SAWYER, MI (AP)-- Plans call for the runway at Sawyer International Airport to be shortened by more than 3,000 feet after a federal funding cut.
The Marquette County Board voted unanimously this week on the plan.
The length of the 150-foot-wide runway will be reduced from 12,366 feet to 9,000 feet, and an adjacent taxiway will be shortened. Officials say they hope to keep the runway at its current length through 2016.
The change comes after the Federal Aviation Administration informed the airport that federal funding would no longer support work on the section that's being cut.
Sawyer’s traffic hit a decade low last year.
