State officials reject environmental impact report of Hanscom Airport expansion

[Barbara K]

Hello all: For those of you who have been following the efforts to stop expansion of private jet infrastructure at Hanscom's Northfield, there was news this week as the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act Office (MEPA) rejected the developer's draft environmental impact report (DEIR). They are now required to submit a supplemental report that addresses the many inconsistencies and debatable claims made in the DEIR. The story is covered on the front page of today's Boston Globe. I haven't read the full decision (see decision and attachments here), but the first few pages of the letter by Rebecca Tepper, Secretary of Environmental Affairs, make clear that the large number of comments finding flaws with the applicant's claims had hit home. This is a bump in the road and doesn't kill the project, but the delay will hopefully give opponents more time to force attention on the actual environmental impact of private jet travel.

Barbara Katzenberg

Town Meeting Member, Precinct 2

Hanscom Field Advisory Commission, Lexington representative

[Kathryn Roy]

I couldn't find the article on the online Boston Globe, but it was under the Today's Paper.

I've included it here.

k

Kathryn Roy
617 548 9240 | Kat...@precisionthinking.com

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[Edward Dolan]

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