Neighborhood Council of Westchester/Playa del Rey. Community Questions on the LAX Master Plan EIS/EIR QUESTIONS ON THE LAX MASTER PLAN EIS/EIR

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1 QUESTIONS ON THE LAX MASTER PLAN EIS/EIR 0 0. What programs or activities are the FAA and LAWA participating in or working towards creating a regional airport plan other than Ontario International Airport (ONT) as recommended by SCAG?. Is there any cost analysis showing the impact of increased costs at LAX if Alternative D were to be constructed? What is the breakdown of costs to the passengers, airlines, bondholders, concessionaires? For what period of time will those increased costs be in effect? Will Passenger Facility Charges (PFC s) increase? How much for each carrier?. Where is the cost analysis showing the impact on neighboring communities in terms of businesses during construction? Health issues such as loss of hearing, increased respiratory diseases, cancers, and stress? Loss to employers and employees for sick time due to these health issues?. How will LAWA retain low cost airlines (e.g. Southwest, Frontier, etc.) at LAX who will be displaced from their existing passenger terminal facilities by Alternative D?. What other costs that are not a part of the projected $. billion will need to be borne by the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California and the United States of America for impacts related to LAX? What costs will incurred by these levels of government for health issues created by LAX? Approved by the Board on 0//0 /

2 0 0. If. million annual passengers (MAP) is the proposed maximum number of passengers to be handled at LAX in a calendar year, then what do you anticipate will be the number of passengers per gate when you reach that level?. Does the budget for the LAX Master Plan include potential litigation costs? What is the budget amount? Are litigation expenses included in costs analyses? Are settlement costs budgeted and for what amount?. Is the financing to acquire the properties in Manchester Square and Belford Square considered to be a part of the financing for the LAX Master Plan?. What amount of property is to be acquired via eminent domain? 0. How many Airbus A0 aircraft are expected to fly into LAX? How many flights per day? To what extent must passenger terminals be redesigned to accommodate these aircraft? How many gates will be established for these aircraft and at which terminal buildings?. Why are some numbers explained as percentages in the draft EIS/EIR document? Can you explain the numbers instead of a percentage?. In the LAX Master Plan press kit, a section covering noise mitigation notes some of LAWA s initiatives- residential acquisition, soundproofing and enforcement of over-ocean operations during the night. How effective has sending letters to the Chief Pilots of airlines been in affecting compliance with LAX noise regulations? What other enforcement measures has LAWA used and is legally available to LAWA to use to mitigate noise? Approved by the Board on 0//0 /

3 0 0. Why are there no studies being conducted to study the health effects of LAX on surrounding residents?. Is LAWA recording and tracking low frequency noise generated at LAX? What mitigation measures are being employed to reduce low frequency noise? Low frequency noise must be studied, mitigated and abated.. At what location do you anticipate placing the run-up enclosure? Will the enclosure prevent high and low frequency noise from going out into the surrounding community? What will the hours of operation be for the run-up enclosure? How will aircraft be moved to and from the enclosure- aircraft under power, electric tugs, etc.?. How will biological incursions by non-native plants, animals and insects be handled?. What is the amount of time each runway will be out of service when a runway is moved and/or extended?. What is the construction route? Will existing streets be blocked and/or detours put into place? For how long will these happen? What will the operating hours of the construction route?. Why didn t you use World Health Organization (WHO) documentation to support your Federal Interrogatory Committee on Aircraft Noise (FICAN) information? Also, why was FICAN not used for Sound Exposure Level (SEL)? 0. What mitigation measure did you include for SEL? If there were none, then why were they not included? What abatement measures have been done Approved by the Board on 0//0 /

4 0 0 elsewhere for any kind of single event noise, not limited to airports? How successful were those abatement measures?. Where else in the world, and in the United States in particular, has habitat relocation been attempted? Has this effort been successfully implemented? If it is not successful, then what penalty will LAWA suffer for non-compliance with the EIS/EIR?. In cases of Single Event Noise/Sound Noise Level, what would be the AdBA for serious annoyance and speech intelligibility and moderate annoyance?. How does LAWA propose to evaluate and mitigate noise impact on the learning process of students in schools?. Why is there no specific noise study in the community on schools impacted by LAX?. Why is there not a report of the origin and destination of passengers at LAX?. Why does the EIS show an improvement in air quality in the area north and east of Manchester Square under Alternative D vs. No Action No Plan even though Alternative D relocates an enormous amount of vehicular traffic to the immediate area?. How were the projected 0 levels of air pollution arrived at for the area north and east of Manchester Square for the No Action No Plan Alternative in the EIS? Were mitigation measures implemented by LAWA between the baseline and the present accounted for in the projections?. It would seem that the reconfiguration of the north runway complex proposed under Alternative D leaves room for a fifth runway on the Approved by the Board on 0//0 /

