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Economic Shoals. Stymied on shore by the states, the Federal Government is looking for solutions at sea. The Nixon Administration would like private industry to build some kind of "superport" in federally controlled waters beyond the states' three-mile jurisdiction. One proposal is to construct "monobuoys," which cost about $500 million and have already been tested off the coasts of the United Kingdom, Africa and Japan. Each buoy is moored 15 to 20 miles out to sea and connected by an underwater pipeline to shoreline facilities. Supertankers simply tie up to the buoy and pump oil into the pipeline...
...time than the 50-minute shuttle flight from New York to Washington. In the New York-New Jersey area, the Port Authority, which runs the airports, is spending $425 million to expand Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark airports and is meanwhile seeking a site for one more all-new superport. Boston also needs another airfield, whose cost will be over and above the $225 million now allotted to expand Logan International. Pittsburgh, with traffic up 25% in one year, has earmarked $11,800,000 for immediate expansion. Altogether, U.S. airports will spend at least $4.9 billion in the next...
...airports. Everyone wants a convenient field in some other part of town where the noise, fumes and potential hazards will not be personally obnoxious. In Washington, even the poverty marchers of Resurrection City are complaining about the noise from jets approaching National Airport. New York's proposed superport in Morris County, N.J., is being blocked by protests. Last week the House Interior Committee, urged on by New Jersey Governor Richard J. Hughes, moved to make the Great Swamp area, where the field would be built, a wildlife preserve instead of an airport. Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley...