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[Discussion Draft]
[Discussion Draft]
112th CONGRESS 1st Session
RULES COMMITTEE PRINT OF H.R. 658
March 22, 2011
1.Short title; table of contents
(a)This Act may be cited as the FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011
.
(b)
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Amendments to title 49, United States Code.
Sec. 3. Effective date.
Title I—Authorizations
Subtitle A—Funding of FAA Programs
Sec. 101. Airport planning and development and noise compatibility planning and programs.
Sec. 102. Air navigation facilities and equipment.
Sec. 103. FAA operations.
Sec. 104. Funding for aviation programs.
Sec. 105. Delineation of Next Generation Air Transportation System projects.
Sec. 106. Funding for administrative expenses for airport programs.
Subtitle B—Passenger Facility Charges
Sec. 111. Passenger facility charges.
Sec. 112. Airport access flexibility program.
Sec. 113. GAO study of alternative means of collecting PFCs.
Sec. 114. Qualifications-based selection.
Subtitle C—Fees for FAA Services
Sec. 121. Update on overflights.
Sec. 122. Registration fees.
Subtitle D—Airport Improvement Program Modifications
Sec. 131. Airport master plans.
Sec. 132. Aerotropolis transportation systems.
Sec. 133. AIP definitions.
Sec. 134. Recycling plans for airports.
Sec. 135. Contents of competition plans.
Sec. 136. Grant assurances.
Sec. 137. Agreements granting through-the-fence access to general aviation airports.
Sec. 138. Government share of project costs.
Sec. 139. Allowable project costs.
Sec. 140. Veterans’ preference.
Sec. 141. Standardizing certification of disadvantaged business enterprises.
Sec. 142. Special apportionment rules.
Sec. 143. Apportionments.
Sec. 144. Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau.
Sec. 145. Designating current and former military airports.
Sec. 146. Contract tower program.
Sec. 147. Resolution of disputes concerning airport fees.
Sec. 148. Sale of private airports to public sponsors.
Sec. 149. Repeal of certain limitations on Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.
Sec. 150. Midway Island Airport.
Sec. 151. Miscellaneous amendments.
Sec. 152. Extension of grant authority for compatible land use planning and projects by State and local governments.
Sec. 153. Priority review of construction projects in cold weather States.
Sec. 154. Study on national plan of integrated airport systems.
Sec. 155. Transfers of terminal area air navigation equipment to airport sponsors.
Sec. 156. Airport privatization program.
Title II—NextGen Air Transportation System and Air Traffic Control Modernization
Sec. 201. Definitions.
Sec. 202. NextGen demonstrations and concepts.
Sec. 203. Clarification of authority to enter into reimbursable agreements.
Sec. 204. Chief NextGen Officer.
Sec. 205. Definition of air navigation facility.
Sec. 206. Clarification to acquisition reform authority.
Sec. 207. Assistance to foreign aviation authorities.
Sec. 208. Next Generation Air Transportation System Joint Planning and Development Office.
Sec. 209. Next Generation Air Transportation Senior Policy Committee.
Sec. 210. Improved management of property inventory.
Sec. 211. Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast services.
Sec. 212. Expert review of enterprise architecture for NextGen.
Sec. 213. Acceleration of NextGen technologies.
Sec. 214. Performance metrics.
Sec. 215. Certification standards and resources.
Sec. 216. Surface systems acceleration.
Sec. 217. Inclusion of stakeholders in air traffic control modernization projects.
Sec. 218. Siting of wind farms near FAA navigational aids and other assets.
Sec. 219. Airspace redesign.
Title III—Safety
Subtitle A—General Provisions
Sec. 301. Judicial review of denial of airman certificates.
Sec. 302. Release of data relating to abandoned type certificates and supplemental type certificates.
Sec. 303. Design and production organization certificates.
Sec. 304. Aircraft certification process review and reform.
Sec. 305. Consistency of regulatory interpretation.
Sec. 306. Runway safety.
Sec. 307. Improved pilot licenses.
Sec. 308. Flight attendant fatigue.
Sec. 309. Flight Standards Evaluation Program.
Sec. 310. Cockpit smoke.
Sec. 311. Safety of air ambulance operations.
Sec. 312. Off-airport, low-altitude aircraft weather observation technology.
Sec. 313. Feasibility of requiring helicopter pilots to use night vision goggles.
Sec. 314. Prohibition on personal use of electronic devices on flight deck.
Sec. 315. Noncertificated maintenance providers.
Sec. 316. Inspection of foreign repair stations.
Sec. 317. Sunset of line check.
Subtitle B—Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Sec. 321. Definitions.
Sec. 322. Commercial unmanned aircraft systems integration plan.
Sec. 323. Special rules for certain unmanned aircraft systems.
Sec. 324. Public unmanned aircraft systems.
Sec. 325. Unmanned aircraft systems test ranges.
Subtitle C—Safety and Protections
Sec. 331. Postemployment restrictions for flight standards inspectors.
Sec. 332. Review of air transportation oversight system database.
Sec. 333. Improved voluntary disclosure reporting system.
Sec. 334. Aviation Whistleblower Investigation Office.
Sec. 335. Duty periods and flight time limitations applicable to flight crewmembers.
Title IV—Air Service Improvements
Subtitle A—Essential Air Service
Sec. 401. Essential air service marketing.
Sec. 402. Notice to communities prior to termination of eligibility for subsidized essential air service.
Sec. 403. Essential air service contract guidelines.
Sec. 404. Essential air service reform.
Sec. 405. Small community air service.
Sec. 406. Adjustments to compensation for significantly increased costs.
Sec. 407. Repeal of EAS local participation program.
Sec. 408. Sunset of essential air service program.
Subtitle B—Passenger Air Service Improvements
Sec. 421. Smoking prohibition.
Sec. 422. Monthly air carrier reports.
Sec. 423. Flight operations at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Sec. 424. Musical instruments.
Sec. 425. Passenger air service improvements.
Sec. 426. Airfares for members of the Armed Forces.
Sec. 427. Review of air carrier flight delays, cancellations, and associated causes.
Sec. 428. Denied boarding compensation.
Sec. 429. Compensation for delayed baggage.
Sec. 430. Schedule reduction.
Sec. 431. DOT airline consumer complaint investigations.
Sec. 432. Study of operators regulated under part 135.
Sec. 433. Use of cell phones on passenger aircraft.
Title V—Environmental Streamlining
Sec. 501. Overflights of national parks.
Sec. 502. State block grant program.
Sec. 503. NextGen environmental efficiency projects streamlining.
Sec. 504. Airport funding of special studies or reviews.
Sec. 505. Noise compatibility programs.
Sec. 506. Grant eligibility for assessment of flight procedures.
Sec. 507. Determination of fair market value of residential properties.
Sec. 508. Prohibition on operating certain aircraft weighing 75,000 pounds or less not complying with stage 3 noise levels.
Sec. 509. Aircraft departure queue management pilot program.
Sec. 510. High performance, sustainable, and cost-effective air traffic control facilities.
Sec. 511. Sense of Congress.
Sec. 512. Aviation noise complaints.
Title VI—FAA Employees and Organization
Sec. 601. Federal Aviation Administration personnel management system.
Sec. 602. Presidential rank award program.
Sec. 603. FAA technical training and staffing.
Sec. 604. Safety critical staffing.
Sec. 605. FAA air traffic controller staffing.
Sec. 606. Air traffic control specialist qualification training.
Sec. 607. Assessment of training programs for air traffic controllers.
Sec. 608. Collegiate training initiative study.
Sec. 609. FAA facility conditions.
Sec. 610. Frontline manager staffing.
Title VII—Aviation Insurance
Sec. 701. General authority.
Sec. 702. Extension of authority to limit third-party liability of air carriers arising out of acts of terrorism.
Sec. 703. Clarification of reinsurance authority.
Sec. 704. Use of independent claims adjusters.
Title VIII—Miscellaneous
Sec. 801. Disclosure of data to Federal agencies in interest of national security.
Sec. 802. FAA access to criminal history records and database systems.
Sec. 803. Civil penalties technical amendments.
Sec. 804. Realignment and consolidation of FAA services and facilities.
Sec. 805. Limiting access to flight decks of all-cargo aircraft.
Sec. 806. Consolidation or elimination of obsolete, redundant, or otherwise unnecessary reports; use of electronic media format.
Sec. 807. Prohibition on use of certain funds.
Sec. 808. Study on aviation fuel prices.
Sec. 809. Wind turbine lighting.
Sec. 810. Air-rail code sharing study.
Sec. 811. D.C. Metropolitan Area Special Flight Rules Area.
Sec. 812. FAA review and reform.
Sec. 813. Cylinders of compressed oxygen or other oxidizing gases.
Title IX—National Mediation Board
Sec. 901. Authority of Inspector General.
Sec. 902. Evaluation and audit of National Mediation Board.
Sec. 903. Repeal of rule.
Title X—Federal Aviation Research and Development Reauthorization Act of 2011
Sec. 1001. Short title.
Sec. 1002. Definitions.
Sec. 1003. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 1004. Unmanned aircraft systems.
Sec. 1005. Research program on runways.
Sec. 1006. Research on design for certification.
Sec. 1007. Airport cooperative research program.
Sec. 1008. Centers of excellence.
Sec. 1009. Center of excellence for aviation human resource research.
Sec. 1010. Interagency research on aviation and the environment.
Sec. 1011. Aviation fuel research and development program.
Sec. 1012. Research program on alternative jet fuel technology for civil aircraft.
Sec. 1013. Review of FAA’s energy- and environment-related research programs.
Sec. 1014. Review of FAA’s aviation safety-related research programs.
Title XI—Airport and Airway Trust Fund Financing
Sec. 1101. Short title.
Sec. 1102. Extension of Airport and Airway Trust Fund expenditure authority.
Sec. 1103. Extension of taxes funding Airport and Airway Trust Fund.
Title XII—Compliance With Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010
Sec. 1201. Compliance provision.
2.Amendments to title 49, United States CodeExcept as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or a repeal of, a section or other provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of title 49, United States Code.
3.Except as otherwise expressly provided, this Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act.
<enum>I</enum><header>Authorizations</header>
<subtitle id="HA6A5B677F53E421AAB90AB44B486DF60"><enum>A</enum><header>Funding of FAA Programs</header>
<section id="H0080D97970B240C69A96E6E083B58FB3"><enum>101.</enum><header>Airport planning and development and noise compatibility planning and programs</header>
<subsection id="HBBB3CD77A33946A99ED7AFA3D898CE98"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Authorization</header><text>Section 48103 is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H41B16354838C48049BA08CA0F2657676" style="USC">
<section id="HB54F887664B14B858FB452AFBFE50DDB"><enum>48103.</enum><header>Airport planning and development and noise compatibility planning and programs</header>
<subsection id="H24301848D9A44D33BC62B8D4506F9B58"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There shall be available to the Secretary of Transportation out of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund established under section 9502 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make grants for airport planning and airport development under section 47104, airport noise compatibility planning under section 47505(a)(2), and carrying out noise compatibility programs under section 47504(c)—</text>
<paragraph id="H1ABF1B4FE86544E98AA852F86FA730F7"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$3,176,000,000 for fiscal year 2011;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6BA48FC391754A8B8DE93FE81F8865D3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>$3,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2012;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA2D5F54797CE45FD82D03481E7010BFE"><enum>(3)</enum><text>$3,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2013; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC17DAD5F0B8041FC99A96C7E214FBF2D"><enum>(4)</enum><text>$3,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2014.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H1F15D49DD0BD420197E4EE971CD9FB2F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Availability of amounts</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amounts made available under subsection (a) shall remain available until expended.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H23F8CE9D90574A4F9504C0FBCF0A11D0"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amounts made available under subsection (a) may not be used for carrying out the Airport Cooperative Research Program or the Airports Technology Research Program.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HCEC442F97C0F488EAEBBB4BF684CBE43"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Obligational authority</header><text>Section 47104(c) is amended by striking <quote>March 31, 2011</quote> and inserting <quote>September 30, 2014</quote>.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H16BE1616D838473A803F41BFFAE974BC"><enum>102.</enum><header>Air navigation facilities and equipment</header>
<subsection id="H9D59FB221153470E8F196E7AC62AD7E7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 48101(a) is amended by striking paragraphs (1) through (6) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HBC7C238C2B01492BAB27BDFDDD1E7414" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H0C5408082FA0466CA03600058E9D3BC3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>$2,700,000,000 for fiscal year 2011.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC7E55FB91BE846408D13FA8FF7E018A1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>$2,600,000,000 for fiscal year 2012.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFD9FE2EE900D4F5483F9D9BEF471719D"><enum>(3)</enum><text>$2,600,000,000 for fiscal year 2013.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H62FDA1A864CA4BE4A8D321336EBC88A9"><enum>(4)</enum><text>$2,600,000,000 for fiscal year 2014.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="HC33CE49D985B4B7FBFB6AF2041AC2A7E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Set-Asides</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 48101 is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H79E08748787C4ECD8C835E0F176BCF1C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking subsections (c), (d), (e), (h), and (i); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H616C952FAC1241D2B6319ABBD4305FCE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating subsections (f) and (g) as subsections (c) and (d), respectively.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="H79205C7D1E6E4B9F8B48179629D46ADF"><enum>103.</enum><header>FAA operations</header>
<subsection id="H31162A0E83094A57B1B696015ECEA0D8"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 106(k)(1) is amended by striking subparagraphs (A) through (F) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H72351D93399C41E6A8ACA109486BA8D2" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="H79FECA7CACE34713AAA32F5881B0EF49"><enum>(A)</enum><text>$9,403,000,000 for fiscal year 2011;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD5E8C64E67374194A8F41973A9500FAE"><enum>(B)</enum><text>$9,168,000,000 for fiscal year 2012;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H76E677A7A96D4CFEA67A8B29BE4D34E0"><enum>(C)</enum><text>$9,168,000,000 for fiscal year 2013; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H884CDFEBDF3E4944BE37228BA019FAF9"><enum>(D)</enum><text>$9,168,000,000 for fiscal year 2014.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H650FB86B515740E8A3B175439D4DCEFB"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Authorized expenditures</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 106(k)(2) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HAC7AEC2C96AF44E1B7A4D41C6E6DAE5A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), and (D);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2B5EEC2B62B542ED9017FF7C08BD22FB"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating subparagraphs (E), (F), and (G) as subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C), respectively; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H99E2DCA1088F4360B579B08D3E3384DE"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) (as so redesignated) by striking <quote>2004 through 2007</quote> and inserting <quote>2011 through 2014</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H3D879D7A78214DA89D81CBD897DD80DF"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Authority To transfer funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 106(k) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA399E702F4094C17AE24A7CFB042680A" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="HACC5D7E1B8F544AC8F65A1EEA9F54D19"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Administering program within available funding</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in each of fiscal years 2011 through 2014, if the Secretary determines that the funds appropriated under paragraph (1) are insufficient to meet the salary, operations, and maintenance expenses of the Federal Aviation Administration, as authorized by this section, the Secretary shall reduce nonsafety-related activities of the Administration as necessary to reduce such expenses to a level that can be met by the funding available under paragraph (1).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA418B31EB95C4D9996A35DF94885B253" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>104.</enum><header>Funding for aviation programs</header>
<subsection id="H6A35132D18A144B7853AD40B8A0C249B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Airport and Airway Trust Fund guarantee</header><text>Section 48114(a)(1)(A) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="HEEA4A1308E214223887EFBC4E04C97B6" style="USC">
<subparagraph id="HE897A2280745490B83D9526894987809"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The total budget resources made available from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund each fiscal year pursuant to sections 48101, 48102, 48103, and 106(k) shall—</text>
<clause id="H49E234459A924B6688DCDAA12C8029F1"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in fiscal year 2011, be equal to 90 percent of the estimated level of receipts plus interest credited to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for that fiscal year; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HDBE2B8ECE3F74C408F79487508BA682F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in fiscal year 2012 and each fiscal year thereafter, be equal to the sum of—</text>
<subclause id="HA96830EA78F9407F80A9B5E0C821A863"><enum>(I)</enum><text>90 percent of the estimated level of receipts plus interest credited to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for that fiscal year; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H171D3783A0D748239A345221186D4B96"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the actual level of receipts plus interest credited to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for the second preceding fiscal year minus the total amount made available for obligation from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for the second preceding fiscal year.</text></subclause></clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">Such amounts may be used only for aviation investment programs listed in subsection (b).</continuation-text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H02A242FCEED64AAC9D9D64C8123119CF"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Additional authorizations of appropriations from the general fund</header><text>Section 48114(a)(2) is amended by striking <quote>2007</quote> and inserting <quote>2014</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H7A610663C57E446A802FBCF33EDF2288"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Estimated level of receipts plus interest defined</header><text>Section 48114(b)(2) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H24453B7712E54383B9FCED381EE716F4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the paragraph heading by striking <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">Level</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">Estimated level</header-in-text></quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H278606F3B1E2468A8C084766830E1975"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>level of receipts plus interest</quote> and inserting <quote>estimated level of receipts plus interest</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H1516D1B9488446D7B31F03E3EE079B37"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Enforcement of guarantees</header><text>Section 48114(c)(2) is amended by striking <quote>2007</quote> and inserting <quote>2014</quote>.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H96AA2C4A1F81494699EC60F2A037871A"><enum>105.</enum><header>Delineation of Next Generation Air Transportation System projects</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 44501(b) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HCFD36A6981894790A4742FC931868721"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (3) by striking <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4F474BF6ECBC4B509EDC542704E2CA41"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (4)(B) by striking <quote>defense.</quote> and inserting <quote>defense; and</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB8AF31EE076E4A699E0AF3450823DABB"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H342B9121A06343F48A69EB33D8830054" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H25BC54F3CF1649EEB80D48D73AE9CEC6"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a list of capital projects that are part of the Next Generation Air Transportation System and funded by amounts appropriated under section 48101(a).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section>
<section id="H04ECE15134CD4C5DB1093C4D22DBD323"><enum>106.</enum><header>Funding for administrative expenses for airport programs</header>
<subsection id="H1D24CE486C2F42528DF50CB7F9A861DF"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 48105 is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCCD7B2E9DB5048AABD479BFD1E0A23E8" style="USC">
<section id="H6E0FA3D1D6914812BE907593FD951F02"><enum>48105.</enum><header>Airport programs administrative expenses</header>
<subsection id="H8BD5248D2E184AD2AE74BEB660EBC57D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the funds made available under section 48103, the following amounts may be available for administrative expenses of the Federal Aviation Administration described in subsection (b):</text>
<paragraph id="HC3C709B7BEEE47339B65C5E65C25687D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>$85,987,000 for fiscal year 2011.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1AF46D49EB8548B7B86A07D9C02F4866"><enum>(2)</enum><text>$80,676,000 for fiscal year 2012.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE29F90D290D34552943EE8B5FEB1FEB9"><enum>(3)</enum><text>$80,676,000 for fiscal year 2013.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H216D79722B2A4EA99F53FBA6EA757C8F"><enum>(4)</enum><text>$80,676,000 for fiscal year 2014.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HC67632A90C30452AADA6AD110E15D8D2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Eligible administrative expenses</header><text>Amounts made available under subsection (a) may be used for administrative expenses relating to the airport improvement program, passenger facility charge approval and oversight, national airport system planning, airport standards development and enforcement, airport certification, airport-related environmental activities (including legal services), and other airport-related activities.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HB202EBED3C97480BBE2438B978646BD1"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Availability of amounts</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amounts made available under subsection (a) shall remain available until expended.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H739C438BAC454B5E9316CD5C2E21E783"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The analysis for chapter 481 is amended by striking the item relating to section 48105 and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H799DE981394D41939F6AD35BDB7984E3" style="USC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">48105. Airport programs administrative expenses.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section></subtitle>
<subtitle id="H3988C32C31EC4ED5ADD8785C9A922789"><enum>B</enum><header>Passenger Facility Charges</header>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H88B27AA654834C99B53D3ACF5A918AA1" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>111.</enum><header>Passenger facility charges</header>
<subsection id="H3B7C0464B1D54615B3F4FBFB3B7C7A2D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>PFC defined</header><text>Section 40117(a)(5) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDA283732D34C46B7A405D49C81623966" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H4AEF065ABA944D9E8141F1F4062BC15D"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Passenger facility charge</header><text>The term <term>passenger facility charge</term> means a charge or fee imposed under this section.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H866EB83BE73545A894F8B003BA4951BC"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Pilot program for PFC authorizations at nonhub airports</header><text>Section 40117(l) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H68054100E1CB48D9A3CACCA9788855C1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (7); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9DA6C81AE1CC499E9B32F69E2AE630A8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraph (8) as paragraph (7).</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H7C9349FE0A93464B9EB0F2B14C04A4ED"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Correction of references</header>
<paragraph id="HE5E6CC9256654E7A8C2818891A4B9F2A"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Section 40117</header><text>Section 40117 is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="HCA1BAA1B7D4F43C4922D16610DB050AC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the section heading by striking <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">fees</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">charges</header-in-text></quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HA753FDB2C62845899366FB8DFB054B04"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the heading for subsection (e) by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">Fees</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">Charges</header-in-text></quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HCCB83E9FB7E94426B4063B6E4D640A6D"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in the heading for subsection (l) by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">Fee</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">Charge</header-in-text></quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HEC634C69749145CC85457C3D289B900D"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in the heading for paragraph (5) of subsection (l) by striking <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">fee</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">charge</header-in-text></quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H278296CB4DB04B55B3979ADE7D64A319"><enum>(E)</enum><text>in the heading for subsection (m) by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">Fees</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">Charges</header-in-text></quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H903222C4F2E444F2A9C70B276F985D1F"><enum>(F)</enum><text>in the heading for paragraph (1) of subsection (m) by striking <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">fees</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">charges</header-in-text></quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE8269F410AC34E8AB65920FFDB0F48E3"><enum>(G)</enum><text>by striking <quote>fee</quote> each place it appears (other than the second sentence of subsection (g)(4)) and inserting <quote>charge</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0D034F1E98CB4DE2B60FB74E3C721151"><enum>(H)</enum><text>by striking <quote>fees</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>charges</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF557106EE89F449C8543BF0BAE1DDAAE"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Other references</header><text>Subtitle VII is amended by striking <quote>fee</quote> and inserting <quote>charge</quote> each place it appears in each of the following sections:</text>
<subparagraph id="H5DFA8D773EE94F56B42B04F3740C04A6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Section 47106(f)(1).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H187938D2BCB04DAEBB98181D00622DBD"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Section 47110(e)(5).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HC48B2C86D2BE40AB9EEC95AFFA748A7F"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Section 47114(f).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0C8D17C4B59841C9BEA2DDD6E89AB1E1"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Section 47134(g)(1).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H64EE6D864CEA4543A69F5F14BF705A0E"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Section 47139(b).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H779177028E9A4A49A2F3E34B67D20724"><enum>(F)</enum><text>Section 47524(e).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H1C91C26698D346E1B603A9FB5F155B6A"><enum>(G)</enum><text>Section 47526(2).</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H523A29851DA144A298123DB83CAE29AF"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The analysis for chapter 401 is amended by striking the item relating to section 40117 and inserting the following:</text>
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<toc-entry level="section">40117. Passenger facility charges.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB318CDE05BF74102A0885A9028FBEA72" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>112.</enum><header>Airport access flexibility program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 40117 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection id="H3CAD979BB54D48ED86B4FACE8F492C7A"><enum>(n)</enum><header>Airport access flexibility program</header>
<paragraph id="H2A936E5F990144F39FDECB2625A81CD5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>PFC eligibility</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the requirements of this subsection, the Secretary shall establish a pilot program under which the Secretary may authorize, at no more than 5 airports, a passenger facility charge imposed under subsection (b)(1) or (b)(4) to be used to finance the eligible cost of an intermodal ground access project.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC48E6370E6E24D3A9896AA0672E7AD80"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Intermodal ground access project defined</header><text>In this subsection, the term <term>intermodal ground access project</term> means a project for constructing a local facility owned or operated by an eligible agency that is directly and substantially related to the movement of passengers or property traveling in air transportation.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA6022F5FD22A44AA8118EB37D8BDFB42"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Eligible costs</header>
<subparagraph id="H96E95B095C234AE898E573360BE783AB"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>For purposes of paragraph (1), the eligible cost of an intermodal ground access project at an airport shall be the total cost of the project multiplied by the ratio that—</text>
<clause id="H6A6AB14C725B47FD827B52EDE89F81AD"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the number of individuals projected to use the project to gain access to or depart from the airport; bears to</text></clause>
<clause id="H5A19C3230DA544E08793E47D10FA0D15"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the total number of the individuals projected to use the facility.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H50B275AFD8B2477FB2BF339B50A4A405"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Determinations regarding projected project use</header>
<clause id="HA06E2A30A394493DB618AE509BB14E67"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as provided by clause (ii), the Secretary shall determine the projected use of a project for purposes of subparagraph (A) at the time the project is approved under this subsection.</text></clause>
<clause id="H209B635778C74061B6308900CF25574E"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Public transportation projects</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of a project approved under this section to be financed in part using funds administered by the Federal Transit Administration, the Secretary shall use the travel forecasting model for the project at the time the project is approved by the Federal Transit Administration to enter preliminary engineering to determine the projected use of the project for purposes of subparagraph (A).</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8B8FAFC7D63248228833E48E370810B0" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>113.</enum><header>GAO study of alternative means of collecting PFCs</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="H9914F953CE194776BB52BDCD3ACE6935"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Comptroller General shall conduct a study of alternative means of collecting passenger facility charges imposed under section 40117 of title 49, United States Code, that would permit such charges to be collected without being included in the ticket price. In conducting the study, the Comptroller General shall consider, at a minimum—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H83061B3204564581AE75A9B07BD9953C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>collection options for arriving, connecting, and departing passengers at airports;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H105A078E2B254B0C8D215172F3478447"><enum>(2)</enum><text>cost sharing or allocation methods based on passenger travel to address connecting traffic; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HB0B83EDA6E0C411C989DDBE6DF96139D"><enum>(3)</enum><text>examples of airport charges collected by domestic and international airports that are not included in ticket prices.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="HE920ABD10B0F4519A9EAA35F9184879C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report on the study, including the Comptroller General's findings, conclusions, and recommendations.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H7195CF21738B4871A50BC5BD762A23BC" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>114.</enum><header>Qualifications-based selection</header>
<subsection id="H45DA21E4AA0949E0B952936017F7BAEC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Qualifications-based selection defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the term <quote>qualifications-based selection</quote> means a competitive procurement process under which firms compete for capital improvement projects on the basis of qualifications, past experience, and specific expertise.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H4F742516CBEE48288BF06D96FEF1212B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Sense of Congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">It is the sense of Congress that airports should consider the use of qualifications-based selection in carrying out capital improvement projects funded using passenger facility charges collected under section 40117 of title 49, United States Code, with the goal of serving the needs of all stakeholders.</text></subsection></section></subtitle>
<subtitle id="HDDE12BFBB928443C8308C3F701F546AB"><enum>C</enum><header>Fees for FAA Services</header>
<section id="H666FEF23CEB147839B7C823A88C5941E"><enum>121.</enum><header>Update on overflights</header>
<subsection id="HC5EABF8DCDBC4247AC392E43D558FAA7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment and adjustment of fees</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 45301(b) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subsection id="HA2301E73FF2E45ACAE013DF832B74EB2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Establishment and adjustment of fees</header>
<paragraph id="H9C7E91BD40FA4B60946AB9C6662821FF"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>In establishing and adjusting fees under this section, the Administrator shall ensure that the fees are reasonably related to the Administration's costs, as determined by the Administrator, of providing the services rendered.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HAB4B081E23A04B01BA82033A1E7CCA1E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Services for which costs may be recovered</header><text>Services for which costs may be recovered under this section include the costs of air traffic control, navigation, weather services, training, and emergency services that are available to facilitate safe transportation over the United States and the costs of other services provided by the Administrator, or by programs financed by the Administrator, to flights that neither take off nor land in the United States.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2998AF4145BC4C34BCE6267A672AB8F0"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Limitations on judicial review</header><text>Notwithstanding section 702 of title 5 or any other provision of law, the following actions and other matters shall not be subject to judicial review:</text>
