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 PUBLIC LAW 100-202—DEC. 22, 1987

101 STAT. 1329-380

SEC. 316. None of the funds in this Act shall be used to implement section 404 of title 23, United States Code. SEC. 317. (a) SAFETY ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM PERFORMANCE.—The

Reports. 49 USC 308 note.

Secretary of Transportation shall on or before January 1 of each year transmit to the Congress a comprehensive report on the Federal Aviation Administration's prior fiscal year safety enforcement activities. The report shall include: ( D a comparison of end-of-year staffing levels by inspector category (operations, maintenance, avionics) to staffing goals and a statement as to how staffing standards were applied to make allocations between air carrier and general aviation operations, maintenance and avionics inspectors; (2) schedules showing the range of inspector experience by various inspector work force categories, and the number of inspectors in each of the categories who are considered fully qualified; (3) schedules showing the number and percentage of inspectors who have received mandatory training by individual course, and the number of inspectors, by work force categories, who have received all mandatory training; (4) a description of the criteria used to set annual work programs, an explanation of how these criteria differ from criteria used in the prior fiscal year and how the annual work programs ensure compliance with appropriate Federal regulations and safe operating practices; (5) a comparison of actual inspections performed during the fiscal year to the annual work programs disaggregated to the field locations and, for any field location completing less than 80 percent of its planned number of inspections, an explanation as to why annual work program plans were not met; (6) a statement of the adequacy of Federal Aviation Administration internal management controls available to ensure that field managers are complying with Federal Aviation Administration policies and procedures including those regarding inspector priorities, district office coordination, minimum inspection standards, and inspection follow-up; (7) the status of the Federal Aviation Administration's efforts Regulations. to update inspector guidance documents and Federal regulations to include technological, management, and structural changes taking place within the aviation industry, including a listing of the backlog of all proposed regulatory changes; (8) a list of the specific operational meeisures of effectiveness—"best proxies" standing between the ultimate goal of accident prevention and ongoing program activities—that are being used to evaluate progress in meeting program objectives, the quality of program delivery, and the nature of emerging safety problems; (9) a schedule showing the number of civil penalty cases closed during the two prior fiscal years, including total initial assessments, total final assessments, total dollar amount collected, range of dollar amount collected, average case processing time, and range of case processing time; (10) a schedule showing the number of enforcement actions taken, excluding civil penalties, during the two prior fiscal years, including total number of violations cited, and the number of cited violation cases closed by certificate suspension, certification revocations, warnings, and no action taken; and

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