PORT ANGELES – Aging pavement and an increasing number of larger jet aircraft are prompting a $1.24 million project to repave the passenger loading area this year at William R. Fairchild International Airport.
That will be followed by a much larger three-year project to repave the taxi lanes to the main runway in 2008-2010.
Port commissioners unanimously approved a $342,859 contract with URS Corp. this week to provide both engineering for this year’s repaving project and design for the larger project to begin in 2008.
The total estimated project cost is $1.24 million, including engineering and repaving the passenger loading area and design for the first part of the three-year repaving project.
The port will pay 5 percent, or $62,000, from its “passenger facility charges” that are added to the cost of airline tickets with the remaining 95 percent being paid by Federal Aviation Administration airport entitlement grant funding.
