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the region's commercial air service needs is underway, but a decision regarding future <br />development will not be made by the legislature until 1996. If Track "B" is selected, a new <br />air carrier airport would most likely not be available until sometime after 2010. <br />If Track "B" is selected, cost-effective efforts will need to be implemented to extend <br />the useful life of Minneapolis-St. Paul International until such time that a new airport would <br />be in place. Aa effective reliever system would be a key consideration in this process. If <br />Track "A" is selected and Minneapolis-St. Paul International is to be the region's air carrier <br />airport, every effort will need to be made to serve the 53,000 general aviation operations <br />forecast for the air carrier airport in 2008 elsewhere in the region. <br />Reliever airports, by definition, are designed to provide an alternative for general <br />aviation aircraft that would otherwise be based at or perform operations at a congested <br />commercial service airport. The Regional System Reliever Airports Study focused on the <br />ability of the system's existing seven reliever airports to meet this objective. <br />2. RELiFVER SYSTEM DEFICIENCIES <br />Demand for reliever system airports is generated by both local and external sources. <br />Demand for storage capacity, as well as airfield capacity, is generated by locally owned and <br />operated aircraft, while transient aircraft coming into the metropolitan area primarily <br />generate demand for airfield facilities. The Regional System Reliever Airports Study has <br />shown that the potential exists for the reliever system to accommodate general aviation <br />demand that is now being accommodated at Minneapolis-St. Paul International. This <br />demand has both a based and a transient component. In addition to accommodating <br />demand to be diverted from Minneapolis-St. Paul International, the reliever airports must <br />have the capacity to accommodate growth generated in the local market. <br />The demand/capacity analysis wnducted for this study shows that the existing system <br />is not capable of serving both local and non-local demand. Without enhancement to the <br />V-2 <br />