<subparagraph id="H52EB042D612540378009BC80865A7748"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The establishment or adjustment of a fee by the Administrator under this section.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HAC398DEE77DB4B4DA5AB0935AB1CC5E6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The validity of a determination of costs by the Administrator under paragraph (1), and the processes and procedures applied by the Administrator when reaching such determination.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD75BC52E038C4A0FB3999E943F02C59E"><enum>(C)</enum><text>An allocation of costs by the Administrator under paragraph (1) to services provided, and the processes and procedures applied by the Administrator when establishing such allocation.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFC6AF4DD8F49404AA268A71CB30C62DF"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Adjustment of overflight fees</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In accordance with section 106(f)(3)(A), the Administrator shall adjust the overflight fees established by subsection (a)(1) by issuing a final rule with respect to the notice of proposed rulemaking published in the Federal Register on September 28, 2010 (75 Fed. Reg. 59661).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCDA18D008237452281CA3265AD946574"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Aircraft altitude</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nothing in this section shall require the Administrator to take into account aircraft altitude in establishing any fee for aircraft operations in en route or oceanic airspace.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H47A900A421504D968396B41AEC31D5AC"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Costs defined</header><text>In this subsection, the term <term>costs</term> includes operation and maintenance costs, leasing costs, and overhead expenses associated with the services provided and the facilities and equipment used in providing such services.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB766722E868646A691F06D45B0AD3C83"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Special rule for fiscal years 2011 through 2015</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In each of fiscal years 2011 through 2015, section 45303(c) shall not apply to any increase in fees collected pursuant to a final rule described in paragraph (4).</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H470AE5804C4B4475AE1FCF611DAE3721"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Adjustment of fees</header><text>Section 45301 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection id="HF5435FC6604E422CAF4D6EB7588CB843"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Adjustment of fees</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In addition to adjustments under subsection (b), the Administrator may periodically adjust the fees established under this section.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section id="H71676517ED8E4383A778F697604E2CE8"><enum>122.</enum><header>Registration fees</header>
<subsection id="HABBDDE5758FF402BB3673A735D74BB18"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>Chapter 453 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<section id="H0FDA4DDBFDD6451CA08B1B4DB19A4D9A"><enum>45305.</enum><header>Registration, certification, and related fees</header>
<subsection id="H0537A0B477F942E7AB53266C8BCC9A4A"><enum>(a)</enum><header>General Authority and Fees</header><text>Subject to subsection (b), the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall establish and collect a fee for each of the following services and activities of the Administration that does not exceed the estimated costs of the service or activity:</text>
<paragraph id="H064570BD6C6340D18F8F84057F6E2FEB"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Registering an aircraft.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H770A2E28225144599DE2119E98A4E64D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Reregistering, replacing, or renewing an aircraft registration certificate.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HAA17B743B67D452B85E23599C7F68A49"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Issuing an original dealer’s aircraft registration certificate.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF3ADCE44BDB94DEE989D6B4BB7DC0E64"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Issuing an additional dealer’s aircraft registration certificate (other than the original).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1639A1937A454736B5344DD1197EFBFB"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Issuing a special registration number.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HBCA190B81CF54DED9F34D3A248065C72"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Issuing a renewal of a special registration number reservation.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD81314D9583C4A48B7E600033E40E57C"><enum>(7)</enum><text>Recording a security interest in an aircraft or aircraft part.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H020D3CED4DD640FF9934111D216A9659"><enum>(8)</enum><text>Issuing an airman certificate.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF9D889BF763D41BC9C7A2DDF1C3F4EF4"><enum>(9)</enum><text>Issuing a replacement airman certificate.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF1057844C2B94DB5888BE76C38A3A1C0"><enum>(10)</enum><text>Issuing an airman medical certificate.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H28936234CB304EFFAB0EF0CC688FE4AE"><enum>(11)</enum><text>Providing a legal opinion pertaining to aircraft registration or recordation.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H54DDDC26019749DE992C69B0AB98A071"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Limitation on Collection</header><text>No fee may be collected under this section unless the expenditure of the fee to pay the costs of activities and services for which the fee is imposed is provided for in advance in an appropriations Act.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HA7B83C12A3074DFD9596060A34503745"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Fees Credited as Offsetting Collections</header>
<paragraph id="HB6A21E543C0943BB827B4B4E06D09ECC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Notwithstanding section 3302 of title 31, any fee authorized to be collected under this section shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="HB28BB6C97C5A4DBAB27EC185CD779936"><enum>(A)</enum><text>be credited as offsetting collections to the account that finances the activities and services for which the fee is imposed;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H6A34E38FE30749B896A286A088A43F5E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>be available for expenditure only to pay the costs of activities and services for which the fee is imposed, including all costs associated with collecting the fee; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HBB51E44B9C2C455EBF4F211511AC7369"><enum>(C)</enum><text>remain available until expended.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7BD752902B844DC7911EB675C31CFD47"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Continuing appropriations</header><text>The Administrator may continue to assess, collect, and spend fees established under this section during any period in which the funding for the Federal Aviation Administration is provided under an Act providing continuing appropriations in lieu of the Administration’s regular appropriations.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0979751B87DC426686D1360B6519C016"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Adjustments</header><text>The Administrator shall adjust a fee established under subsection (a) for a service or activity if the Administrator determines that the actual cost of the service or activity is higher or lower than was indicated by the cost data used to establish such fee.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H45742D4A0B3E4203BD75A012FDB058FF"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The analysis for chapter 453 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<toc-entry level="section">45305. Registration, certification, and related fees.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H0C09006B3DF24B1ABAF625ACB267D7CC"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Fees involving aircraft not providing air transportation</header><text>Section 45302(e) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HA16DFD0CC7EF4A2B8E791DFA6CDF8649"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>A fee</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="HA3B1E593496A4568A67CB1211E1F02C4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A fee</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB8724EFA759A43CC962EB7A0A6517543"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="HDB61EC4ABACF47239463C206326B1FA6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effect of imposition of other fees</header><text>A fee may not be imposed for a service or activity under this section during any period in which a fee for the same service or activity is imposed under section 45305.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle>
<subtitle id="HA9A19B6F3594485B82BD49CA3E72D221"><enum>D</enum><header>Airport Improvement Program Modifications</header>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDEE6CC8BF34945F98F8CDDEB59E1AFBE" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>131.</enum><header>Airport master plans</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 47101(g)(2) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H086B666D94F049DCB2104D474B47F4DD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B) by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB13942DEA8DD4726B120347D4568AB78"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (D); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HEE8CC792FBBE452CA72E301B87A8A56D"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following:</text>
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<subparagraph id="H312EEAA8251846F389E37D920D8213D2"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">consider passenger convenience, airport ground access, and access to airport facilities; and</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section>
<section id="H5D70ED41D9B44D0CA5C8155AE1D051F8" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>132.</enum><header>Aerotropolis transportation systems</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 47101(g) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="HB95EF7E0BCD4491B855754E104DB6C68"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Aerotropolis transportation systems</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Encourage the development of aerotropolis transportation systems, which are planned and coordinated multimodal freight and passenger transportation networks that, as determined by the Secretary, provide efficient, cost-effective, sustainable, and intermodal connectivity to a defined region of economic significance centered around a major airport.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEB4027FD9743465C9623809173B76202" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>133.</enum><header>AIP definitions</header>
<subsection id="H06C4C4C7422C4C159CD6B88BED083C7F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Airport development</header><text>Section 47102(3) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HE78338B3E8194F3DBA24E880B3515469"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B)(iv) by striking <quote>20</quote> and inserting <quote>9</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7BD2F9C2D19348BAB3993A32C5599B4C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph (G) by inserting <quote>and including acquiring glycol recovery vehicles,</quote> after <quote>aircraft,</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H44E6BC9ABC14421B929ED4749248B098"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subparagraph commented="no" id="H69646D96F3B64831B583C467FD59CB1E"><enum>(M)</enum><text>construction of mobile refueler parking within a fuel farm at a nonprimary airport meeting the requirements of section 112.8 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H422535D3E0BF46D4B47F27B2EB4E9957"><enum>(N)</enum><text>terminal development under section 47119(a).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H9C52473C714246539D1905345B14DC06"><enum>(O)</enum><text>acquiring and installing facilities and equipment to provide air conditioning, heating, or electric power from terminal-based, nonexclusive use facilities to aircraft parked at a public use airport for the purpose of reducing energy use or harmful emissions as compared to the provision of such air conditioning, heating, or electric power from aircraft-based systems.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H4D4C18981401469F8502DC7085A199D3"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Airport planning</header><text>Section 47102(5) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<paragraph id="HD617DD6E6A4F4330AAE335F6D63C95C8"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><quote>airport planning</quote> means planning as defined by regulations the Secretary prescribes and includes—</text>
<subparagraph id="H93EE693D6CD14982A6E61764D4D86A67"><enum>(A)</enum><text>integrated airport system planning;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE15F863BE5C643129A71BBC90BA13C17"><enum>(B)</enum><text>developing an environmental management system; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HAAF5215864DF47F0B91AFB6AD25402A5"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">developing a plan for recycling and minimizing the generation of airport solid waste, consistent with applicable State and local recycling laws, including the cost of a waste audit.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H5D33A316FB554E839A29E36B7FF544BF"><enum>(c)</enum><header>General aviation airport</header><text>Section 47102 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HAC99415108034AD98D975EFEAAD4FE21"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraphs (23) through (25) as paragraphs (25) through (27), respectively;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6EA35B25AD0247D59E84076D4B994A33"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraphs (8) through (22) as paragraphs (9) through (23), respectively; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7CECB1C7B2F64B258FFBA422D7625E87"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (7) the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="H3C2F885F7A804669AE33C593CF9218F6"><enum>(8)</enum><text><quote>general aviation airport</quote> means a public airport that is located in a State and that, as determined by the Secretary—</text>
<subparagraph id="H787327C953E24710A40DCEE9EE2ACC24"><enum>(A)</enum><text>does not have scheduled service; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H116D82E1802E476AAF720219D8D56E25"><enum>(B)</enum><text>has scheduled service with less than 2,500 passenger boardings each year.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H46D66142E08341DABECE6273AD76EB8D"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Revenue producing aeronautical support facilities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 47102 is amended by inserting after paragraph (23) (as redesignated by subsection (c)(2) of this section) the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="HCA8D47662ED142A6875578C871B3C535"><enum>(24)</enum><text><quote>revenue producing aeronautical support facilities</quote> means fuel farms, hangar buildings, self-service credit card aeronautical fueling systems, airplane wash racks, major rehabilitation of a hangar owned by a sponsor, or other aeronautical support facilities that the Secretary determines will increase the revenue producing ability of the airport.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H5AC276A7C2FE4C75B8680A7DCEBDEAE4"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Terminal development</header><text>Section 47102 (as amended by subsection (c) of this section) is further amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="HBD2BDEDDEFF34BB9BFF312C35119643E"><enum>(28)</enum><text><quote>terminal development</quote> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="HF13A584C3C294F0A9A78A7A01026F853"><enum>(A)</enum><text>development of—</text>
<clause id="HC43C6383F84D4585B53681B29407F380"><enum>(i)</enum><text>an airport passenger terminal building, including terminal gates;</text></clause>
<clause id="H80B0665D8B3C499594D240325A6FE58C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>access roads servicing exclusively airport traffic that leads directly to or from an airport passenger terminal building; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H90118EBF951041CF8CB2C204384BF130"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>walkways that lead directly to or from an airport passenger terminal building; and</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H20A09FA0F97B4CCF89FEB0FE32308185"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the cost of a vehicle described in section 47119(a)(1)(B).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H94916DF6776247FD9243851502DBFDCA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>134.</enum><header>Recycling plans for airports</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 47106(a) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HC4AB6E56561C4C88B750480792AEBFDF"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (4) by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H85CD9226E4C54FA085D0DD26D60875B3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (5) by striking <quote>proposed.</quote> and inserting <quote>proposed; and</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H43C8916E9F994B3AB3B6C1BB31859BE1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="HF07DEA0445BE40609C9EBE4B461543B0"><enum>(6)</enum><text>if the project is for an airport that has an airport master plan, the master plan addresses issues relating to solid waste recycling at the airport, including—</text>
<subparagraph id="H6C2479161DFB4DBC84E5DD4F56CE6547"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the feasibility of solid waste recycling at the airport;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD9DB85D2E0C54F1F8000377215EBAD66"><enum>(B)</enum><text>minimizing the generation of solid waste at the airport;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE0EF53E1F3E54598A31D86080BE7EFD0"><enum>(C)</enum><text>operation and maintenance requirements;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7EC2D00E739646798F64B12BB15F75E5"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the review of waste management contracts; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF17BA85822FC47839BF20E3F5C6387DE"><enum>(E)</enum><text>the potential for cost savings or the generation of revenue.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H68B8B776F1A346C6A3D18C81EC94E155" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>135.</enum><header>Contents of competition plans</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 47106(f)(2) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H043B92BE116048CBBEA8DDFDADF88FB4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking “patterns of air service,”;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H24A06965AF974152B5BE37D3847549F8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting “and” before “whether”; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HBC0C9455164A400F9C47C703D60FB6AD"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by striking “, and airfare levels” and all that follows before the period.</text></paragraph></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFF654577BE1C4979BD8EE8B943FDAACD" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>136.</enum><header>Grant assurances</header>
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAD4696E51466416C827580B4DA974C75"><enum>(a)</enum><header>General written assurances</header><text>Section 47107(a)(16)(D)(ii) is amended by inserting before the semicolon at the end the following: <quote>, except in the case of a relocation or replacement of an existing airport facility that meets the conditions of section 47110(d)</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="H0F7C1701B3CB4DD6A4D53EB7F91C943A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Written assurances on acquiring land</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H283AF4FC7EB746FFA4193451A8B42DE1"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Use of proceeds</header><text>Section 47107(c)(2)(A)(iii) is amended by striking <quote>paid to the Secretary</quote> and all that follows before the semicolon and inserting <quote>reinvested in another project at the airport or transferred to another airport as the Secretary prescribes under paragraph (4)</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H1A674B733BC94302A9F8EB0D09A2A265"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Eligible projects</header><text>Section 47107(c) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph commented="no" id="H44CDB278EB294DCA97926F1BD7D052D3" indent="up1"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In approving the reinvestment or transfer of proceeds under paragraph (2)(A)(iii), the Secretary shall give preference, in descending order, to the following actions:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HC46EF527091B410E8731E7AB09504E7D"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reinvestment in an approved noise compatibility project.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HC5942A65FD684371866EB02635364ECF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Reinvestment in an approved project that is eligible for funding under section 47117(e).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HF8221E13AA5F4BF39F77ADAEE3638265"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Reinvestment in an approved airport development project that is eligible for funding under section 47114, 47115, or 47117.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HBA7596DBC1594BB8B8BD0EE9982FC4B5"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Transfer to a sponsor of another public airport to be reinvested in an approved noise compatibility project at such airport.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H4D56BE7414E442E49DA6D8C72EFC5BDC"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Payment to the Secretary for deposit in the Airport and Airway Trust Fund.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="H9B5657CBAB234E1BA352D956AFBDD4BE"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 47107(c)(2)(B)(iii) is amended by striking <quote>the Fund</quote> and inserting <quote>the Airport and Airway Trust Fund established under section 9502 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0D75B29A17B948C391D2B2D8060A72DC"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Extension of competitive access reports</header><text>Section 47107(s) is amended by striking paragraph (3).</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H90BE72656EA84B499D1E63D9D029D6B6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>137.</enum><header>Agreements granting through-the-fence access to general aviation airports</header>
<subsection id="H8F777D5B2DF94CB9980C0C5FE7357980"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 47107 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection id="H20360B2DB14F42458BAE439E51D5ECAC"><enum>(t)</enum><header>Agreements granting through-The-Fence access to general aviation airports</header>
<paragraph id="HDE8A44C432C94C3FAEAAD46C94037128"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to paragraph (2), a sponsor of a general aviation airport shall not be considered to be in violation of this subtitle, or to be in violation of a grant assurance made under this section or under any other provision of law as a condition for the receipt of Federal financial assistance for airport development, solely because the sponsor enters into an agreement that grants to a person that owns residential real property adjacent to the airport access to the airfield of the airport for the following:</text>
<subparagraph id="H0678D2F6D07D43B0AA957E1F07DCBD93"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Aircraft of the person.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H20EEA46C305C404381E2F881C5E3E042"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Aircraft authorized by the person.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H72087986128D4F8DB57C15A9359C1E1B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Through-the-fence agreements</header>
<subparagraph id="HB447EECF018C433DA5AFAB8E2DAAFF2B"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An agreement described in paragraph (1) between an airport sponsor and a property owner shall be a written agreement that prescribes the rights, responsibilities, charges, duration, and other terms the airport sponsor determines are necessary to establish and manage the airport sponsor’s relationship with the property owner.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H2EA527D29E3748CAB250CF907A3A6F8F"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Terms and conditions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An agreement described in paragraph (1) between an airport sponsor and a property owner shall require the property owner, at minimum—</text>
<clause id="H5C86AAEE31964C1285D18780529BB8C8"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to pay airport access charges that, as determined by the airport sponsor, are comparable to those charged to tenants and operators on-airport making similar use of the airport;</text></clause>
<clause id="H267966A33D154DB982F7BF62F4576CF8"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to bear the cost of building and maintaining the infrastructure that, as determined by the airport sponsor, is necessary to provide aircraft located on the property adjacent to the airport access to the airfield of the airport;</text></clause>
<clause id="H97F1D212758142FCA9277AA0AC6E0960"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>to maintain the property for residential, noncommercial use for the duration of the agreement; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H988D6BCF239F4AD0A1D0DF40F4BE85DA"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>to prohibit access to the airport from other properties through the property of the property owner.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H2D9C49C7111F4F289622ABE571BE948C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply to an agreement between an airport sponsor and a property owner entered into before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H559D8C3057244BBF976538A3C50B77E0" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>138.</enum><header>Government share of project costs</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 47109 is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H70282C0A83374F22938FAC7F6DA156BA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a) by striking <quote>provided in subsection (b) or subsection (c) of this section</quote> and inserting <quote>otherwise provided in this section</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H35592DF47A2C4A25B27F710A6417DFC2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection commented="no" id="H38B73E0E817C47698D747E1A7BD82B70"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Special rule for transition from small hub to medium hub status</header><text>If the status of a small hub airport changes to a medium hub airport, the Government’s share of allowable project costs for the airport may not exceed 90 percent for the first 2 fiscal years following such change in hub status.</text></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="HD3A5967BAE424448B887FFA887B41CFC"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Special rule for economically depressed communities</header><text>The Government’s share of allowable project costs shall be 95 percent for a project at an airport that—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H774104A686D743148A56C91F8B6B0143"><enum>(1)</enum><text>is receiving subsidized air service under subchapter II of chapter 417; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H4438FA99C74940378E7264839D6272BC"><enum>(2)</enum><text>is located in an area that meets one or more of the criteria established in section 301(a) of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3161(a)), as determined by the Secretary of Commerce.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section>
<section id="H6832E90C1DA6461AA3882FD3FC3CAA63"><enum>139.</enum><header>Allowable project costs</header>
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H416AC6E6BD564AB0A1E36A741D5CA049"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Allowable project costs</header><text>Section 47110(b)(2)(D) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subparagraph id="H88270E8B08F74A9395CD52F079D4E084" indent="up1"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if the cost is for airport development and is incurred before execution of the grant agreement, but in the same fiscal year as execution of the grant agreement, and if—</text>
<clause id="H98446E6DD31047E48601A62FCBB25AA8"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the cost was incurred before execution of the grant agreement due to climactic conditions affecting the construction season in the vicinity of the airport;</text></clause>
<clause id="H1AD2104E102B4BD489734247D7F4B3D4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the cost is in accordance with an airport layout plan approved by the Secretary and with all statutory and administrative requirements that would have been applicable to the project if the project had been carried out after execution of the grant agreement, including submission of a complete grant application to the appropriate regional or district office of the Federal Aviation Administration;</text></clause>
<clause id="H893203ECDD924C2A81F90CB477D0BB30"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the sponsor notifies the Secretary before authorizing work to commence on the project;</text></clause>
<clause id="H4138C390875946348193283B71DABAE9"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>the sponsor has an alternative funding source available to fund the project; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H34D5208AFBE143DD803D333901A9AC8E"><enum>(v)</enum><text>the sponsor’s decision to proceed with the project in advance of execution of the grant agreement does not affect the priority assigned to the project by the Secretary for the allocation of discretionary funds;</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6AF5C72F13364F59928C5C6E7FEA8E1C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Inclusion of measures To improve efficiency of airport buildings in airport improvement projects</header><text>Section 47110(b) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HEC8D4CC7B6604F24AA7B220254801B43"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (5) by striking <quote>; and</quote> and inserting a semicolon;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE1054D377B2B4F768B187E987FC68A97"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (6) by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H815D4908C9654359BD40575D9BA2DFAA"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="H7EBD610BB12E4E6A9A702AB237B11E14"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if the cost is incurred on a measure to improve the efficiency of an airport building (such as a measure designed to meet one or more of the criteria for being considered a high-performance green building as set forth under section 401(13) of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17061(13))) and—</text>
<subparagraph id="H68F12F9F2A2E4D83A4B461B1B5121D7E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the measure is for a project for airport development;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H15B53CDCE37C4557A9678726B98D8C06"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the measure is for an airport building that is otherwise eligible for construction assistance under this subchapter; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H271EE4A41B0F42AC8CAEC10823841FDE"><enum>(C)</enum><text>if the measure results in an increase in initial project costs, the increase is justified by expected savings over the life cycle of the project.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE27A711A7B7D47FB85BD3AD42A0D812F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Relocation of airport-Owned facilities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 47110(d) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subsection id="HA92FA9C018454BA5B0D35A15C4CB3029"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Relocation of airport-Owned facilities</header><text>The Secretary may determine that the costs of relocating or replacing an airport-owned facility are allowable for an airport development project at an airport only if—</text>
<paragraph id="H22F1432B22B84D0F984FEA0BCB595471"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the Government’s share of such costs will be paid with funds apportioned to the airport sponsor under section 47114(c)(1) or 47114(d);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5D7FB044FBC14824A3BF4B20BEB182F6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the Secretary determines that the relocation or replacement is required due to a change in the Secretary’s design standards; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3EC58BD7EA1E4D3BAECE2FF60DC8B1C0"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the Secretary determines that the change is beyond the control of the airport sponsor.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HBBA74656986A4DEEA5DC236F16705AF2"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Nonprimary airports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 47110(h) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H5453E8B6DC5141E492BCD2699D6C58E9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>construction</quote> before <quote>costs of revenue producing</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2C7634B2A9DC49E39B152EF378027411"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>, including fuel farms and hangars,</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD08326C01E2B43D7BB2B7F017554B643" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>140.</enum><header>Veterans’ preference</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 47112(c) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HDAAB61FF2B8C400B961F462C63540FA0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H2C98EA5F859F4D448B65CEA54250F9A2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B) by striking <quote>separated from</quote> and inserting <quote>discharged or released from active duty in</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HB3273BE93BDC426C8C35990C01523B6F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H9EF59266D21B46BB9808BBD2CA8B237D" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="H1BD6A8B99B80415D8E3A9C6FBE5DE729" indent="up1"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><quote>Afghanistan-Iraq war veteran</quote> means an individual who served on active duty (as defined in section 101 of title 38) in the Armed Forces in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, or Operation New Dawn for more than 180 consecutive days, any part of which occurred after September 11, 2001, and before the date prescribed by presidential proclamation or by law as the last day of Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, or Operation New Dawn (whichever is later), and who was discharged or released from active duty in the armed forces under honorable conditions.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H293E71FDCA3B4475BE66B080D9E05CA2" indent="up1"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><quote>Persian Gulf veteran</quote> means an individual who served on active duty in the Armed Forces in the Southwest Asia theater of operations during the Persian Gulf War for more than 180 consecutive days, any part of which occurred after August 2, 1990, and before the date prescribed by presidential proclamation or by law, and who was discharged or released from active duty in the armed forces under honorable conditions.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7ED1AEDEFEAC4FDB9D20039B2A9E85D7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (2) by striking <quote>Vietnam-era veterans and disabled veterans</quote> and inserting <quote>Vietnam-era veterans, Persian Gulf veterans, Afghanistan-Iraq war veterans, disabled veterans, and small business concerns (as defined in section 3 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632)) owned and controlled by disabled veterans</quote>.</text></paragraph></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H05862C81CF0549308E7443084A00C4CE" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>141.</enum><header>Standardizing certification of disadvantaged business enterprises</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 47113 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection id="HA65D806D14244F8D82BB6F5D6309511D"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Mandatory training program</header>
<paragraph id="H1967B13A011844C98A79C2E30E30D877"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Secretary shall establish a mandatory training program for persons described in paragraph (3) to provide streamlined training on certifying whether a small business concern qualifies as a small business concern owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals under this section and section 47107(e).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA5938602581B4498AA91442FDCA2D461"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Implementation</header><text>The training program may be implemented by one or more private entities approved by the Secretary.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5FA701DA19054C9BBDE3CA13F889B37D"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Participants</header><text>A person referred to in paragraph (1) is an official or agent of an airport sponsor—</text>
<subparagraph id="H9143B298BACE4F8A91B21882C9F5640E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>who is required to provide a written assurance under this section or section 47107(e) that the airport owner or operator will meet the percentage goal of subsection (b) of this section or section 47107(e)(1), as the case may be; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HB239B0B8B7FC4194AED16BAEBA2FD2B2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>who is responsible for determining whether or not a small business concern qualifies as a small business concern owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals under this section or section 47107(e).</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="H821FA7373BC54EBFB95D4E5E8E6044A8"><enum>142.</enum><header>Special apportionment rules</header>
<subsection id="HF40E5F86DC8A40D8955C566C5FFEE0CE"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Eligibility To receive primary airport minimum apportionment amount</header><text>Section 47114(d) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H8EA509ECA97748FA92CF9017921DA1E8" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H62098398FC4042609E079F2ACBFB06A1"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Eligibility to receive primary airport minimum apportionment amount</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection, the Secretary may apportion to an airport sponsor in a fiscal year an amount equal to the minimum apportionment available under subsection (c)(1)(B) if the Secretary finds that the airport—</text>
