Organizations Lobby To Keep Funding for Contract Tower Program
February 13, 2014
Currently, the fiscal 2014 transportation funding bill (H.R.2610) provides $140 million in funding to the contract tower program. The program funds the nation’s 251 FAA contract towers, 149 of which were threatened with budget cuts last spring as part of sequestration. Fearing that funding for the towers could be vulnerable to budget cuts, industry groups recently sent a letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees in support of keeping the funding.