The next regular meeting is January 9 at 6:00 pm in Roy at the Community Building.

ASCG Inc. of Albuquerque is the engineering company in charge of building the airport.

The County entered into an Agreement with Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc., from Phoenix, Arizona to do an environment assessment (EA).  The purpose of this assessment is to document FAA's determination as to whether or not the proposed new airport has the potential for significant environmental impacts.  The level of analysis will be sufficient to understand the purpose and need of the proposed new airport; will identify reasonable alternatives, including those as presented in the airport site selection study (including a "no-action" alternative) and will assess the proposed new airport's potential environmental impacts and determine whether any impacts will be significant.  If the proposed new airport and its alternatives will not cause impacts within specific categories of environmental resources, a brief statement will be presented to describe the factual basis for the conclusion of no significance.  The estimated duration of the EA process and FAA's issuance of an environmental determination is 12 months. 

There will be one public meeting during study with two representatives from Kimley-Horn and they will review the draft of the EA.  A Power Point presentation will be included. A summary of issues raised at the public meeting as well as responses to substantive comments, will also be included in the Environmental Assessment's appendixes.

Construction is due to begin in 2006.