Aviation View | April 2021

7 AVIATION VIEW APRIL 2021 NBAAWELCOMES INCREASED CAPITOL HILL FOCUS ON SUSTAINABLE AVIATION FUELS O n March 31, 2021, the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) recognized a bipartisan congressional request to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) for a study exploring effective policy measures to expand awareness, availability and use of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF). “This study offers an opportunity to answer the industry’s central question around SAF: when it comes to availability and use of these pioneering fuels, how far can we go, and how quickly can we get there?” said NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen. “These fuels hold the promise of dramatically reducing carbon emissions, and we know there is strong demand, which is why we are actively supporting a targeted blender’s tax credit to increase availability.” Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-4-OR), chair of the U.S. House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee (T&I), joined ranking member Sam Graves (R-6-MO) and Aviation Subcommittee Chair Rick Larsen (D-2-WA) and panel ranking member Garret Graves (R-6-LA) in a March 18 letter requesting the GAO examine government policies that both help and hinder “the development, certification, production, deployment and use of SAF,” as well as policies that could help to accelerate deployment of such fuels. Read the letter to the GAO. The congressional request for the GAO study comes as leaders in industry and government have stepped up their calls for increasing the fuels’ availability. OPENING L INES