for a more cyoitable.distrib,ution of air traffic Ihroughaut the metro area: Shc nolcd that currently about 60 percent of all Minneapolis-5t: paul Intcmmionnl �Airpori traflic flies over Mendola Heights and Eagan, Iwo communilies where �thc ruaf af ovcrhend Oights is a � familiar background noisc. � ' ' ��,�•�Wc�,fecl��thnt•.rit,s. an 'aJ'vantage Io liva ciosa ro the• ',nirport nnd to conduct business 'close Io the airport, and we feel '�'it's � fair � that :�.all close Icommunities share tho noise gcncrated by�thc airport," Smith� ',said. ;..:.�:��%"S�'�{ti';�:.-:,�..-:, •`�Spccifically,•she explained;. •ihe scheduled langthening of Irunway 422 lhis summer will. '!+help achieve a' fairer traffic ; distributian. 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F�. ��Y'.,%��; b'*?:....m•�'o::'pm.�* ��'1' }rt4,k��5 . � x`+ � • � I �7 +. 3r FJ, ,I t ;�:. , ' x �� �,; � �" . � �C2t;'>`�, �"� :1�' � . . ���whtl: _>�a.._���.._.....� ...—..r.�...__......r_...-. , a C C � ,r Minneapolis / St. Paul International Airport ��� � �- � MONTHLY MEETING - Metropo[rtan Aircraft Sound Abatement Council c'�v�;mw»: Robert P.7�hawn u�•� cn�r,,,wn: , Thomas Hueg Trc%nical rUli•isar. '15�acf Erlckson Actin,q Secreturv: MelEti�sa Scovronskl Airbnrne Erprcu: Brian Bales Air Tivrtsport Associatinn: Paul McGraw ALPA: Charles W. Curry Jr. Ciry ajBloomingrarc Petrona Lee Vem Wilrnx Citv af Buma�ille: Ett Porter Citv af fir��m: Tom E�un Ciry ojlnvtr Grove HeigGts: Dale Hammons Ciiv ojblrndom Hrights: JW Smith City of hfinnrapalis: James B. Serrin John Rlc6tcr Joe Lee Iudtth Dodge City ojRirhfrrld: Kristal SWkes Dawn Weihel � Ciry ojSt. Louit Park: Ra6ert Adrews Ciry ojSG Paul: C. Scott Bunln Thomas H. Hueg C:voi Ann McGuire Dtlta Air Linrs lnc.: R(ch K�ell Fcderd Erpress: D:ut DeBord FeJeru! Avia(ia� Adminisrrtuinn: Bruce Wagoncr Ronald Glaub MAC s�ap Dlck Keinz MB'L1: Rnbert P. Johason Mesnba NorYhwest Aidink: DnntelShce6an Metmpoliran Airporls Commission: Commisioner Altnn Gasper MN Air Nutiowl Gu�nL• M�jor Roy J. Shetkn � Northwest Airtines Mark Salmen Jenni(er Suyre St. Paul C7tnmher ojCommeree: Cratg Wruck Sun CounrrvAirlines: Dale K•rriya United Airlines lna: Blll Yantlss United Purcr! Srrvice: Steve Wniker U.S. Air Fnrce Reservr: Captaln Duvtd J. Gerken � � Metropolitan Airports Cornmission Declaration of Purposes 1.) Promote public welfare and national security; serve public interest, convenience, and necessity; promote air navigation and aansportation, international, national, state, and local, in and through this state; promote the efficient, safe, and economical handling of air commerce; assure the inclusion of this state in national and intemational programs of air transportadon; and to those ends to develop the full gotentialities of the metropolitan area in this state as an aviation center, and to correlate that area with all aviation facilities in the entire state so as to provide for the most economical and effective use of aeronautic facilities and services in that area; 2.) Assure the residents of the metropolitan area of the minimum environmental impact from air navigation and transportation, and to that end provide for noise abatement, control of airport area land use, and other protective measures; and 3.) Promote the overall goals of the state's environmental policies and minimize the public's exposure to noise and safety hazards around airports. Metropolitan Aircraft Sound Abatement Council Statement of Pu�pose This corporation was formed in furtherance of the general welfare of the communities adjoining Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport - Wold-Chamberlain Field, a public airport in the County of Hennepin, State of Minnesota, through the alieviation of the problems created by the sound of aircraft using the airport; through study and evaluation on a continuing basis of the problem and of sugoestion for the alleviation of the same; through initiation, coordination and promotion of reasonable and effective procedures, control and regulations, consistent with the safe operation of the airport and of aircraft using the same; and through dissernination of information to the affected communities, their affected residents, and the users of the airport respecting the problem of aircraft noise nuisance and in respect to suggestions made and actions initiated and taken to alleviate the problem. Metropolitan Aircraft Sound Abatement Council Representation The membership shall include �representatives appointed by agencies, corporations, associations and governmental bodies which by reason of their statutory authority and responsibility or control over the airport, or by reason of their status as airport users, have a direct interest in the operation of the airport. Such members will be called User Representatives and Public Representatives, provided that the User Representatives and Pubiic Representatives shall at all times be equal in number. The Airport 24-hour Noise Hatline is 726-9411. Complaints to the hotline do not result in changes in Airpon activity, but provides a public sounding board and airport information outlet. The hotline is staffed during business hours, Monday - Friday. This report is prepazed and printed in house by Chad Leqve, ANSP Technician Questions or comments may be directed to: MAC - Aviation Noise & Satellite Program Minneapolis / St. Paul International Airport 6040 28th Avenue South Minneapolis, 1VIN 5�450 Tef: (612) 725-633 t, Fax: (612) 725-6310 ANSP Home Page: http://www.macavsat.org IVYetropoliian Airports Co�nrr�ission Aviation Noise f� Satellite Programs R C C �; . O�erations a�ad Complaint ��c��a��y I - Operations Summary - All Aircraft ..........................:..........................................................1 MSP February Fleet Mix Percentage ...................................................................................1 Airport February Complaint Summary ................................................................................1 February Operations Summary - Airport Directors Office ..................................................1 �i�a�aea,p�li,� - ►St. �a��l I�a������io�c�l ���°�o�t C'�����i�� �5�a�a�a�y 2 ComplaintSummary by City ...............................................................................................2 .A.vail��le T'a�e,�'o�° �z��wa� �Js� 3 TowerLog Reports - All Hours ...........................................................................................3 Tower Log Reports - Niahttixne Hours ................................................................................3 ��� (���'I'f���Or''�S 4� Runway Use Report February 1997 .....................................................................................4 C'a�-�ie�- ,�e� ����al�'o�s 5 Runway Use Report February 1997 .....................................................................................5 1�������� - �.1� (J���-a�i�ns 6 Runway Use Report February 1997 .....................................................................................6 1����i���� C'a�-�-�e�° ,��t C����a���,� 7 Runway Use Report February 1997 .....................................................................................7 C'a�-�-�e�-.J�� C��e�����s �.�' �'�'�� � �i���°�,�'� I�'���i���- a,��l ��sc���t�o�a �'a��e 9 �����ay �I,�� - .���I1�Iig�t ���-ir��s - �.1� ��e�-�cti��s 1 � DaytimeHours ...................................................................................................................10 .. �'o����nz�y �v��, f��g�� �.�alys�s �1 . _ ' Carrier Jet Operations - All Hours .....................................................................................11 �, _.. Carrier Jet Operations - Nighttime (1 lpm - 6 am) .............................................................11 Aviation Noise & Satellite Programs I�emote Monitorang Site Locataons 12 C'arrier ,Jet Arrival I2elaied 1lToise Eve�ts 13 Count of Arrival Aircraft Noise Events for Each RMT ....................................... :............13 �'ar�-aer Jet Departu�e IZelated li�oise Ev�nts 14 a Count of Departure Aircraft Noise Events for Each RMT ................................................14 7'en Loudesi �i.rrcr�ft 1�o�se Events Identa�eal I S �"en Loudest �l.i�cra,�'t 1Voase Events Ide�ti�ed 16 7'en Loudest Aar°c�aft 1Voase Events Identi�ed 17 �"en Lo�ade�t Air��°aft 1`�oise �vents Idenia�ed' I S �'en �o�dest �r�°cra,�'t Noise Ev�nts Identz�eci �"en Loude,�t �li�°cra,�'t l�oise Events Identi zed �'light �'rack �a�e 1Vla� 21 m � �4i�po�-t 1Voise an�' O�e�acaons 1�o�natoranb ►S�ste� �la��i� �'�-czc�ks 22 Carrier Jet Operations - February 1997 .............................................................................22 �4irpart l�oise and' Ope�-ations 1�lo�at€��°ing ,System �li�l�t �'�°a��� 23 Carrier Jet Operations - February 1997 .............................................................................23 �i��or� l�o�s� rx�d (��e�-a�a°o�as 1V�'a�aitori�g Syste��a F'lagh� 7'�-�ck,s 24 Carrier Jet Operations - February 1997 ................................................................••.......... 24 �.��po�°i Noase a�d Op��°a%'on,s 1V1'onitorang Sys�e�a �'li��t 7'�°r��ks 25 Carrier Jet Operations - February 1997 ............................................................................ 25 .��aty�is o�'Ai�-�ra,�� Noise �vents -14irc�aft Ldn d'�(A) �nalys�s o„�"�a�cr�f� 1�oise �vent� - �.a�-c�-aft L,�n dB(A) Aviation Noise & Satellite Programs � �7 : (. Nietropolitan Airports Commission Operations and Cormplaint �ummary February 199'7 Operations Summary - All Aircraet Runway t�rrival % Use Ileparture % Use pq. 44 0.3% 29 0.2% 22 117 0.8% 945 6.7% 11 3049 21.2°Io 3419 24.3°Io 29 11193 77.7% 9674 68.8% N�SP February Fleet Niix Perce�tage Scheduled Scheduled AleiOlVIS A.NOMS ��ag� � 1996 � - 1997 Couaat 1996 Coa�nt 1997 Stage 2 53.5% 42.4% 52.6% 45.6% Stage 3 46.5% 57.6% 47.4% 54.4% Airport February Complaint Surizmary Airpma�t 1996 � 1997 MSP 476 725 Airlake 0 0 Anoka 0 1 Crystai 0 3 Fiying Cloud 3 4 Lake Elmo 0 1 St. Paul 1 0 Misc. 2 � TOTAL _ . � 482 . 734 February Operations Summary - FA.A Airport Traffic 12ecord Aviation Noise & Satellite Programs Page 1 Metropolitan Airports Commission l�inne�polis - 5t. Paul Interr�atio��l Airp�rt Complaint �urn�ary �e'bruary 1997 Complaint Summary by City City Arrival Depart�re = 7Cota� P'ercentag�e Bioomington 0 10 10 1.5% Burnsville 1 13 14 2.0% Eagan 4� 23 67 � 9.7% Eden Prairie 2 2 4 0.6% Edina 1 3 4 0.6°Io Inver Grove Heights 5 249 254 36.9°% Mendota Heights 12 30 42 6.1% Minneapolis 62 111 173 25.1% Prior Lake 0 1 1 0.1% Richfield 5 51 56 8.1% South St. Paul 0 1 1 0.1% St. Louis Park 23 7 30 4.4% St. Paul 25 2 27 3.9% Sunfish Lake 0 6 6 0.9% To��H 180 S09 689 1Q0% 'I'irne o� �ay l�iatur� of Coa�plai�at . -...._� ..,. .�., � � _. _ .__.�. .. ,. .:.: r_... ._.:.. � ��, � �, t � F r � ,.., .,:.,� . . ..... ...... ... .:,. „ .,..... ,_, . > � .. - - - x,, ... .,�,t� ., .._.,..�......._„�>.�....:._.,.,,.,__„-ti.._. ,-�,,...T ...,..>,.._. I ���t� �ts��� ■ i�i - ���, � 1 i i 1 � � .����t`�=trs��, • �. i• 11 1 r • j4���;�" _ �• �„ ;:"�,�'��� �� '�'� '�� � i 11 • • ;�� u;�a�'�%�' • ' • :::;�z�,�.��,��r� �� I y;;�����;;�;� • • . yL.. ...�T;ss � � . 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'� � : ,:� �`��e ` , '.;. :i ,� cF :- ;��'� � C Identifier B707 B727 B727H B733/4/5 8737 B747 B74F B757 B767 BA10 BAl l BA46 CL65 DA10 DC 10 DC8 DC87 DC9 DC9H EA30 EA31 EA32 FK10 FK27 FK28 L1011 MD 11 MD80 SW3 SW4 SF34 Metropolitan Airports Commission t�grcraf� Iclentifier and I)�scriptflor�'Table Aircraft Descriptaon BOEING 707 BOEING 727 BOEING 727 - HUSH KIT BOEING 737-300/400/500 BOEING 737 100/200 SERIES BOEING 747 BOEING 747 FREIGHTER BOEING 757 BOEIlVG 767 BRITISH AEROSPACE 125 BRITISH AEROSPACE 111 BRITISH AEROSPACE 146 CANADAIR 650 FALCON 10 MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC 10 MCDONNE.LL DOUGLAS DC8 MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC8 70-SERIES RE MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC9 MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC9 HUSH KIT AIl2BUS II�iDUSTRIES A300 AIRBUS INDUSTRIES A310 AIRBUS INDUSTRIES A320 FOKKER 100 FOKKER F27 (PROP) FOKKER F28 LOCKHEED TRISTAR L 1011 MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC 11 MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC9 80-SERIES SWEARINGEN METROLINER 3 SWEARINGEN METROLINER 4 SAAB 340 Aviation Noise & Satellite Programs Page 9 Nletropolitan Airports Commission l�.unway LTse - Iiay/I�igl�i Periocls - A.11 C�perations � IVlinneapolis - St. �aul Internaiio�al A,irpori �ebruary 1997 Daytime Hours I2unway IDepartures Percentage Arrivals Percemtage Total Day Name �ay Use _ Day Use 04 16 0.1% ' 22 0.2% � 38 . 11L 1546 11.3% 1433 10.5% 2979 11R 1709 12.4% 1538 11.2% " 3247 22 891 6.5% 76 0.6% "'' 967 29L 5317 38.7% 5564 40.7% "::` 10881 29R 4267 31.0% 5032 36.8% 9299 . �; 'Total '. � � 13745 � "100% - 13665 100% :;::;: 27411 I�tighttime Haurs l�unway I9epartures Percentage Arrivals Percentage Name Night Use Night Use Totall�tight 04 13 4.1 % 22 3.0% 35 11L 81 25.2% 51 6.9% 132 11R 83 25.9% 27 3.7% 110 22 54 16.8% 41 5.5% -:;95;..::. 29L 53 16.5% 347 47.0% �:.::.- 400 _.:. :-:.::. 29R 37 11.5% 250 33.9% �:: - 287 -� ;_To� �; .. �321_,.<: 100% 73� '. . 1{DO% `',1059 =: Note: ARTS data missing for 4.4 days Page 10 Aviation Noise & Sateilite Programs C C Metropolitan Airports Commission � Cornrn�nity Overfiight Analysis I�iinneapolis - St. Paui Inie�a�ational Airport February 1997 � Carrier Jet Operations - All Hours 'Total Percent iVumber of Overflight Area Number Nur�lbe� ��.��r Jet Carrier Jet Operations Arriv�ls �2e�artures ��erataons Operations per 24 Houas Over So. Minneapolis/ 1828 5981 7809 43.8% 330.9 No. Richfield Over So. Richfield/ 11 691 702 3.9% 29.7 Bloomington Over St. Paul - 71 11 82 0.5% 3.5 Highland Park Over Eagan/ 7229 2007 9236 51.8°Io 391.4 Mendota Heights , , Total :: - , ' 17�29 . ; ;: � 1�0% : ` - :755.5 .. C�rier Je� Opera�ions - l�tig�t#arne (11�Z� - 6�n) I`�tu�ab�� l�uan�er ��tafl Percamt I�tumber of ,. Ove�#�gl�at Area r�rriv�s De�a�tures d�arr�er Jet Carrier ye� Opera�ions } O�eratnor�s O�s�erat�oaas per 24 I�[oears Over So. Minneapolisl 46 29 75 11.6% 2.8 No. Richfield Over So. RichfieldJ 4 34 38 5.9% 1.4 Bloomington Over St. Paul - 32 4 36 5.6% 1.3 Highland Park Over�Eagan/ 419 76 � 495 76.9% 18.2 Mendota Heights Tot�l 64� 1�0% 23.7 Note: ARTS datamissing for 4.4 days Aviation Noise & Satellite Programs Page 11 . Metropolitan Airports Commission 12emote IVlonitoring Site Locations Airport Noise and Operataons IVlonitoring System �_ Page 12 Aviation Noise & Satellite Prob ams Metropolitan Airports Commission � . ;.. ,. � �r.', .� �, . .. ' �, . �� Count of Arrivai Aircraft Noise Events for Each RIVIT �� City Approximate Street Location Events Events Events Events � >55dB >�Od�i >90ci� >100d� 1 Minneapolis Xerxes Avenue & 41st Street 781 59 1 0 2 Minneapolis Fremont Avenue & 43rd Street 890 105 3 0 3 Minneapolis W Elmwood Street & Belmont Avenue 965 34� 8 �0 4 Minneapolis Oakland Avenue & 49th Street 973 390 13 0 5 Minneapolis 12th Avenue & 58th Street 1038 520 85 5 6 Minneapolis 25th Avenue & 57th Street 1092 589 151 12 7 Richfield Wentworth Avenue & 64th Street 211 10 0 0 8 Minneapolis Longfellow Avenue & 43rd Street 196 9 0 0 9 St. Paul Saratoga Street & Hartford Avenue 56 35 3 0 10 St. Paul Itasca Avenue & Bowdoin Street 93 48 9 0 11 St. Paul Finn Street & Scheffer Avenue 30 2 0 0 12 St. Paul Alton Street & Rockwood Avenue 31 14 0 0 �' ) 13 Mendota Heights Southeast end of Mohican Court 435 2 0 0 14 Eagan First Street & McKee Street 5659 376 0 0 15 Mendota Heights Cullen Street & Lexington Avenue 831 29 0 0 16 � Eagan Avalon Avenue & Vilas Lane 4419 929 4 0 17 Bloomington 84th Street & 4th Avenue 30 2 0 0 1$ Richfield 75th Street & 17th Avenue 89 19 2. 