The Federal Aviation Administration is seeking public comment on draft regulations that would help identify structures and land uses that could pose dangers around airports by attracting wildlife to runways and airspace.
Ken Paskar, president of Friends of LaGuardia Airport, said Tuesday that he had not yet finished reviewing the document.
But he said it appears to be tailor-made — sort of — for opponents of the trash transfer station under construction in College Point, about 2,200 feet from the end of LaGuardia’s Runway 13/31.
“My preliminary finding is that the FAA is learning from a lot of the lawsuits we are filing,” Paskar said.
Opponents of the project claim a trash station in Queens and one planned for near 91st Street in Manhattan will draw birds into the path of jets coming to and fro the airport.
Multiple bird strikes were found responsible in 2009 for crippling a US Airways jet that had just taken off from LaGuardia. Capt. Chesley Sullenberger ditched in the Hudson River with both engines destroyed no power and yet no loss of life in a landing g termed “The Miracle of the Hudson.”
The 28-page FAA advisory is titled “Hazardous Wildlife Attractants on or Near Airports,” and has recommendations for airport operators for reviewing land use and construction within five miles of airports.
FOLA is in federal court to block the College Point station, which is championed by the Bloomberg administration.
Paskar said the advisory and a report issued by the inspector general of the federal Department of Transportation in August appear to support what FOLA has been arguing — that the FAA’s review of the transfer station permitting process was lax.
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