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http://www.congressweb.com/cweb4/index.cfm?orgcode=nata&issue=34
Click the link above to send an email to your congressman (text and explanation below) to stop this unnecessary and troublesome proposal. You can personalize the email or letters before sending. It only takes a couple of minutes.....or less if you don't want to edit the letter. PLEASE WRITE.
In December 2008, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued a Security Directive (SD) to the directors of airports serving commercial air carriers. The SD mandated changes to the issuance of airport identification media and expanded the base of individuals who would be required to obtain airport identifications.
This SD institutes new procedures for individuals with access to the Airport Operations Area (AOA) of commercial airports regulated by 49 CFR 1542. These new procedures will vastly expand the number of individuals required to undergo Security Threat Assessments to include groups such as general aviation employees, aircraft owners and hangar lessees. These are people who do not have any regular access to the secured airline terminal areas.
Many individuals at general aviation facilities on commercial airports around the country routinely require unescorted access to their own personal aircraft or leased hangars. While I understand the TSA's intention to increase the overall level of security at commercial airports by imposing a badging requirement for individuals to gain unescorted access to the AOA, I believe that the TSA has chosen an inappropriate method to impose new security regulations, restrictions and penalties on a large class of individuals.
The SD imposes a specific requirement on previously unregulated persons. By extending these requirements using a security directive, the TSA is promulgating regulations without the benefit of required analyses to justify the collection of personal data from private persons and without public notice and comment. The preferred action is for the TSA to initiate the rulemaking process and retract the SD. Doing so would allow the current and newly regulated parties the opportunity to review the proposed regulations and provide the TSA the benefit of receiving their comments on the proposed requirements.
Click the link above to send an email to your congressman (text and explanation below) to stop this unnecessary and troublesome proposal. You can personalize the email or letters before sending. It only takes a couple of minutes.....or less if you don't want to edit the letter. PLEASE WRITE.
In December 2008, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued a Security Directive (SD) to the directors of airports serving commercial air carriers. The SD mandated changes to the issuance of airport identification media and expanded the base of individuals who would be required to obtain airport identifications.
This SD institutes new procedures for individuals with access to the Airport Operations Area (AOA) of commercial airports regulated by 49 CFR 1542. These new procedures will vastly expand the number of individuals required to undergo Security Threat Assessments to include groups such as general aviation employees, aircraft owners and hangar lessees. These are people who do not have any regular access to the secured airline terminal areas.
Many individuals at general aviation facilities on commercial airports around the country routinely require unescorted access to their own personal aircraft or leased hangars. While I understand the TSA's intention to increase the overall level of security at commercial airports by imposing a badging requirement for individuals to gain unescorted access to the AOA, I believe that the TSA has chosen an inappropriate method to impose new security regulations, restrictions and penalties on a large class of individuals.
The SD imposes a specific requirement on previously unregulated persons. By extending these requirements using a security directive, the TSA is promulgating regulations without the benefit of required analyses to justify the collection of personal data from private persons and without public notice and comment. The preferred action is for the TSA to initiate the rulemaking process and retract the SD. Doing so would allow the current and newly regulated parties the opportunity to review the proposed regulations and provide the TSA the benefit of receiving their comments on the proposed requirements.
