The public gets its first crack at commenting on environmental concerns surrounding the development of the planned Southern Nevada supplemental airport south of Las Vegas in a series of three public meetings scheduled [this] week.
The airport, which doesn’t have a name yet, isn’t expected to be open until 2037, but it has been in the planning stages since 2006, when aviation officials began addressing growing concerns about Harry Reid International Airport operations reaching maximum capacity.
Various delays occurred over the years, most of them resulting from regional economic slumps, and the process of an environmental review came to a stop June 29, 2010, when the Clark County Department of Aviation, which operates Reid International, asked the Federal Aviation Administration to temporarily stop the environmental review process.
