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Airport Moves Closer to Building FedEx Hub
December 3, 2003
The News Observer, North Carolina
Airport Moves Closer to Building FedEx Hub
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - The Army Corps of Engineers said it's close to
allowing the Piedmont Triad International Airport to build a FedEx Hub. The
corps said it will allow the airport to build the hub if it agrees to take
steps to lessen the environmental damage it would cause. Opponents said they
expected a federal water quality permit to be issued and say they will
appeal it. The corps sent paperwork to airport officials late last week for
them to sign. Airport Executive Director Ted Johnson said airport officials
began reviewing the document Monday.
He said the conditions center on how the airport would offset the
environmental damage caused by putting 1.2 million cubic yards of fill into
23 acres of wetlands and 14,937 linear feet of streams around Brush Creek,
which flows into Greensboro's drinking water supply.
Johnson said he doesn't think the conditions will stop the hub from being
built.
"We got it under review now by a number of engineers and attorneys," he
said. "I hope we're close to having an agreement."
The airport hopes to send the permit back to the corps next week, Johnson
said.
If construction were to begin soon, opponents likely would ask a judge to
stop the work until all their environmental appeals had been heard. FedEx
wants to open a hub at the airport by 2009, eventually growing to a total of
126 takeoffs and landings on some nights.
Opponents say the overnight flights would disturb residents and that the hub
would pollute the area.
"Our intention is to challenge it," said Mark Warren, executive director of
the Alliance for Legal Action, a nonprofit organization formed to raise
money for the court fight. "I think there are insurmountable obstacles that
they have to overcome."
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