{"id":"AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE-016","kind":"context","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States (Federal Aviation Administration, Air Traffic Organization)","state":"","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"AVIATION-SURFACE","eco":"","issuer":"Federal Aviation Administration, Air Traffic Organization","authority":"49 U.S.C. § 40103(b)(1)-(2): the Administrator shall develop plans for the use of navigable airspace and prescribe air traffic regulations; FAA operational control of federal contract towers","instrument":"Control Tower Hour Adjustments list (FAA coronavirus regulatory-updates page), as posted Apr. 27-28, 2020","title":"Control Tower Hour Adjustments (reduced operating hours at federal contract and FAA control towers during the COVID-19 emergency)","dateIssued":"2020-04-27","effective":"2020-04 (rolling; hours reduced facility by facility from March 2020)","end":"varied by facility; restorations through 2020-2021","startDate":"2020-04-27","endDate":"2020-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3"],"types":["TRAV","OTHER"],"addressees":["aircraft operators, air carriers, fixed-base operators and flight schools using the listed airports"],"clause":"\u0022Control Tower Hour Adjustments\u0022 listing facility identifiers and names, e.g. \u0022ACK Nantucket Memorial Airport; ACT Waco Regional Airport; AGS Augusta Regional Airport; ALO Waterloo Regional; APA Centennial Airport; APC Napa County Airport; ARB Ann Arbor Municipal Airport; ARR Aurora Municipal Airport; AVL Asheville Regional Airport; BFL Meadows Field Airport; BGM Greater Binghamton Airport; BIS Bismarck Airport; BTR Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport...\u0022 with the adjusted hours of operation for each tower (list continues: ERI Erie International, FNT Flint Bishop International, GRR, HPN Westchester County, ISP Long Island MacArthur, LGB Long Beach, MYR Myrtle Beach, ORL Orlando Executive, PDK, PHF, PSP Palm Springs, RDG and others).","enforcement":"Operational: aircraft operate under non-towered procedures outside the listed hours (14 C.F.R. § 91.126-.127); FAA control of facility hours","functions":["OP airport operations (towered service withdrawn for part of each day at some 90 airports)","CB fixed-base operators, flight schools, charter operators and airport tenants","WF air traffic controller staffing under COVID-19 exposure protocols"],"notes":"The FAA reduced control-tower hours nationwide because of COVID-19 traffic collapse and controller exposures; the same period saw temporary ATC facility closures for cleaning (Midway Tower, Las Vegas Tower, Indianapolis Center and others), documented on the FAA coronavirus pages (not separately saved).","sourceUrl":"https://www.faa.gov/coronavirus/regulatory_updates/media/Control_Tower_Hour_Adjustment_list.pdf","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20200428075424/https://www.faa.gov/coronavirus/regulatory_updates/media/Control_Tower_Hour_Adjustment_list.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":68051,"grade":"primary","character":"context","description":"","collection":"AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE","url":"/library/AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE-016","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE-016","citation":"Federal Aviation Administration, Air Traffic Organization, Control Tower Hour Adjustments list (FAA coronavirus regulatory-updates page), as posted Apr. 27-28, 2020 (Apr. 27, 2020) (Ex. AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE-016)","stateName":"","related":[]}