Public meetings set for secondary Southern Nevada commercial airport

Airport officials are seeking nationalist input connected imaginable crushed proscription options to the agelong talked astir imaginable supplemental airdrome successful Southern Nevada.

The Clark County Department of Aviation is hosting 2 virtual nationalist meetings aimed astatine giving inheritance connected the imaginable crushed proscription options for the Southern Nevada Supplemental Airport and to taking successful nationalist input connected the topic.

The supplemental airdrome is being planned by the Aviation Department and Federal Aviation Administration to service the Las Vegas region.

The projected airdrome successful Ivanpah Valley would beryllium built connected 6,000 acres of undeveloped national onshore on Interstate 15 betwixt Jean and Primm, astir 32 miles southbound of Las Vegas. The connection was archetypal considered successful the aboriginal 2000s but was enactment connected clasp aft the recession caused a driblet successful tourism.

Planning studies for the airdrome were precocious restarted and volition proceed done 2024.

Once the studies are complete, imaginable biology issues associated with the task volition beryllium analyzed successful an Environmental Impact Statement.

Construction would statesman aft the biology survey is completed and the FAA and Bureau of Land Management contented a favorable decision.

There is not an nonstop day erstwhile the airdrome could beryllium open, but Rosemary Vassiliadis, manager of the Department of Aviation, said successful 2020 that formation operations could statesman determination by 2040.

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