AIRPORT FOES RECOGNIZE NEED TO AGREE; OFFICIALS ON BOTH SIDES SAY LOCAL SOLUTION BEST.Byline: Lee Condon Daily News Staff Writer The refusal of Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control head Jane Garvey This article is about the aviation adminstrator. For the BBC Radio Five Live presenter, see Jane Garvey (broadcaster). Jane Garvey (Jane Famiano) was head of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration from 1997 to 2002. Garvey earned her B.A. to intervene intervene v. to obtain the court's permission to enter into a lawsuit which has already started between other parties and to file a complaint stating the basis for a claim in the existing lawsuit. in the Burbank Airport expansion dispute has achieved a rare agreement between the warring sides. Both airport and Burbank city officials were chagrined that Garvey responded to queries about FAA intervention A procedure used in a lawsuit by which the court allows a third person who was not originally a party to the suit to become a party, by joining with either the plaintiff or the defendant. by saying the two sides needed to reach a local consensus on a solution first. On Friday, officials with both sides said they are willing to give it a try. Garvey's letter made it clear that before she starts talking about whether the FAA can grant an exemption to the 1990 Airport Noise and Capacity Act, the city of Burbank and airport officials need to start talking about it together first. The noise act prohibits airports from instituting new noise rules. An exemption would be a way to secure noise restrictions without having to go through a cumbersome cum·ber·some adj. 1. Difficult to handle because of weight or bulk. See Synonyms at heavy. 2. Troublesome or onerous. cum and unpredictable federal approval process. The city of Burbank has vowed to block plans to move and expand the Burbank Airport terminal unless night flight curfews and other noise restrictions are put in place. Burbank Mayor David Golonski suggested the city and the airport should work out a compromise deal based on the noise act exception and present it to Garvey together. ``I personally think the ANCA ANCA Armenian National Committee of America ANCA Anti-Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody (medical) ANCA Australian National Choral Association ANCA Australian Nature Conservation Agency ANCA Airport Noise and Capacity Act route has a tremendous amount of promise,'' Golonski said. ``To answer the ANCA question, it depends on what components are in the package.'' But compromise won't be easy, he warned. While both sides may want to raise the noise act question, Golonski said the city wants a yes answer but the airport wants a no because it isn't really interested in noise restrictions. But Victor Gill gill, in weights and measures gill, in weights and measures: see English units of measurement. , a spokesman for the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority, said airport commissioners asked Garvey to weigh in on the noise act exemption not because they want her to reject it, but because they need to know how the law applies to their airport. If the noise act exemption is upheld, it may make it unnecessary for them to proceed with the $1 million, two-year Part 161 noise study they are planning. The study is the first step in applying to the FAA for a curfew curfew [O.Fr.,=cover fire], originally a signal, such as the ringing of a bell, to damp the fire, extinguish all lights in the dwelling, and retire for the night. The custom originated as a precaution against fires and was common throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. . ``We've asked, Hey can we do a curfew without a Part 161 study or not?'' Gill said. ``If it's a valid point to pursue, tell us and let us go do it. (Garvey) is really kind of hiding the ball by not making things crystal clear on this.'' Airport officials are willing to talk about the noise act or any other proposals Burbank has to break the deadlock See deadly embrace. (parallel, programming) deadlock - A situation where two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something. . ``The airport authority has not put any preconditions on meeting with Burbank. There is a carte blanche CARTE BLANCHE. The signature of an individual or more, on a while. paper, with a sufficient space left above it to write a note or other writing. 2. In the course of business, it not unfrequently occurs that for the sake of convenience, signatures in blank are open door,'' Gill said. Peter Kirsch kirsch n. A colorless brandy made from the fermented juice of cherries. [French, short for German Kirschwasser; see kirschwasser. , the lawyer hired by Burbank to fight the airport in court, said the noise act exemption provides the ``simplest, cleanest solution.'' ``It's fast. It's straightforward. It doesn't require a lot of federal involvement,'' Kirsch said. Kirsch said Garvey might be more responsive if the same noise act question were asked at the same time by both the airport and the city. Previously, Garvey received separate correspondence from Rep (programming) REP - A directive used in IBM object code card decks (and later PTF Tapes) to REPlace fragments of already assembled or compiled object code prior to link edit. . James E. Rogan, R-Pasadena, the city of Burbank and airport commissioners. ``We tried one approach, our writing a letter and them writing a letter. Let's see Let's See was a Canadian television series broadcast on CBC Television between September 6, 1952 to July 4, 1953. The segment, which had a running time of 15 minutes, was a puppet show with a character named Uncle Chichimus (voice of John Conway), which presented each what would happen with a joint letter signed by (airport authority President) Joyce Streator and Dave Golonski asking the same question and see if we get a response,'' Kirsch said. He said Garvey likely does not want to put herself in the position of having to constantly answer queries from one side or another. ``Of necessity that would mean the FAA would become embroiled em·broil tr.v. em·broiled, em·broil·ing, em·broils 1. To involve in argument, contention, or hostile actions: "Avoid . . . in a battle,'' Kirsch said. However, Gill is not so certain a joint city and airport letter will get any more answers out of Garvey. ``It doesn't matter if they are all signing the same piece of paper. The answer depends not on whether we all ask together; it's the question you ask,'' Gill said. ``Burbank has constantly advanced the notion that all that is really needed is for us to go hand-in-hand back to Washington and ask the FAA, Will you give us this? The (law) doesn't have a clause in it that says give a curfew to anyone who wants it really badly.'' The question to Garvey on the noise act provided the first test of how involved the FAA would get in the local battle since Garvey's visit to Burbank in August to hear both sides in the debate over airport expansion. ``She's saying no, I'm not going to broker a deal,'' Kirsch said. Gill agreed. ``She's not going to cut the baby in half,'' Gill said. But before the two sides can start putting together a compromise deal, both the city and the airport have to give up their hopes for all-out wins in their various court battles, Golonski said. ``You're not going to find a solution when you think in the back of your mind that you're going to win it all in court,'' said Golonski, who hopes that new council members elected to two open seats in Glendale in April will be more willing to help broker compromise with Burbank. The airport is run by nine commissioners, with the city councils from Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena each appointing three. Burbank officials contend that, under the terms of the deal signed when the cities of Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena bought the airport in 1977, they agreed not to increase noise at the facility. That agreement could qualify the airport for the exception to the federal noise law, Kirsch said. Garvey could not be reached for comment, but Eliot Brenner, a spokesman for the FAA, said local consensus is clearly what Garvey is pushing for. ``If there is an agreement that is reached locally, that may obviate ob·vi·ate tr.v. ob·vi·at·ed, ob·vi·at·ing, ob·vi·ates To anticipate and dispose of effectively; render unnecessary. See Synonyms at prevent. the need for the FAA to make a ruling,'' Brenner said. ``It would be good if the issue were resolved locally.'' Still, the compromise would have to include all of the stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. . ``You could work out something between the city and the airport that totally (upset) the airlines,'' Brenner said. Rogan said last week that he is preparing a response to Garvey in which he asks again for an answer on the noise act issue. While the city and the airport also asked for opinions from Garvey, she was specifically responding two weeks ago to Rogan's correspondence. ``I'm telling her I appreciate your position, but there hasn't been any movement on this issue and there won't be any movement until the FAA takes a step,'' Rogan said. While he believes the FAA should be providing guidance to the locals, he also likes the idea of a joint proposal to the FAA from both sides. ``If they can do it, that's great. I have resisted calls for Sacramento and Washington to go in and mandate a federal fix,'' Rogan said. |
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