Airport Joint Highlights 2006 0501

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• . ® .. ®. _ insulation for the Neptune Drive neighborhood as the most effective method to reduce the effects of aircraft noise. The Port would like to discuss with the City of San Leandro a strategy to communicate the above findings and proposed direction with the residents in the Neptune Drive neighborhood as well as other interested parties. 2. Port's efforts to eliminate noisy 727's from airport before 2010. The Port of Oakland, as a key member of the Oakland Airport - Community Noise Management Forum, is the principal funding source for the Forum's operation and supports the Forum's purpose to provide a public forum to discuss, analyze and make recommendations to the Port's Executive Director about noise - related issues at Oakland international Airport. Over the past few years the Forum has been requesting FedEx to eliminate or reduce the B727 air cargo flights. More recently, the Forum has been working with Congressman Pete Stark's office to address aircraft noise at the national level, including the phase out of the Stage 3 hush kit aircraft, and the Forum is attempting to form a coalition wiih other California airport community organizations to further their goals and objectives. The Port of Oakland is also a member of the Airports Council International -North America (ACI -NA). ACI -NA represents 165 state, regional and local governing bodies that own and operate the principal airports in the United States and Canada. The mission of ACI -NA is to advocate policies and provide services that strengthen the ability of air carrier airports to serve their passengers, customers, and communities. ACI -NA has sought a new Stage 4 standard that was much more restrictive than that which has been recommended by the international Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP), which has been adopted by the FAA. ACI -NA also sought the phase out of the noisiest Stage 3 aircraft. 3. What is the status of creation of a new runway, preferably in the 13ay? The master plan outlined the need for a new air carrier runway at South Field in the 2015 to 2025 timeframe (to accommodate the unconstrained airline passenger forecasts). However, due to environmental constraints associated with construction of such a runway, including issues associated with filling wetlands and /or San Francisco Bay, and because it is unclear whether the Port could afford to constrict such a runway (which night cost in excess of 53 billion), the Port will not pursue a new air carrier runway at this time, but work with it regional partners -- • the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (tMTC), the Regional Airport Planning Committee (RAPC), other airports in and outside of the Bay Area, etc. -- to address the issue of additional runway capacity to serve the long -term demand for air travel for the San Francisco Bay Area. Port staff presented the master plan's key policy directions and planning recommendations, including the above discussion, to RAPC on January 27, 2006. The aviation directors from the three Bay Area commercial service airports (Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose) have been meeting with ry1TC staff to develop a planning process and funding mechanism to develop a new Regional Airport System Plan that would address the issue of additional runway capacity to serve the long -term demand for air travel for the San Francisco Bay Area. As outlined in Section 5.5 of the master plan, options for providing additional runway capacity for the Bay Area could include new runways at Oakland International Airport (see Figure 5.7 in the master plan) or San Francisco International Airport, or developing air service at other regional or military airports, or exploring the possibility of linking Oakland and San Francisco international airports with passenger ferry service. •