The search for a new Federal Aviation Administration authorization is heating up, with House and Senate committee approvals of multi-year House and Senate bills. Both measures call for increases in FAA infrastructure grants but differ sharply on how they deal with the air traffic control system.
The six-year House version, which Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) introduced, would spin off FAA’s ATC operations into a nonfederal nonprofit entity. The committee approved the measure on June 27 by a 32-25 vote.