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105031 1 (1978-01-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadxxo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DOCUMENT RESUSE £5031 - [B03452041 GAO's Review of the Federal Aviation kirport Grant-in-Aid Program. anuary 24, 781S. 12 pp. 3 appendices (10 pp.). Testimony beio.-e the Hicuise Committee on ways and Means: Oversight Subco%&ittee; by Henry Eschewege, Director, Community and Economic Devels-nmonl Div. Contact: Community anfiEconomic Development Div. Organization Ccncernq 4ederal Aviation Administratio,,... Conqressional Reievanke!' House Coa.%ittde on Ways and means: Oversight Sub:om attee. Authority: Airport anTAirway Deveiopsent Act of 1970 (49 U.S.C. 1713). National % ronmeital Policy Act of 1969 (4 I.S.C. 4321). Airport an -Airwav Revenuc Act of 1970. F.L. 94-353. H.R. 8729 (95th $.Pg.). H. Ret. 95-836. An ongoing reView has been ronducted o. the Fderal Avi3tion Aesinistrat cits (FkA) airpori grant-in aid prrgram which provides fund the plahning and development of airports. Under tt- gweogram public airports are eli-ible for iatchinq Federal grants tor a wide variety of projec.G to improve their safety Irnd capacity. Part of the revie- has included preliminary.esults of a questionnaire se:c to airport operators. Cunqr.ssionil hearings have been held to determine whether FAA is usincj,$4e trust fund to eet airpert safety needs. On the toplc of- 'iation safety, ui the 400 airports responding to tha q ticnnaire, 631 indicate that they were satisfied with whathAd been accomplished at cbcir airports, 15* were neither satisfiA4,Por dissatisfiod, and about 151 were dissatisfied. O the respondetits, 345, or 86%, had applied for a qrant since 1970. Of ,36 respondents, 43, or 11%, had experienced lengthy niays. Thirty-four percent of the respondents indicate.dthat no one associated with their airport knew what developeen' projects FAA recommended for their airport. Sixty-two ptrvnt of the respondents indicated that they had important needs ..t their airrorts Ahich were ot eligible for Qrants. Fifty-six percent -f respcndents julieved that instructions fqi applying for airport derelonue-t grants were very clear aAd uiderstandable while 13% disagree4. (SY) e ' I -C - A