<subparagraph id="H5D8A30EB81AD4E40A0B7589AAB6047AC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>received scheduled or unscheduled air service from a large certificated air carrier (as defined in part 241 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, or such other regulations as may be issued by the Secretary under the authority of section 41709) in the calendar year used to calculate the apportionment; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H73476E6F0F254882AEB72B406786B72C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>had more than 10,000 passenger boardings in the calendar year used to calculate the apportionment.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HE94D0679313446CF89BE03B0D73BC146"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Special rule for fiscal years 2011 and 2012</header><text>Section 47114(c)(1) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H82FC97CFB26D4BF5A333BF646417BE9B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking subparagraphs (F) and (G); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC8A638F6080B49229E6B2B79F49DE1EB"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after subparagraph (E) the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HA43F5EB9C2F84DCC81AE28923A1BB387" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="H76045D3B92424BDB9AB2BC943C7E89E2"><enum>(F)</enum><header>Special rule for fiscal years 2011 and 2012</header><text>Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), for an airport that had more than 10,000 passenger boardings and scheduled passenger aircraft service in calendar year 2007, but in either calendar year 2009 or 2010, or in both years, the number of passenger boardings decreased to a level below 10,000 boardings per year at such airport, the Secretary may apportion in each of fiscal years 2011 and 2012 to the sponsor of such airport an amount equal to the amount apportioned to that sponsor in fiscal year 2009.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H36F5D7CDA1B04A6293773158C7B6C9D5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>143.</enum><header>Apportionments</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Chapter 471 is amended by striking <quote>$3,200,000,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$3,000,000,000</quote> in each of the following sections:</text>
<paragraph id="H21C89211BC0441FAB31EDE26D72A5077"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">47114(c)(1)(C).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2E939B1C48504AD9A110E0A3DF306E77"><enum>(2)</enum><text>47114(c)(2)(C).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0F3F99AB40014B508E8F620965567A76"><enum>(3)</enum><text>47114(d)(3).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8088680E8F49471D9233B0224378D5A8"><enum>(4)</enum><text>47114(e)(4).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCE6CFE12CF5F473F85C0A97E8ECE9AF9"><enum>(5)</enum><text>47117(e)(1)(C).</text></paragraph></section>
<section id="H70203F510E904F66B4FCEFB3861CA7A6"><enum>144.</enum><header>Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 47115(j) is amended by striking <quote>fiscal years 2004 through 2010, and for the portion of fiscal year 2011 ending before April 1, 2011,</quote> and inserting <quote>fiscal years 2010 through 2014,</quote>.</text></section>
<section id="H92FC2E6A9B7A48B79FDD4AF085A72870"><enum>145.</enum><header>Designating current and former military airports</header>
<subsection id="H8C5025B6E6B5467C8B00BF6798BAED0D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Considerations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 47118(c) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H5F554350F6854EC8BB674904BAC80A7A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1) by striking <quote>or</quote> after the semicolon;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFE9C7C79F8A24360AAF85E1BCF8C73F9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (2) by striking <quote>delays.</quote> and inserting <quote>delays; or</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3D5DE6C2D6754A1B9C19A162422772B9"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD9526ACF22C94C6F947BB2818CE4B23C" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="HD5D06329868F4924AE1D91CF4715B44C"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">preserve or enhance minimum airfield infrastructure facilities at former military airports to support emergency diversionary operations for transoceanic flights in locations—</text>
<subparagraph id="H67345EA652F848FF80825FEE5C0AF8F9"><enum>(A)</enum><text>within United States jurisdiction or control; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H655241B117D649258CF6D03B6A668F14"><enum>(B)</enum><text>where there is a demonstrable lack of diversionary airports within the distance or flight-time required by regulations governing transoceanic flights.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H111F38E7FC584334A329B4EC7D8ACB65"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Designation of general aviation airports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 47118(g) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HA902EE99BD9744DC8A76764EF88A2CAF"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the subsection heading by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">airport</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">airports</header-in-text></quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFDCCEBB31F0344DA887ADFDC9E65123D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>one of the airports bearing a designation under subsection (a) may be a general aviation airport that was a former military installation</quote> and inserting <quote>3 of the airports bearing designations under subsection (a) may be general aviation airports that were former military installations</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H8842C5974BC846349743162CBBA79227"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Safety-Critical airports</header><text>Section 47118 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H76D21E617B5E4B8295D45F52F48C24CC" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H4A6B7AF309954A2C9B21D55687885720"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Safety-Critical airports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a grant under section 47117(e)(1)(B) may be made for a federally owned airport designated under subsection (a) if the grant is for a project that is—</text>
<paragraph id="H74B75D7A8A904C26A987E6378CE902F5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to preserve or enhance minimum airfield infrastructure facilities described in subsection (c)(3); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H86FBAD3ACB5B45FD87F6272B3AC7B30D"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">necessary to meet the minimum safety and emergency operational requirements established under part 139 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H98BE8A4DAD3D4F0F8005E6068905A1AE" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>146.</enum><header>Contract tower program</header>
<subsection id="H063DF70F295147FA93EC555FB66A779C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Cost-Benefit requirement</header><text>Section 47124(b) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HFB97A801787448ACA1975D80C2E141C4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H9658F13BE0CA434A91AC0FE04F523773" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" id="H5AF1A3AC1BD04500B423846D8EEA6E33"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Contract tower program</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HC920C417FD42476DA6EB3022A1661502"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Continuation and extension</header><text>The Secretary shall continue the low activity (Visual Flight Rules) Level I air traffic control tower contract program established under subsection (a) for towers existing on December 30, 1987, and shall extend the program to other low activity air traffic control towers for which a qualified entity (as determined by the Secretary), a State, or a subdivision of the State meeting the requirements set forth by the Secretary has requested to participate in the program.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H7E729EE642544AA69DBE003FC20048B1"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Special rule</header><text>If the Secretary determines that a tower already operating under the program continued under this paragraph has a benefit-to-cost ratio of less than 1.0, the airport sponsor or State or local government having jurisdiction over the airport shall not be required to pay the portion of the costs that exceeds the benefit for a period of 18 months after such determination is made.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H1E5FB4609B33458C908CF6663642834A"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Use of excess funds</header><text>If the Secretary finds that all or part of an amount made available to carry out the program continued under this paragraph is not required during a fiscal year, the Secretary may use, during such fiscal year, the amount not so required to carry out the program established under paragraph (3).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H927EB1338DCF46379E96DA8C3FD8CAEE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>(2) The Secretary</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H679F62CFEE3A491F8EF17A6B0589AB21" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H74A4C1E3B3EC4DDA8EA516A71AD0F052"><enum>(2)</enum><header>General authority</header><text>The Secretary</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="HD741DA95BD79472B8EFCB91D115FD350"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Costs exceeding benefits</header><text>Section 47124(b)(3)(D) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HCA95B6C4CC3F4F8E9693E6DFEBD692BB"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>If the costs</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDD151FD30D504CB29A276831613E283A" style="OLC">
<clause id="HB984E8076ABD4105816E984C33E5B600"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Cost sharing</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the costs</text></clause><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HDE85AA1A47034825BC7E217A9A8D82D2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H3AED58B4BB364481AC6E6156F91050C4" style="OLC">
<clause commented="no" id="H68B92CE2EB944B9FAB90F4B318B1E0C3"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Maximum local cost share</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The maximum allowable local cost share allocated under clause (i) for an airport certified under part 139 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, with fewer than 50,000 annual passenger enplanements shall be capped at 20 percent of the cost of operating an air traffic tower under the program.</text></clause>
<clause commented="no" id="HBF94E6BAE3CA4762828B5249EE1EFB1E"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Sunset</header><text>Clause (ii) shall not be in effect after September 30, 2014.</text></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HB31CC6783E9B4BD4BB17E754B56A3544"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Funding; use of excess funds</header><text>Section 47124(b)(3) is amended by striking subparagraph (E) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HDC51E83BB9B54E069D23820310348D8D" style="OLC">
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HFD14A1CAC83545CEB9B655F1D157E70B"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Funding</header><text>Of the amounts appropriated pursuant to section 106(k)(1), not more than $8,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2011 through 2014 may be used to carry out this paragraph.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7C2FE14288654FAA82EF2AB83984B523"><enum>(F)</enum><header>Use of excess funds</header><text>If the Secretary finds that all or part of an amount made available under this paragraph is not required during a fiscal year, the Secretary may use, during such fiscal year, the amount not so required to carry out the program continued under paragraph (1).</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HCF81DB5AE2EE4961A0B97CC2D9138FEE"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Federal share</header><text>Section 47124(b)(4)(C) is amended by striking <quote>$1,500,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$2,000,000</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H13AC719C859C44D485D59F23B7AB7BF5"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Safety audits</header><text>Section 47124 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H4D9D231A64B849EF919CFD94CF84B152" style="OLC">
<subsection id="HAB62479AEEBB44A88C01FB42D1A1AD2B"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Safety audits</header><text>The Secretary shall establish uniform standards and requirements for regular safety assessments of air traffic control towers that receive funding under this section.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC026FDDBA6DB4DB885D2EA6010FB3576" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>147.</enum><header>Resolution of disputes concerning airport fees</header>
<subsection id="H019130DFE0B84279929BD626B3DF3179"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 47129 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H0C494B4FBA36432B9BD26321D4A6442B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking the section heading and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC9E8C200012843038C404A5D0CC48C7E" style="USC">
<section id="H90D6C1BEFAE542EC8950C3A7697691D2"><enum>47129.</enum><header>Resolution of disputes concerning airport fees</header></section><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9C02F546037B423188AE5CD47801EA9F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">and Foreign Air Carrier</header-in-text></quote> after <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph">Carrier</header-in-text></quote> in the heading for subsection (d);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HDD8D0BF06AA54CB9B1E88EBB85E991D8"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="traditional">and foreign air carrier</header-in-text></quote> after <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph">carrier</header-in-text></quote> in the heading for subsection (d)(2);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5570CF18D061457AB49B295C0516AF97"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by striking <quote>air carrier</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>air carrier or foreign air carrier</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0A21DF13614D4EF391F0150AD9E5F0D1"><enum>(5)</enum><text>by striking <quote>air carrier's</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>air carrier's or foreign air carrier's</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCC95961E04394FCBA26B2596CB411FBC"><enum>(6)</enum><text>by striking <quote>air carriers</quote> and inserting <quote>air carriers or foreign air carriers</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0ED33828E3EC4CE2AFB83C7927483D2C"><enum>(7)</enum><text>by striking <quote>(as defined in section 40102 of this title)</quote> in subsection (a) and inserting <quote>(as those terms are defined in section 40102)</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H7708A9748DCA4BE0953598618809049F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>The analysis for chapter 471 is amended by striking the item relating to section 47129 and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H061521AA870A4FD8B2368E94ECCE2F10" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">47129. Resolution of disputes concerning airport fees.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section id="HCDE87386AEF243BB92EF925F8C22488C"><enum>148.</enum><header>Sale of private airports to public sponsors</header>
<subsection id="H1D48DDCC5AB84B789AAB94DA5CD2EA86"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 47133(b) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H402523128BEE4B2DAACEBF0F4BDE2E9B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>Subsection (a) shall not apply if</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1BA392BD94AE4192A44C08F19E0E8029" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H3C6F6848CA9D48D897A5CF00E1E46C27"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Prior laws and agreements</header><text>Subsection (a) shall not apply if</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H88A336B8AD514A169C4D2A7D7ECD1207"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HED4BDB54F0D549E7AAD7B1C99F7632D7" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" id="H42CFB8E118CE47CB9A5A7DFCEEE0B42B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Sale of private airport to public sponsor</header><text>In the case of a privately owned airport, subsection (a) shall not apply to the proceeds from the sale of the airport to a public sponsor if—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H52B604DD699E4478890E61681BB4A4E1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the sale is approved by the Secretary;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H4A1ABB5F1F8B4DE29E38D8B5E095E55B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>funding is provided under this subchapter for any portion of the public sponsor’s acquisition of airport land; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H371D033A3BEA46649E942167317A0A29"><enum>(C)</enum><text>an amount equal to the remaining unamortized portion of any airport improvement grant made to that airport for purposes other than land acquisition, amortized over a 20-year period, plus an amount equal to the Federal share of the current fair market value of any land acquired with an airport improvement grant made to that airport on or after October 1, 1996, is repaid to the Secretary by the private owner.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7966B93133E0456BA7582D302EE5A5B1"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Treatment of repayments</header><text>Repayments referred to in paragraph (2)(C) shall be treated as a recovery of prior year obligations.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="H92F2F3FF7576449FB80B16BF2A9BC6AC"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Applicability to grants</header><text>The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply to grants issued on or after October 1, 1996.</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6AAF5584B7BC4A50BCEB60847ADBAD60" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>149.</enum><header>Repeal of certain limitations on Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 49108, and the item relating to section 49108 in the analysis for chapter 491, are repealed.</text></section>
<section id="H142860F00ED8499AA021294AE4B4D7FA"><enum>150.</enum><header>Midway Island Airport</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 186(d) of the Vision 100—Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act (117 Stat. 2518) is amended by striking <quote>October 1, 2010, and for the portion of fiscal year 2011 ending before April 1, 2011,</quote> and inserting <quote>October 1, 2014,</quote>.</text></section>
<section id="H9BD4537A603D49808D52E58B3E9273DE"><enum>151.</enum><header>Miscellaneous amendments</header>
<subsection id="H4422DFE81BF44284AE1123CC6E8C311D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Technical changes to national plan of integrated airport systems</header><text>Section 47103 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H53FB0CEA1BBA45989B356643A5B00E90"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H83B3EC5BAD22412CBEB838BE2BABA89C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>each airport to—</quote> and inserting <quote>the airport system to—</quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7E0F26626F2646B4867AA1B336964F87"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (1) by striking <quote>system in the particular area;</quote> and inserting <quote>system, including connection to the surface transportation network; and</quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HB3ECA27679E94DE0B4577CD14413B013"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (2) by striking <quote>; and</quote> and inserting a period; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF9EC8400CA134E9E99FD216678555FFF"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (3);</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB3D92662F3A34BA09E97B9345A2FA325"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H767393E8CF784E2E8E428E5E39984C1B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1) by striking the semicolon and inserting <quote>; and</quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HC56B7A2E6A574A97B9FB9F7A5903BE59"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (2) and redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (2); and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD07EEAC084564155BB8D663825E5A92F"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (2) (as so redesignated) by striking <quote>, Short Takeoff and Landing/Very Short Takeoff and Landing aircraft operations,</quote>; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H83C72CF966534BD783FB0011306A46F9"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (d) by striking <quote>status of the</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1F66CEFEDE194F3BA53D774EFA24D9F4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Consolidation of terminal development provisions</header><text>Section 47119 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H355E64E9B28D40D782D9D78F9A2343AF"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d) as subsections (b), (c), (d), and (e), respectively;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD5B4E582871E430DAACE9A9A11A7FF6B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting before subsection (b) (as so redesignated) the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HA12067C233034C73ACA68BAF95657C8F" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H8841C3E2F9C4442683ED1EB4D5566F34"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Terminal development projects</header>
<paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H38F000AF1EFC426FAC715BDD36054DD7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary of Transportation may approve a project for terminal development (including multimodal terminal development) in a nonrevenue-producing public-use area of a commercial service airport—</text>
<subparagraph id="H14EDC3A184034FFC8385DCB4ED4F672B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>if the sponsor certifies that the airport, on the date the grant application is submitted to the Secretary, has—</text>
<clause id="HCD1352FA164A4BDA86ACD11FA1946F35"><enum>(i)</enum><text>all the safety equipment required for certification of the airport under section 44706;</text></clause>
<clause id="HEFB1163B55CF42E4A9881594017D9772"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>all the security equipment required by regulation; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H05CF537F2C8949B281B93D9699439BBE"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>provided for access by passengers to the area of the airport for boarding or exiting aircraft that are not air carrier aircraft;</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HD5066F30EC324CA4AAC2A0BE2A9784DF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>if the cost is directly related to moving passengers and baggage in air commerce within the airport, including vehicles for moving passengers between terminal facilities and between terminal facilities and aircraft; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H1C526F8EB9A54DD88278FA53DA44B3DD"><enum>(C)</enum><text>under terms necessary to protect the interests of the Government.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5C69CC9E77CA40BAAB8C61CD9B654CB2"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Project in revenue-producing areas and nonrevenue-producing parking lots</header><text>In making a decision under paragraph (1), the Secretary may approve as allowable costs the expenses of terminal development in a revenue-producing area and construction, reconstruction, repair, and improvement in a nonrevenue-producing parking lot if—</text>
<subparagraph id="H503FD3A7EDA64E64A6E9394FD37174EC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>except as provided in section 47108(e)(3), the airport does not have more than .05 percent of the total annual passenger boardings in the United States; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE9F1E44858154194937F3587831E95DE"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the sponsor certifies that any needed airport development project affecting safety, security, or capacity will not be deferred because of the Secretary’s approval.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HF28638FD9A484DC28059004318930E70"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (b)(4)(B) (as redesignated by paragraph (1) of this subsection) by striking <quote>Secretary of Transportation</quote> and inserting <quote>Secretary</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6421E8396994448399B72EE24C36AB12"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsections (b)(3) and (b)(4)(A) (as redesignated by paragraph (1) of this subsection) by striking <quote>section 47110(d)</quote> and inserting <quote>subsection (a)</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H308C2119AAD7431B9E0CFD994AE4A511"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b)(5) (as redesignated by paragraph (1) of this subsection) by striking <quote>subsection (b)(1) and (2)</quote> and inserting <quote>subsections (c)(1) and (c)(2)</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9FEDAFA8BF1D4556BA9925C93713D84A"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsections (c)(2)(A), (c)(3), and (c)(4) (as redesignated by paragraph (1) of this subsection) by striking <quote>section 47110(d) of this title</quote> and inserting <quote>subsection (a)</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HBA55CD4D64C64948A804ECFD2E67E5CA"><enum>(7)</enum><text>in subsection (c)(2)(B) (as redesignated by paragraph (1) of this subsection) by striking <quote>section 47110(d)</quote> and inserting <quote>subsection (a)</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H811A7E1B2BA34E2F94F7AC368F41D9AA"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (c)(5) (as redesignated by paragraph (1) of this subsection) by striking <quote>section 47110(d)</quote> and inserting <quote>subsection (a)</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5FF7C46B4F0D473788E14BA78276BB2F"><enum>(9)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H2FEC4077A85A438A8CC477BC2AEEC115" style="OLC">
<subsection id="HBBFC138EE72544C28B22129EB19DB6DE"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Limitation on discretionary funds</header><text>The Secretary may distribute not more than $20,000,000 from the discretionary fund established under section 47115 for terminal development projects at a nonhub airport or a small hub airport that is eligible to receive discretionary funds under section 47108(e)(3).</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H443DB7CBE3144309B1B8098B23934317"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Annual report</header><text>Section 47131(a) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H7936492034B7497DAA4B5C290E7B072D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>April 1</quote> and inserting <quote>June 1</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H840B6C307659429BA38FC5F68FD3CF77"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and (4) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HD15D755F5AE2437586B4BB8A4C4FBA18" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H8D93F062F79C4F629BD2BA88DC2F5FDB"><enum>(1)</enum><text>a summary of airport development and planning completed;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H10A9585E319048C796801D649546D306"><enum>(2)</enum><text>a summary of individual grants issued;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE7BE4BE361554375A5F5A71BDE7F7D6B"><enum>(3)</enum><text>an accounting of discretionary and apportioned funds allocated;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCE74428F114C4899B5D02AD75EB7200E"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the allocation of appropriations; and</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4AB98EA100EB4584B196E6FAF0F6A690"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Correction to emission credits provision</header><text>Section 47139 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H11FAC7B3EB8A4517945FA64374FDFBE4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a) by striking <quote>47102(3)(F),</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H060163D0685548F0B77CFCA7C0A188B9"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HC499334A353140CCABCB69874620C9CB"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>47102(3)(F),</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HC8EE1D0AB5044BA993663555A9721695"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>47103(3)(F),</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H00D724667B884F1C9FF04AA0CE67ED09"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Conforming amendment to civil penalty assessment authority</header><text>Section 46301(d)(2) is amended by inserting <quote>46319,</quote> after <quote>46318,</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H941F313EC4F4447A951283565FEAC84D"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Other conforming amendments</header>
<paragraph id="H5039C2A508374577A833C0909F05414E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Section 40117(a)(3)(B) is amended by striking <quote>section 47110(d)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 47119(a)</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HDE48B937248742F886EEF681E0D33766"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Section 47108(e)(3) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="HF758A3CD1A534722A88760C3BAC640B4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>section 47110(d)(2)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 47119(a)</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HDAB0EFA5B4B646B79FC077B4FCFA0B84"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>section 47110(d)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 47119(a)</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4E146AEC822347F69F839DBF55AABB72"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Correction to surplus property authority</header><text>Section 47151(e) is amended by striking “(other than real property” and all that follows through <quote>(10 U.S.C. 2687 note))</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H15AA2D6C33C5435F88BB2F506701FA36"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Definitions</header>
<paragraph id="H984839B350C0447D97FCC5E60862F9F5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Congested airport</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 47175(2) is amended by striking <quote>2001</quote> and inserting <quote>2004 or any successor report</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H533E6431BA9A40A08D5DDBB4C5465162"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Joint use airport</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 47175 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="H24C3DE4D17A84B9AA142CDA0257D7CAB"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Joint use airport</header><text>The term <term>joint use airport</term> means an airport owned by the Department of Defense, at which both military and civilian aircraft make shared use of the airfield.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF346B27579FF4940B79A1238620D76BA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>152.</enum><header>Extension of grant authority for compatible land use planning and projects by State and local governments</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 47141(f) is amended by striking <quote>March 31, 2011</quote> and inserting <quote>September 30, 2014</quote>.</text></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1971B0A0310C4C9E9706ED77292D009C" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>153.</enum><header>Priority review of construction projects in cold weather States</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, to the extent practicable, shall schedule the Administrator's review of construction projects so that projects to be carried out in States in which the weather during a typical calendar year prevents major construction projects from being carried out before May 1 are reviewed as early as possible.</text></section>
<section id="HAAA4776B12534B84BCE16400CE2CBF87"><enum>154.</enum><header>Study on national plan of integrated airport systems</header>
<subsection id="HA033CAAE65774E42994AB01E5F822393"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall begin a study to evaluate the formulation of the national plan of integrated airport systems (in this section referred to as the <quote>plan</quote>) under section 47103 of title 49, United States Code.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H620E3AEA4F2D46C986C4016E506565CC"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Contents of Study</header><text>The study shall include a review of the following:</text>
<paragraph id="H9EFBD09C6E4D4778936C4EB13DD23CC1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The criteria used for including airports in the plan and the application of such criteria in the most recently published version of the plan.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H29E5CDA71AA245A2AD3C40D16C91AFFD"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The changes in airport capital needs as shown in the 2005–2009 and 2007–2011 plans, compared with the amounts apportioned or otherwise made available to individual airports between 2005 and 2010.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3782EBD4722440CE8383196B12A171D5"><enum>(3)</enum><text>A comparison of the amounts received by airports under the airport improvement program in airport apportionments, State apportionments, and discretionary grants during such fiscal years with capital needs as reported in the plan.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6867ED183CBC4C4B827791B97EA68C13"><enum>(4)</enum><text>The effect of transfers of airport apportionments under title 49, United States Code.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H465272B5C43C4CEEA61D1205E1DDD32F"><enum>(5)</enum><text>An analysis on the feasibility and advisability of apportioning amounts under section 47114(c)(1) of title 49, United States Code, to the sponsor of each primary airport for each fiscal year an amount that bears the same ratio to the amount subject to the apportionment for fiscal year 2009 as the number of passenger boardings at the airport during the prior calendar year bears to the aggregate of all passenger boardings at all primary airports during that calendar year.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8F5EA597636B42358FFED822335A30E7"><enum>(6)</enum><text>A documentation and review of the methods used by airports to reach the 10,000 passenger enplanement threshold, including whether such airports subsidize commercial flights to reach such threshold, at every airport in the United States that reported between 10,000 and 15,000 passenger enplanements during each of the 2 most recent calendar years for which such data is available.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1E67C75B7449410CAA2E95F82D8AF893"><enum>(7)</enum><text>Any other matters pertaining to the plan that the Secretary determines appropriate.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H82BE7D7062EF402C925876AF0AE7AAFE"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report to Congress</header>
<paragraph id="HBF1F7D0B84114143A9BF1961405A8A53"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Submission</header><text>Not later than 36 months after the date that the Secretary begins the study under this section, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report on the results of the study.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H17DD1292E8104C1B92C5B55B600E84B9"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The report shall include—</text>
<subparagraph id="HA08A153E09F947FFA33AF8A14AA634B1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the findings of the Secretary on each of the issues described in subsection (b);</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE69277B5A4594C8FA2A11BFCD44C154C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>recommendations for any changes to policies and procedures for formulating the plan; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H193CDE8FD53548289B45CDA7E2C3D3EF"><enum>(C)</enum><text>recommendations for any changes to the methods of determining the amounts to be apportioned or otherwise made available to individual airports.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section commented="no" id="H46338F41F63C43978AA80C095381EA7F"><enum>155.</enum><header>Transfers of terminal area air navigation equipment to airport sponsors</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="HCE33185BDEF442D7B44F858ECBD11ACA"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Chapter 445 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H2AA421EA62D04F95B1EC8AFE66D4DEF6" style="USC">
