Transport i lotnictwo · 26.11.1997

Airport Privatization Pilot Program: Application Procedures

Section 149 of the Federal Aviation Authorization Act of 1996 establishes an airport privatization pilot program, and authorizes the Department of Transportation to grant exemptions from certain Federal statutory and regulatory requirements for up to five airport privatization projects. On September 16, 1997, the FAA issued a notice of final procedures for application for an exemption under the program. The notice included a provision that air carriers that submitted a proposal for the private operation of an airport but were unsuccessful would not be counted as air carriers for the purpose of the requirement that certain aspects of the privatization application be approved by 65 percent of the air carriers at the airport. In this amendment to the procedures, the FAA is clarifying that the provision does not apply retroactively to requests for proposals issued prior to the issuance of the FAA procedures on September 16, 1997. With respect to future requests for proposals, the provision is suspended until the FAA undertakes further public process on this aspect of the procedures. A separate provision of the procedures, which states that an air carrier that is a successful bidder on