Jeniffer Solis

(Nevada Current) A proposed airport on a dry lakebed near the Nevada-California border is gaining traction as a solution to passenger demand – and raising questions about the potential impact on water, wildlife, and air quality.

Federal officials from the Federal Aviation Administration and the Bureau of Land Management held one of their first public meetings on the proposed Southern Nevada Supplemental Airport Wednesday– a project nearly three-decades in the making.

The airport would be one of the largest in the nation by land area, sprawling across 23,000 acres of public land in the Ivanpah Valley north of Primm.

Nearly a hundred people attended the meeting to provide public comments on the proposed airport – input that will help guide the federal government as they wo

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