00                       SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 14                                                                    
01 Requesting the Federal Aviation Administration to fully staff and maintain flight service                               
02 stations in Alaska.                                                                                                     
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
04       WHEREAS the Alaska flight service stations of the Federal Aviation Administration                               
05 provide crucial services that are so intimately related to the public interest as to mandate                            
06 performance by federal employees; and                                                                                   
07       WHEREAS the Federal Aviation Administration is the agency of the federal                                        
08 government with primary responsibility for the safety of civil aviation in the United States;                           
09 and                                                                                                                     
10       WHEREAS proper staffing and maintenance of the flight service stations is a                                     
11 fundamental necessity for the continuation of crucial services to civil aviation in Alaska; and                         
12       WHEREAS the closure or degradation of any flight service stations in Alaska is                                  
13 contrary to the public interest, the primary responsibility of the Federal Aviation                                     
14 Administration for the safety of civil aviation, and homeland defense;                                                  
15       BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature respectfully requests the                                      
16 Federal Aviation Administration to maintain the current 206 flight service station controllers                          
01 in order to properly staff all flight service stations in Alaska and to properly maintain all flight                    
02 service stations in Alaska.                                                                                             
03       COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable George W. Bush, President                              
04 of the United States; the Honorable Richard B. Cheney, Vice-President of the United States                              
05 and President of the U.S. Senate; the Honorable Norman Mineta, United States Secretary of                               
06 Transportation; the Honorable Marion C. Blakey, Administrator, Federal Aviation                                         
07 Administration, United States Department of Transportation; the Honorable Ted Stevens and                               
08 the Honorable Lisa Murkowski, U.S. Senators, and the Honorable Don Young, U.S.                                          
09 Representative, members of the Alaska delegation in Congress; and to all other members of                               
10 the 108th United States Congress.