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in its introductory comments to Special Civil Air Regulations Nos. 438 and SR-442, cited in footnotes 35 and 36, supra. See also the testimony of John R. Wiley, Director of Aviation, Port of New York Authority, in Harris Committee Hearings, pp. 528-530. 

74. Wall Street Journal, August 22, 1966, p. 1.

75. Numerous technical studies have been made concerning the selection of an additional site for a New York jet airport, but no site has yet been selected. Veerling, Quest for an Airport in New Jersey-New York Area, 92 Journal of the Areo-Space Transport Division, Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 21-22 (1966) [hereinafter cited as "Veerling"].

76. Cleveland has considered converting a downtown general aviation airport into a new jetport by extending runways over Lake Erie. This would require a massive fill-in at an estimated cost of $200,000,000. Aviation Daily, July 12, 1966, p. 66. Not everyone has favored the airport. Rep. Charles A. Vanik (D-Ohio) estimates that $365,000,000 will be needed to complete the airport, and that so large a sum will not be available. Aviation Daily, July 18, 1966, p. 98.

77. The Anchorage report recommended that no new airport be built in the next decade. Anchorage, at 23. 

78. The best available text on the general subject is Horonjeff which has a chapter on site selection with a bibliography that includes references to technical publications. For a shorter less technical text, see, Peterson. 

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