Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)

• The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is preparing an EIS for the LaGuardia Airport Access Improvement Project to evaluate the potential impacts of the Port Authority’s proposed AirTrain LGA project and to identify measures that may mitigate the effects of the proposed project.
• The FAA is the lead federal agency for the preparation of the EIS, with involvement from 16 other federal, state, and local agencies as cooperating and participating agencies.
• The EIS will analyze and evaluate the potential direct, indirect, and cumulative environmental impacts that may result from the proposed project. This would include but not be limited to analysis in categories such as air quality, visual effects, noise, traffic, socioeconomics, natural resources, historical/cultural resources, land use, and others.
• Stakeholder and community involvement will occur throughout the duration of the EIS. At the outset of the EIS, the scoping process included a public comment period and public meetings held in June 2019. Public information sessions were held in January 2020 to share results of the FAA’s alternatives analysis and to provide updates on the EIS schedule and process. There will be a public comment period and workshops and hearings in the third/fourth quarter of 2020 following the FAA’s issuance of the Draft EIS in August 2020.
• The FAA has established a project website to share information and keep the public and stakeholders apprised of the progress of the EIS process, which can be accessed at https://www.lgaaccesseis.com/. Furthermore, individuals can subscribe for project updates at https://www.lgaaccesseis.com/subscribe