IN THE NEWS.The U.S. Air Tour Association, more than 40 air tour operators who fly visitors over the Grand Canyon Grand Canyon, great gorge of the Colorado River, one of the natural wonders of the world; c.1 mi (1.6 km) deep, from 4 to 18 mi (6.4–29 km) wide, and 217 mi (349 km) long, NW Ariz. and other national parks This is a list of national parks ordered by nation. Africa
1 Town (1990 pop. 12,767), Middlesex co., S Conn., on Long Island Sound; settled 1663, set off from Killingworth and inc. 1838. The school that later became Yale opened here in 1702. to remove Federico Pena as U.S. Transportation Secretary, saying he caters to environmentalists at the expense of its $650 million-a-year tour industry. Sightseeing planes have been criticized for creating intrusive in·tru·sive adj. 1. Intruding or tending to intrude. 2. Geology Of or relating to igneous rock that is forced while molten into cracks or between other layers of rock. 3. Linguistics Epenthetic. noise within environmentally sensitive national parks. But industry officials say tour companies have worked with the federal agencies to develop flight rules, including flying above 2,000 feet and using less intrusive routes. But Pena, working with the National Park Service and the Department of the Interior, is trying to develop a set of national standards that would include flight restrictions over national parks. Proposed new rules would make about 87 percent of the area over the Grand Canyon off limits to air tours. The Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control , which would ultimately approve any flight restrictions, said Pena is trying to strike a fair balance among all interests in the use of air space over parks. |
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