Conferees Adopt Overflight Fees, $1.46 Billion For Airport Grants

House and Senate negotiators on the fiscal 1997 DOT appropriations bill (H.R.3675) agreed late Wednesday to fund FAA at $8.337 billion, virtually identical to the Senate-passed level, and adopted $75 million in foreign aircraft overflight fees as a partial offset for FAA operations funding. FAA's...

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