From: Sean 1 Lancaster Sent: Monda March 5, 2012 1:36 PM To: vacation' Cc: Subject: RE: Gil noise issues Janet =rquhart <mailto:j m> The Aspen Times Aspen CO =olorado ARTICLE COMMENTS =a =ref="javascript:NewWindow(320,540,1/apps/pbcs.dll/arttips?Site=AT&a=p;Date=201202218iCategory=N EWS&ArtNo= 120229980&Ref=AR=);" title="E-Mail this Article">Email Print =o:p> Copyright 2012 The Aspen =imes. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, =roadcast, rewritten or redistributed. February, 21 2012 4:53 =m The Aspen Times <http://www.aspentimes.com> =o:p> ENLARGE</=> The Aspen-Pitkin County Airport is =rowded with private jets on New Year's Day. Use of older, noiser jets =as been on the decline at the airport, but a new law will force them =ut of operation by 2016. Janet Urquhart / The Aspen =imes ASPEN — Legislation signed into =aw last week not only authorized funding for operation of the Federal =viation Administration but also enacted a provision to phase out older, =oisy private jets — something airport officials in Aspen and =lsewhere have long advocated. The Modernization and Reform Act =f 2012 prohibits, starting in 2016, the use of jets that were exempted =rom a law Congress passed more than 20 years ago. They are jets that =eigh 75,000 pounds or less and do not comply with quieter Stage 3 noise =evels. A coalition of airport managers around the country, =ncluding Aspen's, have championed an effort to eliminate the exemption =ince 2004. The airports include some of the nation's busiest for =orporate jet traffic. EFTA_R1_01707384 EFTA02551343