<section commented="no" id="H53BE3E8B177A4C79A1F02EBA740EE535"><enum>44518.</enum><header>Transfers of terminal area air navigation equipment to airport sponsors</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="H6C082748E19D47E28DFF6A1A08D0987D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subject to the requirements of this section, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administrator may carry out a pilot program under which the Administrator may transfer ownership, operating, and maintenance responsibilities for terminal area air navigation equipment at an airport to the airport sponsor.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HBDA2CAB8788B40ED823CB8A8255F79B8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Participation</header><text>The Administrator may select the sponsors of not more than 3 nonhub airports, 3 small hub airports, 3 medium hub airports, and 1 large hub airport to participate in the pilot program.</text></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="H211369678A264459AB020F264A72E246"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Terms and conditions of transfer for airport sponsors</header><text>As a condition of participating in the pilot program, the airport sponsor shall provide assurances satisfactory to the Administrator that the sponsor will—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HE60E0BF6F4294B6B87144F584CE6548D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>operate and maintain the terminal area air navigation equipment transferred to the sponsor under this section in accordance with standards to be established by the Administrator;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H742612E9AA894F85B7241E727EC7A8BD"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">permit the Administrator (or a person designated by the Administrator) to conduct inspections of such terminal area air navigation equipment under a schedule established by the Administrator; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HA50208F6167B43ED95513465F3763606"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">acquire and maintain new terminal area air navigation equipment at the airport as needed to replace equipment at the end of its useful life or to meet new standards established by the Administrator.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="HAB0C6EDFFFB14528AD496B30BA046CE0"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Terms and conditions of transfer for Administrator</header><text>When the Administrator approves an airport sponsor’s participation in the pilot program, the Administrator shall transfer, at no cost to the sponsor, all rights, title, and interests of the United States in and to the terminal area air navigation equipment to be transferred to the sponsor under the program, including the real property on which the equipment is located.</text></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="H89B2FF5AF2734789AB51B6DA7B832B31"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Treatment of airport costs</header><text>Any costs incurred by an airport sponsor for ownership and maintenance of terminal area air navigation equipment transferred under this section shall be considered a cost of providing airfield facilities and services under standards and guidelines issued by the Secretary of Transportation under section 47129(b)(2) and may be recovered in rates and charges assessed for use of the airport’s airfield.</text></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="HCBF37ABADCE24742BA06757401DF76C8"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section, the following definitions apply:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HBD09E3DD043049E09735A2F54E5BD22E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Sponsor</header><text>The term <quote>sponsor</quote> has the meaning given that term in section 47102.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HAD35CFFAB0BB415A8F360EB190A5B819"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Terminal area air navigation equipment</header><text>The term <quote>terminal area air navigation equipment</quote> means an air navigation facility as defined in section 40102 that exists to provide approach and landing guidance to aircraft, but does not include buildings used for air traffic control functions.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="H33F8C93E3A654F7FA073C16FCD1C7A91"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Guidelines</header><text>The Administrator shall issue guidelines on the implementation of the program.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>. </after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="H2E337D29889C4DB9A9AA9F046D4C4CB2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The analysis for chapter 445 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">44518. Transfers of terminal area air navigation equipment to airport sponsors.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section id="HC0950488B5EE4BF996D344B3D168275E"><enum>156.</enum><header>Airport privatization program</header>
<subsection id="HE7AAF78DE361466BB6706D757454B7D8"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Approval of applications</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 47134(b) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HB1246925B50542ACA95A76AB0183B72D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by striking <quote>5 airports</quote> and inserting <quote>10 airports</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2FC17A2BC0144CC88BF11E6680BDDF1F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>paragraph (1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HF17A079B96E24C22B51D97E0C980C29A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H7617E5190F2E4EEB8163B4AA890B0907" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="H5CA5313AC7D24C50A81576F3387B11A5"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary may grant an exemption to an airport sponsor from the requirements of sections 47107(b) and 47133 (and any other law, regulation, or grant assurance) to the extent necessary to permit the sponsor to recover from the sale or lease of the airport such amount as may be approved by the Secretary after the sponsor has consulted—</text>
<clause id="H0F757B2D5E4640768CDEAA2004FE5D6E"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in the case of a primary airport, with each air carrier and foreign air carrier serving the airport, as determined by the Secretary; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H22D07CB764AE4DF29E37D18507DF5593"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in the case of a nonprimary airport, with at least 65 percent of the owners of aircraft based at that airport, as determined by the Secretary.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HEA4C0D7AC46A42B5BC7B39E80FA45E2B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking subparagraph (C).</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H73AD709B617D4F7CACF4A5C42B2604F9"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Terms and conditions</header><text>Section 47134(c) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H224B21BE49C94411A07286E75240E1FB"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking paragraphs (4), (5), and (9);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HEAA7920DAD1344EAA724194504A7AE28"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraphs (6), (7), and (8) as paragraphs (4), (5), and (6), respectively; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6B56A58DFEC44A85B49074D7C1F4D8B7"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HF122B7E5010D484085082F13279F8667" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" id="HA13867F9F8FB42DDBAB3EF21051466D4"><enum>(7)</enum><text>A fee imposed by the airport on an air carrier or foreign air carrier may not include any portion for a return on investment or recovery of principal with respect to consideration paid to a public agency for the lease or sale of the airport unless that portion of the fee is approved by the air carrier or foreign air carrier.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H91A5A2821B1641C3AA7CEEC6C21E7AB9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Participation of certain airports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 47134 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HFA8A7E6C83DE4169B476C8330334B666"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking subsection (d); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H688B03E6DBF348FE937E33EB460B85A9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating subsections (e) through (m) as subsections (d) through (l), respectively.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H49EE274FFB4E49E09D542971B7FD89EC"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to an exemption issued to an airport under section 47134 of title 49, United States Code, before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section></subtitle>
<enum>II</enum><header>NextGen Air Transportation System and Air Traffic Control Modernization</header>
<section id="H6F451E8F322440BC81EE29BE227F949B"><enum>201.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title, the following definitions apply:</text>
<paragraph id="H09B3A7EC4A804DAE82D09D72DA310AE2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>NextGen</header><text>The term <term>NextGen</term> means the Next Generation Air Transportation System.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA4232224586A49B08A33ED83F6716E9B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>ADS–B</header><text>The term <quote>ADS–B</quote> means automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H317EBBCB30214A33AC305F3575CF7D3A"><enum>(3)</enum><header>ADS–B <enum-in-header>O</enum-in-header>ut</header><text>The term <quote>ADS–B Out</quote> means automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast with the ability to transmit information from the aircraft to ground stations and to other equipped aircraft.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC345EEFF7B4340D798CFB641E2ACDEF5"><enum>(4)</enum><header>ADS–B <enum-in-header>I</enum-in-header>n</header><text>The term <quote>ADS–B In</quote> means automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast with the ability to transmit information from the aircraft to ground stations and to other equipped aircraft as well as the ability of the aircraft to receive information from other transmitting aircraft and the ground infrastructure.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H10BF5D4CD07A4BBF97B73EAFC676E11A"><enum>(5)</enum><header>RNAV</header><text>The term <quote>RNAV</quote> means area navigation.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0EA5926AE0CD43DBA92E2836570BCE3A"><enum>(6)</enum><header>RNP</header><text>The term <quote>RNP</quote> means required navigation performance.</text></paragraph></section>
<section id="H6E419CBC363C4298B23626E0455976FB"><enum>202.</enum><header>NextGen demonstrations and concepts</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In allocating amounts appropriated pursuant to section 48101(a) of title 49, United States Code, the Secretary of Transportation shall give priority to the following NextGen activities:</text>
<paragraph id="H380D92E1EED24AD584645352E4D92E5B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">NextGen demonstrations and infrastructure.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H720ED17F2A6743BABAC27F9D128C70B7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>NextGen trajectory-based operations.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H72F0517DBAAA4A15A3C1F23C701C854C"><enum>(3)</enum><text>NextGen reduced weather impact.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7F650B84F1B142838D87A614AD30F7E6"><enum>(4)</enum><text>NextGen high-density arrivals/departures.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H91684250271F4F7F973B95EF5A8188C2"><enum>(5)</enum><text>NextGen collaborative air traffic management.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H15380C86735543FEB41EEF259F4F2549"><enum>(6)</enum><text>NextGen flexible terminals and airports.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD698967ADEB546998AD4B99457EDFBE1"><enum>(7)</enum><text>NextGen safety, security, and environmental reviews.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HAF365874598B4EB2A895417C7D3175D8"><enum>(8)</enum><text>NextGen networked facilities.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0B410C830702427087BCE850E734DAAF"><enum>(9)</enum><text>The Center for Advanced Aviation System Development.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1EB19BD29E8B49ADB2159B1BFAE73595"><enum>(10)</enum><text>NextGen system development.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1FD62AE9E8D345F995007466A9A1F79D"><enum>(11)</enum><text>Data communications system implementation.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H02F98F1D356E41A2A65E69817EB84EBD"><enum>(12)</enum><text>ADS–B infrastructure deployment and operational implementation.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H63ACFC5C06904C99B3E99B22F5FF2F3D"><enum>(13)</enum><text>Systemwide information management.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5EF5EF7D4F064E03BB083F31CA5C8940"><enum>(14)</enum><text>NextGen facility consolidation and realignment.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H38ACF86DA1C544769CEC39BD8E3F1F30"><enum>(15)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">En route automation modernization.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H18204B97D5EE45528C18DFEEEB5A3431"><enum>(16)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">National airspace system voice switch.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA3C066B18F2A41D2849FBE1C2C519BD1"><enum>(17)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">NextGen network enabled weather.</text></paragraph></section>
<section id="H65F79845AC6D4D42BC4E957604B01E38"><enum>203.</enum><header>Clarification of authority to enter into reimbursable agreements</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 106(m) is amended in the last sentence by inserting <quote>with or</quote> before <quote>without reimbursement</quote>.</text></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDFFCD533C6854461A4662ED10642BAF8" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>204.</enum><header>Chief NextGen Officer</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 106 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection id="H95C0A9916C784D0989F13D0B22EF935C"><enum>(s)</enum><header>Chief NextGen Officer</header>
<paragraph id="H3414D9C602F54C1991F19F2C878D5C91"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header>
<subparagraph id="H3EFD64C8E80749D589F4496A3AB43BD8"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Appointment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There shall be a Chief NextGen Officer appointed by the Administrator. The Chief NextGen Officer shall report directly to the Administrator and shall be subject to the authority of the Administrator.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF80EC3F21C894E6EBB7CE6989D39A55E"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Qualifications</header><text>The Chief NextGen Officer shall have a demonstrated ability in management and knowledge of or experience in aviation and systems engineering.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0548BBBD89F941DEA970D5A3B81E043D"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Term</header><text>The Chief NextGen Officer shall be appointed for a term of 5 years.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H5AFE39E2684B43FAA3C7553AD1B81459"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Removal</header><text>The Chief NextGen Officer shall serve at the pleasure of the Administrator, except that the Administrator shall make every effort to ensure stability and continuity in the leadership of the implementation of NextGen.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H2534A2CD1DBE413AB563971B94EBD4E9"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Vacancy</header><text>Any individual appointed to fill a vacancy in the position of Chief NextGen Officer occurring before the expiration of the term for which the individual’s predecessor was appointed shall be appointed for the remainder of that term.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H889BC3ACA4CC4196B987F65FD5FBD3ED"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Compensation</header>
<subparagraph id="H6B925C674BA44E528ACB962098FF498C"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Chief NextGen Officer shall be paid at an annual rate of basic pay to be determined by the Administrator. The annual rate may not exceed the annual compensation paid under section 102 of title 3. The Chief NextGen Officer shall be subject to the postemployment provisions of section 207 of title 18 as if the position of Chief NextGen Officer were described in section 207(c)(2)(A)(i) of that title.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H42E96CCB947948DBB0EBCCD71F6BCBDF"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Bonus</header><text>In addition to the annual rate of basic pay authorized by subparagraph (A), the Chief NextGen Officer may receive a bonus for any calendar year not to exceed 30 percent of the annual rate of basic pay, based upon the Administrator’s evaluation of the Chief NextGen Officer’s performance in relation to the performance goals set forth in the performance agreement described in paragraph (3).</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF2CD622226FB497892F2BD568138E7C7"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Annual performance agreement</header><text>The Administrator and the Chief NextGen Officer, in consultation with the Federal Aviation Management Advisory Council, shall enter into an annual performance agreement that sets forth measurable organization and individual goals for the Chief NextGen Officer in key operational areas. The agreement shall be subject to review and renegotiation on an annual basis.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H30574FE2A24D473EBD6E6CE222AA9D25"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Annual performance report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Chief NextGen Officer shall prepare and transmit to the Secretary of Transportation, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate an annual management report containing such information as may be prescribed by the Secretary.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB0B551F64CF349A4A347288550438BA4"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Responsibilities</header><text>The responsibilities of the Chief NextGen Officer include the following:</text>
<subparagraph id="H756B7B72AB03428786CD426325ABA366"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Implementing NextGen activities and budgets across all program offices of the Federal Aviation Administration.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H32FCD206D99141B2964C6987A4FD52DE"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Coordinating the implementation of NextGen activities with the Office of Management and Budget.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HA52A6F17A29E4E6CBDE39961E0DB5262"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Reviewing and providing advice on the Administration’s modernization programs, budget, and cost accounting system with respect to NextGen.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HA18B71E3AE3A40DEB57C2E1FF0F31557"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">With respect to the budget of the Administration—</text>
<clause id="HAFC9064B065F436EB763B7776D5DC12A"><enum>(i)</enum><text>developing a budget request of the Administration related to the implementation of NextGen;</text></clause>
<clause id="H6E34EB417BEF4238B49CD03D24D193D2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>submitting such budget request to the Administrator; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HF93DEE9990D243B1B11502E6F1D57202"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>ensuring that the budget request supports the annual and long-range strategic plans of the Administration with respect to NextGen.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H670EAC798805491CA658443B20145F0F"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Consulting with the Administrator on the Capital Investment Plan of the Administration prior to its submission to Congress.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H750971A6FA584855A87629460ED1532C"><enum>(F)</enum><text>Developing an annual NextGen implementation plan.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF16340732C1B41C19E5A5779BE0E26CE"><enum>(G)</enum><text>Ensuring that NextGen implementation activities are planned in such a manner as to require that system architecture is designed to allow for the incorporation of novel and currently unknown technologies into NextGen in the future and that current decisions do not bias future decisions unfairly in favor of existing technology at the expense of innovation.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HDBDE19C81B01432A9524032B39FB06AF"><enum>(H)</enum><text>Coordinating with the NextGen Joint Planning and Development Office with respect to facilitating cooperation among all Federal agencies whose operations and interests are affected by the implementation of NextGen.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF996FC5DFCB74D339517A93D0707B714"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Exception</header><text>If the Administrator appoints as the Chief NextGen Officer, pursuant to paragraph (1)(A), an Executive Schedule employee covered by section 5315 of title 5, then paragraphs (1)(B), (1)(C), (2), and (3) of this subsection shall not apply to such employee.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0F538B2185D042C9A713F978FA41EBC5"><enum>(7)</enum><header>NextGen defined</header><text>For purposes of this subsection, the term <quote>NextGen</quote> means the Next Generation Air Transportation System.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9AF819B7FD814F51B7DE6DCE12B780D4" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>205.</enum><header>Definition of air navigation facility</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 40102(a)(4) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H7C6D79CD6CFE438E8C9C4DB88555B8E7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating subparagraph (D) as subparagraph (E);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HAD00D0E8EF8749D9AF387AAC9A3948DF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking subparagraphs (B) and (C) and inserting the following:</text>
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<subparagraph id="H025FF7CF0B234C40A46FBE02F3F441EF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>runway lighting and airport surface visual and other navigation aids;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H4F5E97E46FDC458587A83C4FFC205E73"><enum>(C)</enum><text>apparatus, equipment, software, or service for distributing aeronautical and meteorological information to air traffic control facilities or aircraft;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0FB3B2DD002B4D9CA36F39851036035F"><enum>(D)</enum><text>communication, navigation, or surveillance equipment for air-to-ground or air-to-air applications;</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF97C9B39758F4B86AD53810FBB8C5093"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subparagraph (E) (as redesignated by paragraph (1) of this section)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HBAE77B43E6024A829C667504822205A1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>another structure</quote> and inserting <quote>any structure, equipment,</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7F06B530243849059E2D5A8577F387D9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8DCC7B07478040EE96360E913FFDE76D"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subparagraph id="H88E384B6753B48C7B2519B7395DACF95"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">buildings, equipment, and systems dedicated to the national airspace system.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section>
<section id="H926CF24F73844558ADA9080004769829"><enum>206.</enum><header>Clarification to acquisition reform authority</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 40110(c) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HC8D60C16164D4B86B5EE0F7D72E07FC2"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon in paragraph (3);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3F0DFF137A5E4DFE849C8DE657EB52E3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (4); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1E3130CE3C024BA88C577D5A886A78A5"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (4).</text></paragraph></section>
<section id="H1D02734B670C4E7E83B1650D7F876932"><enum>207.</enum><header>Assistance to foreign aviation authorities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 40113(e) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H6D205A466A094B80A2FDA622278F94E4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HE7D6CA09B41C47C795177CFEC6EDA9AE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(whether public or private)</quote> after <quote>authorities</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H1B75626AB0C54EC3A3DE77147FFBD67D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>safety.</quote> and inserting <quote>safety or efficiency. The Administrator is authorized to participate in, and submit offers in response to, competitions to provide these services, and to contract with foreign aviation authorities to provide these services consistent with section 106(l)(6).</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD31F7551E8564430B6339D524C09EACA"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (2) by adding at the end the following: <quote>The Administrator is authorized, notwithstanding any other provision of law or policy, to accept payments for services provided under this subsection in arrears.</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4A94B5ED35974D6BB36C4A0AD608DE13"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (3) and inserting the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="H9264DA947BE24685B4406A3444B8301F"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Crediting appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funds received by the Administrator pursuant to this section shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="H7200CECB09234CE0816309EFF7FE6A5E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>be credited to the appropriation current when the amount is received;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HCB2EB9600E734323BC188A8189F65393"><enum>(B)</enum><text>be merged with and available for the purposes of such appropriation; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7EED2EFFF8B84C3790A18EAB6AAA5172"><enum>(C)</enum><text>remain available until expended.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section>
<section id="H70D82302949C4E1CA2362C061764B0BE"><enum>208.</enum><header>Next Generation Air Transportation System Joint Planning and Development Office</header>
<subsection id="H97561E33C4744AB9824ADC66D2D4581D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Redesignation of JPDO director to associate administrator</header>
<paragraph id="H1F54099CCE6D4703B6A048022476AA96"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Associate Administrator for Next Generation Air Transportation System Planning, Development, and Interagency Coordination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 709(a) of the Vision 100—Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act (49 U.S.C. 40101 note; 117 Stat. 2582) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H0143942673284681BA1BB06A31603FF5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) as paragraphs (3), (4), and (5), respectively; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HC46F057759844233A3F573D2B1D58B10"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="HC29777282AD9434E818528FA5FF7B693" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The head of the Office shall be the Associate Administrator for Next Generation Air Transportation System Planning, Development, and Interagency Coordination, who shall be appointed by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. The Administrator shall appoint the Associate Administrator after consulting with the Chairman of the Next Generation Senior Policy Committee and providing advanced notice to the other members of that Committee.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H2CC0EB231E08462B8AE0932152C71825"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Responsibilities</header><text>Section 709(a)(3) of such Act (as redesignated by paragraph (1) of this subsection) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HC1A52911C5344925BB78789EBE0D8A4B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (G) by striking <quote>; and</quote> and inserting a semicolon;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H48DBC3CD4EA04AABA6D2F317C56CFEC2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (H) by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H860A1E8C74014ABEABA8E3575820AA13"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subparagraph commented="no" id="HF8AB686531F643F6BED147F611C3700B"><enum>(I)</enum><text>establishing specific quantitative goals for the safety, capacity, efficiency, performance, and environmental impacts of each phase of Next Generation Air Transportation System planning and development activities and measuring actual operational experience against those goals, taking into account noise pollution reduction concerns of affected communities to the extent practicable in establishing the environmental goals;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB92450899018493D941D74095B2EA60F"><enum>(J)</enum><text>working to ensure global interoperability of the Next Generation Air Transportation System;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H6BD0D672B1A84F0EBD774AA93DDC65BB"><enum>(K)</enum><text>working to ensure the use of weather information and space weather information in the Next Generation Air Transportation System as soon as possible;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HB19A8D5E599C4728855F6DD441DBB89F"><enum>(L)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">overseeing, with the Administrator and in consultation with the Chief NextGen Officer, the selection of products or outcomes of research and development activities that should be moved to a demonstration phase; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HF63D6E370F80495EBB69D39A068F9E32"><enum>(M)</enum><text>maintaining a baseline modeling and simulation environment for testing and evaluating alternative concepts to satisfy Next Generation Air Transportation System enterprise architecture requirements.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H79124CA47A7641CEB4CBFBE38732BC47"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Cooperation with other Federal agencies</header><text>Section 709(a)(4) of such Act (as redesignated by paragraph (1) of this subsection) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="HD3D1C136C9E647C08D9B17F45EE8186B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>(4)</quote> and inserting <quote>(4)(A)</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE9D3B7BEC1914DB79F86AD8E190D03C6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subparagraph id="HF5E947352B294E4BAEDAE99ECBC141D4" indent="up2"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Defense, the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the head of any other Federal agency from which the Secretary of Transportation requests assistance under subparagraph (A) shall designate a senior official in the agency to be responsible for—</text>
<clause id="H0EAEBE8EA7CD4B2097D5F46FC5A2A08E"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">carrying out the activities of the agency relating to the Next Generation Air Transportation System in coordination with the Office, including the execution of all aspects of the work of the agency in developing and implementing the integrated work plan described in subsection (b)(5);</text></clause>
<clause id="H3CD9C3F3B0E54053BBCFDE3655A4B6C4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">serving as a liaison for the agency in activities of the agency relating to the Next Generation Air Transportation System and coordinating with other Federal agencies involved in activities relating to the System; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H4DF354DC139C49709D8D4F63EF07BFD4"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">ensuring that the agency meets its obligations as set forth in any memorandum of understanding executed by or on behalf of the agency relating to the Next Generation Air Transportation System.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H5394798496C04524A563DE0C8CED7DC2" indent="up2"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The head of a Federal agency referred to in subparagraph (B) shall—</text>
<clause id="HD98015ED4A20486AA3E81EDBF1F3D571"><enum>(i)</enum><text>ensure that the responsibilities of the agency relating to the Next Generation Air Transportation System are clearly communicated to the senior official of the agency designated under subparagraph (B);</text></clause>
<clause id="H0A90700817BD42DC858D891B694B72EC"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>ensure that the performance of the senior official in carrying out the responsibilities of the agency relating to the Next Generation Air Transportation System is reflected in the official’s annual performance evaluations and compensation;</text></clause>
<clause id="HADFEE48550A54716ACCC43A2EA82FB13"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>establish or designate an office within the agency to carry out its responsibilities under the memorandum of understanding under the supervision of the designated official; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H52CD745D79EA420BA914657093A587B4"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>ensure that the designated official has sufficient budgetary authority and staff resources to carry out the agency’s Next Generation Air Transportation System responsibilities as set forth in the integrated plan under subsection (b).</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5656B2C71483417ABC5F37CCCD5EFBCB" indent="up2"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this subparagraph, the head of each Federal agency that has responsibility for carrying out any activity under the integrated plan under subsection (b) shall execute a memorandum of understanding with the Office obligating that agency to carry out the activity.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H340BA4C2DD3842278C1EB388A785244B"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Coordination with OMB</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 709(a) of such Act (117 Stat. 2582) is further amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="H56E29DBBA5E244DA9917EA8DFCE504F6" indent="up1"><enum>(6)</enum>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H7078654BF5534F6FAE5FB5A7B74EF809"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The Office shall work with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to develop a process whereby the Director will identify projects related to the Next Generation Air Transportation System across the agencies referred to in paragraph (4)(A) and consider the Next Generation Air Transportation System as a unified, cross-agency program.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H35E8C147075F43BD88D121F33425CF42" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to the extent practicable, shall—</text>
<clause id="HE1EBB6158C3C40109ABD04A14490C4F4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>ensure that—</text>
<subclause commented="no" id="H44FFA0626FAA4A8CB7B78D817ADCE8EE"><enum>(I)</enum><text>each Federal agency covered by the plan has sufficient funds requested in the President’s budget, as submitted under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, for each fiscal year covered by the plan to carry out its responsibilities under the plan; and</text></subclause>
<subclause commented="no" id="H6E23CCAC8B09405FA4B98A29D0A1094C"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the development and implementation of the Next Generation Air Transportation System remains on schedule;</text></subclause></clause>
<clause commented="no" id="H900D70E6D9F044969A8D55A225BE17D5"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">include, in the President’s budget, a statement of the portion of the estimated budget of each Federal agency covered by the plan that relates to the activities of the agency under the Next Generation Air Transportation System; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H9CFA5077D435431D83ADAE045B602913"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>identify and justify as part of the President’s budget submission any inconsistencies between the plan and amounts requested in the budget.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFC6155033D3D4AAABE921F35DC58C078" indent="up1"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Associate Administrator of the Next Generation Air Transportation System Planning, Development, and Interagency Coordination shall be a voting member of the Joint Resources Council of the Federal Aviation Administration.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H633C47BCB319491B9580559CCE949067"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Integrated plan</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 709(b) of such Act (117 Stat. 2583) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HF2100F3A4F404620B42825343A9BC294"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding paragraph (1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HABF02192066B44FB96F3299D8568BA42"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>meets air</quote> and inserting <quote>meets anticipated future air</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7E38F30A1A784DB8BA876930550022FA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>beyond those currently included in the Federal Aviation Administration’s operational evolution plan</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H15999D8E5E454CD6820FE1FBFD1A45CD"><enum>(2)</enum><text>at the end of paragraph (3) by striking <quote>and</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6DD69D47958A4C4BA4727EAAE0D434DD"><enum>(3)</enum><text>at the end of paragraph (4) by striking the period and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H880C04AEA5B44930B7DC784B6B611B7B"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="H9AB559F2EA664A308435B981A7DE671C"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a multiagency integrated work plan for the Next Generation Air Transportation System that includes—</text>
<subparagraph id="HCE44C3B5B1464EB6B3F1782217D28288"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an outline of the activities required to achieve the end-state architecture, as expressed in the concept of operations and enterprise architecture documents, that identifies each Federal agency or other entity responsible for each activity in the outline;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD261387A272543539323599BD976A66B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>details on a year-by-year basis of specific accomplishments, activities, research requirements, rulemakings, policy decisions, and other milestones of progress for each Federal agency or entity conducting activities relating to the Next Generation Air Transportation System;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H2B86963A89524EE28610EF09D4658C61"><enum>(C)</enum><text>for each element of the Next Generation Air Transportation System, an outline, on a year-by-year basis, of what is to be accomplished in that year toward meeting the Next Generation Air Transportation System’s end-state architecture, as expressed in the concept of operations and enterprise architecture documents, as well as identifying each Federal agency or other entity that will be responsible for each component of any research, development, or implementation program;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE0F544C7859248A68A0EDBDA2C1BBF20"><enum>(D)</enum><text>an estimate of all necessary expenditures on a year-by-year basis, including a statement of each Federal agency or entity’s responsibility for costs and available resources, for each stage of development from the basic research stage through the demonstration and implementation phase;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE164383F8117404FA71B466810120DF9"><enum>(E)</enum><text>a clear explanation of how each step in the development of the Next Generation Air Transportation System will lead to the following step and of the implications of not successfully completing a step in the time period described in the integrated work plan;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H6D1A1523EC984B3FB8D8ACE689E0DFAE"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a transition plan for the implementation of the Next Generation Air Transportation System that includes date-specific milestones for the implementation of new capabilities into the national airspace system;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H05F1AE586D0048E3830FC201B444255B"><enum>(G)</enum><text>date-specific timetables for meeting the environmental goals identified in subsection (a)(3)(I); and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7A2E0FCF87AA4A018ABA1FE6CB22EFF2"><enum>(H)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of potentially significant operational or workforce changes resulting from deployment of the Next Generation Air Transportation System.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HE9C5E3B43EF5447D97384D52EF4A9C49"><enum>(c)</enum><header>NextGen implementation plan</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 709(d) of such Act (117 Stat. 2584) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subsection id="H239B25493AC0425CBEDC594A399B430C"><enum>(d)</enum><header>NextGen implementation plan</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall develop and publish annually the document known as the NextGen Implementation Plan, or any successor document, that provides a detailed description of how the agency is implementing the Next Generation Air Transportation System.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="HA0918DCA6107491FA22C7A81430EB064"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Contingency planning</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Associate Administrator for the Next Generation Air Transportation System Planning, Development, and Interagency Coordination shall, as part of the design of the System, develop contingency plans for dealing with the degradation of the System in the event of a natural disaster, major equipment failure, or act of terrorism.</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4E8214A666454DDFB77C150EF77D959B" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>209.</enum><header>Next Generation Air Transportation Senior Policy Committee</header>
