The Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA's) recent notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) regarding air carrier contract maintenance requirements came as no surprise. After all, it stems from the FAA Modernization & Reform Act of 2012 (commonly referred to as the FAA's 2012 "reau-thorization"), which took more than six years to come to fruition. As the leading trade group for the aviation maintenance industry, the Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA) kept a close eye on developments as Congress worked toward reauthoriza-tion. During that time, the Association's legislative team recommended improvements, and some of which were adopted in the final law.
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