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City Asks FAA, State to Reconsider New Runway at Logan

BOSTON-The city asks the state's environmental office to reconsider its decision to approve a new runway at Logan International Airport, citing changes at the airport and Massport due to the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

By Naomi Grossman | Updated on December 19, 2001

BOSTON-In a highly unusual move, the city has asked the state’s environmental office to reconsider its decision to approve the building of a controversial new runway at Logan International Airport here in light of the Sept. 11 attacks and the changes they have wrought upon the airport.

“The changes that have occurred suggest that additional environmental review is necessary,” writes Antonia M. Pollak, the city’s environmental director in a letter to state environmental director Robert Durand. “The Massachusetts Port Authority that exists today is not the same one that existed on Sept. 11. Logan Airport is not the same and it will not function in the same way.”

In the letter, the city contends that the changes to the aviation industry in general and at Logan impact the original rationale for the project. The letter also states that the economic impact of these changes on Massport could impact its ability to undertake the environmental mitigation necessary to proceed with the runway.

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