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34 airportbusiness December 2015/January 2016 FINAL ANALYSIS $250 MILLION The cost to create a 16-inch jet fuel pipeline capable of meeting all of Dubai International Airport's fuel needs. eight thousand seven hundred and five The number of solar panels that went online in a 3 million-watt solar panel system at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. The system is expected to supply 20 percent of the electricity used in Terminal 1 and to cut carbon emissions by nearly 7,000 tons per year. GARY/CHICAGO AIRPORT EXPANDS FUEL FARM Gary/Chicago International Airport completes an expansion of its fuel farm, which resolves a controversy that forced the airport's newest FBO, B. Coleman Aviation, to order and store fuel by the truckload. The fuel farm is part of an agreement between the airport authority and B. Coleman, which authorized spending up to $650,000 to increase fuel farm capacity by 40,000 gallons. As part of the agreement, B. Coleman was to finance the cost of the project then get a discount on fuel flowage fees normally paid to the airport to essentially pay themselves back. The agreement stated the airport would retain ownership of the entire fuel farm. When all was said and done, the actual cost of the project came to $547,568. Gary Jet Center, the airport's other FBO, sued over the fuel farm issue in late 2013, citing its own lease, which guaranteed it sufficient fuel farm capacity to serve Boeing Corp. and other customers. That lease provision basically shut B. Coleman out of the fuel farm it had paid for. The airport authority eventually settled with Gary Jet Center, promising to respect that lease provision and to work with B. Coleman to expand the fuel farm. "The Grand Hyatt is recognized around the world for exceptional guest service, and with this approval we move one step closer in our vision to create the most innovative, luxurious and environmentally sustainable on-airport hotel in the world." AIRPORT DIRECTOR JOHN L. MARTIN ABOUT PLANS TO BUILD A $230-MILLION ON-AIRPORT HOTEL AT SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT $20 MILLION The amount Gerald R. Ford International Airport spent on a new water treatment facility designed to keep chemicals used in deicing planes from entering the Thornapple River. 26 The varieties of plants found growing in JetBlue's farm at JFK International Airport. LANCE LYTTLE New Managing Director Seattle-Tacoma International Airport CHARLES E. BLACK Leader of Development Team Overseeing $1 Billion Metropolitan Airpark Project At Brown Field $11.1 BILLION The amount Delta, American Airlines, United and Southwest saved in fuel costs over the first nine months of 2015. "Fuel revenues paid for by aviators should be reinvested in U.S. aviation, not in highway and transit infrastructure." REP. MIKE POMPEO, CHIEF SPONSOR OF THE FUEL FRAUD MEASURE TO CALL ON A GOVERNMENT WATCHDOG TO INVESTIGATE THE DIVERSION OF NON-COMMERCIAL AVIATION JET FUEL TAX REVENUES TO THE HIGHWAY TRUST FUND.