NEPA and the CEQ Regulations, in describing the public involvement process, require federal agencies to:

• Consider environmental information in their decision-making process
• Solicit appropriate information from the public
• Fully assess and disclose potential environmental impacts resulting from the proposed action and alternatives
• Provide the public with this information and allow it to comment on these findings

The FAA must provide pertinent information to the public, affected communities, and agencies, and consider their comments at the earliest appropriate time and early in the process of preparing an EIS. FAA has a community involvement policy (FAA-EE-90-03, August 1990) that recognizes community involvement as an essential part of FAA programs and decisions. The Office of the Associate Administrator for Airports (ARP), like each FAA office, must incorporate open, effective community involvement to achieve the following goals and tasks:

• Provide active, early, and continuous public involvement and reasonable public access to information that accurately describes a proposed project and its environmental effects
• Ask for and consider public input on plans, proposals, alternatives, impacts, and mitigation
• Use public involvement techniques designed to meet the needs of different interest groups and individuals
• Promote an active public role to lessen potentially adverse community reaction to agency actions needed for safe, efficient aviation

The project team is committed to keeping the public well informed throughout each step of the EIS process. An overview of key milestones for stakeholder and community involvement for the CRW Airfield, Safety, and Terminal Improvement Project EIS are shown below.

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CURRENT NOTICES

The FAA published a Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare an EIS and request for scoping comments for the Proposed Action in the Federal Register on September 30, 2022.

View the Notice of Intent (PDF)

In addition to the Federal Register, notices were published in four local newspapers:

• Charleston Gazette-Mail
• The Herald Dispatch
• The State Journal
• West Virginia Metro News

COMPLETED INVOLVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES

PRE-SCOPING STAKEHOLDER MEETINGS

Two pre-scoping stakeholder meetings were held on the evenings of August 16, 2022, and August 17, 2022. Invitees and attendees included elected officials, community leaders, Airport tenants, and key stakeholders of the upcoming EIS process. The meetings were held both in-person at the Marshall University Bill Noe Flight School and virtually via the Zoom virtual meeting platform. Copies of the presentations are located here for the August 16 meeting and here for the August 17 meeting.