Airport Improvement Program:
Update of Allocation of Funds and Passenger Facility Charges, 1992-94
RCED-95-225FS: Published: Jul 17, 1995. Publicly Released: Aug 1, 1995.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) allocation of Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funds and airports' collection of passenger facility charges (PFC).
GAO found that: (1) between 1982 and 1994, FAA allocated about $16 billion in AIP funds for improvements at 2,780 airports; (2) 216 of the 545 eligible airports have collected $1.4 billion in PFC for capital development projects; (3) Congress reduced the AIP appropriation to $1.45 billion in 1995; (4) FAA estimates that PFC collections could increase from $850 million to $1 billion annually if eligible airports begin to collect the fees; (5) commercial service airports received about 75 percent of AIP allocations from 1992 to 1994 and are the only airports eligible to collect PFC; (6) FAA directed 65 percent of all AIP funds to on land acquisition projects and projects focusing on pavements on runways, taxiways, and aprons from 1992 to 1994; and (7) airports plan to use about 47 percent of PFC revenues for projects to develop terminals and improve airport access and about 21 percent of these revenues for debt servicing costs.
Sep 30, 2020
Supplemental Material For GAO-20-686:
Transit Asset Management: Survey of TAM Program ParticipantsGAO-20-687SP: Published: Sep 30, 2020. Publicly Released: Sep 30, 2020.-
Transit Asset Management:
FTA Should Clarify Performance Data and Develop a Plan to Guide Future Program ImprovementsGAO-20-686: Published: Sep 30, 2020. Publicly Released: Sep 30, 2020.
Sep 8, 2020
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Airport Funding:
Information on Grandfathered Revenue Diversion and Potential Implications of RepealGAO-20-684: Published: Sep 8, 2020. Publicly Released: Sep 8, 2020. -
Aviation Sanitation:
FDA Could Better Communicate with Airlines to Encourage Voluntary Construction Inspections of Aircraft Galleys and LavatoriesGAO-20-612: Published: Sep 8, 2020. Publicly Released: Sep 8, 2020.
Sep 2, 2020
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Facial Recognition:
CBP and TSA are Taking Steps to Implement Programs, but CBP Should Address Privacy and System Performance IssuesGAO-20-568: Published: Sep 2, 2020. Publicly Released: Sep 2, 2020.
Aug 20, 2020
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Aircraft Noise:
Information on a Potential Mandated Transition to Quieter AirplanesGAO-20-661: Published: Aug 20, 2020. Publicly Released: Aug 20, 2020.
Aug 18, 2020
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Aviation Safety:
Actions Needed to Evaluate Changes to FAA's Enforcement Policy on Safety StandardsGAO-20-642: Published: Aug 18, 2020. Publicly Released: Aug 18, 2020.
Aug 10, 2020
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Transportation Research:
Additional Actions Could Improve DOT's Internal Collaboration and Reliability of Information on Research ActivitiesGAO-20-622: Published: Aug 10, 2020. Publicly Released: Aug 10, 2020.
Jul 27, 2020
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Surface Transportation Security:
TSA Has Taken Steps to Improve its Surface Inspector Program, but Lacks Performance TargetsGAO-20-558: Published: Jul 27, 2020. Publicly Released: Jul 27, 2020.
Jul 16, 2020
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Capital Investment Grants Program:
FTA Should Improve the Effectiveness and Transparency of Its ReviewsGAO-20-512: Published: Jul 16, 2020. Publicly Released: Jul 16, 2020.
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