1 19 Btoomington 16th Avenue & 84th Street 28 3 0 0 20 Richfield 75th Street & 3rd Avenue " 42 1 0 0 21 Inver Grove Heights Barbara Avenue & 67th Street 100 3 0 Q 22 Inver Grove Heights Anne Marie Trail 2545 52 0 0 23 Mendota Heights End of Kenndon Avenue 1879 240 12 0 24 Eagan Chapel Lane & Wren Lane 3491 63 13 0 Note: ARTS data missing for 4.4 days Aviation Noise & Satellite Programs � Page 13 Metropolitan Airports Commission Carr�er Jet I)eparture Related �oise Evenis February 1997 Count of Departure Aircraft Noise Events for Each RNIT RMT Events Events Events Events ID City Approximate Street Location �Sd� >80dB >90dB >100dB 1 Minneapolis Xerxes Avenue & 41st Street 731 162 1 0 2 Minneapolis Fremont Avenue & 43rd Street 1253 396 4 0 3 ' Minneapolis W Elmwood Street & Belmont Avenue 1929 202 17 0 4 Minneapolis Oakland Avenue & 49th Street 2766 594 44 3 5 Minneapolis 12th Avenue & 58th Street 4993 2140 590 56 6 Minneapolis 25th Avenue & 57th Street 5489 2863 1319 273 7 Richfield Wentworth Avenue & 64th Street 3413 1000 117 5 8 Minneapolis Longfellow Avenue & 43rd Street 518 91 10 0 9 St. Paul Saratoga Street & Hartford Avenue 16 0 ' 0 0 10 St. Paul Itasca Avenue & Bowdoin Street 91 37 2 0 11 St. Paul Finn Street � Scheffer Avenue 38 11 0 0 12 St. Paul Alton S�reet & Rockwood Avenue 44 16 0 0 13 Mendota Heights Southeast end of Mohican Court 984 196 3 0 14 Eagan First Street & McKee Street 1270 400 34 0 15 Mendota Heights Cullen Street & Lexington Avenue 1682 360 36 0 16 Eagan Avalon Avenue &�las Lane 1782 526 97 5 17 Bloomington 84th Street & 4th Avenue 460 25 6 0 18 Richfield 75th Street & 17th Avenue 1852 383 103 6 19 Bloomington 16th Avenue & 84th Street 720 259 63 3 2Q � Richfield 75th Street & 3rd Avenue " 750 45 6 0 21 Inver Grove Heights Barbara Avenue & 67th Street 570 68 1 0 22 Inver Grove Heights Anne Marie Trail 804 181 0 0 23 Mendota Heights End of Kenndon Avenue 2294 590 182 11 24 Eagan Chapel Lane & Wren Lane 1025 184 5 0 Note: ARTS data missing for 4.4 days Page 14 Aviation Noise & Satellite Programs � �.: Metropolitan Airpons Commission Ten Loudest A.ireraft I�oise Evenis Identified RMT #1: Xerxes Ave. � 41st St. Minneapolis Date Time �C MaY � Ty�se Level OJ07/971331:37 B747 90.2 D 02/03/9711:37:56 DC9 90.1 A 02/21/97 20:06:21 B727 89.5 D 02/03/9711:34:39 B727 89.2 A 02/03/9711:35:25 B727 89.1 A � 02103197 11:50:05 DC9 89.0 A 02/03/9711:54:00 DC9 89.0 A 02/03/97 11:44:35 B7.27 88.9 A' 07J04/9719:35:10 B727 88.4 D OZ/17/9712:46:58 B727 88.2 A IPNiT #3: � Eimwood S� & �elmorai Ave. Ii�anneapolis ' Date Time : A/C ., l�ax - �� .::- - :.- a - Type . ; . .: Level , . 02/29/97 8:20:20 DC9 95.8 D 02/21/97 9:30:13 B727 95.5 D 02/19/9713:13:53 B727 95.4 D 0212 1/97 2 1:01:09 B727 95.4 D 02/23/9713:11:39 B747 94.8 D Oti02/9713:12:26 B747 94.6 D 02121/9717:21:29 B727 94.6 D 02/07/97 13:31:01 , B 747 94.2 D OZ/10/9713:22:56 DC9 94:1 D 02/28/9716:12:31 B727 94.1 A i2Ni'T,#2: Fremont Ave. & 43rd S� 1Vlinneapolis Date Time �� M� A/D Type Level 02/ZO/9712:14:29 B727 96.6 D 02/28/9'7 9:51:15 B727 93.2 A 02/03/97 20:49:09 DC9 91.9 A 02/21/97 8:09:02 SW3 91.9 D 02/25/97 6:44:07 B727 91.0 A 02/04/9719:35:07 B727 90.7 D 02/10/9"716:06:31 B727 90.7 D 02/01/9712:23:05 B737 90.6 D 02/14197 9:06:27 B727 89.2 D 02/23/9718:30:14 DC9 89.2 D Z�IVI'I' #4: �akland Ave. �i 49th St. Miraaaeapolis : A/C .:� Max � Date Time . . _ �AA/� , , , � :_ �e. Level - 02/20/9712:13:54 B727 101.8 D 02/10/9710:02:53 B727 101.7 D 02/27/97 934:25 B727 101.4 D 02/ 19/97 9:43:00 B727 101.3 D 02/19/9711:56:33 B727 100.2 D 02/21/97 9:19:06 B727 99.9 D 02/11/9716:26:27 B727 993 D 02/Ol/97 9:53:48 B727 99.0 D 02/06/97 9:47:36 : B727 973 D 02/10/9712:27:23 B737 97.3 D Note: ARTS data missing for 4.4 days Aviation Noise & Satellite Programs Page 15 Metropolitan Airports Commission �'en I�oudest Aircraft l�oise Eve�ts Identified R1VIT #S: 12th Ave. & 58th St. � Minneapolis Date Time �C Max � Type Level 02/Ol/97 8:54:47 B727 106.4 D 02/2219716:33:11 B737 106.0 A 02/Ol/97 8:52:26 B727 105.8 D 02J22/9715:26:08 B727 105.4 D � 02/O1/97 8:12:57 B727 105.2 D 02101/9710:15:40 B727 105.1 D 02/O1/9� 18:05:51 B727 105.0 D 02J27/9713:59:13 B727 104.8 D 02/O1/97 6:31:38 B727 104.6 D ' 02/06/97 6:55:49 B727 104.6 D 12MT #7: Wentworth Ave. & 64th S� Richfield . A/C MaY _ _. Date Time - A/D . . ...�� :TYPe' ':Level .-. 02/21/97 8:44:13 B727 102.3 D 0?J27/9712:07:22 B727 101.7 D 02/11/97 9:15:25 B727 101.2 D 02/27/97 7:55:16 B727 101.0 D 02/27/97 9:25:02 DC9 100.7 D 02110/9714:06:43 B727 99.6 D 0?J02/9718:47:33 B737 99.4 D 02/04/9713:17:25 B727 99.4 D 02/14/97 9:22:08 B727 99.4 D 02/OS/97 8:18:48 B727 98.9 D RMT #6: 25th Ave. & 57th S� Minneapolis Date Time �c �aY A/D Type Level 02/27/97 9:34:0'7 B727 109.5 D 02/20/9712:13:36 B727 109.0 D 02/10/9710:02:31 B727 108.7 D 02/Ol/9712:12:21 B727 108.4 D 02/19/9'7 9:42:36 B727 108.1 D 02/O1/97 9:53:26 B727 107.9 D 02/08/97 9:40:03 DC9 107.8 D 02/O1/97 9:32:04 B72'7 107.5 D 02/13/9712:10:59 B727 107.4 D 02/27/97 7:46:49 B727 10?.4 D RMT #8: Longfeilow Ave. & 43rd St. Minneapolis A!C Max " .. Date �me , A/Li , T'ype Level: _ 02/21/97 7:3937 B727 99.7 D 02/20/9'7 7:18:34 BE02 98.2 D OZ/19J97 9:32:06 DC9 96.2 D 02/09/97 7:37:40 DC9 94.2 D 02/25/9711:29:03 DH8 94.1 D 02/27/97 9:55:23 DC9 93.2 D 02/06/97 9:32:09 DC9 93.1 D 02/26/97 7:32:07 SW3 92.2 D 02/25/97 7:15:11 WW24 92.1 D 02/26/97 7:08:48 DC9 91.0 D Note: ARTS cinta missing for 4.4 days Page 16 Aviation Noise & Satellite Programs c' C � Metropolitan Airports Commission 'I'en I.oudest A.ircraft I�oise Events Identified ;' , RNIT #9: Saratoga St. & Hartford Ave. � S� Paul Date 'i'ime �C Max � 1`ype Level 02/19/97 22:35:17 B727 92.3 A 02/28/97 23:33:45 B�27 91.7 A 02/25/9'712:50:50 DC9 91.6 A 02/27/97 22:43:58 B727 87.2 A 02/27/97 23:15:39 B727 86.9 A 02I28/97 23:53:05 B73'7 86.9 A 02/17/97 23:11:38 B727 86.6 A 02/27/97 23:47:19 B727 86.6 A 02/17/9712:46:16 B727 86.3 A 02/24/97 21:27:17 S W4 86.3 A ItMT #11: Finn S� & Scheffer Ave. St, I'aul Date Time _ 02/24/97 5:39:16 02/21/9Z 4:43:50 02/07/97 9:14:04 OZ/09/97 9:13:11 02/09/97 9:04:36 02/11l97 8:19:05 02/19/97 9:37:56 02/09/97 9:12:16 02/24/97 8:10:23 02/09/97 10:12:13 AJC TY� � SW3 B727 SF34 DC9 SW3 EA32 MD80 DC9 B727 B757 RMT #10: Itasca Ave. & Bowdoin St. St. Paul Date Time �C Mau � Type Level 02/17/9712:46:58 B727 94.3 A 02/21/97 4:43:25 B727 93.4 D 02i27/97 23:28:32 B727 92.3 A 02/27/97 23:16:16 B727 92.1 A 02/17/97 23:15:05 B727 91.9 A 02/17/97 22:34:29 B727 91.0 A 02/22/97 4:45:11 B727 90.7 D 02/28/97 23:51:30 B727 90.7 A 02/13/9710:57:34 DC9 90.6 A 02/21/9713:00:03 B727 90.5 A RMT #12: Alton S�. c� IZockwood Ave. St. P�ul AIC M� Date TiYne , �e ' I.evel � � 02/06/97 20:52:11 B727 88.6 D 02/04/97 9:05:19 B727 87.7 D 02/06197 9:28:05 B727 87.5 D 02/23/97 9:43:14 DC 10 87.1 D 02111/9711:59:59 DC9 86.9 D OZ/24/97 23:21:47 DC8 85.4 . D 02/09/97 9:31:03 DC9 85.3 D 02/11/9713:40:12 DC9 � 85.1 A 02/07/9710:50:43 BA31 84.8 A 02/10/97 14:44:50 DC 10 84.6 A Note: ARTS data missing for 4.4 days , Aviation Noise & Satellite Programs Pa;e l� Metropolitan Airports Commission Ten I.oudest Aircr�ft l�o�se Events Ide�tified R1VIT #13: Southeast End of Mohican Court Mendota Heights Date Time �C Max � Type Level 02/20/97 9:39:18 B727 94.5 D 02/13/9716:58:50 DC9 94.0 D 02/20/97 9:51:58 B727 91.6 D 02/28/97 8:34:14 B727 89.9 D 02/13/97 8:19:57 B737 88.8 D 02/28/97 7:53:56 B727 88.7 D 02I19/97 20:36:21 B727 88.1 D 02120/9710:50:44 B737 88.0 D 02/19/9719:11:07 DC9 87.8 D 02/13/9718:3433 B737 87.5 D R1VIT #15: Cullon St. & Lexington Ave. Mendota Heights - I�a'te Time .. �C Ma�c � Type ' � Levei 0?J13/9716:58:48 DC9 98.2 D 02119/97.20:35:29 B72'7 98.0 D 02/28/97 21:56:26 B727 97.9 D 02/17/97 7:31:07 B727 97.8 D . 02/28/97 8:33:48 B727 9�.7 D 02/19/97�20:3$:IS B727 96.3 D 02/28/9713:53:09 $727 96.2 D 02/28/97 21:02:41 B727 96.0 D 02/04/97 9:05:42 B727 95.6 D 02/13/9715:43:31 B727 95.3 D RMT #14: 1st St. & McKee St. � � , Eagari Date Time �Q Level � 02/13/97 9:09:40 B737 99.2 D 02/17/9710:33:18 B727 98.7 D 02/20/97 9:24:16 B727 98.6 D 02/20/97 7:17:42 B727 98.4 D 02/13/9712:19:19 B727 97.0 D 02/27/9718:41:31 B727 95.9 D 02/27/9719:16:10 B727 95.7 D 02/03/9716:03:01 B727 94.9 D 02/04/97 9:06:02 B727 94.9 D 02/13/9716:46:10 B727 94.8 D �T #16: Avalon Ave. & �ilas Lane Eagan Date 1�iime �C Max _� . . . _ Type Level 02/20/97 8:30:32 B727 101.9 D 02/28/97 8:08:35 B'72'7 101.0 D 02/1'7/9714:07:38 DC9 100.6 D 02/20/97 9:24:12 B727 100.4 D 02/03/97 7:29:57 B727 100.3 D 02/28/97 9:10:11 B727 99.7 D 02/28/9712:01:23 ' B727 99.7 D 02/20/97 7:00:20 BE80 99.3 D 02/17/9711:50:49 B727 99.2 D 02/24/97 20:00:18 B727 99.0 D C Note: ARTS data missing for 4.4 duys Paae 18 Aviation Noise & Satetlite Programs Metropolitan Airports Commission �'en I,oudest A.�rcra�� l�oi�e Events Identified �'����� RMT #17: 84th S� & 4th Ave. Bloomington Date Time �� M� A/D Type Level 02l21/97 6:15:18 B727 95.0 D 02/25/9711:12:00 B727 94.8 D 02/09/97 7:34:21 DC9 94.3 D 02/02/97 8:43:11 B727 93.8 D 02/18/9716:03:19 B727 92.0 D 02/03/97 6:31:55 B727 90.1 D 02102/9713:00:58 B727 89.8 D 02109/9716:12:26 B727 88.1 D 02/08/97 6:20:17 B727 86.2 D 02/O1/9713:57:07 EA32 86.1 D fl2Mi #19: 16th �°ive. � �4ih S� �loomington Date Time �� = �`YYPe :, 02126/97 6:13:04 B 727 02/22/97 7:28:34 B727 02/19/97 6:14:08 B727 02/22/97 7:20:28 B727 02/02/97 7:35:34 B727 02/09/97 6:27:44 B727 02/22/97 7:30:24 B727 02/03/97 6:29:45 B727 02/02/97 6:52:26 B727 02/09/97 9:0535 B727 RMT #18: 75th St & 17th Ave. � �2ichfield � Date Time �C �� A/D iype Level 02/02/97 8:42:53 B727 105.5 D 02/28/97 7:04:16 B727 102.7 D 02/09/97 7:14:49 B727 102.6 D 02/25/97 5:08:10 B727 101.8 D 02/08/97 7:09:24 B727 101.7 D 02/02/9716:11:48 B737 101.0 D 02/09/9716:12:06 B727 1C0.9 D 02/08/97 6:19:41 B727 100.7 D 02/02/97 22:24:29 B727 100.6 A 02/02/97 8:43:59 B727 100.2 D �IVI7C #20: 75th St. & 3rd r�ve. I�achfield ; Date Time �,/� lORax � - - ' - _ �pe I.evel - 02/21/97 21:10:05 B727 94.9 D 02/24/97 6:10:52 B727 93.3 D 02/19/9712:49:45 DC9 92.5 D 02/22/97 6:53:55 B727 91.8 D 02/19/97 4:59:29 B727 90.9 D 02/02/97 8:44:15 B727 90.5 D OZ/10/97 0:08:47 B727 89.8 D 02/27/9710:45:01 B727 89.4 D 02/ZS/9712:30:35 B727 88.$ D 02/23/9719:10:11 B727 88.7 D Note: ARTS data missing for 4.4 days Aviation Noise & Satellite Programs Page 19 Metropolitan Airports Commission • � � � � , � ; . . 1; . • / RNIT #21: Barbara Ave. & 67th S� � � Inver Grove ]EIeights Date Time �C Max � Type Level 02/20/97 9:52:50 B727 90.6 D 02/17/97 7:32:44 B727 89.9 D 02/03/97 7:1�:34 B727 89.5 D 02/04/97 8:17:48 8727 88.9 D OZ/03/9718:20:32 B727 87.7 D 02/13/9719:02:26 DC9 87.7 D 02/24/9714:40:55 B727 87.5 D 02/26/9715:01:55 DC9 87.5 D 02J0319718:17:29 B727 86.1 D 02103/9713:21:24 DC9 85.8 D RIVIT #23: End of Kenndon Ave. Mendota Heights Date Time ; �C Max � .; T`ype ,Level 02/20/97 9:38:56 B72'7 103.9 D 02/20/9'� 9:5131 B727 102.4 D 02/19/97 20:35:44 B727 101.6 D 02/28/9712:31:49 B727 101.5 D 02/2$/9716:55:53 B�27 101.5 D 02/13/97 20:51:28 B727 1013 D 02/13/9715:43:25 B72'7 101.2 D 02/28/97 22:15:06 DC9 101.2 D 02/27/97 22:00:17 B727 101.1 D 02/28/97 21:02:30. B727 1009 D RMT #22: Anne Marie 'Trail Inver Grove Heights Date Time �C Max � T,ype Level ' 02/23/97 8:07:17 B727 89.2 A 02/11/9713:35:44 � BA31 89.0 A 02/08/9710:44:44 B727 88.7 A 02/08/9710:45:00 B727 88.4 A 02/08/9710:09:18 DC9 86.9 A 02/08/9710:45:25 SF34 86.5 A 02/08/9710:45:13 SF34 86.4 A 02/21/9716:45:51 B727 86.3 A 02/08/9710:09:44 DC9 85.9 A 02/OS/9710:10:04 DC9 85.8 A RMT #24: Chapel Ln. & Wren Ln. Eagan Date �me , : �C M� � . . lppe �, Level . 02/27/9712:20:12 B727 98.6 A 02/02/971:38:57 DC9 97.5 A 02/25/9719:08:13 DC9 95.4 A 02/27/9712:40:01 DA02 94.7 A 02/O1/9712:21:32 DC9 93.6 A 02/18/9718:58:51 B727 93.2 A 02/13/97 9:10:08 B737 93.1 D 02/27/97 22:03:35 DC9 93.1 D 02/19/9714:57:04 DC9 92.8 A 02/22/9713:49:48 DC9 92.1 A Note: ARTS datu missing fvr 4.4 days Page 20 Aviation Noise & Satel(ite Programs Metropolitan Airports Commission . Flight '.�r°ack �ase 1Vgap Airpori l�toise and Operations 1l�Ionitoring System Aviation Noise & Satellite Programs Page 21 Metropolitan Airports Commission Analysis of Aircraft Noise Events - Aircraft I�dn d�(A) February Ol to February 28,1997 Noise Monitor Locations Date #1 ` #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 1' S4.4 � 51.1 59.5 67.7 78.0 78.1 65.8 66.2 55.0 55.2 52.0 55.9 2 57.2 48.8 58.5 63.6 71.1 76.7 65.0 66.9 46.3 49.7 48.3 52.0 3 64.7 54.6 64.9 643 70.7 72.3 64.3 67.1 43.2 58.6 50.8 56.1 4 60.8 54.4 65.4 65.2 74.4 77.1 69.4 65.6 . 40.5 49.6 46.1 52.5 5 57.1 56.2 62.7 64.6 74.0 79.6 68.5 68.5 47.4 58.6 46.7 53.3 6 58.3 54.7 62.9 67.1 77.8 79.9 70.8 66.6 54.3 52.9 4�.3 52.6 � 58.6 51.6 61.4 64.6 75.3 77.9 71.6 69.5 56.1 56.1 52.2 52.4 $ 56.2 52.6 60.7 63.0 73.9 77.0 66.2 67.5 52.9 58.6 56.1 60.3 9 53.7 48.8 55.9 63.7 71.5 79.1 62.9 63.4 41.0 62.3 56.4 59.3 10 60.0 56.8 63.3 66.6 743 '78.5 71.5 68.4 43.6 54.3 49.7 53.1 11 59.2 57.0 60.5 64.5 73.9 79.1 68.8 67.0 50.4 53.7 50.1 54.0 12 56.0 49.2 62:1 62.0 '72.4 75.4 68.9 66.1 45.5 52.4 40.1 50.8 13 58.6 53.0 64.6 64.3 69.9 72.6 * 61.2 48.5 60.0 49.4 62.1 14 59.1 53.8 60.0 63.2 73.7 76.9 69.2 67.1 49.7 49.6 43.7 50.9 �5 51.7 42.5 61.2 61.2 69.5 74.2 61.4 65.4 49.5 54.1 50.9 57.7 16 53.4 45.3 59.7 63.8 67.2 70.6 59.2 64.7 62.1 66.7 52.8 51.6 l� 58.2 49.0 63.9 63.6 69.4 73.0 50.0 62.5 66.2 69.8 56.2 59.4 18 58.2 56.7 62.2 65.0 73.2 78.6 68.4 67.2 46.0 58.0 49.5 56.5 19 5�.7 51.3 61.7 66.7 �3.6 76.9 6$.3 67.4 ' 61.9 64.2 51.8 58.1 20 613 60.5 65.6 67.9 74.8 79.0 67.2 68.4 51.2 62.3 56.1 59.2 21 59.0 55.1 62.8 66.3 75.2 78.6 71.1 69.0 48.3 63.0 57.4 52.1 22 57.9 56.2 59.1 64.4 743 '78.3 67.9 64.6 44.4 56.6 50.4 57.8 23 56.4 52.9 57.7 61.0 70.1 76.4 63.3 62.7 41.6 49.8 55.4 51.0 24 56.8 55.4 57.4 61.3 71.7 76.2 67.9 65.2 44.3 58.6 55.9 58.4 25 57.3 51.1 60.1 64.9 73.2 78.2 66.8 66.7 52.2 61.8 57.4 63.9 2( 58.0 55.0 61.7 69.6 75.5 81.5 70.4 68.3 50.1 56.9 49.0 56.5 2'7 57.5 52.6 65.0 66.2 76.7 79.6 69.9 69.5 64.6 68.8 44.4 56.3 28 63.8 60.3 68.7 67.1 72.5 73.7 59.1 64.8 64.9 67.2 52.9 53.3 Mo. Ldn 58.8 54.7 . 62.7 65.3 73.8 77.6 67.9 67.8 57.4 62.0 52.5 57.2 Note: ARTS data missing for 4.4 days * Less than twenty four hours of data availabfe Page 26 Aviation Noise & Satellite Programs Metropolitan Airports Commission t�nalysi� of ..�iircr�.ft l�oise Events - t�ircrait I..dn d�(A) Febra�ary 01 to February 28,1997 Noise Nlonitor Locations I�ate #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 #2i #22 #23 #24 1 54.9 65.4 63.0 70.6 73.5 62.3 55.6 52.3 47.6 61.0 64.4 59.2 2 41.7 63.8 52.3 * 66.4 75.0 71.1 62.2 46.9 56.7 56.8 64.4 3 62.1 68.5 65.2 71.7 62.8 70.1 69.1 56.6 61.6 63.0 71.3 72.6 4 53.4 66.2 59.5 68.3 41.9 59.1 50.3 58.4 52.8 55.7 66.0 63.6 5 49.5 63.8 5�.8 67.6 53.4 69.0 63.2 54.5 47.1 57.8 63.0 65.� ( 49.9 63.6 55.8 67.0 49.0 59.8 53.6 5�.4 47.4 57.4 62.8 63.3 � 52.0 63.4 56.9 67.0 55.7 72.4 69.4 58.0 48.0 57.2 65.9 62.6 $ 51.0 64.1 55.8 68.0 59.8 �4.6 69.7 57.9 52.1 63.1 64.2 61.8 9 53.4 63.3 57.4 66.9 53.8 72.2 72.6 58.6 51.5 60.2 68.0 65.7 10 52.3 62.6 54.4 67.4. 