East Haven Mayor Joe Carfora has asked the Federal Aviation Administration to do a full-blown environmental impact statement on the proposed expansion of Tweed New Haven Regional Airport rather than the more limited environmental assessment already underway. “Our concerns center on the significant and unavoidable negative impacts the project will have on public health and the environment in contravention of local, state and federal policy and legal requirements,” Carfora wrote. Tweed is owned by the city of New Haven but located in both New Haven and East Haven. It is managed by Avports, a private company owned by a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs. The $100 million expansion plan, to be funded by Avports as part of a recently-approved 43-year sublease, would build a new terminal with up to six gates on the East Haven side and move the airport’s main entrance off Proto Drive in East Haven.
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