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My local paper here close to the Green County airport, location of one of the drags, stated that if the Bureau of aviation will not allow it they may switch to a private airport. Meaning they would not be tied to this law. It would also mean no more money from the bureau, but the airport manager stated they would like to continue to hold the races and would strongly consider breaking from the Bureau.



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There's also the hope that some of the tracks will go private due to the fact that were making more money from the FLD's than from the fed's



It sounds like Waynesburg (Greene County Airport) didn't have any problem accepting a $198,000 grant in July from the PennDOT Bureau of Aviation for the "initial fee to the consultant" for short and long term improvements.

If the consultant planning fees are nearly $200k, one has to imagine that this is a mult-million dollar improvement project that would pale to the dollars generated by the FLD's.

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Review the article linked below. It is just the kind of thing that I expected to find...

In order to attract federal and state funding for a runway expansion...

...the cost of a runway extension is prohibitive considering the project would probably entail filling in a large valley at the eastern end of the runway. Estimates exceed $10 million.

http://www.co.greene.pa.us/secured/gc/news-articles/2008/08Jul7GC-Airport-plan.pdf