<subsection id="HE18D1CDDCF944EA6A12F0C2F47C99617"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Meetings</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 710(a) of the Vision 100—Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act (49 U.S.C. 40101 note; 117 Stat. 2584) is amended by inserting before the period at the end the following <quote>and shall meet at least twice each year</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HC6737B5298254303B6BD897D09C255DE"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Annual report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 710 of such Act (117 Stat. 2584) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection id="H0AF481433DAE4BBDA298A04DBED0A09A"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Annual report</header>
<paragraph id="H334221A4EC544342BE58DB1365EF4972"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Submission to Congress</header><text>Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this subsection, and annually thereafter on the date of submission of the President’s budget request to Congress under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report summarizing the progress made in carrying out the integrated work plan required by section 709(b)(5) and any changes in that plan.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC93930BD6A9249D2B5D410D125B2AF4E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The report shall include—</text>
<subparagraph id="HF8603EE0BFD24E1CA49116EA123F591B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a copy of the updated integrated work plan;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HFE6990170237418EAC4698CF7B292623"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a description of the progress made in carrying out the integrated work plan and any changes in that plan, including any changes based on funding shortfalls and limitations set by the Office of Management and Budget;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H082316CE92EF42A08426330B47AE251A"><enum>(C)</enum><text>a detailed description of—</text>
<clause id="H296543EE6DEA4192A4D0E558F55642DD"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the success or failure of each item of the integrated work plan for the previous year and relevant information as to why any milestone was not met; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HE8C7086DBA3A4E419D52892B233CE2F1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the impact of not meeting the milestone and what actions will be taken in the future to account for the failure to complete the milestone;</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H2B57E43BBCC34E7E82683EF81B01794F"><enum>(D)</enum><text>an explanation of any change to future years in the integrated work plan and the reasons for such change; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCD3ED628BC8C4DA18C89B555807A2F94"><enum>(E)</enum><text>an identification of the levels of funding for each agency participating in the integrated work plan devoted to programs and activities under the plan for the previous fiscal year and in the President’s budget request.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1652A28ACC0449F9912F9FE36B22AC6C"><enum>210.</enum><header>Improved management of property inventory</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 40110(a) is amended by striking paragraphs (2) and (3) and inserting the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="HA6F644397229489FAA7504B300A4A20D"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">may construct and improve laboratories and other test facilities; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE27CD48858A8475DAB6FE4A52BE3A3AC"><enum>(3)</enum><text>may dispose of any interest in property for adequate compensation, and the amount so received shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="H6DCBAA42C4FF48BEB2917D390DA6890C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>be credited to the appropriation current when the amount is received;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE535A42BF43C46E7BA1E3EAA3F323117"><enum>(B)</enum><text>be merged with and available for the purposes of such appropriation; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7877E770C998445F822DCC1B0DD329AD"><enum>(C)</enum><text>remain available until expended.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0ABA804F911A484995181761D146CEAC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>211.</enum><header>Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast services</header>
<subsection id="H810BE18E6C644807AFB9D0EEA812ADAD"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Review by DOT inspector general</header>
<paragraph id="H0C5BCC4169C346BBA01DE52087FA8124"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Inspector General of the Department of Transportation shall conduct a review concerning the Federal Aviation Administration’s award and oversight of any contracts entered into by the Administration to provide ADS–B services for the national airspace system.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0F02E7CDC9444C0599D11C770F7B2537"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The review shall include, at a minimum—</text>
<subparagraph id="H510BF518F34B40DF926FAA7EFE46DCEC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>an examination of how the Administration manages program risks;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H28EBA0338E59491B953DBBBA170C7BFA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>an assessment of expected benefits attributable to the deployment of ADS–B services, including the Administration’s plans for implementation of advanced operational procedures and air-to-air applications, as well as the extent to which ground radar will be retained;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H6CD9B0530B0E47C4A685A94302756E4A"><enum>(C)</enum><text>an assessment of the Administration’s analysis of specific operational benefits, and benefit/costs analyses of planned operational benefits conducted by the Administration, for ADS–B In and ADS–B Out avionics equipage for airspace users;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H658304B0AF5E41E99CC874B7428E88F7"><enum>(C)</enum><text>a determination of whether the Administration has established sufficient mechanisms to ensure that all design, acquisition, operation, and maintenance requirements have been met by the contractor;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H65F6A44619AB44558980369A65074586"><enum>(D)</enum><text>an assessment of whether the Administration and any contractors are meeting cost, schedule, and performance milestones, as measured against the original baseline of the Administration’s program for providing ADS–B services;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HFC082D81AFC24EA3943C6E9430CF8455"><enum>(E)</enum><text>an assessment of how security issues are being addressed in the overall design and implementation of the ADS–B system; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7954F88A4977468CAA3CBB906EDD5175"><enum>(F)</enum><text>any other matters or aspects relating to contract implementation and oversight that the Inspector General determines merit attention.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HEB7C4FC9E5954B79BB849D0076557101"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Reports to Congress</header><text>The Inspector General shall submit, periodically (and on at least an annual basis), to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report on the results of the review conducted under this subsection.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HC4CFFB568B5949EB8D309727064DC6F8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Rulemakings</header>
<paragraph id="HAFB05A5FC79D400D87B73F1A511BDA33"><enum>(1)</enum><header>ADS–B <enum-in-header>I</enum-in-header>n</header><text>Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall initiate a rulemaking proceeding to issue guidelines and regulations relating to ADS–B In technology that—</text>
<subparagraph id="H36F16B90DD614BDA8294CAF802793516"><enum>(A)</enum><text>identify the ADS–B In technology that will be required under NextGen;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H2A28DC2560414562A2810D9048ECC14E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>subject to paragraph (2), require all aircraft operating in capacity constrained airspace, at capacity constrained airports, or in any other airspace deemed appropriate by the Administrator to be equipped with ADS–B In technology by 2020; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H168F89F5BA434360AD70C9CD203B8FA8"><enum>(C)</enum><text>identify—</text>
<clause id="H94C01C7ABF924D6EBC25CF2D7CEAFACC"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the type of avionics required of aircraft for all classes of airspace;</text></clause>
<clause id="HC6735CE1FB804D6489B2F5BB515B622C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the expected costs associated with the avionics; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H0696308270E74F10B8045444228B015D"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the expected uses and benefits of the avionics.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H248D280503FB4BBD836DF03CA00C9D7A"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Readiness verification</header><text>Before the date on which all aircraft are required to be equipped with ADS–B In technology pursuant to rulemakings conducted under paragraph (1), the Chief NextGen Officer shall verify that—</text>
<subparagraph id="H919308DD510F4712A9946388AA914171"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the necessary ground infrastructure is installed and functioning properly;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H43236B5DE70F4B1B8EB4C7ED51C1DEC7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>certification standards have been approved; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE33F916689484C5881584001B2308C76"><enum>(C)</enum><text>appropriate operational platforms interface safely and efficiently.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H01BF9E0D1F054C7CB34C9468459FB4BD"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Use of ADS–B technology</header>
<paragraph id="HC642C8842F164C35B7BB0E18A8E3ABAD"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Plans</header><text>Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall develop, in consultation with appropriate employee and industry groups, a plan for the use of ADS–B technology for surveillance and active air traffic control.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0A351D3EF25647E0878A6F027BC3BA72"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The plan shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="H3C7D2B87F4764551A4E76B150B2471F3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>include provisions to test the use of ADS–B technology for surveillance and active air traffic control in specific regions of the United States with the most congested airspace;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HFC61F59C56554F878516C607BF03BC23"><enum>(B)</enum><text>identify the equipment required at air traffic control facilities and the training required for air traffic controllers;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H5BF2F055DA954F3595F8CD61D26DD742"><enum>(C)</enum><text>identify procedures, to be developed in consultation with appropriate employee and industry groups, to conduct air traffic management in mixed equipage environments; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H3F0B0FB088A64ED1B469C60F9D5732B9"><enum>(D)</enum><text>establish a policy in test regions referred to in subparagraph (A), in consultation with appropriate employee and industry groups, to provide incentives for equipage with ADS–B technology, including giving priority to aircraft equipped with such technology before the 2020 equipage deadline.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9A996C6A06524C9A8FCA1AE01D2E1169" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>212.</enum><header>Expert review of enterprise architecture for NextGen</header>
<subsection id="HA28CD68086CC4C3A9096306D3E774A39"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Review</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall enter into an arrangement with the National Research Council to review the enterprise architecture for the NextGen.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HC7AA77C11F02439E9FD30B444FBE0AC1"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>At a minimum, the review to be conducted under subsection (a) shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H0EE027931DCE43DD88E4FDCBE756B6FF"><enum>(1)</enum><text>highlight the technical activities, including human-system design, organizational design, and other safety and human factor aspects of the system, that will be necessary to successfully transition current and planned modernization programs to the future system envisioned by the Joint Planning and Development Office of the Administration;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H70678BF7163A4E3EA66C2B26BC558DF1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>assess technical, cost, and schedule risk for the software development that will be necessary to achieve the expected benefits from a highly automated air traffic management system and the implications for ongoing modernization projects; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3E304FA7AAFE4EDFB8CB125429F2A7A6"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">determine how risks with automation efforts for the NextGen can be mitigated based on the experiences of other public or private entities in developing complex, software-intensive systems.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H4F944EF481A341E48E7C6A69297A8069"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report containing the results of the review conducted pursuant to subsection (a).</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H30CDECC78BC743B7A5AA5BE6BF9911BE" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>213.</enum><header>Acceleration of NextGen technologies</header>
<subsection id="H120DFFF07D314729A1023B7F0F033AEA"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Airport procedures</header>
<paragraph id="H73A1C04A8DC5400EB31AE7B03FBC4E3A"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall publish a report, after consultation with representatives of appropriate Administration employee groups, airport operators, air carriers, general aviation representatives, flight path service providers, and aircraft manufacturers that includes the following:</text>
<subparagraph id="HE0403E791B954D618AEA1DD973CA5854"><enum>(A)</enum><header>RNP/RNAV operations</header><text>The required navigation performance and area navigation operations, including the procedures to be developed, certified, and published and the air traffic control operational changes, to maximize the efficiency and capacity of NextGen commercial operations at the 35 operational evolution partnership airports identified by the Administration.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HFE43293AE60E4D4D9F870B6D132199A8"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Coordination and implementation activities</header><text>A description of the activities and operational changes and approvals required to coordinate and utilize those procedures at those airports.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H86EFCCBF479A47FD825DB4F24599C2AE"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Implementation plan</header><text>A plan for implementing those procedures that establishes—</text>
<clause id="H96B3EDB8E06F4A6B912225D22F943571"><enum>(i)</enum><text>clearly defined budget, schedule, project organization, and leadership requirements;</text></clause>
<clause id="H62EAEEFE3C174410BC0ED851ADDADDF4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>specific implementation and transition steps; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HCC29AECB66A74C2D83CE0149CCAEC5A6"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>baseline and performance metrics for—</text>
<subclause id="HDE955DADEE904BA5AA6B168C8A808342"><enum>(I)</enum><text>measuring the Administration’s progress in implementing the plan, including the percentage utilization of required navigation performance in the national airspace system; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HC757E16222044DBB9B7C0BDB7C9B4655"><enum>(II)</enum><text>achieving measurable fuel burn and carbon dioxide emissions reductions compared to current performance; and</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H2B80F1F50E8B49BAA34A6A22803C080A"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>expedited environmental review procedures for timely environmental approval of area navigation and required navigation performance that offer significant efficiency improvements as determined by baseline and performance metrics under clause (iii).</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HA6F5782E31A1497FB9DA0B1CCBC54E84"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Additional procedures</header><text>A process for the identification, certification, and publication of additional required navigation performance and area navigation procedures that may be required at such airports in the future.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HEC6E708A422A4FE5B09EFE80156848AF"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Implementation schedule</header><text>The Administrator shall certify, publish, and implement—</text>
<subparagraph id="H370B1FB86A8E4716B68BEBD44660733D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>30 percent of the required procedures not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H57DA606CF17946B0B448C06EC3CB00B6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>60 percent of the procedures not later than 36 months after the date of enactment of this Act; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7F4CA979780C4125855962A69FE6690C"><enum>(C)</enum><text>100 percent of the procedures before June 30, 2015.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H629A740D82F64AD6A0FA4FACDA756409"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Establishment of priorities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall extend the charter of the Performance Based Navigation Aviation Rulemaking Committee as necessary to establish priorities for the development, certification, publication, and implementation of the navigation performance and area navigation procedures based on their potential safety and efficiency benefits to other airports in the national airspace system, including small and medium hub airports.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HE212D6D422AD4430935D0C6A118FFB6A"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Coordinated and expedited review</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Navigation performance and area navigation procedures developed, certified, published, and implemented under this section shall be presumed to be covered by a categorical exclusion (as defined in section 1508.4 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations) under chapter 3 of FAA Order 1050.1E unless the Administrator determines that extraordinary circumstances exist with respect to the procedure.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H18F3C0B257174B378AA6E87874267C34"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Deployment plan for nationwide data communications system</header><text>Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a plan for implementation of a nationwide data communications system. The plan shall include—</text>
<paragraph id="H803D32E481204FBFA787761D8012A5B1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>clearly defined budget, schedule, project organization, and leadership requirements;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE2E03A8360DD4B37B7930E0C41580FDD"><enum>(2)</enum><text>specific implementation and transition steps; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H46626F82B3064F8482A5E89B0AD903C9"><enum>(3)</enum><text>baseline and performance metrics for measuring the Administration’s progress in implementing the plan.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H1E14B9B095094DB5BF76305BF5503677"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Improved performance standards</header>
<paragraph id="H961907ABC01E47588F0C60EE5C622BD5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Assessment of work being performed under NextGen Implementation Plan</header><text>The Administrator shall clearly outline in the NextGen Implementation Plan document of the Administration the work being performed under the plan to determine—</text>
<subparagraph id="HCBD0A3CC5CF742989EBBA0667254B96D"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether utilization of ADS–B, RNP, and other technologies as part of NextGen implementation will display the position of aircraft more accurately and frequently so as to enable a more efficient use of existing airspace and result in reduced consumption of aviation fuel and aircraft engine emissions; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE4CEE97D54CB49C18CE135F215408903"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the feasibility of reducing aircraft separation standards in a safe manner as a result of the implementation of such technologies.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H001EFB393074410DA2DEFD772593216A"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Aircraft separation standards</header><text>If the Administrator determines that the standards referred to in paragraph (1)(B) can be reduced safely, the Administrator shall include in the NextGen Implementation Plan a timetable for implementation of such reduced standards.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H4AD5F0FC1A0E4A2496C644D6F0C6FD02"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Third-<enum-in-header>P</enum-in-header>arty usage</header><text>The Administration shall establish a program under which the Administration will use third parties in the development, testing, and maintenance of flight procedures.</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H87D549C2428A4730B583C864215B5513" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>214.</enum><header>Performance metrics</header>
<subsection id="H3D11FBC8FA87401CAE60989FBB958CB1"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall establish and begin tracking national airspace system performance metrics, including, at a minimum, metrics with respect to—</text>
<paragraph id="H6B1DFC784C4446858601D64B0D2E3CCF"><enum>(1)</enum><text>actual arrival and departure rates per hour measured against the currently published aircraft arrival rate and aircraft departure rate for the 35 operational evolution partnership airports;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HAC3B10C0D38D4FB297D7737BFBB7C4E7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>average gate-to-gate times;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HAC9D7914AF1847AFB4EA31837E673008"><enum>(3)</enum><text>fuel burned between key city pairs;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC458F8A7C23B4E3CA26BD3AD219BB77E"><enum>(4)</enum><text>operations using the advanced navigation procedures, including performance based navigation procedures;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6AE5BD5B68A2461694607D0B3DBB6F38"><enum>(5)</enum><text>the average distance flown between key city pairs;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFE3B1B6381884A8DAAD2702255D6A980"><enum>(6)</enum><text>the time between pushing back from the gate and taking off;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9298FB519834420CA4046D8BBD4BD18D"><enum>(7)</enum><text>continuous climb or descent;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC091E84809D14B2BA8FB4F4C87A9F7F9"><enum>(8)</enum><text>average gate arrival delay for all arrivals;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1254E9A1BA354432B7136FD4DB56D257"><enum>(9)</enum><text>flown versus filed flight times for key city pairs;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H42428F2E2B2C4C338D68F9FCA586B76D"><enum>(10)</enum><text>implementation of NextGen Implementation Plan, or any successor document, capabilities designed to reduce emissions and fuel consumption;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD47A21628FA54BAFBC5F6DFFD039B90D"><enum>(11)</enum><text>the Administration’s unit cost of providing air traffic control services; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9CD246E3E0C94BB9BD47D51BBB965F5C"><enum>(12)</enum><text>runway safety, including runway incursions, operational errors, and loss of standard separation events.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4E510F50FDAF4A55809EB7F6036FFEF7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Baselines</header><text>The Administrator, in consultation with aviation industry stakeholders, shall identify baselines for each of the metrics established under subsection (a) and appropriate methods to measure deviations from the baselines.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HDC5413CF9C14476A9B4189B42D768755"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Publication</header><text>The Administrator shall make data obtained under subsection (a) available to the public in a searchable, sortable, and downloadable format through the Web site of the Administration and other appropriate media.</text></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="HA1B296C2B0EA4246A2968C4FA5DA1DBB"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report that contains—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H4191F747CEB646BF8C81F7B3A99F1E29"><enum>(1)</enum><text>a description of the metrics that will be used to measure the Administration's progress in implementing NextGen capabilities and operational results;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HB16E07DC120B402CB4DD8EFEDE9D0D50"><enum>(2)</enum><text>information on any additional metrics developed; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H31A6592A10E0457CBB339F716306E147"><enum>(3)</enum><text>a process for holding the Administration accountable for meeting or exceeding the metrics baselines identified in subsection (b).</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8A0BD0784FFD453EA529F357B32D68CB" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>215.</enum><header>Certification standards and resources</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall develop a plan to accelerate and streamline the process for certification of NextGen technologies, including—</text>
<paragraph id="HD4671FC666A341C0B81FD4B822B3BF79"><enum>(1)</enum><text>establishment of updated project plans and timelines;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HED53C5556508411FAF7CE10605DE276A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>identification of the specific activities needed to certify NextGen technologies, including the establishment of NextGen technical requirements for the manufacture of equipage, installation of equipage, airline operational procedures, pilot training standards, air traffic control procedures, and air traffic controller training;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HBDBF4976E00F42D9BC1A042772C408CF"><enum>(3)</enum><text>identification of staffing requirements for the Air Certification Service and the Flight Standards Service, taking into consideration the leveraging of assistance from third parties and designees;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9CB9E34E5A3542AB9F24AAC477F87B8A"><enum>(4)</enum><text>establishment of a program under which the Administration will use third parties in the certification process; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H44C4EAB5BDFA41F7B972F04C9A131FB0"><enum>(5)</enum><text>establishment of performance metrics to measure the Administration's progress.</text></paragraph></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H308555A99A4D4C1D868595282F79CD1D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>216.</enum><header>Surface systems acceleration</header>
<subsection id="HCA51AFB74A64400A99D0F98324202815"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Chief Operating Officer of the Air Traffic Organization shall—</text>
<paragraph id="HC7AE8B15E56D47CC9808B5A6E743D76F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>evaluate the Airport Surface Detection Equipment-Model X program for its potential contribution to implementation of the NextGen initiative;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HEDC702D4E53C42109241B52A35070F7A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>evaluate airport surveillance technologies and associated collaborative surface management software for potential contributions to implementation of NextGen surface management;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE1F15D5DB9F6440D9577979C6EAF4339"><enum>(3)</enum><text>accelerate implementation of the program referred to in paragraph (1); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H59E8CB4B047148FC8A05B785D0A82559"><enum>(4)</enum><text>carry out such additional duties as the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may require.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HE1B741970C594DFA833DA5FF82B5D4EF"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Expedited certification and utilization</header><text>The Administrator shall—</text>
<paragraph id="HABDB8D193E024D7AA183ECFB904792E3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>consider options for expediting the certification of Ground-Based Augmentation System technology; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7C21828C7CC24D1BB3B4F4768939AF93"><enum>(2)</enum><text>develop a plan to utilize such a system at the 35 operational evolution partnership airports by September 30, 2012.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H491DD6C0F09B4532AF5C183B0F478022" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>217.</enum><header>Inclusion of stakeholders in air traffic control modernization projects</header>
<subsection id="HD9187760A2A6437993B09B7090BB7BCA"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Process for employee inclusion</header><text>Notwithstanding any other law or agreement, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall establish a process or processes for including qualified employees to serve in a collaborative and expert capacity in the planning and development of air traffic control modernization projects, including NextGen.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H5088A89B01E5420C9677553B01AE5192"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Adherence to deadlines</header><text>Participants in these processes shall adhere to all deadlines and milestones established pursuant to this title.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H885F40E510584399AE4BFF17EAD961F9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>No change in employee status</header><text>Participation in these processes by an employee shall not—</text>
<paragraph id="H0012B40F1776461895BBF912EC92B6BC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>serve as a waiver of any bargaining obligations or rights;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H43A2281E1EAF4A7F9103E4731236AB40"><enum>(2)</enum><text>entitle the employee to any additional compensation or benefits; or</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD57929DCE4CD4F918201306F5095CD92"><enum>(3)</enum><text>entitle the employee to prevent or unduly delay the exercise of management prerogatives.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HDFDDBC8A24A34F03AEF90D47473F4DE1"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Working groups</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except in extraordinary circumstances, the Administrator shall not pay overtime related to work group participation.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HA758427D1FB04495BA0338A5B035A55E"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall report to Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate concerning the disputes between participating employees and Administration management that have led to delays to the implementation of NextGen, including information on the source of the dispute, the resulting length of delay, and associated cost increases.</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6ACD505833D54AED9E3EB92C15AFAB49" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>218.</enum><header>Siting of wind farms near FAA navigational aids and other assets</header>
<subsection id="HD049ACD5D3954129937D37B1B226A0D8"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Survey and assessment</header>
<paragraph id="HB9B0C251FB414E9D9D9262245233FD4E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, in order to address safety and operational concerns associated with the construction, alteration, establishment, or expansion of wind farms in proximity to critical Federal Aviation Administration facilities, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall complete a survey and assessment of leases for critical Administration facility sites, including—</text>
<subparagraph id="H03287DC266FF44089D9B584A066C36BB"><enum>(A)</enum><text>an inventory of the leases that describes, for each such lease—</text>
<clause id="H312AECDEC50445B8A5C0E50A73BD3D9F"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the periodic cost, location, site, terms, number of years remaining, and lessor;</text></clause>
<clause id="HA17235CF0BA64F54AEE665183864D31E"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>other Administration facilities that share the leasehold, including surveillance and communications equipment; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H9FE727212C2143A2A6AB60FE4D72C09C"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the type of transmission services supported, including the terms of service, cost, and support contract obligations for the services; and</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H822F5409B19E4AD190DAF3B9D2542C57"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a list of those leases for facilities located in or near areas suitable for the construction and operation of wind farms, as determined by the Administrator in consultation with the Secretary of Energy.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HAD358B1030E1480CBC4E4452287DB1F9"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Memorandum of understanding</header><text>The Administrator and the Secretary of Energy shall enter into a memorandum of understanding regarding the use and distribution of the list referred to in paragraph (1)(B), including considerations of privacy and proprietary information, database development, or other relevant applications.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC055364D30FE4625A6ABD237F082CE92"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Upon completion of the survey and assessment, the Administrator shall submit a report to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives, and the Comptroller General containing the Administrator’s findings, conclusions, and recommendations.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HBC7EDFC55A114BCF9F7D36FBB1A611EE"><enum>(b)</enum><header>GAO assessment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after receiving the Administrator’s report under subsection (a)(3), the Comptroller General, in consultation with the Administrator and other interested parties, shall report on—</text>
<paragraph id="HB8E55F5F9E834D808CBE33ED1BD426C5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the current and potential impact of wind farms on the national airspace system;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HEF39F19DBFF14C6A8046C304C32D251F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the extent to which the Department of Defense and the Administration have guidance, processes, and procedures in place to evaluate the impact of wind farms on the implementation of the NextGen air traffic control system; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE889014F28D441FC9A64DAB032331815"><enum>(3)</enum><text>potential mitigation strategies, if necessary, to ensure that wind farms do not have an adverse impact on the implementation of the Next Generation air traffic control system, including the installation of navigational aids associated with that system.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H7BEB29A9732C4C438363428A99C3648B"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Issuance of guidelines</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the Administrator receives the Comptroller’s recommendations, the Administrator shall consult with State, Federal, and industry stakeholders and publish guidelines for the construction and operation of wind farms that are to be located in proximity to critical Administration facilities. The guidelines may include—</text>
