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Show Wednesday, July 24, 1996 lf t tUtmea-cfa- e Nephi, Utah mitigation would range for Airport expansion study reported to city council and By Myrna Ihuintrciii Times-New- s Correspondent Nephi City Council members heard a consultant present the council in a public meeting the alternatives for development of a planned airport expansion. The consultant suggested the only viable alternative for the expansion was to work with the city airport at its present loca- tion. The council had one problem with this plan they do not have the support of surrounding for the proposal. Monte R. Yeager, Aeronautical Planner and UATC Executive Coordinator, from Salt Lake City, and Jeffrey Rogers, Aviation Concepts, Aviation Planning and Environmental Services, Colorado Springs, Colorado, were on hand to present the proposal. The concept Rogers presented was the alternative development issue of the environmental assessment. In the study a new location was considered as were two alternatives development land-owne- rs of the present airport to the south and development of the present airport to the north. The Environmental Assessment (EA) is being prepared to evaluate potential impacts from the planned construction of a new runway at the Nephi City Nevertheless, many of the minds? he asked. Ive found you National Bank if the expansion can fight government. I wouldnt went to the north. be in too much of a hurry with Those affected if it went to the this project. Id wait until my atwould be Blake and Sussouth to talks yours. torney Landowners who would be af- an Garrett, Gerald Cooper, Ross fected by the expansion would be Garrett, Ross Garrett and JoMerle and Zelda McPherson, seph and Ellen Garrett, Merle Roscoe and Aleen Garrett, Gor- and Zelda McPherson, J.E. and rett. Ross Garrett asked ifthe opin- don and Karen McPherson, Don Vey Worthington, and Jarrett ions of the land owners counted. Jones, Commercial Security Land and Livestock. Have you already made up your Bank, Chad Winn and Zion First $10,000 to $40,000 per acres and the Corps may not agree to this alternative since there is another alternative that would not impact wet lands, he said. Only one alternative, the south alternative, would seem to meet the criteria for expansion. This alternative would result in a significant reduction in land acquisition costs since the land to be acquired is classified by Juab County as either dry land farmland or rangeland, said Rogers. Yeager said the money was available to do the study and to develop the airport at its present site. It was not available to assist the city if a new location were selected. He said Nephi had the opportunity to expand the airport with 90 percent of the funds coming from the federal government. The state would contribute money also. Nephi would only have a small portion of the development costs. Your airport project would get two years worth of the federal money to the state, said Yeager. We see the Nephi airport as convertMunicipal Airport ing the existing runway into a parallel taxiway, said Rogers. The new runway, he said, would be constructed to a length up to 6,300 feet and the existing runway may be extended to provide a full length parallel taxiway. Ultimately, both the runway and taxiway would be extended to a length of 7,200 feet. The study we did identified impacts associated with the ultimate runway, said Rogers. Rogers said the study indicated another airport development was not practical because of a lack of airports near the area. Rogers said constructing the expansion to the north of the present airport was also not practical. An all weather county road would need to be replaced, said Rogers. In addition, he said, a site visit by the U.S. Army Corps of En- an important part of the state gineers and the USDA Natural and national system, said YeaResources Conservation Service ger. We would hate to lose it. in June classified approximateMorgan decided, said Yeager, ly 117.4 acres of wetlands with- that they did not want to particin the area delineated in the al- ipate and did not want their airternative. An individual permit port to expand. The FAA would be required for this project chucked it off the list. due to the number of wetland The cost of relocating the airacres impacted, said Rogers. port would be prohibitive more Nephi City would need to devel- than $15 million and neither op 234 acres of wetlands to re- the federal government nor the place the 117 acres of wetlands state government would particiimpacted. pate if that decision were made. The estimated cost for this The FAA closes airports. Those are the hard cold facts. Page 7 landowners who would be affected by the expansion of the airport disagreed with the need for the expansion. For a little bit of extra money, an alternative site might be the best consideration for the future, said Blake Gar- Baby Contest winners and mothers 1996 Ute Stampede Baby Contest winners announced The winners of the 1996 Ute Stormy Greenhalgh. In the Novelty Division, girls: Stampede Baby Contest are as follows. Alexa Park, 1st place; Kristen Girls: Jordon Manske, Katie Ingram, 2nd place; and Nicole Nelson, Dayna Kay, Sandi Ols- Larsen, 3rd place. Boys: Waylon Skeem, Wyatt en, Lyndsey Palmer, Karlie Ison, Kaitlee Kohler, Shelby Kay, Shel-bi- e Ostler, Tanner Ryan Lounsbury, Maybe yours will be one of them. Gage, Kara Winter, Brittney Treven Christensen, Jordon It is a decision you folks will have Thompson, Takesha Woten, Jus-t- a Maxwell, Chandler Boswell, Rito make, said Yeager. 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