Excerpt from Federal Aviation Administration's Passenger Facility Charge Program: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives One Hundred Third Congress First Session, July 28, 1993 Congress responded to these problems by passing Section 1113 of the Federal Aviation Act in 1973, prohibiting local governments. State governments. Or airport authorities from imposing charges on airline passengers. By 1990. However, concerns about the lack of airport capacity had become widespread. Hearings before the Aviation Subcommittee that year indicated that airport development needs during the 1990s would be greater than ever before. And that. Realistically. Federal funding would be unlikely to meet more than 20% to 30% of those needs. Historically. Federal funding for airport development had comprised approximately one-third of the total capital used for this purpose. Because of anticipated increased airport development needs. A new source of local funding was desirable. An additional rationale for new local funding was that under the existing mechanisms for local funding airlines frequently had the power to delay or prevent needed capital development at airports. Some of which could be used to promote competition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.