This page is intended as a one-stop reference for information about reform of the FAA. The information is organized into four areas: Pending Legislation, Analysis of Air Traffic Control (ATC) Structure and Financing – From…
May 6, 1987 statements in the Congressional Record by Senators Inouye and Stevens about their bill S. 1159, to establish a government-owned, user-fee supported corporation to provide air traffic control services.
Text of the bill S. 1159 (100th Congress) introduced on May 6, 1987 by Senators Inouye and Stevens to establish the National Aviation Authority as an independent, user-fee supported government corporation.
October 19, 1993 study performed by GRA, Inc. for the FAA reviewing past studies of potential FAA restructuring.
January 5, 1994 study performed by GRA, Inc. for the FAA summarizing the precedents in the U.S. for government-owned corporations, and the precedents in other countries for alternative organization of air traffic control service provision.
December 1997 report of the National Civil Aviation Review Commission (a.k.a. the Mineta Commission).
May 1994 report of the interagency Executive Oversight Committee to the Secretary of Transportation recommending the creation of a United States Air Traffic Services Corporation.
The U.S. Department of Transportation prepared this 42-page pamphlet to explain the provisions of the 1991 Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act.
The joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on the 1998 TEA21 bill contained multiple inaccuracies and omissions because it was thrown together in such a hurry. The chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure…
The TEA21 law was enacted on June 9, 1998 but was almost immediately altered by significant corrections and amendments enacted into law on July 22, 1998. It was amended several more times by the law…
The TEA21 law was enacted on June 9, 1998 but was almost immediately altered by significant corrections and amendments enacted into law on July 22, 1998. This document shows the text of TEA21 as enacted…
Package of amendments offered en bloc and accepted in the June 24, 2015 Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s markup of S. 1647, the DRIVE Act.