CONNECTICUT DELEGATION RELEASES STATEMENT ON AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL TOWER CLOSURES

(Hartford, CT) – TheConnecticut federal delegation released the following statement today regardingslated closures of air traffic control towers in Connecticut due to thesequester:

"We received word fromthe Federal Aviation Administration today that federal funding for the airtraffic control towers at Sikorsky Memorial, Danbury Municipal, Groton-NewLondon, Hartford-Brainard, Tweed-New Haven and Waterbury-Oxford airports may beterminated on April 7 as a result of the sequester. This move, which isentirely preventable, will have a direct impact on the residents employedby these airports who could lose their jobs, the local economies that rely onthese facilities and the safety of our airports. We will continue our effortsto reverse the sequester and work toward a bipartisan compromise that willavoid these arbitrary across-the-board cuts that threaten to cause job lossesin industries throughout the Connecticut economy."