In particular, we hope you will assist Secretary-Designate Norton in leading the NPS to recognize air tour visitation as an ecologically friendly, environmentally desirable and economically important mode of visitation that can provide access for many Americans at lesser impact on sensitive federal lands than any other form of visitation. Mr. Secretary-Designate, Helicopter Association International looks forward to opportunities to work with you, your directors, managers and other top staff to enhance the safety, efficiency, utility and convenience of helicopter transportation in the United States. In a short while, I will be in touch to arrange an opportunity to meet and discuss our common goals and interests. Working together, we hope to advance our industry to the benefit of all the citizens of the country. HAI is dedicated to the promotion of the helicopter as a safe, effective method of commerce and to the advancement of the civil helicopter industry.
Many challenges face our aviation industry.
As Secretary of the Interior, you can significantly influence several that are very important. Federal land management actions under the prior administration threaten the FAA's jurisdiction over domestic aviation activities. Under the prior administration, federal land management agencies were permitted to assert regulatory jurisdiction over matters outside the scope of their authority. Overreaching assertions of land management agency power such as these erode the uniformity and safety of our National Airspace System and are well outside the bounds of the law. We hope you will agree that these inappropriate actions must be reversed.