PUBLIC NOTICE
PUBLISH
(January 25, 2025)
CITY OF NEW ULM
NOTICE OF DRAFT
ENVIRONMENTAL
ASSESSMENT FOR
PUBLIC REVIEW &
OPPORTUNITY FOR
A PUBLIC HEARING
FOR NEW ULM MUN-
ICIPAL AIRPORT
CROSSWIND RUN-
WAY RELOCATION
Notice is hereby given
that the City of New
Ulm has published a
draft federal Environ-
mental Assessment
(EA) for the New Ulm
Municipal Airport Turf
Crosswind Runway
Relocation. In accor-
dance with its respon-
sibilities under the Na-
tional Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA), the
Federal Aviation Ad-
ministration (FAA) re-
quires the City to com-
plete an EA. During the
EA process, the City
and its airport consul-
tant evaluated the en-
vironmental, economic,
and social impacts of
the proposed develop-
ment. The results of
the analysis are pub-
lished in the Draft EA
document. The docu-
ment is available for
public review online at
www.newulmmn.gov/
251/Municipal-Airport,
and in-person at the
New Ulm City Hall –
Engineering Depart-
ment, from 8 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
The City, as the Airport
Sponsor, intends to un-
dertake a project that
would relocate the turf
crosswind runway as
proposed by the 2023
Airport Master Plan.
The United States
Congress directed
funding to the City for
this relocation. The
project includes
designing and con-
structing a new turf
crosswind Runway
9/27 and associated
storm water infrastruc-
ture, decommissioning
the existing turf
crosswind Runway
4/22, realigning a por-
tion of Taxiway A, and
acquiring approximate-
ly 25.2 acres of fee
simple land. The pro-
ject includes wetland
impacts to an estimat-
ed 0.05 acre of del-
ineated wetland. This
project is consistent
with the airport zoning
that was previously ap-
proved by the Joint Air-
port Zoning Board in
July 2022.
A public hearing will be
held if there is a re-
quest for one. The
hearing’s purpose
would be to address
the proposed action’s
potential economic, so-
cial, and environmental
impacts, and the
project’s consistency
with the goals and ob-
jectives of the City of
New Ulm’s land use
strategy. Anyone in-
terested in the project
has until February 9,
2025, to request a pub-
lic hearing. Requests
for a public hearing
must be submitted via
email to
colleen.bosold@
meadhunt.com or by
phone/voicemail at
952-641-8826.
The public comment
period for the Draft
EA closes at 11:59
p.m. CST on Febru-
ary 24, 2025. Written
comments can be sub-
mitted via email to
colleen.bosold@
meadhunt.com or
mailed to:
New Ulm Municipal
Airport EA Comments
c/o Colleen Bosold,
Mead & Hunt
7900 International Dr.,
Suite 980
Bloomington, MN
55425
All comments must be
received by the Febru-
ary 24, 2025, deadline.
Before including your
address, phone
number, e-mail ad-
dress, or other person-
al identifying informa-
tion in your comment,
be advised that your
entire comment – in-
cluding your personal
identifying information –
may be made publicly
available at any time.
While you can ask us
in your comment to
withhold from public re-
view your personal
identifying information,
we cannot guarantee
that we will be able to
do so.
Please see the New
Ulm Municipal Airport
webpage at
www.newulmmn.gov/
251/Municipal-Airport
for the Draft EA
document.