40.4 67.6 68.0 60.8 50.0 64.5 65.8 62.9 11 53.7 64.1 61.1 * 46.4 62.6 59.3 59.1 47.3 * 63.4 62.3 l2 59.9 66.4 63:0 69.4 49.1 61.9 56.6 56.5 58.9 58.8 68.5 64.8 13 65.3 71.3 69.0 72.8 55.8 43.6 43.8 41.4 63.6 64.4 76.4 66.9 14 53.9 63.4 60.7 68.9 55.7 69.1 69.6 53.6 53.4 57.9 66.3 64.7 15 58.9 71.1 642 71.0 57.6 703 68.6 52.3 58.7 59.7 �2.2 64.8 16 59:8 66.2 62.6 67.6 61.2 69.1 59.8 54.5 5$.4 61.0 72.1 63.4 1'7 64.8 73.3 70.0 73.9 59.6 55.0 49.1 51.8 61.3 65.1 75.3 66.0 1 g 60.8 64.6 62.8 703 58.9 68.9 66.4 59.9 51.2 60.0 67.1 59.2 19 �•7 67.2 65.5 71.0 52.6 68.9 70.2 61.1 55.2 63.3 70.2 64�.5 2Q 62.6 68.3 67.8 71.9 65.5 74.0 73.2 61.3 59.9 64.6 73.2 69.2 21 36.7 64.3 49.4 69.5 59.3 73.2 72.5 61.6 49.5 67.2 59.1 63.8 22 54.1 66.2 62.2 702 61.4 73.8 69.8 63.5 52.9 63.3 62.3 63.4 23 44.1 61.0 58.4 68.0 51.1 70.0 6$.2 59.0 46.1 62.4 G0.8 59.8 24 44.0 60.4 62.8 66.9 56.4 70.5 67.2 63.8 4�2 54.2 63.0 59.3 ' 25 59.8 65.0 65.4 68.9 54.8 70.4 64.8 63.0 50.7 63.9 69.4 67.7 2C 49.9 64.6 57.6 70.1 56.4 70.0 72.6 56.2 49.9 65.4 63.7 64.0 27 61.9 68.4 653 70.5 55.3 63.2 59.9 56.2 59.6 67.6 74.8 66.2 28 64.4 70.6 69.7 74.6 42.2 56.0 45.0 45.7 60.0 713 76.2 67.6 Mo.� Ldn 59.0 67.0 63.9 70.2 61.7 70.0 69.7 59.0 56.4 66.3 70.2 65.4 Note: Alt l J ctata m�ssing Jor �.4 aays * Less thur: nvenry four lrours of data nvuilable Aviation Noise & Sateilite Programs Paae 27 � �' _ C� , C��l�.-�_f��i�'� � e % c � ;•, ` :+� ',�. � rn o0 0 O O o „ C _. Metropolitan Airports Commission ;�` i,11 .� � i 1 /.; 1 � i <,'• ,�. . ,- � � .,,, '..i1 �, ` ;� ;1 , . /1: F'ebruary 1997 1.2% (2�) C�rrier Jet D��artur�s li�orth �� Proposed 095° (l�) Corric�mr Poliey �3o��dary Page 2 Aviation Noise & Sateliite Programs ' Metropolitan Airports Commission l�nneapo�is - St. P�ul Iniernatio�al Airport February 1997 , 2007 ... �'otal 11L and 11R Carrier Je� ��part�res 24 ... Carrier ,�e� I�e��.ri�res (1.2 % ) 1`�ort� oi Prv�os�� �95° (l�) Corri�o�r �olic� �����ary �= �� 24 TRACKS CROSSED P-GATE � �EFT COUNT=1 (4.2�) RIGNT COUNT=23 (95.8�) ' Q ( DEUTATION FROM CENTER OF GATE (fl ' ' Aviation Noise & Satellite Programs Page 3 Metropolitan Airports Commission � 1Vlinnea�oi�s - St. Paul International ��rport February 1997 . �_ �� �; -4 2007 ... �o��.l 11I, and 11R �arrier J�t I)e�artures 1... C�r���r Jet Departure - Early Tur�out (0.0% (l�Torth �ide �efore 'Thr�e I�iie�) 1-TRRCKS CROSSED P-GATE �EFT COUNT=O (0.0�) RIGHT CO�NT=1 (100,0�) DEVIATION FROM CENTER OF GATE (ff) Page 4 Aviation Noise & Satellite Programs �; . Metropolitan Airports Commission �out�.���. �ounda�y Corr�do� Ga�e �e�etrai�or� A.n�lg�s�s l�in�eapol�s - S�e P�.ul �����°�at����� �.�����-� ������ry 1997 �.3 �I� (�66) Car���� ��� �������r�� ,5o��t�a of C��°r��o� (5���� �� 29�.. ���ai��e�-) Aviation Noise & Satellite Programs Page 5 Metropolitan Airports Commission � � � l�nneapolis � 5�. Pau� International Airpo�t . February 1997 2007 ... Toia� 11L and 11R C�rrier Jei Depariu�es - 164 ... Carrier Jet Depariures �.2 °Io ) Sout�i of Ca►rridor (Souih of 29i.. Loea�izer) 164 TRACKS CROSSED P-GATE �, LEFT COUNT=164 (100.0�) RIGHT CQ�NT=O (0.0�) Q � � �� �= �i DEVIATION FR0�1 CENTER OF GATE (ft) Page 6 Aviation I�toise & Satellite Programs �" • Metropolitan Airports Commission I1�nneapolis - St. Paul Internation�.l A.ir�ort �'eb�ruary �.997 �: �� b O O .... _ _ r�'a 2007 ... To�al 11�., a�d 11� Carr�er Jet ����r�a�res 2 a.. ������� Jet I�e���iures - Eariy �rno�i (0.1 %) (����� ��d� �e��r� �l���e I��les) 2 TRACKS CROSSED P-GATE �EFT CO�NT=O (0.0�) RIGHT COUNT=2 (100.0�) -1C DEVIRTIQ� FROM CENTER OF GRTE (ft) Aviation Noise & Satellite Programs Pa�e 7 Metropolitan Airports Commission ' Southern �oundary Co�ridor Gate Per�etration Analysis l�nneapolis - St. Pa�.l In�ernatio�al �irport �'ebruary 1997 ,,. � , l.l %(22) C�r�-ier Jet De�ariu��� 5° Soidth of Cor�i��� (5° S�uth of 29�. Lo����z�r) Page 8 Aviation Noise & Satellite Programs �� �� O O "_. O �� � W C=] � � � � J �j � G N �� -41 Metropolitan Airports Commission l�nneapolis - S�. �aul Inter�atflo�al A.i�por� �e�ruar� 1997 2�07 .e. 'Tc�tal �.�.� ana� 1�.� Ca��-ier ��� �ep��t�res 20 ... C��rie� Je� I�e���t���s (1.0% 5° S�ict,� of �o�r���� (�° ����� o� 29I. �,�c�l����°� 20 TRRCKS CROSSED P-GAT� �EFT CO�NT=20 (100.0�) RIGNT COUNT=O (0.0�) ° I � � � � � , � � � � , i � � ;--------------------------� •-'------------------------*--------'--'--------------„--------'----------------' . I'i o s I s o s ' • e � � """"""""""" "' """"""""""'""""�'""_""'_"""'""""'�"" �""""'_""""""""_' o p • � e i s • s '--"""-' � --'-'-'--"--"------'--- �----""--""'-------""-� -----'-""'---_-"'---'-' ______________'_T_ 1 � � � � � '_"""___'_"""_"""'1_""""""""""" ' ""__"" ___"'_'t"""""___"'_'_"""_ 1 DEVIATION FROM CENTER Of GATE (ft� Aviation Noise & Satellite Programs Pa?e 9 Metropolitan Airports Commission � �I�nneapolis - St. Pat�l Int��nationa� Airport . February 1997 � �: �= � 2007 0.. Tot�l 11L ar�d 11R Carrier Je� Departures 2... C�.r�i�r J�t I)e,partures - Early Turnout (0.1 %) (�out% Side �efore 'Three 1V�iles) 2 TRpCKS CROSSED P-GATE LEFT CO�NT=O (0.0�� RIGHT COUNT=2 (1OQ.0�) DEVIATION FRO�� CENTER OF GATE (ft) Page 10 Aviation I�toise & Satellite Programs . M�ROPi�LI�".�T .l�I ORT� CO �SSIC)l� 2��PQ+'S Sq,tirq Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport F t°� 6040 - 28th Avenue South • Minneapolis, MN 55450-2799 �' o Phone (612) 726-8100 • Faac (612) 7�6-5296 at , t N o �n 0 O � F 9� 4iRPORS� GO . MEETING IVOTICE MASAC i1PERATIONS Ci�NlNLeTTEE The Operations Committee will meet March 21. 1997 - 10:00 a.m. at the West Terminal Building of the Metropolitan Airports Commission, CONFERENCE ROOM W201, 6301 34th Avenue South, Minneapolis. If you are unable to attend, please notify the committee secretary (Melissa Scovronski 726- 8141) with the name of your designated altemate. AGENDA NADP STATUS CROSSING IN CORRIDOR REPORT RUNWAY NUMBER CHANGE UPDATE 199? MASAC OPS SCHEDULE SOUTH PARALLEL CONSTRUCTION STATUS MEMBER DISTRIBUTION Mark Salmen, Chairman Bob Johnson Mayor Tom Egan Charles Curry Tom Hueg John Nelson Jim Serrin Mayor Charles Me�tensotto Dick Keinz Advisorv: Bruce Wagoner, FAA Ron Glaub, FAA Traci Erickson, MAC cc: Kevin Batchelder, Mendota Heights Jon Hohenstein, Eagan The Metropolitan Airports Commission is an affirmative action employer. Reliever Airports: AII2LAKE • ANOKA COi7NTY/BLAINE • CRYSTAL • FLYING CLOUD • LAKE EI,�vtO • SAINT PAUL DOWNi'OWN C C ( �� 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. . �. - � • � , , � � , � � . � . C�UNC�L General Meetinq March 25,1997 7:30 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. 6040 28th Avenue South Minneapolis, Minnesata Call to Order, Roll Call Approval of Minutes of Meeting February 25, 1997 Introduction of Invited Guests Receipt of Communications Technicai Advisor's Runway System Utilization Report and Complaint Summary State of the MAC Report — Jeff Hamiel, Executive Director Report from Chairman Regarding the South Parallei Construction Report of the MAC Commission Meeting Persons Wishing to Address the Council Other Items Alot on the Agenda Adjournment Next Meeting: April 22,199? C C� C� MINUTES METROPOLITAN AIRCRAFT SOUND ABATEMENT COUNCIL GENERAL MEETiNG Feb�uary 25, 1997 7:30 p.m. 6040 28th Avenue South Minneapolis, Minnesota 1. Caii to Order Roll Call The meeting was calied to order by Chairman Bob Johnson at 7:40 p.m. and the sacretary was asked to call the roll. The following members were in attendance. ' Bob Johnson � Brian Bates RonJohnson Dick Keinz �� Judith Dodge Carol McGui�e Dawn Weitzel Kristal Stokes John Nelson Vern Wilcox Jill Smith Lance Staricha Ed Porter Dale Hammons Manny Camilon Bob Andrews Dan Licht Advisors Ron Glaub Chad Leqve Brian Timerson Visitors Nancy J. Stoudt Borys Polec � � M BAA Airborne ALPA MAC Minneapolis St. Paul Richfield Richfield Bloomington Bloomington Mendota Heights Eagan Burnsville Inver Grove Heights St. Louis Park St. Louis Park • Sunfish Lake, Associate Member FAA Acting Technical Advisor M PCA NWA Minneapolis 2. A�qroval of Minutes The minutes of the January 28, 1997 meeting were approved as distributed. Dale Hammons, Inver Grove Heights, noted for the record that a quorum was not present for ( any binding vote. Chairman Johnson added Operations Committee Meeting Overview as an agenda item. 3. Introduction of invited quests Receipt of Communications There were no invited guests. A letter was received from the City of Richfield asking the assistance of..MASAC in obtaining ground level noise impact data from MAC in order to prepare a realistic noise mitigation plan or noise monitoring recommendations for the MSP Noise Mitigation Committee. Chairman Johnson told city representatives that he would bring this to the attention, of MAC staff. ' A letter was received from the City of Bloomington requesting an agenda item be put on the February agenda. The City of Bloomington is proposing that a public information campaign be prepared for the upcoming runway construction project to inform the public about changes in operations at the airport due fio the construction. 4. Technical Advisor's Runwav Svstem Utilization Report and Comqlaint Summarv Chad Leqve, Acting Technical Advisor, presented the January, 1997 Technical Advisor's Report. The highlights of the reports are as follows: � � Arrivals on Runway 04 have increased for all hours and nighttime hours. �- Carrier Jet Operations for Nighttime — Total Operations over Minneapolis have decreased by 1% and Operations per 24 hours have decreased by 1.5 from the month of December. �- The Nighttime Carrier Jet Operations over Minneapolis are higher than they should be. About 52% of the nighttime operations over Minneapolis were between 11:00 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. Cindy Greene has told staff that MSP has been closing down Runway 04/22 for "haulingn purposes at 11:00 p.m. She said if the runway was kept open until 12:00 a.m., the runway could be utilized better and maybe eliminate some of the shoulder hour flights. The FAA will be negotiating a better agreement with MSP Operations. Jill Smith, Mendota Heights, thanked staff for their efforts. Yet she believes the 11:.00 p.m. beginning time for nighttime hours is too late and would like to see it bumped back to 10:00 p.m. or 10:30 p.m. Chairman Johnson said it is part of the MSP Noise Mitigation Program to set it back to 10:30 p.m. and that it is being discussed in the Operations Committes. � 5. MAC Web Site Update — Dan Pfeffer Dan Pfeffer, ANSP GIS Specialist; briefed the council on the MAC web site. He said Mansour - Raad of ESRI has been working with the ANSP staff to make RMT and ANOMS flight track i information available to web users. Currently, web users can access day-old RMT information by clicking on Interactive Mapping and then clicking-on the map shown. A map of the Twin Cities area will appear with the location of all 24 RMT sites. A web user can then choose an RMT site of interest and get the actual noise levels from the day before. In the future the RMT map will be more detailed. And, the noise level definitions (e.g. Leq, Ldn, etc) will be available. In the near future, web users wiil be able to see the flight tracks over an address for a particular time and date. By inputing an address, date and time, a web user will see all flight tracks over that address within a ten minute time span (five minutes before and after). The map will show an area of approximately 3,000 feet, or one nautical mile, around the particular address. A web user will have to note the date and time of an overf1ight for future reference since the flight track data will not be available on a day-to-day basis. . Dan said that, since noisa data can only be acquired from RMTs, tying noise data to ANOMS flight tracks, which are address specific, would not give an accurate view of the noise impact of a pa�ticular flight track. He also mentioned that he has received a number of E-mails in response to the Interactive Mapping program. He said a number of people track this information daily. Mansour Raad, ESRI, is also working on a p�ogram that will enable web users to simulate an actual flight. 6. Bloomington Request to Discuss Public Info�mation Sources For Upcomina Runwav Construction Projects John Nelson, Bloomington, briefed the council on a plan being developed by the City of Bloomington to distribute information to residents regarding the changes in operations at the airport that are expected with the reconstruction of the runways. He handed out a brief description of how this plan would work (see attachment). He emphasized that the City and MAC would need to work closely so that the information being distributed to residents was unifo�m. Dick Keinz, MAC, asked Mr. Nelson if he had approached senior staff, public affairs, or anyone else at the MAC about this plan. He said he didn't believe it wauld be a problem getting information or cooperation. Mr. Nelson said that the City felt MASAC was the appropriate public forum fo� this proposal. He acknowiedged that Public Affairs may eventually nesd to become involved, especially for possible funding. 3 7. Operations Committes Meetinq Overview � Chad �eqve, Acting Technical Advisor, reviewed the Operations Committee meeting minutes. 8. Repork of the MAC Commission Meetinq Chairman Johnson b�iefed the Council on the latest Commission meeting. The only item mentioned was the awarding of the terminal cleaning contract to the lowest bidder. 9. Persons Wishinq to Address the Council There were no persons wishing to address the Council. 10. Other Items No.t on the Agenda There were no other items. 11. Adiournment Chairman Johnson adjourned the meeting at 8:30 p.m. Respectfully submitted. 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' �' 1997 '�' � 3' Topic/I2equirements �„ � ;� ,k , �, . ':,` �h 1 .: �..�i ;. .!� :� k .� i �1�' +F � t� � 5 � 7 : .( 2 M1 t y _.��= ; _ � 4 t Apri17, 1997 Operations Committee NADP Analysis Briefing (John Foggia) (Airport Operations #4) April 22, 1997 MASAC NADP Analysis Briefing (John Foggia) June 13, 1997 Operations Committee Mpls. Straight-out Departure Analysis Outline June 24, 1997 MASAC NNMM Quarterly Reporting to Replace ADNE Briefing July 1 l, 1997 Operations Committee Mpls. Straight-out Departure Analysis Briefing/Implementation , July 22, 1997 MASAC Mpls. Straight-out Departure Analysis Briefing ( � � August 15, 1997 Operations Committee Shoulder Hour Analysis Outline (Airport Operations #2) September 12, 1997 Operations Committee Shoulder Hour Analysis Briefing/Implementation September 23, 1997 MASAC Shoulder Hour Analysis Briefing October 17, 1997 Operations Committee SID vs. GPS Departure Procedure (Airport Operations #3) January 16, 1998 Operations Committee 1998 MASAC Objectives c � j �...1 l ap� c�� - �����..�s t� a.� . � ��-�z �-� �, �- � o r- {�-o rr�t .�-� s .� c W Q S(-- t e r v+,� i wa., ( � vL �Cv-'t-tn G4. j� t�r� w�. ,� �L,,�.�.