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DEP tentatively OKs Tweed safety area
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The state Department of Environmental Protection has made a
tentative determination to approve Tweed-New Haven Regional Airport's
application to fill about 11 acres of tidal wetlands to create
federally mandated 1,000-foot, runway safety areas at either end of
its main runway. The tentative decision - on a project that would
have the greatest impact on tidal wetlands that current DEP staff can
remember - came nearly six years after Tweed first applied and
started the clock on a 40-day public ...