Master Plan Update (pdf) - Lansing/Capital City Airport

Capital Region Airport Authority
Capital City Airport Master Plan Update
treatment. Pavement de-icing is accomplished with a potassium acetate product, listed as a nonhazardous
waste. In April of 2003, the Airport received a Storm Water General Permit from the
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ). The proposed near-term projects should
have minimal impacts on the quality of the surface or ground water.
In response to the 1987 Amendments to the Clean Water Act (CWA), the EPA developed Phase I
of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Storm Water Program in 1990.
The Phase I program addressed sources of storm water runoff from a designated group, including
construction activity disturbing five or more acres of land. Administration of the NPDES Storm
Water Program in Michigan has been delegated to MDEQ. MDEQ currently utilizes Permit by Rule
for NPDES authorization. Construction activities involving 5 acres or more with a point source
discharge to waters of the state are required to submit a Notice of Coverage (NOC) to obtain
coverage under Permit by Rule. Prior to submitting the NOC, a Soil Erosion and Sedimentation
Control (SESC) Permit must be obtained. A completed NOC form must be submitted, along with
the required attachments, to the address on the NOC.
The Airport drains into two main drain ways that lead into the Grand River. The proposed nearterm
projects should not affect the flow of these drain ways or the feeders leading to them. Slight
volume impacts are expected as a result of the addition of impervious area, but the use of surface
ditches and vegetation should restrain the flow into the system for most normal storm events.
During the design of each project, analysis will be undertaken to minimize impact and, if needed,
measures will be taken to ensure that additional inputs should not adversely affect existing
systems.
Capitol City Airport currently has an individual Industrial Storm Water Permit through the MDEQ.
Planned improvements to the airport facility should be coordinated with the MDEQ District Office
for guidance of appropriate action regarding applicability of the existing permit. If additional outfalls
are required as part of the proposed improvements, the existing Storm Water Pollution Prevention
Plan would require an update, and the existing permit would likely require modification.
8. Department of Transportation Act, Section 4(f) Lands
The U.S. Department of Transportation Act of 1966, Section 4(f) prohibits the acquisition of any
public park land, recreation area, or wildlife and waterfowl refuges of national, state or local
significance, or land of a historic site of national, state or local significance, unless there is “no
feasible and prudent” alternative to the use of that land. By definition, the “use” of such land not
only includes the physical acquisition of property, but also the “overflow” of airport operations onto
adjacent property to the extent that the normal use of this non-airport property is interrupted due to
airport operations or their by-products.
There are no public parks, recreation areas, or wildlife or waterfowl refuges of national, state or
local significance in the immediate vicinity of Capital City Airport.
9. Historic, Architectural, Archaeological and Cultural Resources
Historical resources are those limited to nonrenewable districts, sites, buildings, structures and
objects having significant associations with historical, architectural, cultural events, persons or
social movements. Archaeological resources are objects or areas made or modified by man that
contain information about man’s past. They are a record of past human activity that took place and
how long the site was occupied.
An examination of historic, architectural, archaeological and cultural resources in a proposed
project area is mandated by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and requires that a
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