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Show Airport feasibility study to be completed soon for the construction of an airport in Summit County would be the FAA. Funding from the FAA would only come if Summit County was selected as a "reliever airport" site for the Salt Lake International Airport, he said. T T ....... fVia TMiln oif- A $50,000 study to evaluate evalu-ate the feasibility of building an airport in Summit County will be completed by June 25, according to the engineer in charge of the study. Greg Meyer of Buell, Winter and Mousel, the Omaha, Nebraska firm that conducted the study, said the completed document should be in the hands of Park City Community Director Mike Vance by next week. Approximately 91 percent of the three-phase study was funded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Meyer said. Park City and Summit County chipped in for the remainder of the cost, he said. The study was divided into three sections to determine (1 ) the most appropriate site for an airport, (2) the actual layout of the airport and (3) the cost of construction, and funding possibilities for the airport. And while the study proposes a site east of U.S. Highway 40 and south of Interstate 80 near Brown's Canyon, it is the most expensive of the four sites considered, Meyer said. The hilltop site will have less impact on area residents as well as wildlife and water resources, he said, but will be very expensive to build on. It is the highest in elevation of the sites considered. consi-dered. Long-range plans for a completed facility put the cost at $20 million, according to the study. Meyer added, however, that the airport could be operational at about 60 percent of the total cost proposed, but would lack amenities. According to Vance, the most likely source of funds I1UACVU , U1C A ail port, which has already been constructed, is also vying for "reliever status," Vance said. Without funding from the FAA the chances of an airport being built in Summit County will be greatly diminished, he said. But the fact that Tooele can become fog bound during the winter, like Salt Lake, could work to Summit County's advantage, he added. The study predicted that by the year 2000 as many as 123 aircraft could be using a Summit County airport regularly. |