“…It’s unlikely the fuels
of the future will equal
today’s performance at
today’s prices.”
Any new fuel will likely be cleaner, easing the pressure the EPA put
on four major GA airports on October 15, 2008. That action appeased
a federal court order to reduce the
acceptable lead levels by 90 percent. Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles, Centennial Airport near Denver, Phoenix’s Deer Valley Airport,
and Orlando Sanford International
Airport were among the 135 sites
estimated to have annual lead emissions above 1 ton, joining battery
manufacturers and industrial boilers in having to implement new
mandated monitoring. If lead emissions exceed acceptable standards,
these facilities will need to develop
a corrective plan by 2013 and put it
into action by 2017.
“I think when each of these airports
gathers their own numbers based on
real data, some of them will fall off
[the list],” predicts Walter Desrosi-er, vice president of engineering and
maintenance for the General Aviation
Manufacturers Association (GAMA).
The EPA added up all GA operations,
he points out. “The data for landings and takeoffs doesn’t differentiate
