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Show Roosevelt Assured Of Funds For New Airport The United States today has approximately 25.000 civilian aircraft. The Civil Aeronautics Administration estimates that there will be 400,000 civil airplanes air-planes in this country within 10 years of the war's end, and that the number will continue to increase in-crease in the following years. To serve this expected extensive growth in civil aviation, the Civil Civ-il Aeronautics Administration proposes that this nation construct con-struct 3,050 new airports and improve 1,625 of the 3,000 existing exist-ing fields. To effectuate such a program in response to the request of the House of Representatives the CAA advises that Roosevelt is one of the 87 Utah communities listed in the National Airport plan. The local project would be constructed at an estimated cost of $160,640. This total cost is broken down in an estimated cost of $80,000 for preparation of land selected as an airport site and $2000 for miscellaneous expenditures. i The type of airport for Roosevelt Roose-velt is recommended as Class 2 and, according to the CAA's plan, $78,640 in expenditures are recommended rec-ommended at the outset for paving pav-ing and lighting. The estimated cost for the Roosevelt airport docs not include in-clude the cost of the land nor buildings. The $80,000 listed for preparation of the land includes clearing, grubbing, excavating and grading, drainage, surface conditioning, and fencing. The $2,000 listed for miscellaneous includes approach clearing, access ac-cess roads, marking and landscaping. land-scaping. The class and scope of the airport development for Roosevelt was determined by the relative importance of the community com-munity as a center of a trading area, its function in the national airport system, and its importance import-ance to existing and proposed air .routes. As a Class 2 airport, the local airport would have landing strips running from 2700 to 3700 feet and would accomodate small transport and large private planes. This includes planes up to a gross weight of 4000 pounds. The general objectives of the recently passed federal-aid airport air-port bill serves to systemize federal fed-eral participation in the airport work and to provide for federal funds to pay 50 per cent of specified spe-cified airport construction costs. |