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McCollum Tower Spared

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced the news on Friday.

The air traffic control tower at McCollum Field, one of 149 regional airport towers that the FAA decided to close as part of a plan to meet $637 million in cuts required under budget sequestration, has been spared.

Funding was scheduled to cease for the 149 towers on June 15.

However, "the recently enacted Reducing Flight Delays Act of 2013 will allow the FAA to transfer sufficient funds to end employee furloughs and keep the 149 low activity contract towers originally slated for closure in June open for the remainder of fiscal year 2013," the FAA said Friday in a statement.

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This is the second time that the FAA has amended plans to close the towers.

In late March, the FAA announced that McCollum would close May 5. The next month, the FAA moved that date to June 15.

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