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Old 02-08-2011 | 10:02 AM
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Exclamation Rest Rules amendment exempts certain airlines
This is ridiculously absurd and unsafe. Please help us all by checking one's email regarding the email sent yesterday. It will only take a minute to enter an objection.
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Senator Inhofe (R-OK) proposed amendment SA 7 to S.223 (S.223 -- FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act ) which exempts supplemental operations from any of the FAA proposed FAR rule changes. The specific language is enclosed below:

On page 230, between lines 7 and 8, insert the following:

SEC. 565. RESTRICTION ON ALTERATION OF FLIGHT TIME LIMITATIONS AND REST REQUIREMENTS FOR SUPPLEMENTAL OPERATIONS.
(a) In General.--The flight time limitations and rest requirements for supplemental operations under subpart S of part 121 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act), shall remain in effect unless and until the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration issues a final rule in a rulemaking proceeding described in subsection (b).
(b) Rulemaking Proceeding Described.--A rulemaking proceeding described in this subsection is a rulemaking proceeding--
(1) with respect to modernizing the flight time limitations and rest requirements only with respect to supplemental operations under subpart S of part 121 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations; and
(2) that is not a part of, or otherwise connected to, the rulemaking proceeding under Docket No. FAA-2009-1093, http://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/rulemaking/recently_published/media/FAA_2010_22626.pdf , as described in the notice of proposed rulemaking published in the Federal Register on September 14, 2010 (75 Fed. Reg. 55852).
(c) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section requires the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct a rulemaking proceeding with respect to the flight time limitations and rest requirements for supplemental operations under subpart S of part 121 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, if the Administrator determines that the flight time limitations and rest requirements under that subpart (as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act) are sufficient to ensure the safety of supplemental operations.


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