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2000 CIS H 1814

TITLE: Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2000, Part 6

CIS-NO: 2000-H181-4
SOURCE: Committee on Appropriations. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony
DATE: Mar. 9, 10, 1999
LENGTH: ii+1067+xv p. il. Index.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1011; 1011-A
SUDOC: Y4.AP6/1:T68/4/2000/PT.6
MC-ENTRY-NO: 2000-9132
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND: 1-800-227-2477 (Full Text Reproductions)
INCLUDED IN LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF: P.L. 106-69

SUMMARY:
Continuation of hearings before the Subcom on Transportation Appropriations to consider FY2000 budget requests for DOT and related agencies.

This volume considers FAA budget request and examines FAA financing issues and civil aviation security and safety programs, including air traffic control modernization initiatives.

One testimony abstract includes page references to matching submitted justifications in Part 2 (see 1999 CIS/Annual H181-10).

Supplementary material (p. 370-934) includes witnesses written replies to Subcom questions.

Includes written replies to Subcom questions by witnesses who did not present oral testimony on NTSB programs (p. 935-1067).

Classified material has been deleted.

Includes a subject index (p. iii-xv).

CONTENT-NOTATION: Approp, FY2000

DESCRIPTORS:
    FEDERAL AID TO TRANSPORTATION; DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION; FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION; AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS; AVIATION ACCIDENTS AND SAFETY; AVIATION SECURITY; AIRPORTS AND AIRWAYS; CIVIL AVIATION; TRANSPORTATION REGULATION; NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD

00-H181-4 TESTIMONY NO: 1     Mar. 9, 1999 p. 1-72

WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   IRVING, SUSAN J. (Associate Director, Budget Issues, Accounting and Information Management Division, GAO; accompanied by staff officials)
   MEAD, KENNETH M. (Inspector General, DOT; accompanied by a staff official)

STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Review of Federal budget accounting and enforcement issues associated with trust funds, including issues applicable to the Airport and Airways Trust Fund; analysis of FAA financing and cost control issues; recommendations to improve FAA operational cost controls.

INSERTION:
   -- Murphy, Robert P. (GAO), Airport and Airway Trust Fund role in aviation financing, legal opinion and legislative history, correspondence, Feb. 12, 1999, with charts and tables (p. 45-59).

CONTENT NOTATION:
   FAA programs financing issues

TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE; OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL, DOT; BUDGET OF THE U.S.; TRUST FUNDS; ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING; GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY; LEGISLATIVE HISTORIES; AIRPORT AND AIRWAYS TRUST FUND

00-H181-4 TESTIMONY NO: 2     Mar. 9, 1999 p. 73-105, 380-934

WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   GARVEY, JANE F. (Administrator, FAA; accompanied by staff officials)

BUDGET EXPLANATION: FAA FY2000 request (for submitted justifications, annual performance plan, see 1999 CIS/Annual H181-10, p. 1-547, 1339-1396) for expenditures from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for:
   a. Operations, including air traffic services, aviation safety standards regulation, aviation security activities, commercial space transportation, and public airports administration.
   b. Grants for airport improvements.
   c. Facilities and equipment, including modernization and automation of air traffic control facilities and equipment.
   d. Research, engineering, and development activities relating to air traffic management, weather information services, aircraft safety and aviation security, human factors and aviation medicine, and environment and energy.

DISCUSSION:
   Perspectives on Administration proposal to eliminate FY2000 general appropriations for FAA and require FAA programs to be fully funded by existing excise taxes and new user fees.

INSERTIONS:
   a. FAA, FY99 operations funding shortfall and proposed mitigation plan, Feb. 11, 1999 (p. 398-419).
   b. FAA, employees nonroutine overseas travel from Apr. 15, 1998-May 1, 1999, chart (p. 459-469).
   c. FAA, aviation accident and fatality rates, 1982-98, tables (p. 540-552).
   d. FAA, building and equipment maintenance and improvement needs, project charts by region (p. 615-645).
   e. FAA, rulemaking projects summaries and status, as of Apr. 27, 1999, charts (p. 665-682).
   f. FAA, airport tower replacement projects funding and construction status, FY89-FY2000, tables (p. 824-838).

CONTENT NOTATION:
   FAA programs, FY2000 approp

TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   AIRPORTS AND AIRWAYS; SPACE COMMERCIALIZATION; GOVERNMENT INFORMATION AND INFORMATION SERVICES; AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH; METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH; WEATHER; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL RESEARCH; AIRCRAFT PILOTS; ENERGY RESEARCH; USER CHARGES; PLANNING; FEDERAL EMPLOYEES; TRAVEL; STATISTICAL DATA: COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORTATION; ACCIDENTAL DEATH; AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND; AUTOMATION; ENGINEERING; AVIATION MEDICINE; EXCISE TAX

00-H181-4 TESTIMONY NO: 3     Mar. 9, 1999 p. 107-193, 306-312

WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   GARVEY, JANE F. (Administrator, FAA)
   BAKER, ROBERT W. (Executive Vice President, Operations, American Airlines)
   MEAD, KENNETH M. (Inspector General, DOT)
   FEARNSIDES, JOHN J. (Senior Vice President and General Manager, MITRE Corp)

STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Status of FAA air traffic control system modernization programs; need for air traffic control system improvements; assessment of FAA modernization program progress and problems; problems with FAA standard terminal automation replacement system initiative intended to upgrade air traffic controller workstations.
   Perspectives on FAA wide area augmentation system program intended to augment DOD global positioning system to provide navigation and airport approach capabilities for civilian use in the national airspace system (NAS); status of FAA and aviation industry implementation of FAA NAS Modernization Task Force recommendations; elaboration on FAA program issues.

CONTENT NOTATION:
   Air traffic control system modernization, review

TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   AMERICAN AIRLINES; OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL, DOT; COMPUTERS; NAVIGATIONAL SATELLITES; AERONAUTICAL NAVIGATION; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE; AIRLINES

00-H181-4 TESTIMONY NO: 4     Mar. 10, 1999 p. 195-305, 313-369

WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   GARVEY, JANE F. (Administrator, FAA)
   FLYNN, CATHAL I. (Associate Administrator, Civil Aviation)
   STEFANI, ALEXIS M. (Deputy Assistant Inspector General, Aviation, DOT)
   HALL, JAMES E. (Chairman, NTSB)

STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Review of airline and airport security concerns and improvement strategies (related charts, p. 200-219); explanation of FAA FY2000 budget request for civil aviation security; perspectives on FAA and airline industry activities related to deployment and use of new explosives detection equipment to screen passenger baggage.
   Efforts to improve security requirements for checked baggage; review of FAA initiatives to address runway incursion safety problem; role of NTSB in international aviation accident investigations; need to strengthen FAA regulations governing use of flight data recorders in order to expand use of updated equipment; elaboration on FAA program issues.

CONTENT NOTATION:
   Airline and airport security and aviation safety issues

TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL, DOT; NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD; AIRLINES; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS; GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATIONS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; EXPLOSIVES

LOAD-DATE: July 6, 2001