<paragraph id="HB0DFCFE0F4F64B559B36FE5E61859BAD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the establishment of a zone system for wind farms based on proximity to critical Administration assets;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1771EF7CC74D4992950EE36AADB529F4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the establishment of turbine height and density limitations on such wind farms; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB4D5CF9831EC4F89BD254E55F5DFB9DF"><enum>(3)</enum><text>any other requirements or recommendations designed to address Administration safety or operational concerns related to the construction, alteration, establishment, or expansion of such wind farms.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H4647FEEC9DDC41C69E955DAD71159959"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Reports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator and the Comptroller General shall provide a copy of reports under subsections (a) and (b), respectively, to—</text>
<paragraph id="HB7E07EBC94E74C9589215723278CF06C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H027BE21E59554182A5783C82A93766BF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, the Committee on Homeland Security, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Representatives.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0F43EE6D167F47B1840FA7C23B6DCC34" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>219.</enum><header>Airspace redesign</header>
<subsection id="H2B9F3C50DDEF4CA7B1E813AE551482F3"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Findings</header><text>Congress finds the following:</text>
<paragraph id="H5841778A38B4473784460D547CCFFD39"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The airspace redesign efforts of the Federal Aviation Administration will play a critical near-term role in enhancing capacity, reducing delays, transitioning to more flexible routing, and ultimately saving money in fuel costs for airlines and airspace users.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD0E4212BDC6F4ED588C8C5AD817BE95E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The critical importance of airspace redesign efforts is underscored by the fact that they are highlighted in strategic plans of the Administration, including Flight Plan 2009–2013 and the NextGen Implementation Plan.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H59959E7254A7402289CCD91C32CEC00A"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Funding cuts have led to delays and deferrals of critical capacity enhancing airspace redesign efforts.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5A98BF7D2DB5449C91ED8B1AAC4FE890"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Several new runways planned for the period of fiscal years 2011 and 2012 will not provide estimated capacity benefits without additional funds.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HC0E8FC7457F94CA8A6D6285A30C4AE8C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Noise impacts of New York/New Jersey/Philadelphia Metropolitan Area Airspace Redesign</header>
<paragraph id="HA24654D54C214D969AF0CB1E850F8A31"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Monitoring</header><text>The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, in conjunction with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the Philadelphia International Airport, shall monitor the noise impacts of the New York/New Jersey/Philadelphia Metropolitan Area Airspace Redesign.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA2D905D2EC4C47489EB2ED5F3604F5BF"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than one year following the first day of completion of the New York/New Jersey/Philadelphia Metropolitan Area Airspace Redesign, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report on the findings of the Administrator with respect to monitoring conducted under paragraph (1).</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<enum>III</enum><header>Safety</header>
<subtitle id="H3E6347618E0B44CC98246AEBE0034CFF"><enum>A</enum><header>General Provisions</header>
<section id="HE45AA18F83894C55A6D2713F9336132B"><enum>301.</enum><header>Judicial review of denial of airman certificates</header>
<subsection id="H55DCFFFC64B04F6F940E95F2761BCC93"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Judicial review of NTSB decisions</header><text>Section 44703(d) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H2728F53EC43E4697811AAB9AAE3058F4" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H62990879D752461ABF635B6D1CBA049F" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>A person who is substantially affected by an order of the Board under this subsection, or the Administrator if the Administrator decides that an order of the Board will have a significant adverse impact on carrying out this subtitle, may seek judicial review of the order under section 46110. The Administrator shall be made a party to the judicial review proceedings. The findings of fact of the Board in any such case are conclusive if supported by substantial evidence.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H0B10F4B416104182B06D483355143626"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>Section 1153(c) is amended by striking <quote>section 44709 or</quote> and inserting <quote>section 44703(d), 44709, or</quote>.</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H24D3C7BEBBB64E1697BBC097AB54EF92" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>302.</enum><header>Release of data relating to abandoned type certificates and supplemental type certificates</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 44704(a) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H83C2B8A553C84A7EAA83B0A3AF07799A" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H9F59136646B6452789A1F7B3635E2896"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Release of data</header>
<subparagraph id="H3FCD67AD652F48A9ADA9D2029DD9870A"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Administrator may make available upon request, to a person seeking to maintain the airworthiness or develop product improvements of an aircraft, engine, propeller, or appliance, engineering data in the possession of the Administration relating to a type certificate or a supplemental type certificate for such aircraft, engine, propeller, or appliance, without the consent of the owner of record, if the Administrator determines that—</text>
<clause id="HF2D4FE34FC8142568593DDE0F837E743"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the certificate containing the requested data has been inactive for 3 or more years, except that the Administrator may reduce this time if required to address an unsafe condition associated with the product;</text></clause>
<clause id="H7045E0C53BCB425EA9B916E06F81E939"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>after using due diligence, the Administrator is unable to find the owner of record, or the owner of record’s heir, of the type certificate or supplemental type certificate; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H7911A3FAB346482CB02005AA620D1B89"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>making such data available will enhance aviation safety.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H9E68FBEF145242459308B4D45A3B74AB"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Engineering data defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the term <quote>engineering data</quote> as used with respect to an aircraft, engine, propeller, or appliance means type design drawing and specifications for the entire aircraft, engine, propeller, or appliance or change to the aircraft, engine, propeller, or appliance, including the original design data, and any associated supplier data for individual parts or components approved as part of the particular certificate for the aircraft, engine, propeller, or appliance.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HA6E679504B5E403AA549A8D6A0E301C3"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Requirement to maintain data</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall maintain engineering data in the possession of the Administration relating to a type certificate or a supplemental type certificate that has been inactive for 3 or more years.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE568E5BC0A4E441CB71591E7E1ECA14A"><enum>303.</enum><header>Design and production organization certificates</header>
<subsection id="HFF95C54A0A4940B1BFE091F9DD6218EA"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 44704(e) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H27F87A73BB66459BA3141DDB60CB76A8" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H836F5B33CA6F41FDBBF6FD6040AABB58"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Design and production organization certificates</header>
<paragraph id="H6C10D89229B54AB78003E315A2B72375"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Issuance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Beginning January 1, 2013, the Administrator may issue a certificate to a design organization, production organization, or design and production organization to authorize the organization to certify compliance of aircraft, aircraft engines, propellers, and appliances with the requirements and minimum standards prescribed under section 44701(a). An organization holding a certificate issued under this subsection shall be known as a certified design and production organization (in this subsection referred to as a <quote>CDPO</quote>).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC15EAA003BBC4F4297269D01F26B0B70"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Applications</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On receiving an application for a CDPO certificate, the Administrator shall examine and rate the organization submitting the application, in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the Administrator, to determine whether the organization has adequate engineering, design, and production capabilities, standards, and safeguards to make certifications of compliance as described in paragraph (1).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HDDDBDF9D51AC4B11BCCC0A0EF7F2CC7A"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Issuance of certificates based on CDPO findings</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator may rely on certifications of compliance by a CDPO when making determinations under this section.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA0E0F83DA3EC4056A9365B77C5803DFD"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Public safety</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall include in a CDPO certificate terms required in the interest of safety.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HAE42D428CBC640E49A5917363847D3C7"><enum>(5)</enum><header>No effect on power of revocation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nothing in this subsection affects the authority of the Secretary of Transportation to revoke a certificate.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>. </after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H3B646CDB1F73478388348526CA5F01EE"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Before January 1, 2013, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may continue to issue certificates under section 44704(e) of title 49, United States Code, as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this Act.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H91CF600D842940F680AEF4935BBEDB06"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Clerical amendments</header><text>Chapter 447 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H3AB412BDA43449649F2569C106F5F740"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the heading for section 44704 by striking <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">and design organization certificates</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">, and design and production organization certificates</header-in-text></quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFA06F3B4FCA642AF87B4CF7B0BF1AA41"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in the analysis for such chapter by striking the item relating to section 44704 and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H30AD08A6C6794ABC99D973149ACAD5C1" style="USC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">44704. Type certificates, production certificates, airworthiness certificates, and design and production organization certificates.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3AEE18D06AD44B409F947B97271E329D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>304.</enum><header>Aircraft certification process review and reform</header>
<subsection id="HD1F8816A8F0144A2BC8CF45D36594E8B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>General</header><text>The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, in consultation with representatives of the aviation industry, shall conduct an assessment of the certification and approval process under section 44704 of title 49, United States Code.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H9DAD2EDEF0E44A88BB449D36D60C7425"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>In conducting the assessment, the Administrator shall consider—</text>
<paragraph id="H9EE9A09572AC46E6801461A2A7991906"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the expected number of applications for product certifications and approvals the Administrator will receive under section 44704 of such title in the 1-year, 5-year, and 10-year periods following the date of enactment of this Act;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H34D23C643E3E4AD99E29A11E6FD040CE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>process reforms and improvements necessary to allow the Administrator to review and approve the applications in a fair and timely fashion;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4FB808F3B3AB4F03BFD3538B717BE7CA"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the status of recommendations made in previous reports on the Administration’s certification process;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB2032AD9124B4E8DA9623DB6C175BA33"><enum>(4)</enum><text>methods for enhancing the effective use of delegation systems, including organizational designation authorization;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC36550E96A174B02A5872587C379F960"><enum>(5)</enum><text>methods for training the Administration’s field office employees in the safety management system and auditing; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H76DF650C0C274F8E9F9D66A0FBBC2B5C"><enum>(6)</enum><text>the status of updating airworthiness requirements, including implementing recommendations in the Administration’s report entitled <quote>Part 23—Small Airplane Certification Process Study</quote> (OK–09–3468, dated July 2009).</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H82A30C5B9D46486498E10E8A8EE84669"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Recommendations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In conducting the assessment, the Administrator shall make recommendations to improve efficiency and reduce costs through streamlining and reengineering the certification process under section 44704 of such title to ensure that the Administrator can conduct certifications and approvals under such section in a manner that supports and enables the development of new products and technologies and the global competitiveness of the United States aviation industry.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HC16F7AFD7C174ECE862094D08B9AD88E"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report on the results of the assessment, together with an explanation of how the Administrator will implement recommendations made under subsection (c) and measure the effectiveness of the recommendations.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HA14E7842866F426EB105721A5FAE9F60"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Implementation of recommendations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall begin to implement the recommendations made under subsection (c).</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEC8A8E411A044A849FC3DE75DD619A9B" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>305.</enum><header>Consistency of regulatory interpretation</header>
<subsection id="H92B4853B79824939B88015E0DFC1E65F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment of advisory panel</header><text>Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall establish an advisory panel comprised of both Government and industry representatives to—</text>
<paragraph id="HC5E8C19927AF4400992F06E6B736AF07"><enum>(1)</enum><text>review the October 2010 report by the Government Accountability Office on certification and approval processes (GAO–11–14); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB417F04A788C4E0CB7A4FD4FE0FF312F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>develop recommendations to address the findings in the report and other concerns raised by interested parties, including representatives of the aviation industry.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H7F166E58788E4114B2D54072D48F003A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Matters To be considered</header><text>The advisory panel shall—</text>
<paragraph id="HDD984DEA29764FEC9DB9A96F4C2E024E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>determine the root causes of inconsistent interpretation of regulations by the Administration’s Flight Standards Service and Aircraft Certification Service;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB0A0852644964A658EAFDAA33CD99DE3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>develop recommendations to improve the consistency of interpreting regulations by the Administration’s Flight Standards Service and Aircraft Certification Service; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8C19169AFD2D4FCFBD6ADE0831A05DF3"><enum>(3)</enum><text>develop recommendations to improve communications between the Administration’s Flight Standards Service and Aircraft Certification Service and applicants and certificate and approval holders for the identification and resolution of potentially adverse issues in an expeditious and fair manner.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HD866972D41E24745A1F5D57C4C3CC55F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall transmit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report on the findings of the advisory panel, together with an explanation of how the Administrator will implement the recommendations of the advisory panel and measure the effectiveness of the recommendations.</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7834E2AA5F5C44B1A271168F9542DB19" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>306.</enum><header>Runway safety</header>
<subsection id="H218CD2A487A04D528A9ECC72347AFFC3"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Strategic runway safety plan</header>
<paragraph id="H01A9A3F207384CC58ACB1BDE7E8D5314"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall develop and submit to Congress a report containing a strategic runway safety plan.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H188C1AF5E7EC48A786BEE6AE9B9021BE"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Contents of plan</header><text>The strategic runway safety plan—</text>
<subparagraph id="HA5CEF8D283174F049FD5B93E63AFDCD7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>shall include, at a minimum—</text>
<clause id="HE82943341C324CEF9E1AC71A32E712A7"><enum>(i)</enum><text>goals to improve runway safety;</text></clause>
<clause id="HBE15938F49A84D96B90A3676EDEB271D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>near and long term actions designed to reduce the severity, number, and rate of runway incursions, losses of standard separation, and operational errors;</text></clause>
<clause id="H3F26EFC54AB64F6FBDBCE64C43B7E675"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>time frames and resources needed for the actions described in clause (ii);</text></clause>
<clause id="H77B72F10265B4740AD2ED8D5E241F57D"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>a continuous evaluative process to track performance toward the goals referred to in clause (i); and</text></clause>
<clause id="H5C930CAC825D49D2A253B26A19B5CDFC"><enum>(v)</enum><text>a review of every commercial service airport (as defined in section 47102 of title 49, United States Code) in the United States and proposed action to improve airport lighting, provide better signs, and improve runway and taxiway markings; and</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H34EA76D8EE014416A264459C05755CC8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>shall address the increased runway safety risk associated with the expected increased volume of air traffic.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H93F9BCBB2B5A43E9A548C186C1402CA2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Process</header><text>Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall develop a process for tracking and investigating operational errors, losses of standard separation, and runway incursions that includes procedures for—</text>
<paragraph id="H11CA59911B234AA382819EA67E2229DC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>identifying who is responsible for tracking operational errors, losses of standard separation, and runway incursions, including a process for lower level employees to report to higher supervisory levels and for frontline managers to receive the information in a timely manner;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4AB1A04AFDFB40DB871998CA2722CC7A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>conducting periodic random audits of the oversight process; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC48ECBC9A9AE41148B80D11AEE565BE0"><enum>(3)</enum><text>ensuring proper accountability.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HFD6EDCFEE91A448C898EF1BAC6614A21"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Plan for installation and deployment of systems To provide alerts of potential runway incursions</header><text>Not later than December 31, 2011, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report containing a plan for the installation and deployment of systems the Administrator is installing to alert controllers or flight crewmembers, or both, of potential runway incursions. The plan shall be integrated into the annual NextGen Implementation Plan document of the Administration or any successor document.</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCAE054378B7F45D1843019FD60D4D7C5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>307.</enum><header>Improved pilot licenses</header>
<subsection id="HA83822E5189E4080AF1FB264E7FC534E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 9 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall begin to issue improved pilot licenses consistent with the requirements of title 49, United States Code, and title 14, Code of Federal Regulations.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H7F63FAB2BB3B4CC680E6A4FA781C65EE"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Requirements</header><text>Improved pilot licenses issued under subsection (a) shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H208D0A26646640E085602E9F18DC0224"><enum>(1)</enum><text>be resistant to tampering, alteration, and counterfeiting;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H342C88969A344969B70DE4C7078B9E8D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>include a photograph of the individual to whom the license is issued; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HBAED011F94C543D9AAAA1E11520265B0"><enum>(3)</enum><text>be capable of accommodating a digital photograph, a biometric identifier, and any other unique identifier that the Administrator considers necessary.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HEC069A7B98F0408CADFE6EFF6F88DF6F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Tampering</header><text>To the extent practical, the Administrator shall develop methods to determine or reveal whether any component or security feature of a license issued under subsection (a) has been tampered with, altered, or counterfeited.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H04E42DA0A1EA4AEEB291031A28FC229F"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Use of designees</header><text>The Administrator may use designees to carry out subsection (a) to the extent feasible in order to minimize the burdens on pilots.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H70109B98405542E799D3638EBA91070D"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Report</header>
<paragraph id="H82841011682840C1B86F3DABC344338B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report on the issuance of improved pilot licenses under this section.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HAD5BC6A0C9414F3BB621DF9A22505AC8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Expiration</header><text>The Administrator shall not be required to submit annual reports under this subsection after the date on which the Administrator begins issuing improved pilot licenses under this section or December 31, 2015, whichever occurs first.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="H532855CC9FBB4E33AEF4C8AAAEC8DD65"><enum>308.</enum><header>Flight attendant fatigue</header>
<subsection id="H4F0B2EAC2B4B4C0E8A0C3FAB40315613"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, acting through the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute, shall conduct a study on the issue of flight attendant fatigue.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H49C0B01A094C42ACA0AAF2D638DDDB0D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The study shall include the following:</text>
<paragraph id="HD4CEB8CE49274ECF9D753076A99A66DC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>A survey of field operations of flight attendants.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCE9A5ED834764534BDE0F4CC61B957A0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>A study of incident reports regarding flight attendant fatigue.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H21D6B3E0B3204512A0033EC2D636E05C"><enum>(3)</enum><text>A review of international policies and practices regarding flight limitations and rest of flight attendants.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1865FB3DE08A43C684723D6616A3F001"><enum>(4)</enum><text>An analysis of potential benefits of training flight attendants regarding fatigue.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H032394B1937C4AAF93779ABD38A31853"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than September 30, 2012, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report on the results of the study.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HB089DFE1F1044DB1B814B44904640586"><enum>309.</enum><header>Flight Standards Evaluation Program</header>
<subsection id="H5695AE9D8B03407F802D9A060637FF81"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall modify the Flight Standards Evaluation Program—</text>
<paragraph id="H1B7EC1CF2D96443F80B6D5DD3E4C00B3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to include periodic and random reviews as part of the Administration’s oversight of air carriers; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H73D51CDDB95A499D995F4DD6F18D99A3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to prohibit an individual from participating in a review or audit of an office with responsibility for an air carrier under the program if the individual, at any time in the 5-year period preceding the date of the review or audit, had responsibility for inspecting, or overseeing the inspection of, the operations of that carrier.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H2C790BDB0C514B6B84EACED92A34A76F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Annual report</header><text>Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report on the Flight Standards Evaluation Program, including the Administrator’s findings and recommendations with respect to the program.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H962B078893A34B879A8BC07F673E10CE"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Flight standards evaluation program defined</header><text>In this section, the term <quote>Flight Standards Evaluation Program</quote> means the program established by the Federal Aviation Administration in FS 1100.1B CHG3, including any subsequent revisions thereto.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HD1E45135B02B4F848A4D6F563D56CDD6"><enum>310.</enum><header>Cockpit smoke</header>
<subsection id="H53A3DDCC4E4F4DE892A8D6A9DC6DD634"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Comptroller General shall conduct a study on the effectiveness of oversight activities of the Federal Aviation Administration relating to the use of new technologies to prevent or mitigate the effects of dense, continuous smoke in the cockpit of a commercial aircraft.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H7439B2D573184C80B43869A0B2E5511B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall submit to Congress a report on the results of the study.</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H53FB6FA529394522BBECCB13F15B1036" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>311.</enum><header>Safety of air ambulance operations</header>
<subsection id="H5FC21B2455054073B3A6F2296198ED81"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 447 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<section id="HBB5D66634A274C6E8B6CAC3AE6450D40"><enum>44730.</enum><header>Helicopter air ambulance operations</header>
<subsection id="H7B85B6CB220F4CAAA3C54A27C1F5DFAF"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Compliance regulations</header>
<paragraph id="HB49570388BD64AFBBC708C2E46B7BD90"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as provided in paragraph (2), not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this section, part 135 certificate holders providing air ambulance services shall comply, whenever medical personnel are onboard the aircraft, with regulations pertaining to weather minimums and flight and duty time under part 135.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5390160713A24CA7A3C8CFF05E97C1BA"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Exception</header><text>If a certificate holder described in paragraph (1) is operating, or carrying out training, under instrument flight rules, the weather reporting requirement at the destination shall not apply until such time as the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration determines that portable, reliable, and accurate ground-based weather measuring and reporting systems are available.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H857D6C4FD3614D72A340917448A14663"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Rulemaking</header><text>The Administrator shall conduct a rulemaking proceeding to improve the safety of flight crewmembers, medical personnel, and passengers onboard helicopters providing air ambulance services under part 135.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H2594CA5996724327B0BD1EA221E03FE8"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Matters To be addressed</header><text>In conducting the rulemaking proceeding under subsection (b), the Administrator shall address the following:</text>
<paragraph id="HC2293DACF7EF4CC59ED6A232BCA3BE8D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Flight request and dispatch procedures, including performance-based flight dispatch procedures.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H994D645FEAAB4C8188C77F2C6A201ADF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Pilot training standards, including—</text>
<subparagraph id="H395B6B1D0F5D46FA872F4DD45DCFBA27"><enum>(A)</enum><text>mandatory training requirements, including a minimum time for completing the training requirements;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H08E309A0D678421FA8FED3E46030CA71"><enum>(B)</enum><text>training subject areas, such as communications procedures and appropriate technology use; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H5A0D9880454D486BA08B81DA94DEB2EC"><enum>(C)</enum><text>establishment of training standards in—</text>
<clause id="HF243737A486D4DCFA101B66DF6472846"><enum>(i)</enum><text>crew resource management;</text></clause>
<clause id="H7AC34CE207D84DDFB37E3803F2020DF9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>flight risk evaluation;</text></clause>
<clause id="HA079306A474F4C289BEF3E92809AB1BB"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>preventing controlled flight into terrain;</text></clause>
<clause id="H8BC3841BB7B14828AA1578D9C0C2BCBF"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>recovery from inadvertent flight into instrument meteorological conditions;</text></clause>
<clause id="H96FDA53FBA814037B57CC1E8209EC47B"><enum>(v)</enum><text>operational control of the pilot in command; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H18FDD4D67970447193E55FE8EF5806AE"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>use of flight simulation training devices and line-oriented flight training.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3D6F077C055549C9A5B76AF88C8F01D8"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Safety-enhancing technology and equipment, including—</text>
<subparagraph id="H45FBF2EABE674A90B8B8B84630E55644"><enum>(A)</enum><text>helicopter terrain awareness and warning systems;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HFF2D13E08E674236A7B64FD013CF8679"><enum>(B)</enum><text>radar altimeters;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H9B83DAC7D6AA4CCF9D958EE31E4BA967"><enum>(C)</enum><text>devices that perform the function of flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders, to the extent feasible; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H10C6F5CE17F741FA86F5E68A862E4B01"><enum>(D)</enum><text>safety equipment that should be worn or used by flight crewmembers and medical personnel on a flight, including the possible use of shoulder harnesses, helmets, seatbelts, and fire resistant clothing to enhance crash survivability.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H08FF9A54307E4637A5B150E6467836F9"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Such other matters as the Administrator considers appropriate.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HF96FAE865FD145C5A143C887E6E8965A"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Minimum Requirements</header><text>In issuing a final rule under subsection (b), the Administrator, at a minimum, shall provide for the following:</text>
<paragraph id="H0E1B3FC4AA0D4D48A40A6E7068949A1C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Flight risk evaluation program</header><text>The Administrator shall ensure that a part 135 certificate holder providing helicopter air ambulance services—</text>
<subparagraph id="H297D96E935D0434ABFF84EE7EBAE40F0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>establishes a flight risk evaluation program, based on FAA Notice 8000.301 issued by the Administration on August 1, 2005, including any updates thereto;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE2DAE39E0BCC428885A494BD44D0F71E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>as part of the flight risk evaluation program, develops a checklist for use by pilots in determining whether a flight request should be accepted; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H1F169AFD6EB44AAAA15B4E0D4E0DE291"><enum>(C)</enum><text>requires the pilots of the certificate holder to use the checklist.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H568746C503394633AD470A2E8595A91C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Operational control center</header><text>The Administrator shall ensure that a part 135 certificate holder providing helicopter air ambulance services using 10 or more helicopters has an operational control center that meets such requirements as the Administrator may prescribe.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H3C04FD7B6CCB4ABF944CE32BEE33C799"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Rulemaking</header><text>The Administrator shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H4197E349E6A94E86971CFFF1D7B94A0A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this section, issue a notice of proposed rulemaking under subsection (b); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6B1D132EC294497D870CDAED8E813CF0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>not later than 16 months after the last day of the comment period on the proposed rule, issue a final rule.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H8F4631B2B903439E81CC4E32B2E64382"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the following definitions apply:</text>
<paragraph id="HA445F4D453AB4D5BB6536E3722E80946"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Part 135</header><text>The term <quote>part 135</quote> means part 135 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8ACB0C62E59E4D5BAB6D7747476900D1"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Part 135 certificate holder</header><text>The term <quote>part 135 certificate holder</quote> means a person holding a certificate issued under part 135.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="H7592EAD23E8546A3B82D20968516114E"><enum>44731.</enum><header>Collection of data on helicopter air ambulance operations</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="HFC76001D33174EED9754E5793340E25F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall require a part 135 certificate holder providing helicopter air ambulance services to submit to the Administrator, not later than one year after the date of enactment of this section, and annually thereafter, a report containing, at a minimum, the following data:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H3B9B7A93B9B64935B3E825CAB9C0043F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The number of helicopters that the certificate holder uses to provide helicopter air ambulance services and the base locations of the helicopters.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H0D3BB03B1DEC4030B460A1D1A48B085C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The number of flights and hours flown, by registration number, during which helicopters operated by the certificate holder were providing helicopter air ambulance services.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HDBF9F108ED114EF6A98071857FF4772F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The number of flight requests for a helicopter providing air ambulance services that were accepted or declined by the certificate holder and the type of each such flight request (such as scene response, interfacility transport, organ transport, or ferry or repositioning flight).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HC22889A92F004C69A5917E769EC028DC"><enum>(4)</enum><text>The number of accidents, if any, involving helicopters operated by the certificate holder while providing air ambulance services and a description of the accidents.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H112E154A49B245F8A09CAB67574A8D31"><enum>(5)</enum><text>The number of flights and hours flown under instrument flight rules by helicopters operated by the certificate holder while providing air ambulance services.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H389DB82817344894B1017C63A96E4ACD"><enum>(6)</enum><text>The time of day of each flight flown by helicopters operated by the certificate holder while providing air ambulance services.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HC9123614AAB94F198822E08730ED3D89"><enum>(7)</enum><text>The number of incidents, if any, in which a helicopter was not directly dispatched and arrived to transport patients but was not utilized for patient transport.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="H22FF992CFEB34B5882633C463247424A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Reporting period</header><text>Data contained in a report submitted by a part 135 certificate holder under subsection (a) shall relate to such reporting period as the Administrator determines appropriate.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HB664A6D88E7645B68A724FFD09000649"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Database</header><text>Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator shall develop a method to collect and store the data collected under subsection (a), including a method to protect the confidentiality of any trade secret or proprietary information provided in response to this section.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HFC9DE076C3AF45C195721C9D2326C19C"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Report to Congress</header><text>Not later than 24 months after the date of enactment of this section, and annually thereafter, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report containing a summary of the data collected under subsection (a).</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HDE62940A677342AB9CF99738B9219EFE"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Part 135 certificate holder defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the term <quote>part 135 certificate holder</quote> means a person holding a certificate issued under part 135 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H678A815046CB49B59B9A14579FBAA050"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Authorized expenditures</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 106(k)(2)(C) (as redesignated by this Act) is amended by inserting before the period the following: <quote>and the development and maintenance of helicopter approach procedures</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HE494819AAF5745C2B269C0A54DB6EC9F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Clerical Amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis for chapter 447 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEF19B69B47064808A48A84E042888A37"><enum>312.</enum><header>Off-airport, low-altitude aircraft weather observation technology</header>