� NORTHERN DAKOTA COUNTY AIRPORT RELATIONS COALITION MINLTTES FEBRUAR.Y 20, 1997 The Northern Dakota Couniy Airports Relations Coalition meeting was called to order at 8:15 a.m. by Sunfish Lake City Administrator Glenda Spiotta in the Fireside Room at St. Anne's Episcopal Church, Sunfish Lake, MN. The followinj representatives were present: Chris Moates, Inver Grove Heights, Will Eginton, Inver Grove Heights and Ellsworth Stein, Mendota Heights, Kevin Batchelder, Mendota Heiahts and Jon Hohenstein, Eagan. AGENDA �PPROVAL The Agenda was approved on a motion by Jon Hohenstein, seconded by Kevin Batchelder. MINUTES On a motion by Jon Hohenstein, seconded by Kevin Batchelder, the Minutes of January 21, 1997 were approved. MSP AIRPORT NOISE NtITIGATION PLAN Eagan representative Jon Hohenstein reported that the Ea�an Airports Relation Commission has deliberated on the plan but it has not been taken to the City Council. In their ;" � deliberations at least two significant items were identified: ��- a. Strongly urge the Commu.niiy Stabilization group referenced in the Plan to be formed and get to work immediately. � b. Consider it necessary to develop a timeline and work plan for a11 Plan elements Mendota Heights representative Kevin Batchelder reported that Mendota Heights also has reviewed th� plan �vith these comments: a. When will Community Stabilization group be canvened? (reco�izing that the goal was to report to the 1997 Legislature, but still there is reason to convene) b. Timeline and work plan needs to be placed on all program elements 1. insulation: when is 2005 dnl to be established, modeled and how is ANOMS data to be used (would it be used to validate contours and be fed into the model)? Airport Operations: 1. I�iodified Nibhttime Shoulders hours -"kind of ' already doing this was consensus. Jon Hohenstein reported that Eagan has requested placement of temporary monitoring on Highview Avenue in Ea;an. 2. Evaluate Operations in EaganlMendota Heights Corridor - assumes noise abatement profiles. How and when, what forum will evaluation occur? Criteria? 3. Work with aviation to further reduce noise levels - does this include runup and ground noise? NDCAR.0 MINUTES February 20, 1997 Page 2 4. When is Part 150 going to occur? 5. When to increase ANOMS system and begin using data? 6. Generally: When, What, Which committees, Which forums? Inver Grove Heights representative Will Eginton commented that the Plan is too vague as to who wil] be given what responsibilities, what to do, who to do it and will results occur from efforts. He expressed concern that the Plan may not be implemented. Kevin Batchelder initiated discussion of 11R improvements plans over the next three years and a probable decision to not work on t�iways for 4/22. Concem was expressed for 4/22 linaited use for only e:ctra heavy aircraft instead of major runway usage and whether 4/22 will be used at the approximate 30% of operations lev�l as was the case 10 years a�o. There was further discussion of installation home insulation work before air traffic levels shift or increase such as is possible in Bloomington and Richtield. Jon Hohenstein explained that this is an EIS condition for construction use of runways. �isc�zss.ion continued on 11R west, east and center construction phasing and 4/22 usage during same. It was thought that without new ta.xiways, 4/22 can still be used. Impact of departures over St. Paul on 4/22 were introduced. Discussion was held on the lack of feedback from the ANOMS data into contour lines. It was a consensus that track data for a certain known year should be compared to actual fleet mix data. for the same time frame and then determine an annual average for comparison to ANOMS monitors data. Will Eginton commented on a credibiliiy issue with MASAC and also, that sound insulation is not in the wrong locations but should go into more locations. � Kevin Batchelder asked how to effectively use NDCARC. Will Eginton stated that Inver ,�-----.,� Grove Heights had brought to NDCARC their concerns about aircraft strayi.ng out of the Corridor and recommend that the best use of the Corridor is to have aircraft climb to-5000-s. � S feet before reducing thrust. He also reported that Inver Grove Heights re��_���d a�, c c>V,.s i�<< � resolution to abolish MASAC. Further discussion followed the recent MASAC meeting at ''���..,� ` which Bob Johnson was reelected as MASAC Chairgerson. It �u�.s a r�nsensus that MA.SAC �'`----� members need to be better prepared by haviug advance notice; �iscussion of other Chairperson candidates. It was a further consensus that MASAC is not serving its members' needs. NDCARC MINUTES February 20, 1997 Page 3 Jon Hohenstein announced that there is a newly appointed technical advisor to MASAC replacing John Foggia. He viewed this as a positive as Tracy has been more responsive to recent city inquiries. The NDCARC consensus was to push for improve I�IASAC effectiveness, implementation of its Charter and to be made more accountable to its members; representatives need to become more familiar with By-Laws for meeting management. Jon Hohenstein offered to draft a letter for Mayors' signatures requesting immediate implementation of Noise Miti�ation Program to be sent to the MA.0 Cha.ir and copied to Jeff Hamel and Steve K.ramer, with plan.ned follow-up phone calls by one or more NDCARC members. MASAC TERMS OF OFFICE Kevin Batchelder adviseci that there has been no response yet to his written response for current information on MASAC member terms. He speculated that the information may be provided to MASAC at its next meeting. DISCUSSION OF NOISE ABATEMENT DEPAR.TURE PROFILES Jon Hohenstein reported that the MASAC technical advisor cornmented about one month ago that it would be about 4- 6 months before new analysis is ready to go to MASAC Operations. Population estimates were incorrect, as well as wrong contours assumptions on tracking patterns. This will return to NDCAR.0 in ApriUMay, 1997 for May MA.SAC preparation. BACKSLIDING OF STAGE 3 AIRCRAFT It was reported by Mendota Heights there no response has been received to date. They recommend going to MASAC directly; Mendota Heights will bring this matter up at the next MASAC meeting with a copy of their latest information request. ���;������-�— ,; . � � _ _ . Kevin Batchelder noted that the latest technical report shows 3rd Stage aircraft at it highest level to date. , NDCAR.0 MINUTES February 20, 1997 Page 4 OTHER BUSINESS Mendota Heights requested an update from Eagan on the status of north 11R runway. Eagan representative explained that mediation is in process now and provided background on the 3rd party rights issue (do 3rd parly ri�hts survive a legislative action?). MAC is interested in abolishing 3rd party rights. FUTURE MEETINGS The next NDCARC meeting was scheduled for March 18, 1997 at $:00 am. at the City of Eagan. Agenda topics: MSP Noise Mitigation Program letter response, Backsliding on Percentage Stage 3 Operations, MA�AC management/administrative issues/ response, Construction of 11 R and airport operations/aircraft mix. ADJOURNMENT The NDCARC was adjourned at 9:45 a.m. Glenda D. Spiotta, City Administrator City of Sunfish Lake � � � `1 L�� ��_ � .�; � � ������ � � �,; ' :�►� �.� �� �.�.�: ; . � A biweekly update on litigation, regulations, and technological developments Volume 9, Number 4 Nlarch 11,1997 'i i , '� WOLF ASKS FAA TO DELAY PUBLIC HEARINGS ON D.C. AIRSPACE PROJECT PENDING STUDY By Charles F. Price — The Federal Aviation Administration's ambitious plan to involve the public in redesian of airspace in the Baltimore-Washington re?ion hit a snaj in mid-March when Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-VA), chairman of the House Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee, called on the agency to postpone public hearinQs until ConD ess c�mpletes a study of the project's plans and costs that Wolf has requested. FAA has said it wanted to begin public workshops on the airspace redesi?n — called the Potomac Airspace Project — sometime in the AQril-May time frame. At the time of Chairman Wolf's appeal, discussions were under way between a�ency o�cials and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Government's Committee on Noise Abatement at Dulles and National Airports (CONANDA) on how to initiate the workshops (9, ANR, 13). CONANDA hopes to play a key role in coordinatin� the workshops and Tom ,- Bock, FAA's Eastern Region operations supervisor who will head the effort, has �; ) said he welcomes CONANDA's cooperation. But exactly how the process will ��� work and what precise role CONANDA will play in it had not been worked out (Continued on p. 26) Westchester County Airport INCREASIl`�11G COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS LINKED TO MORE COMPLr�INTS, NRDC SAYS Increasing commercial jet operations, nighttime fIi?hts, and helicopter fli?hts aze the three main "culprits" causing a rapid increase in the number of community noise complaints to the noise hodine at Westchester County Airport, according to a report issued by the Natural Resources Defense CounciI (NRDC). It concludes that the Federal Aviation Administration's policy for measurinD noise impacts — based on the DNL (day-night avezage noise level) metric and the 65 dB DNL threshold of significant noise impact for residential communities — is a major reason why the airport has been unable to stem the increase in operations. "Since 1990, commercial flights have more than doubled, chan?ing the character of the airport and its relationship to the surroundin� communities," said Richard Kassel, NRDC senior attorney and one of the authors of the report. "Instead of helping reduce noise and its impacts, the FAA's noise measurement poIicy has led the airport and the FAA to conclude that, legally speaking, there is virtually no sijnificant noise in Westchester." The report, entitled "Under the Flight Path," was released March 13 at a media conference at the Quaker Meetina House near the airport. It concludes that, („_, �compared with the private propeIler flights that were the traditional bread-and- (Continued on p. 27) Copyright OO 1997 by Airport Noise Report, Ashburn, Va. 2201 I In This Issue... Potomac Project ... Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) asks the FAA to delay public hearings on its project to make air- space changes in the Ba1ti- more-Washington area pending completion of a study he requested - p. 25 Westchester County ... Increasing commercial operations are causing a rapid increase in noise complaints at Westchester �Counry Airport, NRDC says in a report critical of FAA - p. 25 DFW ... No massive public outcry occured last fall when the FAA made the single � largest airspace change in the history of the agency around DFW airport - p. 28 Seattle ... A greater than anticipated increase in tr�c at Sea-Tac will pdstpone the new third runway for at least five years - p. 29 Denver ... The number of violations of noise limits around the new Denver Intemational A.irport has dropped sharply - p. 30 Burbank ... Judge grants airport authority possession of 130 acre tract of land needed for site of new pas- senger terminal - p. 31 26 Airport Noise Report Potomac Plan, from p. 25 when Wolf issued his call for a halt. "I know you share my desire to avoid needless concerns amons businesses and residents in the Washinston metro- politan area who view proposed chanses in the fliQht patterns with extreme concern," Wolf wrote in a March 11 letter to FAA Actin� Administrator Barry Valentine. "I know you agree that Consressional review and support for the Potomac Airspace Project is essential to its success. Therefore, I would appreciate your deferrina pubIic hearinss on this matter until our review is comple[e and ConQres- 4 sional support for the concept is forthcomin�." y Rep. Wolf has practical political reasons — as well as more abstract concerns about Congressional oversieht — to be alarmed about possible chanees in fliQht patterns over the Washinston area. Many of his constituents in suburban Northern VirQinia have painful memories of an earlier attempt to rearranQe the airspace over the National Capital reQion. Called the "scatter plan," that effort attempted to equalize noise exposure over the �area and only succeeded in outra�ina hundreds of residents of Virainia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia who had previously been noise- free. The scatter plan was quickly scrapped after a firestorm of protests, but word of the Potomac Projects has awakened fears in some quarters that it may turn out to be a scatter plan by another name. Woif asked FAA to address his concerns before a meetin� of his subcommittee March 18; an FAA spokesperson said the aeency has received the Wolf letter and is reviewin� it but made no prediction about any response to be offered at the hearin�. CONANDA, at a meetin� on March 12, received a briefin� by FAA's Bock on the status of the project and learned that the effort to redesi�n airspace also has a capital component — a new buildin� needed to consolidate radar equipment. Alternate sites for the new faciIity have been idendfied but no finaI selection has been made. Fundina for the facility was also to be under scrutiny at the Niarch 18 subcommittee hearin„ and the commencement of work- shops appeared contingent to some extent on the fate of fundin� for the buildin� project. However, one source told ANR it is possible the airspace and buildin� component of the project wilI be severed and pursued by FAA individu- ally. CONANDA is concerned that the Potomac Project will impose more noise on the Washin�ton area and is anxious to make sure local �overnment o�cials and citizens have a legitimate opportunity to take part in the process. But a question has arisen as to who will pay for this involvement and where the technical resources will come from to answer the public's questions. Said Georse Nichols, CONANDA staff planner: "There's a consensus on the committee that CONANDA should play a role in the project's public involvement, and that we can't play that role without adequate funding and technical assistance. If FAA is to be successful, they must look closely at the role CONANDA has proposed" — coordinat- inQ and facilitatin� workshops —"and perhaps enQage in a �ood-faith �esture by puttinQ into their budget a line item to help fund our participation and show they're serious." Technical assistance is needed, Nichols pointed out, because CONANDA cannot respond to citizen questions that only FAA can answer. So concerned is CONANDA about these issues that Chair Betty Ann Krahnke, in a letter March 12 to Rep. Constance A. Morella (R-MD), chair of the House TechnoloQy Subcommittee, ur�ed that "adequate fundinQ be provided for implementing community involvement programs to better educate the public on (technolosical) developments and of the potential positive impacts on their communities and quality of life." Morella's panel met Mach 13 to discuss FAA's research budset, and Krahnke ureed Morella to use that occasion to encourage F:1A to conduct research on the impact of noise on "human hearing loss, chiIdbirth, and so forth" and use the results of such research in airspace redesisn studies like the one proposed for the Baltimore-Washington reQion. Krahnke's letter also expressed support for development of the next generation of new, quieter aircraft; CONANDA, she wrote, believes that "new technology may significantly help relieve communities negativeIy impacted by aviation noise." NOISE Poses Questions In another development related to the work of Morella's technology subcommittee, the National Organization to Insure a Sound-controlled Environment (NOISE) also wrote to Morella askin� that the panel pursue four questions in examinin� the FAA research, engineering, and development budQet. As posed by NOISE Executive Director Betty Ann Kane, the questions were: °"What priority does FAA place on the development of quieter aircraft? How is this reflected in the budget and in the allocation of staff time and attention? •"In recent years the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has borne almost the entire cost of the coneressionally mandated joint NASA-FAA Advanced Subsonic Transport reseazch and development project that is working on quieter aircraft technolo�y. How much is budgeted in FY 1997 and how much is requested for FY 1998 for FAA's share of this project? °"This kind of research needs a reliable and multi-year commitment to be successful. What is FAA's long-term commitment to fundins the development of quieter aircraft technology? � ••"How would support for basic research into the develop- ment of quieter aircraft and other environmental improve- ment be affected if FAA funding is shifted from the airline ticket tax to other revenue sources, such as user fees paid by the airIines?" � NOISE is a national orQanization of local governments Airport Noise Report l C f-.