5 0 0 north side of LAX. What measures are included in Alternative D that would prevent the construction of such a runway at a later date?. What fleet mix was anticipated in Alternative D for 0? Airlines continue to purchase turbo prop aircraft. Were these aircraft included in the noise projections? 0. Why was there an assumption that the current Part study would develop mitigation actions. Nothing can be assumed until the study is complete.. Where is a firm commitment by LAWA and the city of Los Angeles to the CNEL and over-ocean procedures included in the EIS/EIR?. Where are the studies of incrased traffic on L and R during easterly operations.. Where is the study on single-event noise generated by easterly takeoffs?. Over 0,000 would be newly exposed to dba SEL noise under the EIS/EIR. What time of day would these impacts occur? What mitigation measures were included for SEL impacts?. To reach the proposed Ground Transportation Center (GTC) at Manchester Square, people will continue to exit the 0 Freeway at the Howard Hughes Center and then cut through Westport Heights and Osage seeking airport access. Why were the following intersections and/or roadway links not studied: Airport Blvd and th, th, and th; Approved by the Board on 0//0 /

6 0 0 La Tijera and th, th-th, and rd; Hindry and Aviation; Osage and Manchester?. The GTC could not have all the protection for hazardous materials, decontamination, bomb detection and disposal that the airfield would have. How would all the necessary emergency vehicles, materials, and staff gain access to the GTC? To come from the airfield, they would have to travel on city streets which would be clogged in the event of an attack or accident.. How could the GTC be evacuated in the case of an emergency or attack? What roads could/would be used? Where would pedestrians and vehicles be directed? How could security get people and vehicles out of the danger zone and still maintain security? And be sure that the parties responsible were not escaping?. What amount of traffic is being assumed for the LAX Northside area? It seems that the NA/NP figures are higher than the Alternative D figures. Were the impacts (in terms of traffic and air pollution) for the full entitlement under the EIR charged to the NA/NP, but not to Alternative D?. What is the cost difference for Alternative D if non-union labor is used instead of union labor? Will a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) be used for Alternative D? What is the cost difference between the PLA, union and non-union labor? Approved by the Board on 0//0 /

7 In 00, American Airlines published a volume regarding human health risk assessment for their operations at LAX. Why did not LAWA publish a similar comprehensive human health risk study for the LAX Master Plan?. Why were the comments submitted by November 00 not answered before (or with) the release of the Alternative D Plan in July 00? (Executive Summary, page ). Numerous data issues were identified in 00. How is the integration of more data into questionable data expected to be satisfactory? (Executive Summary, page ). If the purpose and need for the LAX Master Plan has not changed since the publication of the Draft EIS/EIR and there have been significant political event changes in addition to the Mayor's no expansion pledge, why is one of the three major project objectives to "Ensure that new investments in airport capacity are..." Also, we are told that the major emphasis is for "Security and Safety." Why is this not even mentioned in the list of project purpose and need? (Executive Summary, page ). Based on.% growth from present we will be at MAP in 0. Is this a realistic growth rate? (Executive Summary, page, table ES-). Compare this runway spacing with other statements in the document which appear to differ. This one is 0 ft south of existing centerline. (Executive Summary, page, table ES-) Approved by the Board on 0//0 /

8 0 0..M sq ft of terminal space added by Alternative D without any capacity enhancement? If the capacity is not expanding why are there about 00 more employee parking spaces? (Executive Summary, page, table ES-). How are the schools impacted/removed related between Alternative D and NA/NP? Alternative D shows a private elementary and a Hollywood CPR(?) not in the NA/NP. (Executive Summary, page, table ES-). What are the values of NA/NP for Office Use, Retail Use Acquired and Hotel Use that are not shown in the table? How does this compare to Alternative D? More or less? Why? (Executive Summary, page, table ES-). This table assumes the higher value of development of LAX Northside in NA/NP and Alternative D but Westchester South (the reduced) for A,B,C. Why? Isn't this assumption different in other areas of the documentation? (Executive Summary, page, table ES-) 0. If LAWA doesn't own Manchester Square, why does it assume airport use in all but Alternative A? How is it going to be procured? Eminent Domain? Why is it in conflict with the Westchester-Playa del Rey Community Plan? (Executive Summary, page, table ES-). Greater outside impacts under Alternative D. Why? What specific areas? (Page -, last paragraph). What is the threshold of significance for outdoor noise levels? How were they determined and applied? (Page -, Although increases Approved by the Board on 0//0 /

9 0 in outdoor noise levels within the to CNEL contours would occur under the build alternatives, these increases would not exceed thresholds of significance. ). Alternative D more extensive changes than other alternatives. Is it so extensive that a new EIS/EIR required? (Page -). Since 00 is the peak construction period for Alternative D and 00/0 for the others, how does this impact noise distribution due to flight track differences. (Page -). What are the construction model assumptions and where are they delineated? (Page -). Does inbound and outbound counts refer to the upper and lower levels (aircraft arrivals/departures)? Otherwise they should be equal. Is there an explanation for inbound consistently higher increases? (Page -). Why are the peak hours that different? What are the correct ones? (Page -). Why isn t there pollution and health studies for aircraft engines while idling and taking off?. Why do some of the charts have dates of 00 and 00 while the data represented on those charts has dates of and? 0 Approved by the Board on 0//0 /