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GAO-13-262R 1 (2013-02-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacgwp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: jiGAO- ~~AccontabIIty * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 February 14, 2013 The Honorable John D. Rockefeller Chairman The Honorable John Thune Ranking Member Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate The Honorable Bill Shuster Chairman The Honorable Nick J. Rahall, II Ranking Member Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure House of Representatives Subject: Alternative Methods for Collecting Airport Passenger Facility Charges This report formally transmits the briefing held with your offices on January 15th and 16th, 2013, in response to the mandate under Section 112 of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (FAA reauthorization act).1 This section directed the Comptroller General to conduct a study of alternative means of collecting airport passenger facility charges (PFCs)2 that would allow such charges to be excluded from the ticket price, and in conducting this study, to consider: (1) collection options for arriving, connecting, and departing passengers at airports; (2) cost sharing or allocation methods based on passenger travel to address connecting traffic; and (3) examples of airport charges collected by domestic and international airports that are not included in ticket prices.3 In fulfilling this mandate, our objective was to identify existing and potential methods for collecting and allocating airport passenger facility charges, including from connecting passengers. Your office concurred 1Pub. L. No. 112-95, § 112,126 Stat. 11, 18 (2012). 2PFCs, which are collected from passengers, were introduced in 1990 with a cap of $3 per PFC to finance local airport infrastructure projects at commercial service airports. Collection of fees began in 1992. In 2000, Congress raised the cap on PFCs from $3.00 to $4.50 per boarding passenger. Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century (AIR-21), Pub. L. No. 106-181, § 105, 114 Stat. 61,71 (2000). 3During negotiations for the FAA reauthorization act, Senate bill S.223, § 202, 112th Cong., proposed a pilot program at up to six airports to impose an unlimited PFC collected directly from passengers by the participating airports. While this pilot program was not included in the final act, potential alternative collection methods have been explored by airport interests with the intention that an airport could impose an unlimited facility charge if the airport collected it directly from the passenger. GAO-13-262R Passenger Facility Charges

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