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Introduction

  The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) is currently evaluating the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Small Community Air Service Development Grant program. GAO is the independent and nonpartisan investigative arm of the U.S. Congress. At the request of the Congress, GAO evaluates federal programs, audits federal expenditures, and issues legal opinions. It studies how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars and advises the Congress and the heads of executive agencies about ways to make government more effective and responsive.

Under the Small Community Air Service Development Grant program, DOT may make a maximum of 40 grants a year to communities that meet the eligibility criteria for the grant. To be eligible, the airport serving the community should not be larger than a small hub airport as of calendar year 1997 and had insufficient air carrier service or unreasonably high fares. For this study, GAO is examining (1) how passenger traffic and air service have changed at the nation’s small community airports, (2) how DOT has implemented the Small Community Air Service Development Grant program, and (3) what strategies have been used and what results have been obtained by the grants provided under the Small Community Air Service Development Grant program. As part of this review, GAO is surveying airports that have applied for, but have not received a grant as well as airports that received a grant.
 

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