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 108 STAT. 702 PUBLIC LAW 103-260—MAY 26, 1994 (2) the term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Transportation. TITLE III—REFORM OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM SEC. 301. AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM. (a) STUDY. —The Secretary of Transportation shall undertake a study of management, regulatory, and legislative reforms which would enable the air traffic control system of the Federal Aviation Administration to provide better services to users and reduce the costs of providing services, without reducing the safety of the system or the availability of the system to all categories of users and without changing the basic organizational structure under which the system is part of the Federal Aviation Administration. (b) COMPONENTS.— The study to be conducted under subsection (a) shall include the following: (1) Evaluation of reforms which would streamline procurement, enhance the ability to attract and retain adequate staff at hard-to-staff facilities, simplify the personnel process, provide funding stability, ensure continuity of leadership, and reduce the incidence of unnecessarily detailed management oversight. (2) Identification of any existing laws or regulations governing procurement or personnel wmch are having an adverse effect on the operation or modernization of the air traffic control system. (3) Evaluation of a range of possible reforms and the advantages and disadvantages of each possible reform. (4) Comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of each possible reform with the comparable advantages and disadvantages to be achieved under any proposal of the Secretary of Transportation to create a separate Federal corporate entity to operate the air traffic control system. Reports. (c) DEADLINE. —The results of the study to be conducted under subsection (a) shall be contained in a report which shall be completed by the Secretary of Transportation on or before the date which is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, or the date on which the Secretary submits to Congress proposed legislation to create a separate corporate entity to operate the air traffic control system, whichever date occurs first. (d) TRANSMITTAL.—On the date of completion of the report under subsection (c), the Secretary of Transportation shall transmit copies of the report to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Public Works and Transportation of the House of Representatives. TITLE IV—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS W^es. SEC. 401. GRANDFATHER PROVISION FOR FAA DEMONSTRATION 49TrSC app. PROJECT. (a) IN GENERAL. — Notwithstanding the termination of the personnel demonstration project for certain Federal Aviation Administration employees on June 17, 1994, pursuant to section 1348 note.

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