Sec. 743. GAO study and report on the alternate Essential Air Service program
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The Comptroller General shall study the effectiveness of the Alternate Essential Air Service program (in this section referred to as the Alternate EAS program ), including challenges if any that have impeded robust community participation in the Alternate EAS program. The study shall include an assessment of potential changes to the Alternate EAS program and the basic Essential Air Service programs under section 41731 of title 49, United States Code, wherein Governors of Essential Air Service eligible States and Puerto Rico are given block grants to distribute Essential Air Service funds to Essential Air Service eligible communities in their States and Puerto Rico.
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, the Comptroller General shall brief the appropriate committees of Congress on the study required by subsection (a), together with recommendations for such legislation and administrative action as the Comptroller General determines appropriate.