In a cost-cutting move, the FAA will soon announce a program to cancel approaches at some airports after several years of intense activity to provide procedures to airports that had been inaccessible in instrument weather. Sources told AVweb last week that a formal announcement of the program will come from the FAA in a few weeks. The FAA says it incurs flight check and obstacle survey costs for hundreds of approaches that are used very little, if at all.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/news/faa-to-start-trimming-procedures