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Aviation Investment and Revitalization Vision Act

Date: June 12, 2003
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Transportation

AVIATION INVESTMENT AND REVITALIZATION VISION ACT

AMENDMENT NO. 907

    The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska.

    Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I send an amendment to the desk and ask for its immediate consideration.

    The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.

    The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

    The Senator from Alaska [Ms. MURKOWSKI] proposes an amendment numbered 907.

    Ms. MURKOWSKI. I ask unanimous consent that reading of the amendment be dispensed with.

    The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

    Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, the amendment I have sent to the desk gives the Federal Aviation Administration a year to complete the study of the consolidation of the Anchorage Terminal Approach Control, TRACON, with the Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center at the center's existing facility.

    The current physical location will be facing significant demands this decade. In order to expand TRACON's current control room, it needs to be housed in a larger facility. What we are asking is a year to give the FAA ample time to complete this study while the Ted Stevens International Airport is undergoing expansion.

    I urge the adoption of the amendment.

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