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Expansion of Airport Capacity in the Chicago, Illinois Area Hearing Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United St S. HRG. 107–1102 EXPANSION OF AIRPORT CAPACITY IN THE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS AREA HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED SEVENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION MARCH 21, 2002 Printed for the use of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation ( U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 89–638 PDF WASHINGTON : 2005 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2250 Mail: Stop SSOP, Washington, DC 20402–0001 VerDate 03-FEB-2003 13:41 Sep 16, 2005 Jkt 089638 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 D:\DOCS\89638.TXT SSC1 PsN: SSC1 COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION ONE HUNDRED SEVENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ERNEST F. HOLLINGS, South Carolina, Chairman DANIEL K. INOUYE, Hawaii JOHN McCAIN, Arizona JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, West Virginia TED STEVENS, Alaska JOHN F. KERRY, Massachusetts CONRAD BURNS, Montana JOHN B. BREAUX, Louisiana TRENT LOTT, Mississippi BYRON L. DORGAN, North Dakota KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON, Texas RON WYDEN, Oregon OLYMPIA J. SNOWE, Maine MAX CLELAND, Georgia SAM BROWNBACK, Kansas BARBARA BOXER, California GORDON SMITH, Oregon JOHN EDWARDS, North Carolina PETER G. FITZGERALD, Illinois JEAN CARNAHAN, Missouri JOHN ENSIGN, Nevada BILL NELSON, Florida GEORGE ALLEN, Virginia KEVIN D. KAYES, Democratic Staff Director MOSES BOYD, Democratic Chief Counsel JEANNE BUMPUS, Republican Staff Director and General Counsel (II) VerDate 03-FEB-2003 13:41 Sep 16, 2005 Jkt 089638 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 D:\DOCS\89638.TXT SSC1 PsN: SSC1 CONTENTS Page Hearing held on March 21, 2002 ............................................................................ 1 Statement of Senator Fitzgerald ............................................................................ 3 Statement of Senator Hutchison ............................................................................ 64 Statement of Senator McCain ................................................................................. 2 Statement of Senator Rockefeller ........................................................................... 1 WITNESSES Bayh, Hon. Evan, U.S. Senator from Indiana ....................................................... 7 Daley, Hon. Richard M., Mayor, City of Chicago, IL; accompanied by John Harris, First Deputy, Department of Aviation, City of Chicago ............. 25 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 27 Durbin, Hon. Richard J., U.S. Senator from Illinois ............................................ 15 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 17 Geils, John C., Chairman, Suburban O’Hare Commission; accompanied by Hon. Ronald Wietecha, Mayor, Park Ridge, Illinois .......................................... 43 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 46 Grassley, Hon. Chuck, U.S. Senator from Iowa .................................................... 5 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 5 Hyde, Hon. Henry J., U.S. Representative from Illinois ...................................... 6 Kirk, Hon. Mark Steven, U.S. Representative from Illinois ................................ 13 Prepared statement of Hon. Arlene J. Mulder, Mayor, Village of Arlington Heights, Illinois; Chairperson, O’Hare Noise Compatibility Commission 14 Manzullo, Hon. Donald A., U.S. Representative from Illinois ............................. 11 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 12 Ryan, Hon. George H., Governor, State of Illinois; accompanied by Hon. Kirk Brown, Secretary of Transportation .......................................................... 18 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 21 Skinner, Samuel, Chief Executive Officer, U.S. Freightways; on behalf of the Civic Committee, City of Chicago ................................................................. 40 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 42 Woodward, Woodie, Associate Administrator for Airports, Federal Aviation Administration ..................................................................................................... 54 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 56 Visclosky, Hon. Peter J., U.S. Representative from Indiana ............................... 9 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 9 APPENDIX Boyer, Phil, President, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, prepared statement .............................................................................................................. 79 Creighton, John W., Chief Executive Officer, United Airlines, prepared statement .............................................................................................................. 71 Roper, Gerald J., President and CEO, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, prepared statement .............................................................................................. 71 Ruthenberg, R.E., B.S.E.E., Principal Staff Engineer, Motorola, Inc., prepared statement .............................................................................................................. 74 Saporito, Jack, President, US–Citizens Aviation Watch Association, prepared statement .............................................................................................................. 81 National Air Transportation Association, prepared statement ............................ 78 (III) VerDate 03-FEB-2003 13:41 Sep 16, 2005 Jkt 089638 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 D:\DOCS\89638.TXT SSC1 PsN: SSC1 VerDate 03-FEB-2003 13:41 Sep 16, 2005 Jkt 089638 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 D:\DOCS\89638.TXT SSC1 PsN: SSC1 EXPANSION OF AIRPORT CAPACITY IN THE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS AREA THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2002 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION, Washington, DC. The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:30 a.m. in room SR–253, Russell Senate Office Building, Hon. John D. Rockefeller IV, presiding. OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, U.S. SENATOR FROM WEST VIRGINIA Senator ROCKEFELLER. We have a fairly hefty group of witnesses this morning, and we are going to start off having just two Mem- bers here now. We are going to start off with our statements, my statement and Senator McCain’s statement, and then we are going to go to the Members of the Senate and the House in that order, and then we will proceed on to our several panels. So, I will start. Last June, Senator McCain and others went to Chicago, includ- ing myself, to talk about the airport expansion. It was already a critical issue. Delays at that time were front page news across the country. We knew we had to add 50 miles of runway nationwide if we were going to do any kind of delay reduction at all. This Com- mittee has been working all year on proposals to streamline the airport construction process environmentally and otherwise, includ- ing a bill that Senator Hutchison and I were jointly pursuing. Un- fortunately, the City of Chicago and the State of Illinois have been debating and fighting over this issue for more than 10 years, which has a bad effect on the Nation as well as on that area. And so, planes were sitting on the runway, people were waiting to take off, people were talking and arguing, and no progress was being made. As a result of this, Senator McCain and I went to Chi- cago and we both asked the State and the City to stop the infight- ing over airport expansion and to move on. We did a little bit more than that. We gave them to September 1st as a deadline, and more or less said that if it was not done by then, it would be done by us, but we were not going to stand by and watch the Nation’s air system shut down by an argument. Well, there was a lot of good faith going on locally, so we agreed that negotiations and the planning would continue for a longer pe- riod of time. All of us are tremendously aware of Chicago’s importance to the national air transportation system. It is both local and it is na- (1) VerDate 03-FEB-2003 13:41 Sep 16, 2005 Jkt 089638 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6601 Sfmt 6601 D:\DOCS\89638.TXT SSC1 PsN: SSC1 2 tional. It affects my State as much almost as it does Chicago, to be blunt about it. We are at the end of the food chain, Chicago is at the beginning of the food chain, and it makes a very big dif- ference as to whether or not planes come into places like West Vir- ginia, Iowa and other places. So it is imperative that Chicago’s expansion plans match that of the needs of the country as a whole, and we expressed those views out in Chicago last June. Now we have had a temporary reprieve from the worst of the delay problem, but that is not endemic to the system, that is primarily because of 9/11 and it is only temporary. So the problems are real. Projections are that air travel will be around a billion passengers sometime around 2013. O’Hare is one of the largest hubs, and we cannot stand by without, at least in this Senator’s judgment, with- out expanding. The
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