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B-164497(1) 1 (1974-01-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabknx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: t 3. U 'a L7O 1 3- Q - , . . [G E .CJI P' I R 'G 'i L'F THE UNITED STATES 0' WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 RELEASED B-164497(1) ,e/ A JA 30 1974 The Honorable Charles S. Gubser House of Representatives C 'Dear Mr. Gubser: Your letter of November 6, 1973, forwarded for our consideration a copy of a letter with an enclosure you received from a constituent, Mr. Charles E. Brady, alleging certain wasteful practices of the Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) and asked us for any information we may have developed relating to this matter. The enclosure with Mr. Brady's letter, a recent newsletter sent by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association to its members, alleges unnecessarily high costs for certain items that appear in the FAA budget for fiscal year 1974. Our Office has not previously reviewed the matter referred to in the hewsletter. However, it also has come to the attention of several other Members of Congress who asked FAA for a report on the matter. The information FAA developed in response to these inquiries and the information we obtained from FAA follow. We have not verified the information FAA provided. RADIO AIDS TO NAVIGATION FACILITIES The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association newsletter alleges that FAA is planning to incur unnecessary costs for seemingly simple radio aids to navigation facilities. According to the newsletter, Wilcox Electric Inc., of Kansas City, Missouri, a manufacturer of packaged equipment, offers a very high frequency omnirange (VOR) station for $45,000 and a VOR station with distance-measuring equipment (VOR-DME) for $80,000. In each case the price includes the price of basic equipment, test equip- ment, and building. In comparison, the newsletter lists the following four facilities together with FAA cost estimates. VOR station, Apple Valley, California $373,000 VOR station, Comfort, Texas 416,000 VOR station, Welfare, Texas 403,000 VOR-DME station, Salmon, Idaho 600,000 The equipment package Wilcox offered was housed in a circular metal building erected on a poured concrete base. FAA said that the package did not meet FAA's needs in many cases because the building was not

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