<subsection id="H887A2B867ED04FFDA19B91137F49A192"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall conduct a review of off-airport, low-altitude aircraft weather observation technologies.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H9965EB3BC0B4453D80AE48B76DBD116B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Specific review</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The review shall include, at a minimum, an examination of off-airport, low-altitude weather reporting needs, an assessment of technical alternatives (including automated weather observation stations), an investment analysis, and recommendations for improving weather reporting.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H445E9AEA215844A69EDC6E52B49BC928"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report containing the results of the review.</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF0AE669BBD8F4163A423BC1B53978943" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>313.</enum><header>Feasibility of requiring helicopter pilots to use night vision goggles</header>
<subsection id="HE27CE7635EB74FC2BF065BAE5AF6DA19"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study</header><text>The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall carry out a study on the feasibility of requiring pilots of helicopters providing air ambulance services under part 135 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, to use night vision goggles during nighttime operations.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H49665CCC3ECC4AB48F95CFA4FC55813D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Considerations</header><text>In conducting the study, the Administrator shall consult with owners and operators of helicopters providing air ambulance services under such part 135 and aviation safety professionals to determine the benefits, financial considerations, and risks associated with requiring the use of night vision goggles.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HC8246E0D42BA422F9BAA45C926B092D0"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report to Congress</header><text>Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report on the results of the study.</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8938A7363104437E978A6F6AC05593EC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>314.</enum><header>Prohibition on personal use of electronic devices on flight deck</header>
<subsection id="H6671EEC9CF114274A088CD83353CF38A"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Chapter 447 (as amended by this Act) is further amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<section id="HA09B48B86ADA4036A5DF73C474190A22"><enum>44732.</enum><header>Prohibition on personal use of electronic devices on flight deck</header>
<subsection id="HCC9A7E28B2DF45AD8A57BAC4543F6B47"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>It is unlawful for a flight crewmember of an aircraft used to provide air transportation under part 121 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, to use a personal wireless communications device or laptop computer while at the flight crewmember’s duty station on the flight deck of such an aircraft while the aircraft is being operated.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HE62266DB8F314F23A08B69DAF574F3BC"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Exceptions</header><text>Subsection (a) shall not apply to the use of a personal wireless communications device or laptop computer for a purpose directly related to operation of the aircraft, or for emergency, safety-related, or employment-related communications, in accordance with procedures established by the air carrier and the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H3A27EFCE4F8846B2A48FBFA76C26D8F3"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Enforcement</header><text>In addition to the penalties provided under section 46301 applicable to any violation of this section, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may enforce compliance with this section under section 44709 by amending, modifying, suspending, or revoking a certificate under this chapter.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H0F1E143527A24DFEA180D46B61DD8FE0"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Personal wireless communications device defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the term ‘personal wireless communications device’ means a device through which personal wireless services (as defined in section 332(c)(7)(C)(i) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 332(c)(7)(C)(i))) are transmitted.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HFBE12573392B49EF8643588E81574026"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Penalty</header><text>Section 44711(a) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H2F542B2E8DBA452F87F200DA3B08A342"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking ‘‘or’’ after the semicolon in paragraph (8);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H010943939D6141D7996B25C625421A6F"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking ‘‘title.’’ in paragraph (9) and inserting ‘‘title; or’’; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H882F2DBAD7434FCABBC892F8BE78702A"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="HB915301E71774EFE9C9D253B77E9125D"><enum>(10)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">violate section 44732 or any regulation issued thereunder.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HAA057B988C1C4983BBA321F45C2F9D8E"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis for chapter 447 (as amended by this Act) is further amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection id="HD5536276BF034875B8BD1B62C3B4F76A"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall initiate a rulemaking procedure for regulations to carry out section 44733 of title 49, United States Code, and shall issue a final rule thereunder not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H75B4921A9D134724B38CF198C41E519B"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Study</header>
<paragraph id="HABAA3484939C42738D57FBB4AC7E6D79"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall review relevant air carrier data and carry out a study—</text>
<subparagraph id="H5DD3EF75075D463D9AA250F9CD4E14EB"><enum>(A)</enum><text>to identify common sources of distraction for the flight crewmembers on the flight deck of a commercial aircraft; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HCDB36761BD5240779D687FE5E461B857"><enum>(B)</enum><text>to determine the safety impacts of such distractions.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H56C7AE7412014555BB8A03FAC768D211"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report that contains—</text>
<subparagraph id="HD88DCC11E43E4821B446F1D69DA66080"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the findings of the study conducted under paragraph (1); and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H42A4794AB0CB408FAD2B40AF4DDBA2B9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>recommendations regarding how to reduce distractions for flight crewmembers on the flight deck of a commercial aircraft.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="HDC0D40B13408483295C9627AB51E11DF"><enum>315.</enum><header>Noncertificated maintenance providers</header>
<subsection id="H6FB2D5C7E36B432883E49A55CDFC2267"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall issue regulations requiring that covered work on an aircraft used to provide air transportation under part 121 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, be performed by persons in accordance with subsection (b).</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H5AF3CA2DB74C41369A1A6E696FAAD401"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Persons authorized To perform certain work</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A person may perform covered work on aircraft used to provide air transportation under part 121 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, only if the person is employed by—</text>
<paragraph id="H9397AAC23C374BF5AA45C68D6ECAE00A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>a part 121 air carrier;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H68297ACE55934860B8380D2CF357A879"><enum>(2)</enum><text>a part 145 repair station or a person authorized under section 43.17 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations; or</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H499EF63A5C154572A368D3C7DE3354B6"><enum>(3)</enum><text>subject to subsection (c), a person that—</text>
<subparagraph id="HC4EC22913E1E4F1F8B824B20D0384AE1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>provides contract maintenance workers, services, or maintenance functions to a part 145 repair station or part 121 air carrier; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF1192A00370B4E2E83F5442A8F07A806"><enum>(B)</enum><text>meets the requirements of the part 121 air carrier or the part 145 repair station.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H5860E548201C4B05B681F01A730508CC"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Terms and conditions</header><text>Covered work performed by a person who is employed by a person described in subsection (b)(3) shall be subject to the following terms and conditions:</text>
<paragraph id="H0D22CDF1AA234F128E20640F72868D5F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The part 121 air carrier or the part 145 repair station shall be directly in charge of the covered work being performed.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8C60C5A4688F490EA279905D80174A11"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The covered work shall be carried out in accordance with the part 121 air carrier's maintenance manual.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HED07F87234264930800C6677B2E7E118"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section, the following definitions apply:</text>
<paragraph id="H00E2832619E94859A7F871095B4A3395"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Covered work</header><text>The term <quote>covered work</quote> means a required inspection item, as defined by the Administrator.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H688D02DD23704663ABE6586D85C870A7"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Part 121 air carrier</header><text>The term <quote>part 121 air carrier</quote> means an air carrier that holds a certificate issued under part 121 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H861AB03F12F3436ABEAA164D379848F6"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Part 145 repair station</header><text>The term <quote>part 145 repair station</quote> means a repair station that holds a certificate issued under part 145 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H60CAA355D4A84115877AC0F4875CBE95" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>316.</enum><header>Inspection of foreign repair stations</header>
<subsection id="H4019CF45CCD64D25A9FD48EFDD73CDC9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 447 (as amended by this Act) is further amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<section id="H0D7157E56E1A435A92B38690778FE2F2"><enum>44733.</enum><header>Inspection of foreign repair stations</header>
<subsection id="H2CBCF48BA93A4CFB94AA4D58DDA47F02"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall establish and implement a safety assessment system for each part 145 repair station based on the type, scope, and complexity of work being performed by the repair station, which shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H9BA0D336B2DA41DC9074CC32250137DA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>ensure that repair stations outside the United States are subject to appropriate inspections that are based on identified risks and consistent with United States requirements;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4E97272A3A2545D19454065E5E3CB4B2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>accept consideration of inspection results and findings submitted by foreign civil aviation authorities operating under a maintenance safety or maintenance implementation agreement with the United States in meeting the requirements of the safety assessment system; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD6E0BAA3FDA645D993D7D81170E5B6EC"><enum>(3)</enum><text>require all maintenance safety or maintenance implementation agreements with the United States to provide an opportunity for the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct independent inspections of covered part 145 repair stations when safety concerns warrant such inspections.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HE126BE6F31B742118017157A834C710D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Notice to Congress of negotiations</header><text>The Administrator shall notify the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives on or before the 30th day after initiating formal negotiations with a foreign aviation authority or other appropriate foreign government agency on a new maintenance safety or maintenance implementation agreement.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H7DA80D848E8D45CABE9C14466013514B"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Annual report</header><text>Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this section, and annually thereafter, the Administrator shall publish a report on the Administration’s oversight of part 145 repair stations and implementation of the safety assessment system required by subsection (a), which shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H48F1D4DA88F44064A2CA5593AEF1E09B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>describe in detail any improvements in the Federal Aviation Administration’s ability to identify and track where part 121 air carrier repair work is performed;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE0D2AB47F7C84F34B44026C3B85B5439"><enum>(2)</enum><text>include a staffing model to determine the best placement of inspectors and the number of inspectors needed for the oversight and implementation;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4C59266A23864461BBEBA335740EC0EF"><enum>(3)</enum><text>describe the training provided to inspectors with respect to the oversight and implementation;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7485ACE7BDE24E89AD6BEA2348DC5301"><enum>(4)</enum><text>include an assessment of the quality of monitoring and surveillance by the Federal Aviation Administration of work provided by its inspectors and the inspectors of foreign authorities operating under a maintenance safety or maintenance implementation agreement with the United States; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H65F7FDFEB8D64773BBA96849909014E2"><enum>(5)</enum><text>specify the number of sample inspections performed by Federal Aviation Administration inspectors at each repair station that is covered by a maintenance safety or maintenance implementation agreement with the United States.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H8E96DF5405C543E9A26068714358CCD9"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Alcohol and controlled substance testing program requirements</header>
<paragraph id="HFB600187F05441B0AF6E55EF5644C616"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Transportation shall request, jointly, the governments of foreign countries that are members of the International Civil Aviation Organization to establish international standards for alcohol and controlled substances testing of persons that perform safety-sensitive maintenance functions on commercial air carrier aircraft.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9F8984537E9E444A9E3986489FF1C297"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Application to part 121 aircraft work</header><text>Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator shall promulgate a proposed rule requiring that all part 145 repair station employees responsible for safety-sensitive maintenance functions on part 121 air carrier aircraft are subject to an alcohol and controlled substances testing program that is determined acceptable by the Administrator and is consistent with the applicable laws of the country in which the repair station is located.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HF51730628FA340F9A4104A0C68A2D7CF"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Inspections</header><text>The Administrator shall require part 145 repair stations to be inspected as frequently as determined warranted by the safety assessment system required by subsection (a), regardless of where the station is located, and in a manner consistent with United States obligations under international agreements.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HF596DDB8C03240EA9A1DEE58BCE32EFC"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section, the following definitions apply:</text>
<paragraph id="HA2027D484E884B2DB90FB10C259BDC5F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Part 121 air carrier</header><text>The term <quote>part 121 air carrier</quote> means an air carrier that holds a certificate issued under part 121 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1F2B9522C2954A72B0F8E9AF7F57ADDF"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Part 145 repair station</header><text>The term <quote>part 145 repair station</quote> means a repair station that holds a certificate issued under part 145 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H9898F8ED94594E78BDFC74E122AF3A02"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis for chapter 447 (as amended by this Act) is further amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<toc-entry level="section">44733. Inspection of foreign repair stations.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H29B2A695290B49878C59533D262A624C" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>317.</enum><header>Sunset of line check</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 44729(h) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="H5FB4A745A16A402B8B3A7D69E5377D5C"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Sunset of line check</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraph (2) shall cease to be effective following the one-year period beginning on the date of enactment of the <short-title>FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011</short-title> unless the Secretary certifies that the requirements of paragraph (2) are necessary to ensure safety.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section></subtitle>
<subtitle id="H5BA817285CA24215815A7F6C33FB1FA7"><enum>B</enum><header>Unmanned Aircraft Systems</header>
<section id="HA69EE488A66543559B57E93E1CAFB2E3"><enum>321.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this subtitle, the following definitions apply:</text>
<paragraph id="H24B9D49FCD9C410DBD63E8E8D743C379"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Certificate of waiver; certificate of authorization</header><text>The term <quote>certificate of waiver</quote> or <quote>certificate of authorization</quote> means a Federal Aviation Administration grant of approval for a specific flight operation.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF0BC15D6635F4187A0071BE13653CD3A"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Sense and avoid capability</header><text>The term <quote>sense and avoid capability</quote> means the capability of an unmanned aircraft to remain a safe distance from and to avoid collisions with other airborne aircraft.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0CF7F3BC5EA94ED0A66DB978A513D7C9"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Public unmanned aircraft system</header><text>The term <quote>public unmanned aircraft system</quote> means an unmanned aircraft system that meets the qualifications and conditions required for operation of a public aircraft, as defined by section 40102 of title 49, United States Code.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H36CCB175BBBF412CAF2EAA0B400447E2"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Small unmanned aircraft</header><text>The term <quote>small unmanned aircraft</quote> means an unmanned aircraft weighing less than 55 pounds.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H901B1C091E5649B39A0E9AA85E2EA841"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Test range</header><text>The term <quote>test range</quote> means a defined geographic area where research and development are conducted.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD1B6FD1ADB444E23B6355856B847F56B"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Unmanned aircraft</header><text>The term <quote>unmanned aircraft</quote> means an aircraft that is operated without the possibility of direct human intervention from within or on the aircraft.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H26BA2A86B2D747B39C3B8D6B8089211A"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Unmanned aircraft system</header><text>The term <quote>unmanned aircraft system</quote> means an unmanned aircraft and associated elements (including communication links and the components that control the unmanned aircraft) that are required for the pilot in command to operate safely and efficiently in the national airspace system.</text></paragraph></section>
<section id="HB41BA2FDCBCF4C8B830BD8A45BE63C5A"><enum>322.</enum><header>Commercial unmanned aircraft systems integration plan</header>
<subsection id="HB6FFA74A452E41D8919B1E7D396E2079"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Integration plan</header>
<paragraph id="HF4CF82A4FCE448D882F4A91B1D8C2C53"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Comprehensive plan</header><text>Not later than 270 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with representatives of the aviation industry and the unmanned aircraft systems industry, shall develop a comprehensive plan to safely integrate commercial unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace system.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCD10DE3EED8442F4B22DFAF52ED0E995"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Minimum requirements</header><text>In developing the plan under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall, at a minimum—</text>
<subparagraph id="H7E26F668C47D4AA08667B9492C791687"><enum>(A)</enum><text>review technologies and research that will assist in facilitating the safe integration of commercial unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace system;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H8CDC78A583E54BB78DBC1695620E50AC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>provide recommendations or projections for the rulemaking to be conducted under subsection (b)—</text>
<clause id="H97D0C6F071D74102A16AFA3595B1C60F"><enum>(i)</enum><text>to define the acceptable standards for operations and certification of commercial unmanned aircraft systems;</text></clause>
<clause id="HA6AD640213A54EB9B9E73A769062BCA8"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>to ensure that commercial unmanned aircraft systems include a sense and avoid capability, if necessary for safety purposes; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H4194FF6A57BA4802B4A4A07825A17CB0"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>to develop standards and requirements for the operator and pilot of a commercial unmanned aircraft system, including standards and requirements for registration and licensing;</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H37F185ABCFB8412DB4F2442F98C42309"><enum>(C)</enum><text>recommend how best to enhance the technologies and subsystems necessary to provide for the safe and routine operations of commercial unmanned aircraft systems in the national airspace system; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H08B08D072749422583615C6DE37D0DF5"><enum>(D)</enum><text>recommend how a phased-in approach for the integration of commercial unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace system can best be achieved and a timeline upon which such a phase-in shall occur.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA122638396344274AFF741BEBF53635A"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Deadline</header><text>The plan to be developed under paragraph (1) shall provide for the safe integration of commercial unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace system not later than September 30, 2015.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H99D62CF270A2465A9DF23EA168F33D2B"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Report to Congress</header><text>The Secretary shall submit to Congress—</text>
<subparagraph id="H46319CABBD3B416DBD9EB43717970938"><enum>(A)</enum><text>not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, a copy of the plan developed under paragraph (1); and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE88B711EDC2E4B31BF57E23DC8A50373"><enum>(B)</enum><text>annually thereafter, a report on the activities of the Secretary under this section.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HBB8B031D261F4FB4B37022474FE9834E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Rulemaking</header><text>Not later than 18 months after the date on which the integration plan is submitted to Congress under subsection (a)(4), the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall publish in the Federal Register a notice of proposed rulemaking to implement the recommendations of the integration plan.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HA7C33EB40E7D406C9BFC18551491EA3B"><enum>323.</enum><header>Special rules for certain unmanned aircraft systems</header>
<subsection id="H44066CB6CD7340CE8F8B5769C32B8CC4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall determine if certain unmanned aircraft systems may operate safely in the national airspace system. The Secretary may make such determination before completion of the plan and rulemaking required by section 322 of this Act or the guidance required by section 324 of this Act.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H0FC2061811D9454E977F99F6583BC14A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Assessment of unmanned aircraft systems</header><text>In making the determination under subsection (a), the Secretary shall determine, at a minimum—</text>
<paragraph id="H5C19DBAE6A974B6B93E0FA3168999231"><enum>(1)</enum><text>which types of unmanned aircraft systems, if any, as a result of their size, weight, speed, operational capability, proximity to airports and population areas, and operation within visual line-of-sight do not create a hazard to users of the national airspace system or the public or pose a threat to national security; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB02E5B5EF385422581341A6197C738AE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>whether a certificate of waiver, certificate of authorization, or airworthiness certification under section 44704 of title 49, United States Code, is required for the operation of unmanned aircraft systems identified under paragraph (1).</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H18AA1F4EE1E746069AD49B9C8399108A"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Requirements for safe operation</header><text>If the Secretary determines under this section that certain unmanned aircraft systems may operate safely in the national airspace system, the Secretary shall establish requirements for the safe operation of such aircraft systems in the national airspace system.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HC2237D1278EE41F6AC23954486F6B1C1"><enum>324.</enum><header>Public unmanned aircraft systems</header>
<subsection id="H0C6468CCED83449AA978F8BB9BB48CBF"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Guidance</header><text>Not later than 270 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall issue guidance regarding the operation of public unmanned aircraft systems to—</text>
<paragraph id="H8CB104443CA94A93BFC07E4530A3EE49"><enum>(1)</enum><text>expedite the issuance of a certificate of authorization process;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5569FE0794094582B513D9BFD5321455"><enum>(2)</enum><text>provide for a collaborative process with public agencies to allow for an incremental expansion of access to the national airspace system as technology matures. the necessary safety analysis and data become available, and until standards are completed and technology issues are resolved; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD37753EAC2EA44CB9F54E00E5FAF5562"><enum>(3)</enum><text>facilitate the capability of public agencies to develop and use test ranges, subject to operating restrictions required by the Federal Aviation Administration, to test and operate unmanned aircraft systems.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H1EDD591E4F60446EAA488B9F49AF5659"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Standards for operation and certification</header><text>Not later than December 31, 2015, the Secretary shall develop and implement operational and certification standards for operation of public unmanned aircraft systems.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H613BC859FE35457E89F80E8877B3E92B" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>325.</enum><header>Unmanned aircraft systems test ranges</header>
<subsection id="H99E90F364EB841E7A80115B9FE0CE654" commented="no"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall establish a program to integrate unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace system at 4 test ranges.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HC3914AA14B024748AE2DFC306BEAAA9D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Program requirements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In establishing the program under subsection (a), the Administrator shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H9668622443CA4A4F9E4950CE210C8A82"><enum>(1)</enum><text>safely designate nonexclusionary airspace for integrated manned and unmanned flight operations in the national airspace system; </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H359106B81CA94CB1AAA396742838843B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>develop certification standards and air traffic requirements for unmanned flight operations at test ranges; </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HAE6F7B7FED1740129EC228198C1CFCFA"><enum>(3)</enum><text>coordinate with and leverage the resources of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Defense; </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD30B1981733946E9A7890A153EF1CBDC"><enum>(4)</enum><text>address both commercial and public unmanned aircraft systems; </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCE24216829FE4F87B554B742C99C25B5"><enum>(5)</enum><text>ensure that the program is coordinated with the Next Generation Air Transportation System; and </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFB188AC3BE2841C6B887997DBCB6D360"><enum>(6)</enum><text>provide for verification of the safety of unmanned aircraft systems and related navigation procedures before integration into the national airspace system.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H3E440C0C91A347F6ACB013AFA82A116B"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Test range locations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In determining the location of the 4 test ranges of the program under subsection (a), the Administrator shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H0A5F0FF776634E7C8C745A1F79179B65"><enum>(1)</enum><text>take into consideration geographic and climatic diversity; and </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H739007DDC63142429E1C32E12BEC657C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>after consulting with the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Secretary of the Air Force, take into consideration the location of available research radars.</text></paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle>
<subtitle id="H17AC6ECB7F864211B218111E3403AE66"><enum>C</enum><header>Safety and Protections</header>
<section id="H94063979376242F6AABD99D38AE460E5"><enum>331.</enum><header>Postemployment restrictions for flight standards inspectors</header>
<subsection id="H446A750607E441B1A14667F4C4CA0F9A"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 44711 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection id="H113A49289410477BBD8A7D5C9ED4B531"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Postemployment restrictions for flight standards inspectors</header>
<paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0044A85C89DA44BB92408135D2D44932"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Prohibition</header><text>A person holding an operating certificate issued under title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, may not knowingly employ, or make a contractual arrangement that permits, an individual to act as an agent or representative of the certificate holder in any matter before the Federal Aviation Administration if the individual, in the preceding 2-year period—</text>
<subparagraph id="H73F3CEB51AC1429AA53F652D549A9444"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">served as, or was responsible for oversight of, a flight standards inspector of the Administration; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HEBF623A1D6064929BE03909712338374"><enum>(B)</enum><text>had responsibility to inspect, or oversee inspection of, the operations of the certificate holder.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEFFB472D0A7E4B9783943B69BFE5A59C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Written and oral communications</header><text>For purposes of paragraph (1), an individual shall be considered to be acting as an agent or representative of a certificate holder in a matter before the Administration if the individual makes any written or oral communication on behalf of the certificate holder to the Administration (or any of its officers or employees) in connection with a particular matter, whether or not involving a specific party and without regard to whether the individual has participated in, or had responsibility for, the particular matter while serving as a flight standards inspector of the Administration.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HCC5D6B75FE4744A09BE2C3906048A660"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall not apply to an individual employed by a certificate holder as of the date of enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HF7FE7721C0074313AD0E8FCF451398C5"><enum>332.</enum><header>Review of air transportation oversight system database</header>
<subsection id="HA834D4C04B6D4340A6D60B0DEA561910"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Reviews</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall establish a process by which the air transportation oversight system database of the Administration is reviewed by regional teams of employees of the Administration, including at least one employee on each team representing aviation safety inspectors, on a monthly basis to ensure that—</text>
<paragraph id="HA5B008CD10754088809277D42E7AAD81"><enum>(1)</enum><text>any trends in regulatory compliance are identified; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H04CDB33E414D421D9C7E5239DB305781"><enum>(2)</enum><text>appropriate corrective actions are taken in accordance with Administration regulations, advisory directives, policies, and procedures.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H20525755AF6C4516A69A6F717C95B044"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Monthly team reports</header>
<paragraph id="HD8E938085533418D84CA92CC33D97844"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A regional team of employees conducting a monthly review of the air transportation oversight system database under subsection (a) shall submit to the Administrator, the Associate Administrator for Aviation Safety, and the Director of Flight Standards Service a report each month on the results of the review.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF28B16A8E2384E7BAC7E4D135C4543C5"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>A report submitted under paragraph (1) shall identify—</text>
<subparagraph id="H2CAB7AACF2C44F439546D0D90AC1E198"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any trends in regulatory compliance discovered by the team of employees in conducting the monthly review; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD961F88694D04FB6952123E344BA77D2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any corrective actions taken or proposed to be taken in response to the trends.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H03670F3CA14C4B0AB5A6802648161919"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Biannual reports to Congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator, on a biannual basis, shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report on the results of the reviews of the air transportation oversight system database conducted under this section, including copies of reports received under subsection (b).</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H90C0939FEEDC49D6940482BE8A426A71" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>333.</enum><header>Improved voluntary disclosure reporting system</header>
