House Aviation Subcommittee to Look at Airport Funding Woes

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House Aviation Subcommittee to Look at Airport Funding Woes

March 3, 2003

House Transportation aviation subcommittee chair Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) hopes to focus on streamlining efforts to get airport projects underway during a hearing Thursday on FAA reauthorization of airport programs.

In the last Congress the House passed a streamlining bill, but it died in the Senate. The Senate Commerce aviation panel held a similar hearing last week

at which the General Accounting Office, FAA and airport lobbyists testified that airport redevelopment faces a $3 billion annual shortfall over the next several years (DAILY, Feb. 26). –DM

Source: Aviation Daily, March 3, 2003