{"id":15508,"date":"2020-05-19T00:56:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T00:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=15508"},"modified":"2020-05-19T00:56:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T00:56:11","slug":"draft-legislation-in-colorado-proposes-aviation-fuel-fees-to-finance-pfas-mitigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/colorado\/draft-legislation-in-colorado-proposes-aviation-fuel-fees-to-finance-pfas-mitigation\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Draft Legislation in Colorado Proposes Aviation Fuel Fees to Finance PFAS Mitigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Colorado Aviation Business Association (CABA) reports\nthat draft legislation has been proposed by Senator Steve Fenberg (D-Boulder)\nand Senator Pete Lee (D-El Paso) for the Colorado State Legislature to create\nan enterprise, to be funded in part by a fee of up to five cents per gallon of\naviation fuel used at any airport in Colorado. The purpose of the bill is to\nfinance the response to possible contamination from perfluoroalkyl and\npolyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a fire retardant historically effective in\nfighting petroleum-based fires and commonly used in aircraft hangar fire\nsuppression systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/CABA.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15509\" width=\"165\" height=\"60\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CABA.jpg 583w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CABA-300x111.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The enterprise would be a state government-owned\nbusiness, the creation of which is exempt from the spending limits required by\nthe Taxpayer Bill of Rights in the state constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The purpose of the enterprise would be to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>administer a grant program to fund sampling,\nassessment and investigation of PFAS in ground water and water systems;<\/li><li>administer a takeback program that purchases and\ndisposes of eligible materials that contain PFAS; and<\/li><li>provide technical assistance to communities,\nboards, commissions, and other entities in locating and studying PFAS\nsubstances.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The airport fee would technically be in exchange for the\nbusiness services provided to aircraft hangars equipped with aqueous film forming\nfoam in their fire suppression systems. CABA leadership and legislative affairs\nteams believe that now is the wrong time to assess any additional fees on the\naviation industry in Colorado and are working to stop this legislation.\nCOVID-19 has hit general and business aviation hard, and CABA is committed to\nfighting any legislation that would hamper its recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CABA says the aviation industry is, as always, committed\nto public safety, and FAA guidance is emerging to provide alternatives to PFAS\nin fire suppression systems used at some of the nation\u2019s airports. The aviation\ncommunity is taking the lead on this issue and will continue to do so without\nthe imposition of additional state fees which will hurt not only these\nimportant efforts, but the viability of businesses overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Aviation Business Association (CABA) reports that draft legislation has been proposed by Senator Steve Fenberg (D-Boulder) and Senator Pete Lee (D-El Paso) for the Colorado State Legislature to create an enterprise, to be funded in part by a fee of up to five cents per gallon of aviation fuel used at any airport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colorado"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15510,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15508\/revisions\/15510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}