Normandy Park City Scene Summer 2018 Airport Issues Mark Hoppen 0001

will lever the FAA into action on behalf of residential, quality of life issues: health preservation, noise reduction, visual mitigation, environmental preservation, and more. Burien is fighting this battle right now, and if it wins it would also change the nature of FAA considerations of flight departures over Normandy Park. tai a Mark Hoppen, ICMA-CM City Manager Generally speaking, however, local, direct lawsuits against the FAA have not resulted in much re-direction of FAA intent or policy. Other actions, currently engaged by local jurisdictions in united effort, may also result in change, namely: 1) the joint jurisdictional response to the environmental issuance of the Sustainable Airport Master Plan; 2) a joint State of Washington/local jurisdiction study of baseline airport conditions (more on that in a subsequent article); and 3) the ultrafine particulates study currently underway at the UW. The ultrafine particulates air quality study being conducted by the UW will provide empirical support for federal legislation that can guide FAA actions consistent with law. Through federal legislation, the study can foster change in airport operational practices consistent with new legislation pertaining to public health. think the chief benefit of the study is that public health epidemiologists will be able to correlate disease and aircraft ultrafine emission measurements. The study itself is just producing the data, the epidemiological analysis will come later. Moreover, the study itself will not assure that the FAA will have to do anything, but of course, the FAA officials working directly underneath the flight path presumably want…

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