{"id":24214,"date":"2017-02-09T10:21:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T15:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=24214"},"modified":"2017-02-09T10:21:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T15:21:42","slug":"cfif-reiterates-concerns-re-proposals-to-restructure-nations-air-traffic-control-atc-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24214\/cfif-reiterates-concerns-re-proposals-to-restructure-nations-air-traffic-control-atc-system\/","title":{"rendered":"CFIF Reiterates Concerns Re: Proposals to Restructure Nation&#8217;s Air Traffic Control (ATC) System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter sent to House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee\u00a0\u00a0members today, the\u00a0Center for Individual Freedom reiterated\u00a0its deep concerns regarding\u00a0 proposals to restructure the nation&#8217;s air traffic control (ATC) system.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to\u00a0pointing out ongoing concerns outlined in <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/images\/pdfs\/Coalition-Letter-FAA-ATC-08-05-2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a coalition letter that was sent back in August<\/a>, CFIF highlighted new concerns:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>Since that letter, the Defense Department stated just last week that creating a separate new ATC organization &#8220;raises serious concerns.&#8221;\u00a0 In its analysis, the Pentagon said, &#8220;The establishment of a new entity separate from the FAA raises serious concerns regarding the disposition of certain unique National Defense procedures, programs and policy.&#8221;\u00a0 It noted, &#8220;It is significant to note that the DOD relies on FAA &#8216;command and control&#8217; capabilities in the execution of the national defense mission.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Additionally, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) determined last year that creation of a nonprofit ATC corporation would widen the federal budget deficit by $20 billion between 2017 and 2026, and increase net direct spending by an alarming $90 billion over that same period.\u00a0 Separately, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) also determined that the proposed ATC restructuring may delay implementation of the NextGen air transportation system while necessary new safety oversight procedures were developed.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read CFIF&#8217;s\u00a0full letter <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/press-room\/3468-cfif-reiterates-concerns-regarding-proposals-to-restructure-nations-air-traffic-control-atc-system\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter sent to House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee\u00a0\u00a0members today, the\u00a0Center for Individual Freedom reiterated\u00a0its deep concerns regarding\u00a0 proposals to restructure the nation&#8217;s air traffic control (ATC) system. In addition to\u00a0pointing out ongoing concerns outlined in a coalition letter that was sent back in August, CFIF highlighted new concerns: Since that letter, the Defense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4939,3657,4940],"class_list":["post-24214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-air-traffic-control","tag-faa","tag-house-transportation-and-infrastructure-committee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24216,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24214\/revisions\/24216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}