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Posted by tanut001 at 1:48 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Lawmakers mulling changes to the State Airports Fund are afraid the money that’s supposed to improve greater Minnesota airports could be used toward resolving the state’s massive budget deficit.

Members of the Airport Funding Advisory Task Force on Monday said the “integrity� of the money generated from various aviation taxes and user fees is in question. That’s because during the 2008 legislative session, $15 million from the Airports Fund was tapped to help solve a $935 million general fund budget deficit for the current two-year budget period.

Now that the state faces a $4.8 billion deficit in the 2010-2011 biennium, Rep. Michael Beard, R-Shakopee, is concerned that future revenue for the State Airports Fund will be used for purposes other than aviation.

For more details, please visit http://legal-ledger.com/item.cfm?recID=11281

Posted by tanut001 at 1:21 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

A recently-published report from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 9: Effects of Aircraft Noise: Research Update on Select Topics includes an annotated bibliography and summary of new research on the effects of aircraft noise. The report is designed to update and complement the U.S. Federal Highway Administration’s 1985 Aviation Noise Effects report.

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