English: Reading Airport, Pennsylvania (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Reading Regional Airport‘s air traffic control and training tower is not among the 149 air traffic control facilities that the Federal Aviation Administration announced Friday will close at small airports around the country starting next month.
The FAA made the decision on orders to trim hundreds of millions dollars from its budget as part of the sequestration plan.
Laura Brown, FAA spokeswoman, said only federal contract towers were targeted for closing, adding that Reading is an FAA tower that will require negotiations with the air traffic controllers union before any action is taken.
However, she said the FAA has proposed closing the Reading tower.
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