Post by coldlover on Oct 3, 2018 22:20:56 GMT -5
Still need the President to sign the bill, but that is almost certain from what I hear.... www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2018/10/03/senate-gives-final-approval-faa-reauthorization-sends-bill-white-house/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b72754787d8b
First off-- thanks to all that fought the good fight and continue to do so!!! Also to the USCWOA and the coalition 6 of contractors that started the ball rolling with Signal. Without both of these - I'am very confident many CWO's would be closed-- if not the entire program by now. You know who you are who started such a powerful pushback!!!! Great Thanks from the CWO community!!!
in the FAA RE-AUTH bill-- CWO's are protected until end of FY 2023. The language reads as the following-
SEC. 523. CONTRACT WEATHER OBSERVERS. Section 2306(b) of the FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–190; 130 Stat. 641) is amended by striking ‘‘2018’’ and inserting ‘‘2023’’.--- found on page 454--- docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20180924/HR302.pdf
The original FAA Extension Safety, and Security Act of 2016 language that pertains to CWO's is the following-
SEC. 2306. CONTRACT WEATHER OBSERVERS.
(a) I
N
G
ENERAL
.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress
a report, which includes public and stakeholder input—
(1) examining the safety risks, hazard effects, and efficiency
and operational effects for airports, airlines, and other stake-
holders that could result from a loss of contract weather
observer service at the 57 airports targeted for the loss of
the service;
(2) detailing how the Federal Aviation Administration will
accurately report rapidly changing severe weather conditions
at the airports, including thunderstorms, lightning, fog, visi-
bility, smoke, dust, haze, cloud layers and ceilings, ice pellets,
and freezing rain or drizzle, without contract weather observers;
(3) indicating how airports can comply with applicable Fed-
eral Aviation Administration orders governing weather observa-
tions given the current documented limitations of automated
surface observing systems; and
(4) identifying the process through which the Federal Avia-
tion Administration analyzed the safety hazards associated with
the elimination of the contract weather observer program.
(b) C
ONTINUED
U
SE OF
C
ONTRACT
W
EATHER
O
BSERVERS
.— In essence- The
Administrator may not discontinue the contract weather observer
program at any airport until October 1, 2023. www.congress.gov/114/plaws/publ190/PLAW-114publ190.pdf
First off-- thanks to all that fought the good fight and continue to do so!!! Also to the USCWOA and the coalition 6 of contractors that started the ball rolling with Signal. Without both of these - I'am very confident many CWO's would be closed-- if not the entire program by now. You know who you are who started such a powerful pushback!!!! Great Thanks from the CWO community!!!
in the FAA RE-AUTH bill-- CWO's are protected until end of FY 2023. The language reads as the following-
SEC. 523. CONTRACT WEATHER OBSERVERS. Section 2306(b) of the FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–190; 130 Stat. 641) is amended by striking ‘‘2018’’ and inserting ‘‘2023’’.--- found on page 454--- docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20180924/HR302.pdf
The original FAA Extension Safety, and Security Act of 2016 language that pertains to CWO's is the following-
SEC. 2306. CONTRACT WEATHER OBSERVERS.
(a) I
N
G
ENERAL
.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress
a report, which includes public and stakeholder input—
(1) examining the safety risks, hazard effects, and efficiency
and operational effects for airports, airlines, and other stake-
holders that could result from a loss of contract weather
observer service at the 57 airports targeted for the loss of
the service;
(2) detailing how the Federal Aviation Administration will
accurately report rapidly changing severe weather conditions
at the airports, including thunderstorms, lightning, fog, visi-
bility, smoke, dust, haze, cloud layers and ceilings, ice pellets,
and freezing rain or drizzle, without contract weather observers;
(3) indicating how airports can comply with applicable Fed-
eral Aviation Administration orders governing weather observa-
tions given the current documented limitations of automated
surface observing systems; and
(4) identifying the process through which the Federal Avia-
tion Administration analyzed the safety hazards associated with
the elimination of the contract weather observer program.
(b) C
ONTINUED
U
SE OF
C
ONTRACT
W
EATHER
O
BSERVERS
.— In essence- The
Administrator may not discontinue the contract weather observer
program at any airport until October 1, 2023. www.congress.gov/114/plaws/publ190/PLAW-114publ190.pdf
