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Second Regular Session

Sixty-first General Assembly

LLS NO. R98­0918.01 JBB

STATE OF COLORADO




BY REPRESENTATIVE Reeser;

also SENATOR J. Johnson.

TRANSPORTATION & ENERGY

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 98-1036

WHEREAS, The Aircraft Repair Station Safety Act of 1997 pending in the federal congress would require all aircraft maintenance facilities, whether domestic or abroad, to adhere to the same safety and operating procedures; and

WHEREAS, The Aircraft Repair Station Safety Act of 1997 would provide for more stringent standards for certification of foreign aircraft repair stations by the Federal Aviation Administration and would revoke the certification of any repair facility that knowingly uses defective parts; and

WHEREAS, There are over five hundred fifty persons with a combined annual income of over twenty­nine million dollars employed in the aircraft repair industry in Colorado whose jobs are at risk of being moved out of the United States unless foreign aircraft repair stations are required to adhere to our safety and operating procedures; and

WHEREAS, On January 9, 1997, House Resolution No. 145 was introduced in the House of Representatives of the United States by Representative Robert Borski; and

WHEREAS, On July 30, 1997, a companion bill, S. 1089, was introduced in the Senate of the United States by Senator Arlen Specter; and

WHEREAS, H.R. 145 and S. 1089 both propose to enact the Aircraft Repair Station Safety Act of 1997; now, therefore,

Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixty­first General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the Senate concurring herein:

That the General Assembly requests the United States Congress to enact and the President to sign the Aircraft Repair Station Safety Act of 1997.

Be It Further Resolved, that copies of this Joint Resolution be sent to the President and Vice­President of the United States, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, and to each member of the Congressional delegation from Colorado.


Created: 4/16/98 Updated: 4/16/98