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Metropolitan Airports Commission July 10, 1997 . Page 3 safety and welfare of the citizens adjacent to the Airport as required by the Order. The Plan should be amended to include a specific section or chapter devoted to the Comprehensive Noise Abatement Strategy required by the Order. In response to your letter of October 25, 1996, the City's official position is that MAC is currently in violation of the Order for failing to have adopted a Comprehensive Noise Abatement Strategy as required by the Order. 3. The Plan improperly uses an Airport Reference Code (ARC), Approach Category B, Design Group II standard (ARC B-II) for design standards for capital improvements, including all runways, taxiways and setbacks for the Airport. Using an ARC B-II design standard is in conflict with the Order which incorporates the 1983 Master Plan in that the Plan calls for design improvements of the Airport to service larger aircraft than the typical operating aircraft, Class D and E aircraft at the Airport and as prescribed by the 1983 Master Plan. Exhibit 3-1 of the Plan clearly shows that the use of ARC B-II standards are improper in that it allows for "Design Aircraft" greater than 12,500 lbs. gross takeoff weight, which is the standard for the "Typical Operating Aircraft" design for the Airport specified in the Order and Master Plan. The Plan must be amended on pages 3-8 and 3- . 31 and elsewhere to state that the Airport should continue to be designed in accordance with the 1983 Master Plan and Order and should follow an ARC A-I design standard to be consistent with the 1983 Master Plan and Order. Exhibit 3-1 should be removed or amended to reflect this change. 4. Recommendations in the Plan on pages 3-10, 3-11 and 3-31 and elsewhere recommending that Runway 8R/26L be extended to a length of 5,0( 0 feet should be removed. Such a recommendation is in conflict with the 1983 Master Plan which does not provide for such an extension and is in direct conflict with the Order which allows for an approximately 800 foot extension to then Runway 8/26 to its current length of 4,000 feet. In addition, there is no justification based on the data presented in the Plan to extend runways beyond their current lengths. For example, on page 3-11 of the Plan, it states "according to the FAA runway length program, a runway length of 3,2(X) feet would support approximately 95% of all small aircraft." Since the Airport is to be designed to serve predominantly D and E (now A and B) type aircraft according to the 1983 Master Plan and Order, and since the Plan itself on pages 2-2 and 2-7, states that the FAA projects that there will be a decline in the number of active single-engine and multi- engine fleet of small aircraft, there is no evidence to support a showing of a lack of capacity at the Airport if the Airport continues to be developed in accordance with the 1983 Master Plan and Order which calls for it to be predominantly used by small type D and E aircraft. • RrL.LFP4 MII.10