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Connecticut's Amazon drone-delivery coastal review reaches its comment deadline

Connecticut DEEP is reviewing whether proposed Amazon electric-drone package-delivery operations from North Haven are consistent with the state's coastal-management program. The agency's 16 September notice gives the public 15 days to comment, making 1 October the deadline.

The review is a concrete example of how a federal drone-delivery proposal can still trigger state coastal-consistency scrutiny when the operating area intersects a federally approved coastal-management program.

Delivery operators planning coastal-area sites should map state consistency reviews into project schedules early. The aviation approval path may not be the only public process that controls when a site can proceed.