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2000 CIS H 18166

TITLE: Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2001, Part 6

CIS-NO: 2000-H181-66
SOURCE: Committee on Appropriations. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony
DATE: Mar. 22, 2000
LENGTH: 893 p. var. paging. il. Index.
CONG-SESS: 106-2
ITEM-NO: 1011; 1011-A
SUDOC: Y4.AP6/1:T68/4/2001/PT.6
MC-ENTRY-NO: 2000-17290
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND: 1-800-227-2477 (Full Text Reproductions)
INCLUDED IN LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF: P.L. 106-346

SUMMARY:
Continuation of hearings before the Subcom on Transportation Appropriations to consider FY2001 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.

Testimony abstract includes page references to matching submitted justifications in Part 2 (see H181-20).

Includes a submitted statement and written replies to Subcom questions by witnesses who did not present oral testimony on NTSB programs (p. 695-861).

Also includes a subject index (p. i-xiii).

CONTENT-NOTATION: Approp, FY2001

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-H181-66 TESTIMONY NO: 1     Mar. 22, 2000 p. 1-694H

WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   MEAD, KENNETH M. (Inspector General, DOT)
   HALL, JAMES E. (Chairman, NTSB)
   GARVEY, JANE F. (Administrator, FAA; accompanied by a staff official)

STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Need to improve FAA runway incursion and operational error prevention programs; status of air traffic control modernization initiatives, including wide area augmentation system navigational satellite program; analysis of FAA financing and cost control issues, with recommendations.
   Response to concerns about security problems at Dulles International Airport and other airports; views on air traffic control staffing issues (related docs, p. 373-378); perspectives on overall FAA operations.

BUDGET EXPLANATION: FAA FY2001 request (for submitted justifications, see H181-20, p. 1-580) for expenditures from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for:
   a. Operations, including air traffic services, aviation safety standards regulation, aviation security activities, and commercial space transportation.
   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.

INSERTIONS:
   a. FAA, employees nonroutine overseas travel from May 1, 1999-Mar. 31, 2000, table (p. 228-240).
   b. FAA, airport tower replacement projects funding and construction status, FY89-FY2001, tables (p. 493-504).
   c. FAA, activities authorized under the Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century, FY2000-FY2001 cost estimates, table (p. 535-547F).
   d. FAA, national airspace redesign program, FY2000 spending plan (p. 552-566).
   e. FAA; and National Air Traffic Controllers Association, "Memorandum of Understanding with Respect to Reclassification and Associated Pay Rules Between the National Air Traffic Controllers Association and the Federal Aviation Administration" July 8, 1998 (p. 575-587).

CONTENT NOTATION:
   FAA programs, FY2001 approp; FAA programs financing and aviation safety and security issues

TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   NATIONAL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS ASSOCIATION; NAVIGATIONAL SATELLITES; DULLES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT; AIRPORTS AND AIRWAYS; AUTOMATION; SPACE COMMERCIALIZATION; GOVERNMENT INFORMATION AND INFORMATION SERVICES; AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH; ENGINEERING; METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH; WEATHER; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL RESEARCH; AVIATION MEDICINE; AIRCRAFT PILOTS; ENERGY RESEARCH; FEDERAL EMPLOYEES; TRAVEL; AVIATION INVESTMENT AND REFORM ACT FOR THE 21ST CENTURY; EMPLOYEE-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS IN GOVERNMENT; WAGES AND SALARIES; AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND

LOAD-DATE: July 6, 2001