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Tony Thurmond: “Pursuant to this report, the Rock Hill-York County Airport applied to the FAA for a $350,000 airport improvement grant…”

On the recordSeptember 17, 1996
Pursuant to this report, the Rock Hill-York County Airport applied to the FAA for a $350,000 airport improvement grant to install an instrument landing system [ILS]. However, the FAA will not consider the cost savings to Charlotte in the application submitted by Rock Hill. Further, they base their decision solely on the number of flight operations currently at Rock Hill. Mr. President, this puts Rock Hill in dilemma. They cannot demonstrate the required number of operations to satisfy the FAA because they do not have an ILS and they cannot get the required number of operations without the ILS. While I believe the FAA is wrong, it appears that legislation is needed to correct this problem. I thank the managers for including language in their amendment that will force the FAA to examine this situation.
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Tony Thurmond
California
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Discussing the challenges faced by the Rock Hill-York County Airport in securing FAA funding.

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