House Proceeding 05-21-09 on May 21st, 2009 :: 2:28:20 to 2:32:25
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Gary L. Ackerman: amendment we will su statements for the record and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: all time having been yielded back, the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlelady from new york. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is adopted. it is now in order to consider amendment number 12 printed in

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Speech By: Gary L. Ackerman

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Gary L. Ackerman: part c of house report 111-126. for what purpose does the gentleman from new y >> i rise in support of the amendment which i have at the desk. the clerk: the -- the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 12 fingerprinted this part c of 111-126 offered by mr. ackerman of new york. the chair: the gentleman from

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Gary L. Ackerman: new york, mr. ackerman, and a member opposed each will control fi minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york, mr. ackerman. mr. ackerman: thank you very much, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, i offer this simple amendment on behalf of myself and the gentleman from new yorkmr. crowley. this has to do with safety trumping garbage. it has to do with common sense.

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Gary L. Ackerman: the city of new york, department of san, has proposed a marine transfer station. these are generally built on the shore lineecause the trash is compacted there and put on barges and then carted away on the long island sound or the east river or the hudson ver. of all the shore line places to

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Gary L. Ackerman: mr. this, would you suspect the one place that would be picked by the department of sanitation would be directly opposite one of the biggest active runways, one of the most active runways in the whole united states of america? where plains take off and -- planes take off and land approximately every 20 seconds. i'm talking about laguardia airport.

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Gary L. Ackerman: the airport with the largest number of flights in new york city. this is a been an aerial view of the airport. this is laguardia airport's runway. laguardia airport has only two runways for all of these great number o

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Gary L. Ackerman: the garbage plant is planned right over here, opposite the runway. 2,000 feet away. the rules and regulations of the f.a., which is what we're asking for in this amendment to be implemented and utilized, say that you should not put a garbage treatment plant anywhere near the runway protection zone which is currently 2,000 feet

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Gary L. Ackerman: away. this is 2,000 feet, according to -- less than that, accorng to this map which we downloaded from google. there will be a new flight slope plan implemented that the f.a. has approved which says it can't be within 2,500 feet. why would you put a garbage

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Gary L. Ackerman: facility, an atrack contaminant to birds, less than 2,000 feet away from one of the most active runways? the ge hall, requested of the f.a., they declined and secreta of transportation lahood overruled them and released the number of bird strikes at airports around the country. last year there were 87 bird

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Gary L. Ackerman: strikes at laguardia airport alone. now, our part-times are good. you might have -- our pilots are good. you might have seen a little news report that said they can even land on water and indeed that's what happened when one of our jets was struck by birds. garbage is an attractant to birds. the f.a.a. rules and recommendationsay don't put these things in the runway

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Gary L. Ackerman: protection zone. our amendment simply says to the f.a.a., you have to follow your own guidelines. put it anywhere else. there's a and the political concern is not in our concern. this will likely be in mine or mr. crowley's district. the port is in both of our district's right now. this site is the least

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Gary L. Ackerman: politically damaging to us because it's in a commercial area. any other place they move it will cause us some politic