Title 49, TransportationRelease 119-102
§44503 Reducing Nonessential Expenditures
Title 49 › SUBTITLE VII — AVIATION PROGRAMS › PART A — AIR COMMERCE AND SAFETY › subpart iii — safety › CHAPTER 445 — FACILITIES, PERSONNEL, AND RESEARCH › § 44503
Summary
The Secretary of Transportation must seek to reduce airport and airway costs as much as possible while keeping aviation safe, and must at least once a year consult system users and consider ideas that safely lower future staffing and user‑charge costs.
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Title 49, §44503
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The Secretary of Transportation shall attempt to reduce the capital, operating, maintenance, and administrative costs of the national airport and airway system to the maximum extent practicable consistent with the highest degree of aviation safety. At least annually, the Secretary shall consult with and consider the recommendations of users of the system on ways to reduce nonessential expenditures of the United States Government for aviation. The Secretary shall give particular attention to a recommendation that may reduce, with no adverse effect on safety, future personnel requirements and costs to the Government required to be recovered from user charges.
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Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 4450349 App.:1704.July 12, 1976, Pub. L. 94–353, § 25, 90 Stat. 885. The words “in accordance with this section” and “due” are omitted as surplus. The word “personnel” is substituted for “manpower” for consistency in the revised title.
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49 U.S.C. § 44503
Title 49, Transportation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102