� March 17,1997 and others working to reduce the impact of aircraft noise on communities near commercial airports. Kane's letter applauded Morella for her "interest in FAA's research efforts" and encoura�ed her to "press for adequate fundinQ for research and development of quieter planes." "This is even more important this year," Kane continued, "because the President's fiscal 1998 budjet for the FAA proposed to drastically cut the statutory setaside for noise mitiQation �rants to airports from $144 million to $21 million." Kane asked Morella to work with Wolf s subcom- mittee "to reverse the President's proposed decimation of airport noise mitiQation funds and to restore this line item to at least the 1996 level of $181 million."� Westchester, from p. 25 butter of the airport, each commercial jet take-off or landin� was 68 times as likely to cause a nearby resident to com- plain to the noise hotline. Further, the report found that each helicopter fliaht was 18 times as likely to generate a noise complaint as each private propeller fli?ht; and that each flisht durin� the airport's voluntary curfew period (from midnisht to 6:30 a.m.) was 10 times as likely to generate a noise complaint as each private propeller flight. "The increase in complaints related to the increased commercial jet flights is a clear measure of the increased intrusiveness of airport noise on the airport's surroundina communities," said Carotyn Cunningham, a Rye, NY, � - resident and a contributor to the NRDC report. "We hope ( ) that the county will adopt our recommendations and make �.._ . . compliance with - and extension of - the existin' cap on commercial flights and passen�ers its hiQhest priority." Westchester County officials aze still reviewina the report and have no comment on it yet. Re�ommendations for FAA In addition to being a technical analysis of five years of airport flight and complaint data (1990-1994), the NRDC report also contains a critique of the FAA's noise measure- ment system. The report found that virtually all (over 99 percent) of the noise complaints came from residences with noise levels below the 65 decibel noise threshold set by the FAA for noise miti?ation purposes. The FAA considers areas with less than 65 dB DNL to have no si�nificant noise impacts in its reviews of airport expansion and fundin� of noise miti�adon proa ams. The NRDC report recommended that FAA: • Adopt the CNEL (community noise equivalent level) metric to adequately account for the importance of uninter- rupted communication and relaxation during evenin� hours. The CNEL, used in California and many Earopean coun- tries, adds a S dB penalty during the h4urs of 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in addition to the DNL's 10 dB nighttime penalty; • Adopt a 5� dB CNEL threshold for residential land-use ( j compatibility around airports. This threshold would incorpo- �-' rate the Environmental Protection Agency's 5� dB health- 27 based DNL threshold plus information from more recent studies that demonstrates adverse impacts of aircraft noise; • Incorporate a comprehensive set of sin�le event and other factors in FAA noise reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and other federal statutes. The exclusive reliance on the DNL (or even the CNEL) metric in airp��rt environmental reviews has led to the likely underestim�tion of the number of people affected and annoyed by aircraft noise, accordin� to NRDC. It said that airports and the FAA should incorporate site-specific sound exposure level (SEL) data of noise into their environ- mentai reviews, thereby taking into account the sound intensity during loud takeoffs and landinas in conjunction with averaje-based CNEL or DNL measurements; and • Reactivate the EPA's Office of Noise Abatement and Control (ONAC). In 1970, Congress authorized the estab- lishment of ONAC to oversee and coordinate federal activities on all types of noise, includin' aircraft noise, from a pubiic health perspective. "Although ONAC has not been funded since 1931, the aQency retains authorization and a mandate to carry out these functions. A first step to more protective noise policies would be to reestablish ONAC at an appropriate level of fundin� and direct ONAC to conduct a case study of airport noise and its effects on surrounding communities," NRDC said. NRDC was instrumental in getting legislation introduced recently that would refund the dormant EPA noise office. It would appropriate to ONAC $5 million for each of frscal years 1998, 1999, and 2000, and $8 million for each of fiscal years 2001 and 2002. The legislation, introduced by Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N�, whose district includes Westch- ester County Airport, would direct the EPA administrator to conduct a study of airport noise that would examine the FAA's DNL noise metric and the effectiveness of noise abatement proa ams at airports around the nation (9, ANR, 9). Recommendations for Airport The NRDC report also recommended that Westchester County, which operates the airport, take the following action: • Work to ensure the extension of the Terminal Capacity Ab eement (TCA) with the airlines beyond its expiration date at the end of 2004 and secure a�reements with the airlines to continue the cap indefinitely. The TCA has been in effect since the mid-1980's. It limits the number of commercial fli�hts in any given half-hour period to four fli?hts and 240 passengers. It had been set to expire at the end of 1994, but the county and the airlines agreed to a 10-year extension of the a�reement after a two- year campaign led by NRDC and local �roups like the Federated Conservationists of Westchester County. Now in effect through the end of 2004, NRDC considers the TCA "the county's best defense against unbridled airport expan- sion in the near future," and said the agreement "should be vigorously enforced and defended"; Airport Noise RepoR Zs • Monitor the airport's compliance with the operations and passenger limits of the TCA; • Expedite the phaseout of Stage 2 commercial aircraft and encourase the accelerated phase-in of quieter StaQe 3 aircraft. Westchester County officials, NRDC said, should continue pressin� Northwest and other Stase 2 operators to adopt an accelerated StaQe 3 conversion policy a[ the airport; • Develop and implement a"Community Right-to-Know" Noise Prosram. Such a projram would require the disclo- sure of current and expected noise impacts to residents livina or planning to live in areas with 55 dB DNL or greater noise levels (or alternatively, set a milea�e limit); • Update the airports' noise exposure map and DNL contours frequently rather than relyina on an outdated 1988 noise map. An updated map would reflect the doubline of commercial jet fli�hts and other chan�es in airport opera- tions that have occurred since 1990, NRDC said. Resular updates of the noise exposure map in the future, NRDC said, would lead to more realistic assessments of airport noise in the surroundin� communities and to more effective noise mitiQation policies; • Review the placement of remote aircraft noise monitors. NRDC said a 1991 study done for the council concluded that only two of the 14 monitors were well located and that most were placed in unsuitable areas. NRDC commended Westchester County for updating its noise monitoring equipment in 1995, but urged the country to review, with public participation, the location of the monitors; � • Return to federal court to have the current injunction aQainst a mandatory ni�httime curfew ]ifted. In 1983, a federal court enjoined a mandatory curfew the county had imposed on the �rounds that it was not backed by su�cient noise data. Since that time, 12 years of operations, noise, and complaint data have been collected by the airport's Noise Abatement OfFce, NRDC said. While notin� the hieh threshold imposed by the Airport Noise and Capacity Act of 1990 on airports intent on imposing noise or access restric- tions, NRDC urged the county to return to court with its data to attempt to lift the injunction and reinstate the mandatory niDhttime curfew at the airport; • Consider extending the end of the current Voluntary Restraint from Flying period from 6:30 a.m. to 7 a.m.; • Maintain helicopter operations and complaint data in the same manner as other commercial and general aviation data; and • Include statistics on compliance with the TerminaI Capaciry Agreement in the county's monthly Airpon Monitor publication. NRDC said the Monitor alreadv serves as a useful conduit of information from the airport to its neishbors and users but that the publication could be improved if it inclnded specific quarterly statistics about operations and passengers for each half hour time slot. In terms of fliahts, Westchester County Airport has remained stable at roughly 180,000-190,000 flights per year since 1990, or approximately 500-550 flights daily. How- ever, NRDC said the character of these flights has changed. Noise Report Commercial jets have taken the place of many of the private propeller and helicopter operations. In 1990, there were 4,838 commercial jet flights. In 1994, there were 11,867 commercial flights and the number has increased every year since. For further information on the report, contact Rich Kassel at NRDC; tel: (212) 727-4454. NRDC is a national, non-profit or�anization of scientists, lawyers, and environmental specialists dedicated to protect- ing public health and the environment. It was founded in 1970.� Airspace Design DFW AIRSPACE CHANGE CAUSES NO MASS OUTCRY By Charles F. Price — In sharp contrast to the worries aroused among citizens and politicians in [he Baltimore- Washington azea by the mere mention of a redesign of airspace, last fall the sin�le largest chartin� event in the history of the Federal Aviation Administration went into effect in the Dallas/Fort worth re�ion causinQ very little stir. Called the DFW Metroplex Air Traffic System Pian, the new scheme rearraneed all airspace and procedures within a I50-nautical-mile radius of DFW International Airport. Implemented on Oct. 10, 1996, the chan�e replaced the air traffic controi system for the North Central Texas area with a totally new regime which altered every navi;ation aid and fix and which FAA claimed would have far greater capacity and flexibility than did the o1d system. In a brochure explaining the change to pilots, FAA said the change was necessary because the existing system was operatin� "at or near capacity" and expansion had to occur in order to "support the b owth of the aviation community into the 21st. Century." While the DFW noise o�ce told ANR there had been numbers of complaints from individuals now exposed to overflights at altitude since the change, there has been no explosion of opposition such as a eeted the FAA's Ex- panded East Coast Plan, to which thousands of people complained, or the sacalled "scatter plan" of a few years ajo in the Washington, DC, azea, which also resulted in a loud outcry from the community. The proposed change in the Dallas/Fort Worth region was given public exposnre in hearings on environmental impact studies for the new east runway at DFW but drew little comment at the time. Meetings were also held by the FAA's Southwest Region to brief the aviation community in the area, but no specific data for implementation was mentioned then. The onset of the new system last October was an- nounced by means of the pilots' brochures. The Metroplex Plan changeii four sectional charts — Dallas/Fort Worth, Memphis, Houston, and San Antonio — and two terminal area charts — Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston. Three new tower facilides and other capital Airport Noise Report �� ��`� March 17,1997 improvements were installed a well. Airport Working with Coppell Not only has this mammoth airspace chanoe occurred without a major public outcry, a current controversy between DFW Airport and the neighborin� city of Coppell is being pursued, accordin� to the attorney for Coppell, with an unusual deQree of decorum, candor, and aood feelinQ — all of which may come as a surprise to those familiar with the bitter disputes between DFW and some of its other adjacent communities over location of a new west runway, which made headlines a c�uple of years ago. Steven F. Pflaum of the Chicago law firm McDermott, Will & Emery, told ANR that relations between the City of Coppell — his client — and DFW Airport have traditionally been good and this has helped lay the groundwork for what he called "an extraordinary spiri[ of cooperation" as the parties worked to solve a problem of noise exposure that has arisen in CoppeIl since the openin� of the east runway. Coppell is located on the northeast side of the airport. Aircraft approachin� the new runway are supposed to follow a straisht line from five miles out, but occasionally are turning inside the five-mile mark and "cuttinQ the corner," said Pflaum; when this happens, planes overfly the city from the northeast at an an�le to intersect the approach and Coppell suffers noise impacts that it shouldn't under the desiQned runway use plan, he explained. Pflaum is working with DFW officials — primarily Noise Officer Karen Robertson and her assistant Dick Linn — to define the dimensions of the difFculty and find a way to solve it. He said that while there have been problems in the dialogue, by and large the experience has been a"model relationship" and he "couldn't be more delighted." Substan- tive prob ess must await perfection of DFW's noise moni- toring system, which is not yet properly calibrated; when that system is running it will be possible to identify specific violators of the runway use plan.