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AUG
9
2004
U.S. Department
of
Homeland Security601 South 12th Street
Arlington,
VA 22202
Transportation
Security
Administration
Mr.
Daniel MarcusGeneral CounselNational Commission
on
TerroristAttacks Upon the United States301 7
th
Street,SW, Rm5125Washington,
DC
20407Dear
Mr.
Marcus:
Enclosed please
find
the Transportation Security Administration's
(TSA)
responses toTSA Questions
for the
Record (QFR) numbers
1 and 2,
submitted
by the
NationalCommission
on
Terrorist Attacks Upon
the
United States (Commission). Please note that
the
response
document provided
for the
first item
in QFR 2
contains
Sensitive
Security
Information
(SSI) and is marked accordingly. Please maintain this information inaccordance with the Commission's agreement with TSA for handling of SSI.
Sincerely,
Jrandon
B. StrausAssistant Chief Counsel
(Regulations)
Enclosurescc: John M. Mitnick
Office
ofGeneral Counsel
www.tsa.gov
 
RESPONSE
TOTSA
QUESTIONS
FOR THE
RECORD
No. 1
SUBMITTED
BY THE
NATIONALCOMMISSION
ON
TERRORIST ATTACKS UPON
THE
UNITED STATES(9-11
COMMISSION)
1.
What
was the
policy
regarding
when individual airports could
reopen
after
the
September
11,2001
terror attacks?
On
September 12,
2001,
the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mandated additionalimmediate security
measures
for
airport
and
aircraft
operators.
An
airport could
reopen
once
its
Federal Security Manager (FSM)orCivil Aviation Security Field
Office
(CASFO),asappropriate, communicated
to FAA
Headquarters that
all
security measures were
fully
implemented
at
that airport.
2. On
what date,
and at
what precise time,
did the
following airports
reopen
after
the
September
11,2001
terror attacks?
If the
date
and
time differ
for
general aviation
versus commercial,
please
provide both:a.
Providence,
Rhode
Island
b.
Tampa, Floridac. Lexington, Kentuckyd.
St.
Louis,
Missouri
e. Los
Angeles, California
f.
Orlando,
Florida
g.
Washington (Dulles)
h. Boston (Logan),
Massachusetts
i.
Las
Vegas,
Nevada
j. New
York (JFK
and La
Guardia)k. Hanscom Airfield in Bedford,
Massachusetts
The
following
is a
list
of the
dates
and
times
for
which
TSA has a
record that
FAA
field
personnel communicated
to FAA
Headquarters that these airports
had
fully
implemented
all
security measures,
and
therefore could reopen.
These
dates
and
times
are
recorded
on one of the
following
three logs, which were previously provided to the Commission in response to TSADocument Request
No. 7: 1) ACS CM
system
log
titled:
"Crisis
Management
and
EventTracking System Event Log Report"; 2) Log by AEA-700 titled: "Eastern Region Ops Center
Log
Chronological Events
of
Hi-Jacking Crisis
As of 01/02/02 at
10:25"
(includes Sept.
11
-
Jan. 2); and 3) Log by ANE-ROC titled "Crisis-Hijacked
Aircraft
Tuesday,
9/11/01.
In somecases, there
are two or
more entries
for the
time
at
which
an
airport
was
certified
to
reopen.
In
addition
to the
time
or
times each airport
was
certified
to
reopen, below
are the
times
that
eachairport reopened, for the airports for which we have that information.
These
times are based onreports
by the
individual airports, notations
in the
logs,
or
conversations with former
FAA or
airport personnel. Time zones for times listed were not typically noted.
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Unless otherwise noted, we do not have information indicating that the general aviation portions
of
these airports
opened
at
different times
from
those specified below.
However,
on
September 14,
2001,
the national airspace was reopened to certain general aviation operations,except within25nautical miles(NM) ofWashington Reagan Nationaland NewYork Kennedyairports. Operation under Visual Flight Rules
(VFR)
was not allowed nationwide. OnSeptember 19,
2001,
there was a limited resumption of general aviation (GA) operations underVFR.VFR flightoperations were prohibitedinEnhanced ClassBairspace, whichwas inplacearound 27
major
metropolitan areas of the
U.S.
a.
Providence, Rhode Island
(PVD)
•
Certified
to
reopen 9/13/2001
at
00:07
•
Reopened
on
9/13/01
for
commercial
flights
• For
general aviation limited
flights
resumed
on
9/12/01
b. Tampa, Florida (TPA)
•
Certified
to
reopen
9/13/2001 at
05:57
• The
airport
notified
the air
carriers that
TPA was
authorized
to
reopen
at
0830 hours on 9/13/2001c. Lexington, Kentucky (LEX)
•
Certified
to
reopen
9/13/2001
at
00:07
• Was
given authorization
by the FAA to
reopen
at
1200N
EST on
9/13/2001
for
both
GA and
commercial aviation;
the
first
commercial
flight
departure
was
ASA, Delta Connection,
to
Atlanta (ATL), whichdeparted at 12:50 p.m. EST
d.
St.
Louis, Missouri (STL)
•
Certified
to
reopen 9/12/2001
at
17:08
and 9/13/2001 at
00:07•
Reopened
on
9/12/2001
at
19:00
e. Los
Angeles, California (LAX)
•
Certified
to
reopen
9/13/2001 at
00:07
•
Reopened
on
9/13/2001
at
12:00
f.
Orlando, Florida (MCO)
•
Certified
to
reopen (unknown)
•
Reopened
on
9/12/2001
at
14:08
g.
Washington (Dulles) (IAD)
•
Certified
to
reopen
on
9/12/2001
at
18:30
and
9/13/2001
(no
time given)
•
Reopened (limited)
on
9/13/2001
(no
time given)
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