Old Spanish trail in the path of Spaceport's FAA licence

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I want to know what you all think of this... Its kinda BS... Hstory should be protected  but if its not that close I don't see what the problem is.


   Old Spanish trail in the path of Spaceport's FAA licence
    History could delay authority's $1m a year income and block Virgin Galactic
    progress
    Flight International
    By Rob Coppinger
   
    The proximity of an historic Spanish Empire trading route to New Mexico's
    Spaceport America is set to delay major construction work, potentially putting
    back the 2010 start of the $1 million a year lease to be agreed with anchor
    tenant Virgin Galactic.
     
    The impact of spaceport operations on the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro,
    which is a federally managed trail for public use, is an issue for the
    environmental assessment that New Mexico's Spaceport Authority has to complete
    with the Federal Aviation Administration to obtain its spaceport licence.
     
    Space tourism start-up Virgin Galactic has been planning to fly from Spaceport
    America from 2010. It would pay $1 million a year until 2015 under its spaceport
    lease. But construction work, which should have started this year, could be
    delayed to 2008 because the state's Spaceport Authority does not expect its
    licence from the FAA until the latter half of this year.
     
    Under the state's rules for releasing $100 million of construction funds, the
    Spaceport Authority needs an FAA licence, an anchor tenant and construction bids
    of no more than $225 million. The next obstacle for the authority is a 3 April
    plebiscite in three New Mexican counties to approve an increase in a local sales
    tax for construction funding.
    El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro ("The Royal Road of the Interior" in Spanish)
    was a 2,600km (1,600 mile) long trade route between Mexico City and Santa Fe,
    New Mexico from 1598 to 1882. A 650km section of the Camino Real (not to be
    confused with El Camino Real in California) lies within the USA and is managed
    jointly by the National Park Service and the US Bureau of Land Management.