On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 23:54:12 GMT, David Pincus
wrote:

: Fitzair4 wrote:
:
: Latest news from the EAA.
: Great News! Sport Pilot Leaves DOT for OMB
: December 24, 2003 - Christmas came early to the aviation community when
: Department of Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta signed off on the sport
: pilot/light-sport aircraft rulemaking package and forwarded it to the Office of
: Management and Budget (OMB) late on Tuesday, December 23.
: "This is great news, as it completes an important step to make sport
: pilot/light-sport aircraft a reality," said EAA President Tom Poberezny.
: My compliments to FAA and DOT for their hard work in getting this important
: task accomplished. EAA and the aviation community have been looking forward to
: this important announcement as the rulemaking package enters its final
: phase.
:
: OMB now has 90 days in which to review and return the package to the FAA, at
: which time it would be published in the Federal Register as a final rule.
:
: Merry Christmas from all of us at EAA!
:
: WWW.eaa.org
:
:
:Fitz,
:
oes OMB routinely approve things like the Sport Pilot/Aircraft regs, or
:do they have a habit of changing things, and thus dragging these
rocedures out further?

OMB is straight up or down. They might go back to FAA and say "did
you know that this part of the reg is going to cost the Department of
Agriculture $330 million, are you sure you want to do this?" but they
can't change it themselves.