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Article: Port authority urged to have a decision by July deadline: ; Regional airport 'yes' or 'no' already overdue, some say
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- February 9, 2001
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DAILY MAIL STAFF
Recent delays are causing members of the state Public Port
Authority to wonder whether they can meet a July deadline to decide
whether to build the proposed regional airport. Port authority
member Jim Bowen vigorously urged the organization to meet the goal.
The port authority has been studying the regional airport for a
decade.
"At the July meeting, we're going to have a vote or not vote
irregardless of lawsuits, surveys, committees or anything else,"
Bowen said during a port authority meeting Thursday in Charleston.
"I plan to make it an issue - Yes or no," said Bowen, who is