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There are encouraging signs that legislators in both parties are very
cool to the FAA's proposal: avweb.com/avwebflash/news/User_Fees_Generate_Less_Income_194473-1.html avweb.com/avwebflash/news/ Congress_FAA_User_Fees_Disturbing_194474-1.html |
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On 15 Feb 2007 09:35:45 -0800, "quietguy" wrote
in .com: There are encouraging signs that legislators in both parties are very cool to the FAA's proposal: avweb.com/avwebflash/news/User_Fees_Generate_Less_Income_194473-1.html So it would appear: ------------------------------------------------------------------- AVwebFLASH Volume 13, Number 7b -- February 15, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...h/806-full.htm USER FEES WOULD GENERATE LESS INCOME (http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#194473) The FAA's proposed reauthorization legislation, the Next Generation Air Transportation System Financing Reform Act of 2007 (), revealed Wednesday, claims a new financing structure is necessary for the FAA to build an efficient and safe air transportation system for the future. Airlines and air travelers would pay less, but operators of business and general aviation aircraft would pay more. "Our proposal will make it easier for airports, airlines and controllers to keep pace with the skyrocketing demand for air travel," said FAA Administrator Marion Blakey, in a news release (). "With over a billion passengers expected in the air by 2015, we have to act now or risk gridlock in our skies and on our taxiways." Yet the plan shows that under the proposed change to user fees, total revenue for the agency would actually decline. The FAA's data shows that the new proposal would yield $600 million less in FY2008 than the current tax structure and over $900 million less from FY2009 to FY2012, according to Rep. Jerry Costello, D-Ill., chairman of the House Subcommittee on Aviation. http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#194473 CONGRESSMEN FINDS FAA USER-FEE PLAN "DISTURBING" (http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#194474) The FAA's long-anticipated new funding plan, revealed Wednesday morning, calls for a changeover to user fees, as expected -- but the agency ran into immediate and widespread opposition at a hearing () later in the afternoon before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Rep. Vernon Ehlers, R-Mich., called the proposal "dead on arrival." Many on the panel questioned whether the plan would promote safer skies. Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., maintained that it would, ironically, because it would "rid the skies of general aviation aircraft." Along with others on the panel, he questioned the need for drastic hikes in the fuel tax -- from 19 or 21 cents per gallon to 70 cents -- and called the plan "terribly disturbing." Questions were raised about why the change to user fees would apparently result in even less money to support the airspace system, which already is strained and in need of technological upgrades. http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#194474 AOPA, NBAA RESPOND TO FAA PLAN (http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#194475) AOPA () President Phil Boyer said he was "very encouraged" by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's reactions to the FAA's proposed reauthorization blueprint. The hearing featured "a lot of blunt, outspoken dialogue," he said, and he expects all 535 members of Congress will closely scrutinize the FAA plan, and consider its effect on their constituents. The general public may have only a vague idea of what GA is, Boyer said, but "the members of Congress get it -- they understand GA." And AOPA plans to talk to all of them, one by one. Ed Bolen, president of the National Business Aviation Association (http://www.nbaa.org/), said it's too early, though, to tell the "overall reaction" of Congress to FAA Administrator Marion Blakey's proposal. http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#194475 |
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