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Pitkin County approves runway grant submissions and air-quality monitoring study amid debate over ultrafine particle monitoring
Summary
County approved FAA runway grant submissions and a related Holy Cross Energy trench/easement to support an airport air-quality monitoring program; public commenters and some commissioners pressed for ultrafine-particle monitoring, and staff said ultrafine protocols differ and committed to report on feasibility and costs.
Pitkin County commissioners on Jan. 14 approved submission of an FAA infrastructure grant application for Runway 15/33 (approximately $9.64 million in requested funds) and considered related agreements to enable navigational-aid moves and an air-quality monitoring study at Aspen/Pitkin County Airport (Sardy Field).
Airport staff said approximately $1.6 million of runway-designated funds will expire this year if not applied to the runway project and asked the board to use existing runway pots and submit the infrastructure grant. "So we have been holding these for this project... approximately 1,600,000.0 of that will expire this year if we don't put it over, toward the runway," staff said.
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