� Seattle-Tacoma Int'Z INCREp,SED TRAFg'IC WII,L DELAY CONSTRUC�'ION OF l�t]EW RiTNWAY By Charles F. Price — A greater than anticipated increase in passenger tra�c now expected in the near future, toQether with limitations on availabie federal funds, will postpone by at least five years completion of the controver- sial third runway at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, according to a Supplemental Environmental Impact State- ment on the project prepared by a consultant for the Federal Aviation Administration. $ecause traffic is growing so rapidly, construction priority must be given to more immediate capital projects like , �arking facilities and road access which aze needed to �` �accommodate it, according to airport officials. This means completion of the $455 million third runway can't occur 29 until 2005. That extends the construction timeline from four to eiQht years and pushes the planned completion date five years later than o�cials at the Port of Seattle, which operates the airport, had wanted. The report also said that an additional 460 homes in the flight path of the new runway must be insulated a�ainst jet noise. Some 10,000 h�mes already have been earmarked for insulation over the pa;t 20 years. Port officials have insisted the noise problem will be further eased after the year 2000 when federal transition rules phase out the last of the noisy Stage 2 aircraft. In this reoard FAA Consultant Mary Vigilante, author of the Supplemental EIS, estimated that the number of residents adversely affected by noise will decline by two thirds by the turn of the 21st century. But it is also �enerally understood that, due to increased opera- tions, noise impacts on the exposed population will again start to increase sometime after that time. The Supplemental EIS was done after the FAA forecast a 17 percent jump in the number of passengers expected to pass throu�h Sea-Tac. There were 395,000 takeoffs and landinas at the airport last year. That is 16,000 more than airport planners were predicting for the turn of the century only three years ajo. Now it is predicted that takeoffs and landin�s will number 409,000 by 2000. . "We must make sure all of our facilities are ready to handle the kind of �rowth beinQ projected," said Gina Marie Lindsey, aviation director for the Port. Terminal and parking gara�e expansion and road improvements to and from the airport will be needed sooner than the third runway, she said. Vi�ilante pointed to the limitation in available funding. "There's not enou?h money to do it all at once," she said. The Clinton Adrninistration's proposed 1998 budget calls for a 30 percent cut in airport improvement funding. Sen. Slade Gorton (R-WA) has criticized the proposal, saying it would ` jeopardize our ability to secure funding for the much-needed third runway." Sea-Tac o�cials contend the third runway is needed to permi[ two streams of pianes to land in poor weather conditions which now limit landin�s to one runway 40 percent of the dme. The improvement is also important to continued economic development of the region, they say. Residents of the cities of Des Nloines, Normandy Park, and Burien, located near the airport, oppose the new runway and have filed a suit in King County Superior Court to stop it. Perry M. Rosen of the Washington, DC, law firm Cutler & Stanford, which represents the cities, said of the third- runway delay, "They've stretched out the whole process" and pointed out that the chan�e means construction hassles will last twice as long. He claimed the delay means the Port does not have the resources to carry out the entire airport improvement project, which is estimated to cost $3.3 billion. Peter Kirsch, also with Cutler & Stanfield, said, "The [report] acknowledDes that we were right from the get-go. So we really have to go back and re-examine all the other statements the Port has made that they may have to recant." Opponents feel they helped force a revision of the EIS and that the supplemental report has vindicated their position, Airport Noise Report 30 Airport Noise Report which is that the third runway won't be sufficient to handle air traffic =rowth. Instead they ar�ue that the Port of Seattle and the Puset Sound Re�ional Council should seek a site for an entirely new airport. On the Horizon In a noise-related developmen[ at another location in Washin�ton State, Seattle-based Horizon Air is lookins into the prospect of providin� commuter service between Paine Field at Everette in Snohomish County, WA, and Portland, OR. The idea is expected to stir up concerns amons citizens who have already made it known they oppose commerciai air traffic at Paine Field. Airport ManaQer David Wagsoner alerted local leaders and a citizens �roup to the contem- plated move. Don Doran, Mukilteo City Councilman, told the Seattle Times Feb. 1 i, "I think the community abso- lutely, positively will have something to say about this." Horizon Air is studying the Everette-to-Portland route as one of four potential runs it hopes will access new mar- kets.� Denver Int'Z VIOLATIONS OF AGREEMENT SHARPLY CUT, CONEY SAYS The number of possible violations of noise standards set around Denver International Airport has been sharply reduced from about 57 at the end of the first year of the new airport's operation to about 4-6 at the end of the second year, Robert Coney, director of plannin� and development for Adams County, CO, told participants at the 12th Airport Noise and Land Use Compatibility Symposium Feb. 24 in San Diesa Under an Interaovernmental Agreement between Adams County and the City and County of Denver, which cleared the way for construction of the new airport, Denver a�reed to pay $50,000 for each actionable violation of noise limits set in the agreement. Some 101 arid points were defined around the new airport and a noise leVel in Leq (Level of Equivalent Ener�y) set for each grid point. Each violation at any of these a id points results in a$50,000 fine. Coney applauded the Federal Aviation Administration and Denver for their responsiveness to noise complaints that delu�ed the new airport from almost the hour it opened on Feb. 28, 1995. Denver made nine recommendations for air space chan�es that the FAA has implemented. Reroutin� aircraft east of the airport to avoid overflying urban areas has siDnificantly reduced noise impact as has directin� Stage 2 aircraft to fly north to Laramie, WY, before turnin� west, Coney said. Coney said several lessons have been learned reQardinQ implementation of the Intergovernmental AD eement. First, he said, the use of the DNL (day-niaht averaQe noise level) noise metric in the ajreement is ineffective in rural areas which had a very low ambient noise level prior to the airport's openin�. The enforcement process defined in the a�reement is cumbersome, Coney said, and annual reportin� require- ments back into each other. There are still issues that remain unresolved from the report of the first year of operation, he said. He also noted that sin�le event noise levels or time above levels should have been included with DNL leveis in the noise reports. But SEL and time above were not considered dependable in 1988 when the ajreement was drawn, he explained. Asked what went wrong at DIA to cause so many noise complaints, Coney said he felt that the airport and the FAA "believed there was an absolute blank check and used it in a free-wheeling manner regardina operational efficiency." The way they used the airspace differs from the assumpcions included in the Environmental Impact Statement on the airport, he said. The noise analysis in the EIS was "excruciatinQ," Coney said, but it is being violated. y Re?ardin� fines, none have been paid yet by Denver, but Coney said that United Airlines has already paid the fine by payin� the extra fuel costs associated with flyin� north to Lazamie, WY, before turnin� west on departure frorn DIA. Update of FAA Noise Policy William Albee, manaaer of the Policy and Regulatory Division of the FAA's O�ce of Environment and Energy, discussed the status of the agency's efforts to update it 1976 noise policy to provide guidelines on how to address noise outside the 65 dB DNL contour. A draft version of the updated poIicy statement has been completed and is in "initial coordination" within the a�ency, he said, but stressed that it is very hard to set a time line on the project. Albee said he hopes to have "somethina done" by the end of the year. "It's my highest priority," he told the session, "because there is a window of apportunity between now and 2000 to capture the benefits of shrinking contours." Albee predicted that a major shrinkage in noise contours around airports will not occur until the last year of the phaseout of Stage 2 aircraft. On Jan. l, 1999, there will still be 1,000 Sta�e 2 aircraft in the commercial fleet and they must be phased out by the end of 1999, he said. He pre- dicted that a"big, nodceable improvement" in noise impact will not occur until the end of the phaseout period. DFW Outreach Program Karen Robertson, mana;er of the Noise Compatibility Office at Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport, said that airport o�cials tried to describe the expected noise impacts from the new east runway at DFW before it opened so that people could make decisions about how close to the new runway they wanted to live. ' The airport established a real estate outreach pro� am through which it invited home builders and Realtors to the airport to learn where the new runway would be located and Airpoct Noise Report i, ) ( ) March 17.1997 how it would affect them and their clients. The airport gave them exisdn� and proposed fli�ht patterns and expected noise levels. It also hosted luncheons for mayors of communities near the airport, met with community advisory groups, and talked to school o�cials and students about the new runway and the noise impact it would have on the community. The airport worked with the City of Grapevine on the location of a school, Robertson said. While the airport would not give its opinion on where the school should be located, it did inform school officials about the noise impact at various locations under consideration and let them make a decision on the best location for the school. Thus far, the airport's noise o�ce has had 3,000 citizens come through its new noise center or call the ofFce, and talked to 200 Realtors, seven home builders, and five newspapers, she said.� Burbank � ' '� • / � . . � . � . . � � . By Charles F. Price — The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority moved a step closer to building its proposed new $235 million passen�er terminal March 5 when a Superior Court jud?e �ranted it possession of a 130- are tract of land it wants as a site for the facility. Meanwhile the City of Burbank continued its push for a scaled-back terminal plan that wouid, in effect, limit airport eapacity and received support for its scheme from the Los Angeles Times. But a Glendale business a oup publicly argued against a flight cap which is part of Burbank's plan, sayina it would send the wrona message to airlines, discour- ase needed new service, and keep new businesses out. The jud�e's order giving the airport authority possession of the Lockheed Martin Corp. Plant B-6 area is effective in 90 days. Airport Executive Director Thomas E. Greer said of the action, "Possession of this property is a very impor- tant step in the overall process leadina to our new term.inal, and it makes our recent commencement of conceptual design for the project all the more meaningful." The authority deposited $39 million with the court in February as the probable value of the land. The final amount has yet to be determined. The airport is pursuin� an eminent domain lawsuit to acquire the acreaQe from Lockheed, which did not oppose the March 5 rulins. The airport wants to build a new, larger terminal to replace an old one which sits 400 feet closer to runways than modern design standards allow. Airport o�cials say that safety concerns are at the center of the dispute but the real argument is over the question of expandin� airport capacity. The airport's plan would almost double the number of gates. The Burbank proposal wouid only allow an increase of two gates, to 16. It would aiso cap the number of operations at 10 percent above 1996 levels, impose a � noise budget, and make mandatory an existin� nighttime curfew. � The court order says the airport, once it takes possession of the Lockheed Martin land, will have all ownership rights, including removal of "any persons, obstacles, improve- ments, structures or other tansible thinas of any kind or nature ... and to do thereon whatever else it deems necessary ..." There is one current tenant on the property, Aircraft Service International 1'nc. It will be allowed to continue aircraft fueling services using storaee tanks on the site. Lockheed Martin is expected to continue current demolition activity. Letter to Southwest Airlines In February Burbank Mayor Bill Wi�gins wrote to Herbert D. Kelleher, head of Southwest Airlines, advisin' him of the city's development plan and askin� his support. Southwest and Alaska Airlines together make up about 70 percent of Burbank's commercial fliahts. Wisgins ursed KeIleher to give the Burbank scheme — called the Burbank 21st Century Plan —"serious consideration." He called the proposal "a responsible and realistic solution that allows all parties with an interest in the airport to brina a halt to expensive and time consuminQ lidgation and instead move forward with constructing a new terminal on the Lockheed property." "We understand," Wig�ins wrote, "there.may be a reluctance by any airline to accept limitations on the growth of air tr�c. But we firmly believe that, without the ab eement of the City of Burbank to any airport expansion plan, the future will hold nothin� but more years of litiga- tion and delay. We don't want that and we don't think you do either." Wi�gins said Burbank was trying to "fashion a fair and comprehensive settlement proposal that would allow development of a modern new terminal enablin� more e�cient handlin� of passengers and a moderate increase in aircraft operations: ' On behalf of its residents, Wigoins continued, Burbank "must insist that leveis of commercial jet noise not exceed 19961evels for us to support any increase in aircraft operations. We believe advances in technology and the b owin� number of quieter jets that will comprise airlines' fleets in the comin� years make this a reasonable goal. With your support, we believe we can obtain any necessary approvals for required restrictions on flights from the Federal Aviation Administration." Kelleher has not yet responded to Mayor Wigains' letter. However, Airport Community Relations Director Victor Gill ridiculed the reference to quieter jets in the future. "Can you imagine what Mr. Keileher would have thousht on readin� that sentence?" Gill told ANR. "He flies nothinD but Boeing 73�-300 aircraft at Burbank, and Burbank Airport has had a 100 percent Stase 3 fleet since 19$'7. I can only speculate as to his utter dismay." Wiggins offered to meez with Kelleher personally to discuss the Burbank proposal. He said the 21 st Century Plan "balances the needs and concerns of our residents, the Airport Noise Report r'`� March 31,1997 Dayton report to the court said, "In light of tha uncertainty reoardin� whether or when MAC will seek to construct the taxiway complex and use Runway 4-22 for noise shifting purposes, Richfield does not believe that litiaating its Petition for Review at this time would be a productive use of the resources of the court or its liti�ants. Accordinoly, Richfield will seek the parties' a�reement to a tolling asreement that would enable this lawsuit to be dismissed without prejudice, subject to Richfield's right to seek judicial relief if MAC should decide to proceed with the noise-shiftin� component of the project." Included as an appendix to the Pflaum-Dayton report was a letter of Dec. 23, 1996, from Natalio Diaz, the Met Council's director of transportation plannin�, which said in part, "before the 4-22 runway e;ctension project can be used for noise redistribution purposes, the Metropolitan Council intends to review the project as it relates to the queuing taxiway complex needed for the proposed change in the runway use system and a noise miti�ation plan." In the letter of City Mana�er Prosser to MAC Executive Director Hamiel, Prosser said he was writing in hopes of correcting MAC's apparent misunderstanding of Richfield's position on the north-south runway so that "MAC will better appreciate why execution of a tolling agreement is in the best interests of all of the litigants as well as the public as a whole." Prosser emphasized that Richfield believes it has a strong case and coutd win in both state and federal court. But, "given that MAC's already limited ability to use the extended runway to shift noise will decrease as flisht levels at [Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport] rise, Richfield questions the need for the parities to devote public monies and scarce judicial resources to Iiti�atinQ now the permissibility of a project that will not be buiIt for years to come, if at all." Richfield's suit in state court has been stayed. In the federal action, Pflaum said Richfield has asked the court to refer the issues of Runway 4-22 to the court's Settlement Prob am — a dispute resolution body — in hopes a tolling a�reement can be facilitated.0 Burbank, from p. 33 The court also dismissed a counterclaim by the City of Burbank seeking to enjoin the auport authority from acquirin' land within Burbank without the approval of the City Council and to enjoin Lockheed Martin Corp. from transferrin� 130 acres of land the airport needs for the new terminal site without the city's approval. While the court dismissed the case on narrow jurisdic- tional �rounds, it did not rule on the key question raised in the liti�ation of whether the airport authority is actually required to obtain the appraval of the City of Burbank before it can obtain 130 acres of land from Lockheed.for the new ternunal site. The cunent terminal at the airport no lon�er meets FA.A desi�n standazds. 