The National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO)\napplauded the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation\nfor approving S.1939, the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2023, which would\nauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and associated programs\nthrough fiscal year 2028. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cState aviation leaders across the nation are pleased to see\nthis significant progress in the Senate towards passing the FAA Reauthorization\nbill,\u201d said Greg Pecoraro, President and CEO of NASAO. \u201cWe are particularly\npleased to see important new financial support for the nation\u2019s airports, as\nwell as provisions to help integrate into the aviation system the exciting new\naeronautical technologies that have the potential to change the way we access\naviation. We look forward to swift action on the Senate floor, successful\nnegotiations with the House, and final adoption of a bill. Thank you to Chair\nCantwell, Ranking Member Cruz, and Senators Duckworth and Moran for their\nleadership and work on this bill.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bill would increase investments in the nation\u2019s\npublic-use airports, including providing more federal support for nonhub and\nnonprimary airports. It would also establish a grant program to assist with\nPFAS clean-up efforts at airports stemming from FAA-required use of\nfirefighting foams containing PFAS; increase funding for the Essential Air\nService program and Small Community Air Service Development Program, two\nprograms that are critical to ensuring small communities have air service; and\nprovide needed support for Block Grant States, a program that enables certain\nStates to optimize federal and state funding for their airport systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO) applauded the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation for approving S.1939, the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2023, which would authorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and associated programs through fiscal year 2028. \u201cState aviation leaders across the nation are pleased to see this significant progress […]<\/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":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27794","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=27794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27795,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27794\/revisions\/27795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}