I think that is a very important point. The free enterprise system not only rewards but sometimes it punishes as well, as we are finding out in recent days.

My understanding is that with the proper incentives there is quiet technology out there that could be adopted by air tour operators if there were incentives for them to do so.

Mr. Hoffman, do you believe that the issue of quiet technology has been given enough priority in this whole discussion?

So we do not know what final review means, because you have to get on her schedule.

I believe that if we continue focusing our attention on this issue we can perhaps get some kind of resolution to it.

15 years ago, Congress passed the National Parks Overflight Act of 1987.

And I am sure if one of the small operators was sitting at the table next to Mr. Bosak he would say, I cannot afford $1.2 million per aircraft, I simply cannot do that.

Are there issues between the FAA and the Park Service that have complicated and therefore delayed the promulgation of the final rule?

Concerning the general overflights issue, Ms. Gilligan, I have received reports that new air tour operations have begun at certain national parks since the act was passed in 2000.

The reason why Mo Udall and I passed this bill is because being outside El Tobar Lodge was like being at the end of the runway at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.

Mr. Bosak, the air tour operators believe no matter how quiet an aircraft may be, any air tour that is audible will not satisfy the Park Service or environmental critics of the industry. What is your reaction to that allegation?