35 The ruling leaves Lockheed Martin in the tough position of decidinQ whether to accept $39 million for its land, which was deposited with the court by the airport authority, and runninQ the risk of later beina found in violation of the state statute, accordin� to Peter Kirsch of the Washington, DC, law firm Cutler & Stanfield, which represents the City of $urbank. He would not comment on whether Burbank will challenQe the Federal Aviation Administration's approval of the use of $24.2 million in Passenger Facility Charges to help pay for the new ierminal, but said Friday Apri14 is the final day for filin� such action. ' Burbank contends that a California statute �overnin� submission of plans for expansion or enlar�ement of � airports requires the airport authority to obtain approval of the city before acquirina the property, which is located within the city's jurisdiccion. In Apzil 1996, Burbank adopted procedures for its review of the new ternunal project which provide that the airport authority cannot acquire the property needed for the project until (1) it submits a plan detailin� the proposed uses of the properry to Burbank; (2) Burbank holds a public hearin� on the plan; and (3) Burbank subsequently approves the plan. The airport authority filed its complaint in June 1996 seeking to have the state statute and Burbank's review procedures declared unconstitutional and to have their future enforcement enjoined. The airport authority alleged that the state statute and the city's review procedures violated the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution by purportin� to re�ulate in the area of air safery, a matter reserved for federal regulation; violated the Commerce Clause by unduly interferin� with or burdenine interstate commerce; and (3) violated the airport authority's ri�ht to due, process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment because the statute and the review procedures are unconstitutionally vague. `Important Victory' Burbank Mayor Bill Wisgins called the court action "an important victory for the people of Burbank 9n what the airport authority has acknowled�ed is the key issue in our dispute." The court's rulin�, he said, "keeps intact Bur- bank's risht to approve any acquisition of land within our borders by the airport authority in order to expand Burbank Airport." While notin� that the airport authority could opt to appeal the ruling, Wi�oins said he was confident that "Judse Baird's reasoning is legally sound and her ruline will be upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and, if necessary, the U.S. Supreme Court. In the event the airport authority files a similar action is state court, we are confi- dent we will prevail there also," he said. Mayor Wigoins said he hoped the court decision "will cause the airport authority to recansider the inflexible approach it has taken with its airport expansion plan. Judge Baird's ruling maintains our right to protect Burbank residents from the adverse consequences of excessive Airport Noise Report C. C 36 Airport Noise Report airport =rowth. Years of litisation are not inevitable. This dispute can be settled outside the courts if the airport authority wili seriously consider a plan that provides needed improvements to Burbank Airport while respectin� the ���ality of life concerns of Burbank residents, as we have ' �posed in our Burbank Airport 21st Century Plan (9 ANR 17). We developed and presented this plan to the airport authority last month in an effort to forestall years of costly litiaation," Wi�gins said. Several provisions of the the 21st Centuy Plan, which seek a flight cap and a mandatory nighttime curfew at an airport that aiready has all StaQe 3 operations, would be subject to Federal Aviation Administration approval under the aQency's Part 161 Resulations on Notice and Approval of Airport Noise and Access Restrictions. Mayar Wiagins said that the court's decision "should come as no surprise to those familiar with the relevant lesal statutes and case law. Nearly four decades of statutes, FAA reQulations, and case law have clearly established that the federal �overnment has asserted control over airspace manasement, air traffic control, aircraft safezy, and airport operations, while leavinb to state and local governments jurisdiction over where, when, and whether to build and expand airports. In recent years this distinction between the federally preempted area of airspace and airport operations and state and local jurisdiction over airport sitin� and expansion has been confirmed by four separate U.S. Courts of Appeal." "The importance of this rulin�," the mayor said, "is underscored by the the fact that the State of California `�rvened in the case on behalf of the City of Burbank in �,.._.�er to protect existinb state laws that give local govern- ments the authority to approve construction or expansion of airports within their boundaries. If the airport authority had prevailed, it would have jeopardized the entire statutory system governins state and local power over land use at airports throushout the state." Disappointed by l�uling "Obviously, we're disappointed this court chose narrow jurisdictional �rounds to avoid taking action," said Thomas E. Greer, executive director of the Burbank Airport. "There are serious issues involving the balance between local and federal interests that need to be decided. Both sides wanted a rulins today, but that will have to wait for another day. In the meantime, the replacement terminal program is movina forward" he said. � A Los Anaeles Superior Court recently granted the airport authority possession of the 130-acre tract of Lockheed land it wants for the new terminal site. Once the airport takes possession of the land on June 3, it is free to develop it, but it wiil be two to three years before any dirt is turned for the new ternunal, accordin� to Victor Gill, spokesman for the airport. The airport recently be�an the conceptual desisn phase of the project, which will continue for 12-18 months. F^�lowin; that, the conceptual design must be transformed i ) into design specifications, he explained. Greer noted that the court was careful to point out that the principal disa�reements between the airport and the city over Burbank's review procedure are still at issue. He quoted Judge Baird in her opinion: "It is undisputed that Burbank contends [the airport authority needs to obtain approval from Burbank before acquirinQ the Lockheed property]. It is very much in dispute, however, whether the authority is actually required to obtain such approval." Seattle-Tacoma Int'l STUDY ESTINIATES I�IGH COST TO MITIGATE RUNWAY IMPA�C'�S Communities near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport are setting the stage to seek additional funds to mitigate the impacts of a planned third runway at the airport if their lesal challenQe to the project fails. y The cities of Burien, Des Moines, Fecieral Way, and Normandy Park, the Hiahline School District, and Hiahline Community Hospital obtained a$500,000 grant from the State of Washington two years aQo to fund a study of the potential impacts of the new runway. The "initial assessment and recommendations" of the study, released in February, concluded that it would cost $2.4 billion — neariy five times more than the Port of Seattle has estimated — to mitigate the noise impacts from the planned third runway, and $479 miilion to mitijate certain potential transportation impacts. Other environmental, transportation, and socio-economic factors were defined in the study, but no costs for mitiaatin� them were estimated. Fred Stouder, city manaQer of Burien, which mana�ed the state b ant, said the study Iooked at impact from a broader perspective than the Port of Seattle's Environmental Impact 5tatement. Much of the almost $3 billion in mitijation costs estimated in the study would go toward land acquisition and reinvestment in basic infrastructure to set the stase for the next cycle of development in the area following construc- tion of the new runway, he said. The consuItants recommended the development of a South Kin� County Comprehensive Plan "to weave together a plan that addresses the needs of all interests in the area — commu- nities, residents, businesses, schools, hospitals, the environ- ment, and the airport." (Officials of the cides involved in the study met with state officials and the state's legislative delegation the wee!c of March 31 and will be reviewin� the study to determine what course of action to take next, he said. The study recom- mends much follow-on work but the question is who will do it, Stouder explained. He said he would like to see a commission put together if the new runway is built to address miti?adon issues. The study does not assign mitigation costs to any particu- lar agency. It notes that the Port of Seattle and the Federal Ai�port Noise Report C� �� March 31,1997 Aviation Administration will be financially responsibie for a portion of the mitisation costs and that funding from other sources is expected. For example, the report said, increased ___ transportation fundinQ is available throu�h the Washin�ton 1 State Department of Transportation and the Federal Hi�h- way Administradon. Some environmental mitigation costs my be eli�ible for state and federal Environmental Protec- tion A�ency fundina, the study said, and costs associated with acquisition and redevelopment "may be shared between private and public-sector interests." Port is not the `Bogeyman' The Port of Seattle was critical of the initial study find- in�s. The Port sat on an advisory b oup to the study and expressed concerns about the mettaodoloay used in the study, a spokeswoman for the Port said. She said the Port is still uncertain of the criteria the study used to determine the cost of noise impacts from the new runway. An executive summary of the report provided to ANR also did not clarify what noise mitigation criteria were and how mitigation costs were assigned. A consultant for the study had not contacted ANR to discuss these issues by press time. The executive summary of the report said that mitiaation of potential impacts was based "on the preservation and protection of neighborhood integrity." T'he EIS and the Supplementai EIS done in support of the new runway cost $5.5 million, making it one of the most expensive environmental studies ever done, the Port lspokeswoman said, addinQ the Port feels the EIS is thorouQh �_. �and based on federal regulations and national standards. y The cities involved in the study, she said, are tryin� to take all their socio-economic problems and blame them on the airport. The airport is a huae factor in the economy of the area, but it is not the "bogeyman" the cities are makinQ it out to be, she said. "If transportation projects are held to this level of mitigation costs, it would be impossible to move forward with any new project." But Peter Kirsch, of the Washington, DC, law firm Cuder & Stanfield, which represents the cities challenging the new runway, disagreed. This was the first independent study of the true mitijation costs of a new runway, he said, and it raises the broader issue of how good standards for estimat- ing mitigation costs are. Higher mitigation costs are affordable, Kirsch said. He noted that an official of the General Accounting O�ce recently stated that the airlines get their money back on a new runway project in two to three years and that the projects would still be cost effective if the airlines had to pay twice as much. It is possible to pay for the real miti?ation costs of a new runway, Kirsch said, even if they are much more than those . estimated in an EIS. The principal consultants that prepared the study for the cities were Helmuth, Obata & Kassebaum, Inc. of Dallas, j SI'exas, and Raytheon Infrastructure Services, Inc. of Denver 37 and Philadelphia. While the study did not dispute the projections included in the Port's EIS, such as noise contours and future flight tracks, it included no new data. The study examined eight general environmental areas: noise and vibration (DNL and sin�le event noise levels, overfli�hts, and vibration), air quality, surface water quality and hydrology, ground water quality and hydrology, wetlands, floodplains. aesthetics and visual, and "other," which included special status species habitat, culturai resources, coastal zones, and compliance with Section 4(fl of the Department of Transportation Act, which governs noise impact on parklands and historic preservation areas. In terms of noise impacts, the study said that four neigh- borhoods in the City of Des Moines and one neighborhood in Burien would be the closest to the new runway and would experience "si?nificant impacts" due primarily to noise and vibration of aircraft operations. It estimated it would cost $1.9 billion to relocate residents of these neiQhborhoods and redevelop the area. The study estimated that it would cost $148 million to mitigate noise impacts in Federal Way, $56 million for Normandy Park, and $114 million for Tukwila. Most of this mitigadon would involve primarily sound insulation and the purchase of avigation easements. The study also recommended the replacement or reloca- tion of eight schools in three communities and identified 26 other schools in the HiChline 5chool District for sound insulation and avi�ation easements. In