Although air traffic control reform will not be pursued in the next Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill, lawmakers still need to hash out some issues, and may even debate some new topics as they proceed to reach a long-term reauthorization solution.

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster, R-Pa., who is set to retire after this year, announced late last month he would no longer seek to include a controversial provision in the 21st Century Aviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization Act that would have removed air traffic control from the FAA, and instead established an independent nonprofit to oversee the function.