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DOT News Digest 146-16

DOT Issues New Enforcement Policy on Extended Tarmac Delays.  The Department’s Office of Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings, a unit within the Office of the General Counsel, today issued a new enforcement policy on extended tarmac delays in light of the FAA Extension, Safety, and...

What They’re Saying: We Need an FAA Bill Extension

Contractors have been told to stop work on critical airport modernization projects around the country after Congress failed to pass legislation giving the FAA the authority necessary for work to continue by last Friday’s deadline.  Dozens of “stop work orders” have been issued for major...