terms of transportation impacts, the study said that the EIS did a"good job" of analyzing them but did not study a large enoush area. The airport serves the entire Central Puaet Sound Region, it noted, but said the transportation impacts studies in the EIS "stopped at the airport's drive- ways" — the roads leading directly in to the airport property. The study painted a dire picture in terms of socio- economic impacts of the new runway. It predicted that communities closer to the airports would experience a relative "depression" of residential property values, which would have a"cascading affect" and lead to more properties being rented rather than sold. This, in turn, would attract people with a lower average household income who would use more social services. Thus, while the property value and tax revenues would be depressed, the cost of providing social services would increase. The study recommended that the Port of Seattle make "partial ofF-setting payments to the five impacted communi- ties in order to miti�ate the loss of local �overnment revenues over the project period (2000 throuQh 2020)." It said a similar analysis of revenue shortfalls in the school district also was needed.0 Airport Noise Report f� 3� Airport Noise Report th SLUCM T hnical Advisory FICAN FICAN 'i'O PUBLISH '7"^ CHNICAL POSITIONS �n 1997, the Federal InteraQency Committee on Aviation Noise (FICAN) pians to publish technical positions on noise-induced sleep disturbance, non-auditory health effects, and land use compatibility guidelines, as definitive research by member ajencies concludes. FTCAN also intends to improve its home paQe on the Internet's World Wide Web in 199'1 by both increasinp its visibility and improvinQ the technical content of the paQe (address: http://www.hmmh.com/fican), accordinQ to the committee's 1996 annual report, which was recently released. The committee also will hold its fourth public forum on May 13 in Minneapolis (see related story in this issue). Reaarding sleep disturbance, the 1996 FTCAN report notes that the committee discussed the findin�s of recent sleep disturbance research conducted at Denver International Airport at its meetin� on Nov. 26, 1996. "In general, the results of the recent studies show much lower awakeninQs than previous, laboratory-based studies," the report stated. "The study su��ested that the sleep disturbance curves presented in the 1992 report of the Federal InteraQency Committee on Noise (F'ICON), the parent committee of FICAN, are very conservative and probably predict much o eater sleep disturbance than has been observed under a�tual field conditions. �� ICAN said it intends to develop a technical position on ihe sleep disturbance issue this year. 'The committee noted in its report that the issue of health and social science research regarding aviation noise continues to provoke comments at the committee's public forums. The committee last year discussed the need to provide better information to the general public concerninJ �backjround on health effects policy and technical discus- sions provided in the FTCON report of 1992. In addition, the committee noted that several reports were published in 1996, including a tri-nation feasibility study of the scope and need for an epidemiological study of the non-auditory health effects of noise, as well as a U.S. Air Force literature survey of the current state of knowledge on the issue. FICAN said that, with these two studies as background, it intends to develop a technical position on non-auditory health effects in 1997. Regarding land use planning, federal agencies rely on the Standard Land Use Classification ivlanual (SLUCM) for definitions of a variety of land uses. Individual aQencies then adopt recommended noise limits for various cateaories of land use, the most common bein� the 6� dB DNL recommended threshold of incompatibility with residendal land use. The SLUCM currently is undergoin� extensive review led �' ! the Federal Hi�hway Administration and the American `_: .lannin� Association, FICAN noted in its report. It said that members of FICAN sit on e ec Panel and FICAN's interests in the SLUCM revision have been discussed by the committee. FICAN has agreed to review the SLUCM recommendations vis a vis aviation noise and has requested a briefina by the SLUCNi contractor to discuss aviation noise effects as related to the SLUCNI. In their 19965 annual report, FICAN member said they aoreed that additional research on commuter aircraft noise issues should be placed on hold until more pressin� prob- lems have been addressed. The report noted that NASA prepared an assessment of the commuter aircraft noise issue throuahout the United States which found that, while isolated instances of comun- ter aircraft noise problems exist, in �eneral commuter aircraft contribute litde to the total noise burden in commu- nities near major airport. The report sug�ested that com- muter aircraft noise issues would become more si�nificant if the percentage of operations relative to other types of aircraft were to increase substantially and when noise levels of air carrier aircraft decrease substantially with the retire- ment of Staje 2 aircraft. FICAN was established in 1993 to provide forums for debate over the needs for future research in aviation noise and to encourage new development efforts in this area. All federal agencies concerned with aviation noise are repre- sented on the committee, including the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the Department of Interior, the Department of Transportation, the Federal Aviation Admini- stration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Department of Housina and Urban Development. At the request of some members of the public, FIC.AN asked the National Institutes of Health to join the committee but the ajency declined esplainin� that it was short-staffed and had no interest in the issue. To help coordinate current and future federal research in the area of aviation noise, FTCAN meets reaularly and hold periodic public forums to obtain broader input from inter- ested members of the technical community and the public. Committes Formed in 1992 In 1992, the Federal Interagency Committee on Noise (FTCON), the parent committee af FTCAN, published its findings in a report entitled "Federal Agency Review of Selected Airport Noise Analysis Issues." The committee identified in its report the need to increase research on the basic elements of aircraft noise assessment methods includin� (1) a reexamination of the Day-NiQht AveraQe Sound Level (DNL) as the primary metric for describin� aircraft noise, (2) an evaluation of the dose-response relationship between DNL and its effect on people (quanti- fied as percent of people highly annoyed), and (3) the appropriateness of the noise criteria used to define compati- bility with different land uses. To foster this research, FICON recommended that a new standing federal committee be formed with a mandate to Airport Noise Report March 31,199� provide forums for debate of future research needs and to encouraje new development efforts in these areas. � Research ' FICAN TO HOLD FORUM MAY 13 IN MIT�NEApOLIS The Federal Intera�ency Committee on Aviation Noise (FICAN} will hold its fourth public forum on May 13 in Minneapolis, MN, to coincide with the annual conference of the American Associadon of Airport Executives. The format of the public forum will include brief presenta- tions by aQency researchers on the status of their noise research projects, followed by public comment. Those who wish to present comments to the committee must notify FICAN by April 30 in order to allow organizers sufficient time to schedule all presentations. 1fie forum will be held at the Thunderbird Hotel at 2201 E. 78th St, Bloomington, NIN, from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. The presentations will be divided into two sessions: the first session will run from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and cover technical issues, including noise reduction technologies and noise modeling issues; the second session will run from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and will cover aviation noise effects, land use compatibility, and public information prob ams. Detailed information on the research projects underway by members of the federal a�ency committee are available in the FTCAN report, "Status Report on Aviation Noise Research Conducted by U.S. Federal A�encies," copies of � � which are available through FICAN's contractor, Harris -' Miller Miller & Hanson, Inc. Contact Mary Ellen Easan at E�VIMH for information on how to obtain a copy of the report: tel: (617) 229-0707. t31so contact EaDan re�ardinQ questions about the public forum or presenting comments at the meetin�. FICAN was established to provide informadon to the public on aviation noise research projects conducted by federal a�encies and to solicit input from the public and technical community regardin� the direction of that re- search.0 Reno/Tahoe Int'Z 39 aircraft operations at the airport. In the late 1980s, Stage 3 aircraft comprised only 40 percent of the total commercial fleet mix, the airport noted in a press release. It said it has experienced a noise reduction of more than 30 percent since 1993, and is one of the leadins airports throughout the country that have a 90 percent plus Stage 3 compliance rate. In other action at the Board's meeting, Brown-Buntin Associates, Inc., pres�nted their annual update of the noise contour map for the airport based on 1996 noise monitorin� data. The airport said that an annual noise contour update was recommended in 1987 as part of the 1987 Noise Alternatives Assessment Study and the 1991 Pan 150 Airport Noise Compatibility Study, and has been instrumen- tal in the implementadon of the airport's noise miti?ation program. The noise map depicts t the computed locations of 65, 70, and 75 dB DNL noise contours. Overali, the 65 dB DNL noise contour for 1996 for all (civilian and military) aircraft operations is 22 percent smaller than the 1995 contour, according to the airport. However, it said, the area within the 65 dB DNL contour computed for civilian operations only in 1996 is actually 2 percent larger than the 1995 contour. Another notable change in the updated map, the airport said, is the exclusion of the "bulge" over the southeast area which represented the Nevada Air National Guard's use of the RF4-C aircraft during most of 1995. Also, the eastern edje of the 1996 contour is stufted to the west due to the return of aircraft to runway 16L-34R followinQ its recon- stzuction in 199�, resuitina in reduced noise impact over the residential area surrounding downtown Sparks. A final difference is that, although the 1996 contour has shrunk in width, it is elonsated approximately an additional mile to the south because 85 percent of the commercial departures in 1996 went to the south compared with 75 percent in the previous year, the airport noted.0 Il 1 1Ji11iJl •�e Health Effects Congress AI�2POIZT �OA� RECOGNIZES �e 5eventh International Con�ress on Noise as a PubIic AIRLINES FO'� NOIS£+ REDUCTION Health Problem will be held Nov. 22-27, 1998, in Sydney, Australia. The Airport Authority of Washoe County, Nev., proprietor �e congress has been organized on behalf of the Interna- of Reno/Tahoe International Airport, approved a resolution tronal Commission on Biological Effects of Noise (ICBEN) March 20 reco�nizinC six airlines for using an all-StaQe 3 every five years since 1968. This is the first time the fleet at the airport. y meeting will be held outside of Europe or North America. Representatives of Alaska, America West, American, `I'he meeting proaram will include invited and submitted Reno Air, Southwest, and TWA airlines were commended oral presentations, posters, and workshops arranged around for their efforts in noise rednction with a plaque. nine working groups that define ICBEN. These teams are With 246 commercial airline arrivals and departures a day, concerned with: (1) noise-induced hearing loss, (2) noise ( �Stage 3 aircraft comprise approximately 94 percent of all and communication, (3) non-auditory physiolo�ical effects Airport Noise Report 40 Airport Noise Report ANR EDITORIA.L ADVISORY BOARD Mark Atwood, Esq. ' t Galland, Kharasch, Morse & G�nkle Washington, D.C. Lee L. Blackman, Esq. McDermott. Wiil & Emery Los Angeles, Calif. Dr. Clifford R. Bragdon, AICP Dean, Schooi of Aviaaon & Transportation Dowling College Eliot Cutler, Esq. Cutler & Stanfield Washind on, D.C. � J• Spencer Dickerson Senior Vice President American Association of Airport Executives Edward J. DiPolvere Administrator, Nationai Associadon of Noise Control Officials Richard G. "Dick" Dyer Airport Environmental Specialist. Division of Aeronautics, Calif. Dept. of Transportation E. Tazewell Ellett, Esq. Hogan & Hartson - Washington, D.C. Julie H. Ellis, Esq. ( � � Managing Director __ ' Federal Express Corporation Angei M. Garcia Co-Chairman Citizens Against Newark Noise E.H. "Moe" Haupt Manager, Airport and Environmental Services, Nationai Business Aircraft Associadon Robert P. Silverberg, Esq. Bagileo, Silverberg & Goldman Washington. D.C. Joanne W. Young, Esq. Baker & Hosteder LLP Washington. D.C. induced by noise, (4) influence of noise on performance and behavior, (5) effects of noise on sleep, (6) community response to noise, (7) noise and animals, (8) combined agents, and (9) implications for regulations and standards. The venue for the conference is the Sydney Convention Center. English is the o�cial language of the meeting. For further information on the congress, contact the Conb ess Secretar- iat, Noise Effects '98, GPO Box 128, Sydney NSW 2001 Australia; tel: 011-61-2-9262-2277;fax:011-61-2-9262-2323. INM Course D&L Aerotech will offer its first workshop on the latest version of the Inte�rated Noise Model (Version 5.1) on May 3-4 in Bradenton, FL. The cost is $600 per student with discounts for multiple students from one source. For further information, contact Dave Ingram or Lionel Guilbert; tel: (813) 684-3517; fa�c: (941) 727-1678, or write D&L Aerotech at P.O. Box 1216, Brandon, FZ 33509-1216. Buyouts Approved at Louisville O�cials of Louisville International Airport announced recently that the Federal Aviation Administration has approved the voluntary acquisition of three residential areas near the airport, concludin� a review process be�un at the request of the airport authority last June. The three neiQhborhoods — representing almost 300 homes — complete the areas to be purchased as part of the noisa mitigation program estab- lished for the expansion of the airport. "These aze the last homes within the area determined by the FAA to be exposed to unacceptable noise," said Airport Generai Manager Bob Michael. . About 1,800 homes around the airport have been bou�ht because of the expansion of the airport. It is estimated that it could take as long as 10 years to compleCe the voluntary boy-out of all of the noise-impacted neishborhoods around the airport.0 AIRPORT NOISE REPORT Anne H. Kohut, Publisher Nlarguerite Lambert, Production Coordinator Charies F. Price, Contributing Editor; Anne Jacobs, Circulation Editor; Maria T. Norton, Production Editor Published 25 times a year at 43978 Urbancrest Ct., Ashburn, Va. 22011; Phone: (703) 729-4867; FAX: (703) 729-4528. Price $495. 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