Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit August 17, 1998, 95-2292 (City of Richfield, Minnesota, a Municipal Corporation v. Federal Aviation Administration Metropolitan Airports Commission)

BOWMAN, Chief Judge.

The Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC), which operates the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, proposes building a taxiway and altering flight patterns at the airport, for the purpose of shifting departing flights and the noise that comes with them from areas northwest of the airport to areas to the airport’s southwest.