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The FAA established its criteria for reliever airports as part of the National Plan of <br />Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS).` According to the criteria, an exacting or proposed <br />airport may be designated as a reliever airport if it relieves airport congestion in a <br />metropolitan area by providing the general aviation user with an attractive alternative or <br />if it provides increased overall access to the general aviation system= The relieved airport <br />must possess the following characteristics: <br />Serve a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) with a population of 250,000 <br />or a miaimttm level of 250,000 annual enpianements. <br />Operate at 60 percent capacity, or have operated at such a level prior to <br />being relieved by one or more reliever airports, or be subject to restrictions <br />that limit activity that would otherwise reach 60 percent of capacity. <br />The reliever airport should provide substantial capacity or instrument training relief, <br />as evidenced by: <br />An activity level of at least 50 based aircraft, 25,000 annual itinerant • <br />operations, or 35,000 annual local operations.' <br />The installation or proposed installation of a precision instrument landing <br />system when the FAA Regional Director has determined that the airport is <br />a desirable location for instrument training activity. <br />Ideally, the reliever airport should be in the same MSA as the relieved airport. If <br />this is not possible, the reliever airport should at least accommodate activity levels, as <br />identified above, from the MSA served by the relieved airport. <br />` National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) 1986-1995, United States <br />Department of Transportation, November 1987. <br />These revised criteria are presented as a change to FAA Order 5090.3A. <br />' For new airports or those airports with major scheduled improvement, these may be <br />projected activity levels. <br />-4- <br />