Action
Final rule.
Summary
On September 22, 2001, President Bush signed into law the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act ("the Act"). The Act makes available to the President funds to compensate air carriers, as defined in the Act, for direct losses suffered as a result of any Federal ground stop order and incremental losses beginning September 11, 2001, and ending December 31, 2001, directly resulting from the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. On October 29, 2001, the Department published a rule to carry out this Act, which it amended on January 2, 2002, and April 16, 2002. The Department requested comment on each of these issuances, and the comments received were addressed in the subsequent version of the rule. This document responds to the comments received on the April 2002 amendments.