; and (5) by striking subsections (f) and (h) and redesignating subsection (g) (as amended by paragraph (4)) as subsection (f). 753. GAO study and report on the alternate Essential Air Service program (a) Study The Comptroller General shall study the effectiveness of the Alternate Essential Air Service program (in this section referred to as the Alternate EAS program ), including challenges if any that have impeded robust community participation in the Alternate EAS program. The study shall include an assessment of potential changes to the Alternate EAS program and the basic Essential Air Service programs under section 41731 of title 49, United States Code, wherein Governors of Essential Air Service eligible States and Puerto Rico are given block grants to distribute Essential Air Service funds to Essential Air Service eligible communities in their States and Puerto Rico. (b) Briefing Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, the Comptroller General shall brief the appropriate committees of Congress on the study required by subsection (a), together with recommendations for such legislation and administrative action as the Comptroller General determines appropriate. 754. Essential air service in parts of Alaska Not later than September 1, 2024, the Secretary, in consultation with the appropriate State authority of Alaska, shall review all domestic points in the State of Alaska that were deleted from carrier certificates between July 1, 1968, and October 24, 1978, and that were not subsequently determined to be an eligible place prior to January 1, 1982, as a result of being unpopulated at that time due to destruction during the 1964 earthquake and its resultant tidal wave, to determine whether such points have been resettled or relocated and should be designated as an eligible place entitled to receive a determination of the level of essential air service supported, if necessary, with Federal funds. 755. Essential air service community petition for review (a) In general Section 41733 of