Tue, Jul 26, 2011
DOT Plans To Implement Changes In The Program August 2nd
The NBAA and the AOPA on Monday announced the introduction of a
web site for individuals and companies to provide financial support
for the two associations' legal battle to preserve the Block
Aircraft Registration Request (BARR).
The creation of the BARR Legal Defense Fund was announced as
AOPA and NBAA recently filed a court challenge to the DOT's
decision to discontinue the BARR program, and begin broadcasting
the aviation movements of citizens and companies. The challenge
from AOPA and NBAA is before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit.
"Many people in the general aviation community have asked NBAA
and AOPA to establish a legal fund to provide a means to
demonstrate, through financial contributions, their support for our
court battle to preserve the BARR," said NBAA President and CEO Ed
Bolen. "This new web site for the BARR Legal Defense Fund provides
an easy, convenient way for people to make a contribution toward
this important fight."
AOPA President and CEO Craig Fuller agreed, adding: "If we are
going to be successful in our efforts to preserve the BARR, all of
us in the GA community must coordinate our actions and pool
resources. This mechanism for contributing online to the BARR Legal
Defense Fund is another tool to help us do that."
The introduction of the
new web site for making a contribution to the BARR
Legal Defense Fund adds to the existing means for making a
contribution with a check sent by mail.
The lawsuit filed by NBAA and AOPA to preserve the BARR follows
the Department of Transportation's (DOT's) June 3 notice in the
Federal Register of the agency's plan to move forward with
previously announced plans for dismantling the program. The DOT
intends to fully implement its changes to the program on August 2,
in spite of overwhelming opposition to the plan from aviation
interests, business organizations, privacy groups and members of
the U.S. House and Senate, all of whom have written the DOT to
express their principled objections to the government's intentions
and called upon the agency to shelve its plans.
Contributions to the BARR Legal Defense Fund will help ensure
that NBAA and AOPA have the resources needed for our court fight to
preserve this highly valued program, Bolen said. We ask everyone
who is concerned about their basic right to privacy – and is
unwilling to forfeit that right just because they board an aircraft
– to help support our continuing work to preserve the
privacy, safety, security and competitiveness of citizens and
companies alike.
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