Legislative Support For A Pressing Problem May Be At Hand
House Transportation Committee leaders have finally introduced
long overdue long term legislation to reform and fund FAA policies
and priorities. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
Chairman John L. Mica (R-FL), Aviation Subcommittee Chairman Tom
Petri (R-WI) and other members introduce the FAA Reauthorization
and Reform Act of 2011 (HR 658).
Included in both the House and Senate versions of this bill is
language created by Representative Sam Graves (R-MO) and Senator
Ron Wyden (D-OR) which forbids the FAA from stating that an airport
is, "in violation of a grant assurance…solely because the
sponsor enters into an agreement that grants to a person that owns
residential real property to adjacent to the airport access to the
airfield…" The section which addresses the RTTF issue is
136.
"This insertion of the RTTF language into the reauthorization
bill will hopefully end the FAA's factually unsupported and
misguided attempt to ban residential through the fence activity"
stated Brent Blue, organizer of www.throughthefence.org,
a website for dissemination of information about this issue. "We
owe a great deal of thanks to Congressman Graves and Senator Wyden
for helping stop the FAA illogical stance."
The FAA Reauthorization bill is expected to pass this year after
many temporary extensions because most of the controversial
provisions have been removed from this year's language.
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