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March 28, 2012: FAA Project Update Letter Released.

January 2012: Alaska Rare Plant Species Survey Report.

June 2010: Meetings with Agencies and Tribes.

September 2009: Field Work Completed.

Copies of the Public Presentation and Resource Agency Presentation have been posted to the website.

July 9, 2008: A Public Meeting was held in the Best Western in Kodiak, AK to review Runway Safety Area Alternatives.

KMXT Radio Interview about the FAA Kodiak Airport Runway Safety Areas (September 18, 2007).

KMXT Radio Interview about the FAA Kodiak Airport Expansion.

September 19, 2007: Public Meeting was held in Kodiak at the Sun'aq Tribal Center.

April 9, 2007: Scoping comment period ended. Thank you to everyone who submitted comments.

March 28, 2007: A public meeting was held in Kodiak to gather public comments.

February 2007: Scoping Process Started with a Public Scoping Meeting on March 28th, 2007 in the Harbor Room at the Kodiak Inn, Best Western in Kodiak, AK.

February 2007: The FAA published the Notice of Intent to produce an Environmental Impact Statement in the Federal Register.  The NOI serves to inform the public of the pending EIS project and marks the official start to project. View the NOI or visit the Federal Register

August 2006:
Project website launched.

Kodiak Fact: Two-thirds of the island has been set aside to form the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge. (kodiakisland.net)

September 2011 - FAA Project Update

Good Morning!

I just wanted to give you a quick heads-up concerning progress on the Kodiak Airport EIS. FAA has completed our examination of the factors that may constrain or influence runway safety area design for the north-south (18/36) and east-west (07/25) runways at the airport. We'll provide much more detail in the near future on how we conducted this review and analysis, but for now I'll note that factors considered included:

1) operational requirements such as aircraft use and approach and
departure procedures,

2) landing aids such as the Runway 36 VASI and the Runway 25 glide slope,

3) runway utilization patterns,

4) federal safety requirements for the design aircraft, and

5) opportunities to avoid or minimize environmental impacts.

As a result of this effort, we've established a range of alternatives that will be subject to a full examination of environmental impacts in the EIS.

Our consultants are at this time preparing materials that will depict the details of these new alternatives (and I emphasize "new," because most of them were not included in the Preliminary Draft EIS). My plan is to schedule meetings with all of you sometime in November, in Kodiak and Anchorage, to present these new alternatives and explain the work behind our decisions. Due to continuing uncertainty over the 2012 budget for FAA's Airports Program, unfortunately I can't yet confirm that meetings will take place, let alone times and dates. But I hope to get approval
sometime in the next week or so, and will then notify you all of the
relevant details.

In the meantime, please don't hesitate to call (271-5453) or write
(Leslie.Grey@faa.gov) if you have questions or comments or just want to talk about the EIS.

Thanks very much,

Leslie Grey
Environmental Protection Specialist
FAA - Alaskan Region, Airports Division
907-271-5453

Street Address:
Leslie Grey - AAL 614
Federal Aviation Administration, Airports Division
222 West 7th Avenue, Box #14
Anchorage, Alaska 99513-7587

Phone. 907-271-5453
FAX. 907-271-2851