<subsection id="H233031D9D13340CF8D6AF584D3E52E37"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Voluntary disclosure reporting program defined</header><text>In this section, the term <quote>Voluntary Disclosure Reporting Program</quote> means the program established by the Federal Aviation Administration through Advisory Circular 00–58A, dated September 8, 2006, including any subsequent revisions thereto.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HC46B73E46B7C466C824562CEDF445940"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Verification</header><text>The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall modify the Voluntary Disclosure Reporting Program to require inspectors to—</text>
<paragraph id="H4AE47162B7D64BEBB88D826AE4909ECE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>verify that air carriers are implementing comprehensive solutions to correct the underlying causes of the violations voluntarily disclosed by such air carriers; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1D28C3E991464BC6A1CB156B979F28B6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>confirm, before approving a final report of a violation, that a violation with the same root causes, has not been previously discovered by an inspector or self-disclosed by the air carrier.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H32019A005AA34519BE9578E00C51D62A"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Supervisory review of voluntary self-disclosures</header><text>The Administrator shall establish a process by which voluntary self-disclosures received from air carriers are reviewed and approved by a supervisor after the initial review by an inspector.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HEC2CD1741DA14808941A7E2A9055EA19"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Inspector General Study</header>
<paragraph id="HBEDBAA400AFC47718D420AC8D742F84F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Inspector General of the Department of Transportation shall conduct a study of the Voluntary Disclosure Reporting Program.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8EEC4A714BCD4E7FA3B4AC6FF8BE147A"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Review</header><text>In conducting the study, the Inspector General shall examine, at a minimum, if the Administration—</text>
<subparagraph id="HDFF9BC4C463F49FA8D7B2160A1A0894E"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">conducts comprehensive reviews of voluntary disclosure reports before closing a voluntary disclosure report under the provisions of the program;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF434396336C84F3D93EE726A70159B8E"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">evaluates the effectiveness of corrective actions taken by air carriers; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE8FB628055D84D1BB6534011A2AA24D6"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">effectively prevents abuse of the voluntary disclosure reporting program through its secondary review of self-disclosures before they are accepted and closed by the Administration.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE020C4B8F02745A8AAB092A69FBBD4E2"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Inspector General shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report on the results of the study conducted under this section.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB343B121BE084FB2AA7F695772E5F4AF" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>334.</enum><header>Aviation Whistleblower Investigation Office</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 106 (as amended by this Act) is further amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection id="H58D2256ED71144D38341D81862622019"><enum>(t)</enum><header>Aviation safety whistleblower investigation office</header>
<paragraph id="H58198A9AB620404BB8E09184BDE93251"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>There is established in the Federal Aviation Administration (in this section referred to as the <quote>Agency</quote>) an Aviation Safety Whistleblower Investigation Office (in this subsection referred to as the <quote>Office</quote>).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H359E048DB8A540FA9389A5D5D12F008B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Director</header>
<subparagraph id="H3242AF7E485544D187E9BFE9DB8F0186"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Appointment</header><text>The head of the Office shall be the Director, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of Transportation.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H8D17304B20754CD4B99472854B1282A5"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Qualifications</header><text>The Director shall have a demonstrated ability in investigations and knowledge of or experience in aviation.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H1E06D79552204D3FAF86864E4195A0FC"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Term</header><text>The Director shall be appointed for a term of 5 years.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H252809DDDC004A6DB7C37C0B1621F359"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Vacancy</header><text>Any individual appointed to fill a vacancy in the position of the Director occurring before the expiration of the term for which the individual’s predecessor was appointed shall be appointed for the remainder of that term.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0C3E689FD80244D98D7576069D33A13E"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Complaints and investigations</header>
<subparagraph id="H6CD89252A2AB441F87DF01E118528194"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Authority of director</header><text>The Director shall—</text>
<clause id="HA8E1BB1E321449E4A2C16761F591B0F2"><enum>(i)</enum><text>receive complaints and information submitted by employees of persons holding certificates issued under title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, and employees of the Agency concerning the possible existence of an activity relating to a violation of an order, regulation, or standard of the Agency or any other provision of Federal law relating to aviation safety;</text></clause>
<clause id="HA495585CA09B446CB939AAFDF0C02C19"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>assess complaints and information submitted under clause (i) and determine whether a substantial likelihood exists that a violation of an order, regulation, or standard of the Agency or any other provision of Federal law relating to aviation safety has occurred; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H4D7ACC2C7AF8429EBB80C79FC7DDD1F2"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>based on findings of the assessment conducted under clause (ii), make recommendations to the Administrator in writing for further investigation or corrective actions.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H665390CE08F147B6BEA769E070753180"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Disclosure of identities</header><text>The Director shall not disclose the identity of an individual who submits a complaint or information under subparagraph (A)(i) unless—</text>
<clause id="H704CC868743F4387A01F317D4E9B6366"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the individual consents to the disclosure in writing; or</text></clause>
<clause id="HDC087395424B40A09C2AB43C75D29830"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the Director determines, in the course of an investigation, that the disclosure is required by regulation, statute, or court order, or is otherwise unavoidable, in which case the Director shall provide the individual reasonable advanced notice of the disclosure.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HAF22640945F242AE99834743261D4A92"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Independence of director</header><text>The Secretary, the Administrator, or any officer or employee of the Agency may not prevent or prohibit the Director from initiating, carrying out, or completing any assessment of a complaint or information submitted under subparagraph (A)(i) or from reporting to Congress on any such assessment.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H6BCFBDDAB56D4D0ABBD828091DC5AC11"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Access to information</header><text>In conducting an assessment of a complaint or information submitted under subparagraph (A)(i), the Director shall have access to all records, reports, audits, reviews, documents, papers, recommendations, and other material necessary to determine whether a substantial likelihood exists that a violation of an order, regulation, or standard of the Agency or any other provision of Federal law relating to aviation safety may have occurred.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB6A77AD31FB543938F8F4EA97807E1A0"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Responses to recommendations</header><text>Not later than 60 days after the date on which the Administrator receives a report with respect to an investigation, the Administrator shall respond to a recommendation made by the Director under subparagraph (A)(iii) in writing and retain records related to any further investigations or corrective actions taken in response to the recommendation.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC070774A5BBA4043990904183B75F511"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Incident reports</header><text>If the Director determines there is a substantial likelihood that a violation of an order, regulation, or standard of the Agency or any other provision of Federal law relating to aviation safety has occurred that requires immediate corrective action, the Director shall report the potential violation expeditiously to the Administrator and the Inspector General of the Department of Transportation.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H901E627145564A61B9278638724C1CE2"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Reporting of criminal violations to inspector general</header><text>If the Director has reasonable grounds to believe that there has been a violation of Federal criminal law, the Director shall report the violation expeditiously to the Inspector General.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H479831DF09F84CFE820CAE382FF7D4A5"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Annual reports to Congress</header><text>Not later than October 1 of each year, the Director shall submit to Congress a report containing—</text>
<subparagraph id="H8BE91770A6EA47779799AC8154000EAD"><enum>(A)</enum><text>information on the number of submissions of complaints and information received by the Director under paragraph (3)(A)(i) in the preceding 12-month period;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HB8C974DF741D49339BFDDE7021E4CDAA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>summaries of those submissions;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HBED7F2C211BC4E73B32E712D38427754"><enum>(C)</enum><text>summaries of further investigations and corrective actions recommended in response to the submissions; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H6E712D1EDCE948589AD9F0F6039AA695"><enum>(D)</enum><text>summaries of the responses of the Administrator to such recommendations.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCDD6B7133ED84D11A9803E556BA0063A" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>335.</enum><header>Duty periods and flight time limitations applicable to flight crewmembers</header>
<subsection id="H8A75B74400A7444EACB5DB50477A7F1A"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Rulemaking on applicability of part 121 duty periods and flight time limitations to part 91 operations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall initiate a rulemaking proceeding, if such a proceeding has not already been initiated, to require a flight crewmember who is employed by an air carrier conducting operations under part 121 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, and who accepts an additional assignment for flying under part 91 of such title from the air carrier or from any other air carrier conducting operations under part 121 or 135 of such title, to apply the period of the additional assignment (regardless of whether the assignment is performed by the flight crewmember before or after an assignment to fly under part 121 of such title) toward any limitation applicable to the flight crewmember relating to duty periods or flight times under part 121 of such title.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HCB93D405F4AF42ABA83DBB84FECFCED3"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Rulemaking on applicability of part 135 duty periods and flight time limitations to part 91 operations</header><text>Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall initiate a rulemaking proceeding to require a flight crewmember who is employed by an air carrier conducting operations under part 135 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, and who accepts an additional assignment for flying under part 91 of such title from the air carrier or any other air carrier conducting operations under part 121 or 135 of such title, to apply the period of the additional assignment (regardless of whether the assignment is performed by the flight crewmember before or after an assignment to fly under part 135 of such title) toward any limitation applicable to the flight crewmember relating to duty periods or flight times under part 135 of such title.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H2FB0FF30D8E74E19AC26D981F9F3E83E"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Separate rulemaking proceedings required</header><text>The rulemaking proceeding required under subsection (b) shall be separate from the rulemaking proceeding required under subsection (a).</text></subsection></section></subtitle>
<enum>IV</enum><header>Air Service Improvements</header>
<subtitle id="H22A68758E9C4481AB2BC80C361A9461D"><enum>A</enum><header>Essential Air Service</header>
<section id="HBEB2BF3C45C144358F7D0CED582FE60B"><enum>401.</enum><header>Essential air service marketing</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 41733(c)(1) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HADBFB36B3E1C40B6BB178109AC130033"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating subparagraph (E) as subparagraph (F);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HADA1084DFDBF4E04AE748FAD62718B2A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of subparagraph (D); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE3A6C7B7F4964ADFA58024A1C7F129B8"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting after subparagraph (D) the following:</text>
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<subparagraph id="H74D605CB851C40D3A3CFBB8D1D36D443" indent="up1"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether the air carrier has included a plan in its proposal to market its services to the community; and</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD651B2F51A204D73A285856E4AFACA30" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>402.</enum><header>Notice to communities prior to termination of eligibility for subsidized essential air service</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 41733 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection id="H4DA866F9F32949F4ACDD9A628C2590B2"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Notice to communities prior to termination of eligibility</header>
<paragraph id="H80CB129485DA4CDE93CD05D2BF5FE62F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall notify each community receiving basic essential air service for which compensation is being paid under this subchapter on or before the 45th day before issuing any final decision to end the payment of such compensation due to a determination by the Secretary that providing such service requires a rate of subsidy per passenger in excess of the subsidy cap.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HAB0AADFADC644F1E8F18BFA319872FBC"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Procedures to avoid termination</header><text>The Secretary shall establish, by order, procedures by which each community notified of an impending loss of subsidy under paragraph (1) may work directly with an air carrier to ensure that the air carrier is able to submit a proposal to the Secretary to provide essential air service to such community for an amount of compensation that would not exceed the subsidy cap.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE24C5CAAEEA644AF9512030093CDC14C"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Assistance provided</header><text>The Secretary shall provide, by order, to each community notified under paragraph (1) information regarding—</text>
<subparagraph id="H267506CE61AF49B5A961A037471C0741"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the procedures established pursuant to paragraph (2); and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H43F36F06CF074BDE821EF22FB52B189B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the maximum amount of compensation that could be provided under this subchapter to an air carrier serving such community that would comply with the subsidy cap.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB8BB5AEEF7A543CE8DDAB02245D7A670"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Subsidy cap defined</header><text>In this subsection, the term <quote>subsidy cap</quote> means the subsidy cap established by section 332 of Public Law 106–69 (113 Stat. 1022).</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="H067EBB1198DB4A3DA65401BE1D0AC5C4"><enum>403.</enum><header>Essential air service contract guidelines</header>
<subsection id="H931CFF7D24ED47779A754853AF04DC1F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Compensation guidelines</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 41737(a)(1) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H5A9C5AD3DF6543EC9660D722BD87DE5B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of subparagraph (B);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8B4ECDB572C04C37BFF0F231BE38F27A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph (C) by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6D033B5005F942C0AAADAEB31D9B45A6"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subparagraph id="H6D0F5E458A074619A12930E8E29E164F" indent="up1"><enum>(D)</enum><text>include provisions under which the Secretary may encourage an air carrier to improve air service for which compensation is being paid under this subchapter by incorporating financial incentives in an essential air service contract based on specified performance goals, including goals related to improving on-time performance, reducing the number of flight cancellations, establishing convenient connections to flights providing service beyond hub airports, and increasing marketing efforts; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H78DBBD16CBCC4531A2690A22AAC5505D" indent="up1"><enum>(E)</enum><text>include provisions under which the Secretary may execute a long-term essential air service contract to encourage an air carrier to provide air service to an eligible place if it would be in the public interest to do so.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H0E6461C0FDE5446EA15AB96CC35D1B36"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Deadline for issuance of revised guidance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall issue revised guidelines governing the rate of compensation payable under subchapter II of chapter 417 of title 49, United States Code, that incorporate the amendments made by this section.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HEDD767911A3A4470B573CD5B7AF80D16"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 2 years after the date of issuance of revised guidelines pursuant to subsection (b), the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report on the extent to which the revised guidelines have been implemented and the impact, if any, such implementation has had on air carrier performance and community satisfaction with air service for which compensation is being paid under subchapter II of chapter 417 of title 49, United States Code.</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFE489A9D2A1C4387B19B7C3ADC64171C" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>404.</enum><header>Essential air service reform</header>
<subsection id="H5601A3494D504BFAA952662AC18560A1"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Authorization</header><text>Section 41742(a)(1) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HAE83A3B1D4EB4CFEADEF8B78C10FA3C4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>the sum of $50,000,000 is</quote> and inserting <quote>the following sums are</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H01DEA92E8D9B40139A5121B82D7C8F27"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>subchapter for each fiscal year.</quote> and inserting</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H75BE2AE83BAE47FFA4503E90F4AAF7E1" style="USC"><text>subchapter:</text>
<subparagraph id="HE66AC40D57D54D9682469D398ADA68DA"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$50,000,000 for each fiscal year through fiscal year 2013.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H9B431281C0F544EEABE74DA0B466154B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The amount necessary, as determined by the Secretary, to carry out the essential air service program in Alaska and Hawaii for fiscal year 2014 and each fiscal year thereafter.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H6835EDDE03DB413B94D9796A52D3E872"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Additional funds</header><text>Section 41742(a)(2) is amended by striking <quote>there is authorized to be appropriated $77,000,000 for each fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>there is authorized to be appropriated out of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund established under section 9502 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 $97,500,000 for fiscal year 2011, $60,000,000 for fiscal year 2012, and $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2013</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HA7E766106A254D748120011BEB9C05C1"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Administering program within available funding</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 41742(b) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subsection id="HC28DDD503F2343C09C277574B2E245EB"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Administering program within available funding</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary is authorized to take such actions as may be necessary to administer the essential air service program under this subchapter within the amount of funding made available for the program.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF6EE904AD77C4CBF98E4027B8114BF68" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>405.</enum><header>Small community air service</header>
<subsection id="H0A62AB322D6D4815AB199FB27BA1D3CD"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Priorities</header><text>Section 41743(c)(5) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H7191B773FCB446CF880728B026F353FE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of subparagraph (D);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCD96DCBA961043739332AB8269B4D611"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph (E) by striking <quote>fashion.</quote> and inserting <quote>fashion; and</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2CEE4822593D4D2F833B5387612CC7CB"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subparagraph id="H0445CD221C4D4C63938AA1D4300EB438"><enum>(F)</enum><text>multiple communities cooperate to submit a regional or multistate application to consolidate air service into one regional airport.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HC0FF3B15767A4763B159BBAE762A6195"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Authority To make agreements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 41743(e) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subsection id="H37905F3EBC934FF7AFE34522A583A9D3"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Authority To make agreements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the availability of amounts made available under section 41742(a)(4)(A), the Secretary may make agreements to provide assistance under this section.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H443670E339344DC7A289F90F105246B4" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>406.</enum><header>Adjustments to compensation for significantly increased costs</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="H45481A3BB7BB4D8998CADA3FF9D246FE"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Emergency across-The-Board adjustment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the availability of funds, the Secretary of Transportation may increase the rates of compensation payable to air carriers under subchapter II of chapter 417 of title 49, United States Code, to compensate such carriers for increased aviation fuel costs without regard to any agreement or requirement relating to the renegotiation of contracts or any notice requirement under section 41734 of such title.</text></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="H504A9FC0974843C28092FC679FAD4735"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Expedited process for adjustments to individual contracts</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HE1B8915EFD73419FBB5E7D7415C5B633"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 41734(d) is amended by striking “continue to pay” and all that follows through “compensation sufficient” and inserting “provide the carrier with compensation sufficient”.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H975DA2438E2A4E8F8D0029A0B3E1A72F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall apply to compensation to air carriers for air service provided after the 30th day following the date of enactment of this Act.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HB2A0DED33C9E44F3B718C4E2971F2399"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Subsidy cap</header><text>Subject to the availability of funds, the Secretary may waive, on a case-by-case basis, the subsidy-per-passenger cap established by section 332 of Public Law 106–69 (113 Stat. 1022). A waiver issued under this subsection shall remain in effect for a limited period of time, as determined by the Secretary.</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4551830D14ED4C36A6937ED1D286FC4D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>407.</enum><header>Repeal of EAS local participation program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 41747, and the item relating to section 41747 in the analysis for chapter 417, are repealed.</text></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H856836F446CE4F32B8533489B48A958C" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>408.</enum><header>Sunset of essential air service program</header>
<subsection id="HB5D8733579F543CFA196B2C6175588F0"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subchapter II of chapter 417 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<section id="H06952CED76E7464D809E9BAEC25AD73D"><enum>41749.</enum><header>Sunset</header>
<subsection id="H9C16F58A176E4117B3027AC7BB869E5E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in subsection (b), the authority of the Secretary of Transportation to carry out the essential air service program under this subchapter shall sunset on October 1, 2013.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HCF2B1E50FD6340AF959EA3A55FECFA25"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Alaska and Hawaii</header><text>The Secretary may continue to carry out the essential air service program under this subchapter in Alaska and Hawaii following the sunset date specified in subsection (a).</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>. </after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H5C6D7BC8580E44CE9B9029C2E0424F3C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis for chapter 417 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 41748 the following:</text>
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<toc-entry level="section">41749. Sunset.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section></subtitle>
<subtitle id="H0035B026DB1E48FDB7AC6AE7761BFCD2"><enum>B</enum><header>Passenger Air Service Improvements</header>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAE95E610FB7241FFA0E23CBCC5176989"><enum>421.</enum><header>Smoking prohibition</header>
<subsection id="H9C517472A5474A53B52C11524077E84C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 41706 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HAEBA722D84BB4B9285A594DF0C00CAA9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the section heading by striking “<header-in-text level="section" style="USC">scheduled</header-in-text>” and inserting “<header-in-text level="section" style="USC">passenger</header-in-text>”; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H77581DAEA8CA47A8BE08E1E4FD89EFCB"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking subsections (a) and (b) and inserting the following:</text>
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<subsection id="HD513E238C128455682B6A1E53EF892C3"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Smoking prohibition in interstate and intrastate air transportation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An individual may not smoke—</text>
<paragraph id="H417715567DA74B38B182152F58A6D70B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in an aircraft in scheduled passenger interstate or intrastate air transportation; or</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA798B8C6C1754A949A6F2A39C723E641"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in an aircraft in nonscheduled passenger interstate or intrastate air transportation, if a flight attendant is a required crewmember on the aircraft (as determined by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration).</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H9530BDB4DBA541FC8A67D80BE4BF267A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Smoking prohibition in foreign air transportation</header><text>The Secretary of Transportation shall require all air carriers and foreign air carriers to prohibit smoking—</text>
<paragraph id="H74502ABE2F344A59A3F90EE142790EA1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in an aircraft in scheduled passenger foreign air transportation; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7D4D9C8E730B4B45AD0877F3F8CFEAE7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in an aircraft in nonscheduled passenger foreign air transportation, if a flight attendant is a required crewmember on the aircraft (as determined by the Administrator or a foreign government).</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H4C37BAA7DFC8456F909714738D380992"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The analysis for chapter 417 is amended by striking the item relating to section 41706 and inserting the following:</text>
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<toc-entry level="section">41706. Prohibitions against smoking on passenger flights.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2A142AB0B30047D5911C02FC39BB16E9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>422.</enum><header>Monthly air carrier reports</header>
<subsection id="H878F5157076F4C0F80643DDD92515AFF"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 41708 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection id="H2E2078EE90B646EF9F29002741A74242"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Diverted and cancelled flights</header>
<paragraph id="H23D50714BA0046AE8E1C34BBF6F9844F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Monthly reports</header><text>The Secretary shall require an air carrier referred to in paragraph (2) to file with the Secretary a monthly report on each flight of the air carrier that is diverted from its scheduled destination to another airport and each flight of the air carrier that departs the gate at the airport at which the flight originates but is cancelled before wheels-off time.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA99387FA7466453DB38EDA115043C441"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text>An air carrier that is required to file a monthly airline service quality performance report pursuant to part 234 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, shall be subject to the requirement of paragraph (1).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H43DF82C6D5724ACC98D0C16679BBBD87"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>A monthly report filed by an air carrier under paragraph (1) shall include, at a minimum, the following information:</text>
<subparagraph id="H2E785D332BF24666AAC974F04361A8FB"><enum>(A)</enum><text>For a diverted flight—</text>
<clause id="H432616C11D384EA09D9733D603608EB2"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the flight number of the diverted flight;</text></clause>
<clause id="HD46C8B7081D340CEB127EA3E1F76D9D7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the scheduled destination of the flight;</text></clause>
<clause id="HD32D6A80189042109CA7F776FD70B6EB"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the date and time of the flight;</text></clause>
<clause id="HFAEA61EDEA5544DC8F2A665314971071"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>the airport to which the flight was diverted;</text></clause>
<clause id="HBB965BF809AE4740B5388A1D70151FEB"><enum>(v)</enum><text>wheels-on time at the diverted airport;</text></clause>
<clause id="HAA525A8A5BF44FBE90515A65B1527922"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>the time, if any, passengers deplaned the aircraft at the diverted airport; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H84AD53D35A04414A81A7A0686BF6781D"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>if the flight arrives at the scheduled destination airport—</text>
<subclause id="H1B611B64379A49A5A6B48150F82337A2"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the gate-departure time at the diverted airport;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H67539CEF6F7F4A2DA6313E03540FB3FE"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the wheels-off time at the diverted airport;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HD23E9BFE86CC456FB035355928909220"><enum>(III)</enum><text>the wheels-on time at the scheduled arrival airport; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HD5FCFB12D6CB47B7BC9654CA6B800705"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>the gate-arrival time at the scheduled arrival airport.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0D5BC15FCF284C28A1E40570EF7D0D9B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>For flights cancelled after gate departure—</text>
<clause id="H4241C158F7074AB4BD37F73F904E490A"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the flight number of the cancelled flight;</text></clause>
<clause id="HBFE594BA07B746FF89925AF3C3E3B648"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the scheduled origin and destination airports of the cancelled flight;</text></clause>
<clause id="HD67190B75228499E8CDB8737E54CEB2C"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the date and time of the cancelled flight;</text></clause>
<clause id="HBD1ADF106DCA4CEC93CD0AE7336DEAFE"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>the gate-departure time of the cancelled flight; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H3BDB21DC9FAD470DBE7DA2040133CE7F"><enum>(v)</enum><text>the time the aircraft returned to the gate.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB27CCA7036A5450F83BC2C9D84044027"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Publication</header><text>The Secretary shall compile the information provided in the monthly reports filed pursuant to paragraph (1) in a single monthly report and publish such report on the Internet Web site of the Department of Transportation.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H77B9361E57C446288535C90D22EDFBD0"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Beginning not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall require monthly reports pursuant to the amendment made by subsection (a).</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HC5E9864A80F1485E9630B1D334018B29"><enum>423.</enum><header>Flight operations at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport</header>
<subsection id="HA979F078176F40629EFCA8EAD4040B4D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Beyond-<enum-in-header>P</enum-in-header>erimeter exemptions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 41718(a) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HCDF8CC580A7441BFA14015078C4B746F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>Secretary</quote> the first place it appears and inserting <quote>Secretary of Transportation</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H65DB94D6F7BD48CCBA7F5FD8A66264B3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>24</quote> and inserting <quote>34</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HFBFCBA789EEF4978A431F2EF5F6A6FF1"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Limitations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 41718(c)(2) is amended by striking <quote>3 operations</quote> and inserting <quote>5 operations</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H14EC9649871A4FF0B7D78640379770CF"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Slots</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 41718(c) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H8EDF41675B414C0EBBD8ADF57AD39478"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs (4) and (5), respectively; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7A2FB0AB2698408491A6106EF0555EE6"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="HD0B980D23C854452B5A9941A35D5F21B"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Slots</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall reduce the hourly air carrier slot quota for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport under section 93.123(a) of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, by a total of 10 slots that are available for allocation. Such reductions shall be taken in the 6:00 a.m., 10:00 p.m., or 11:00 p.m. hours, as determined by the Secretary, in order to grant exemptions under subsection (a).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H0AA943872B6C416C91A37B4C55AD9F11"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Scheduling priority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 41718 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H0F853B368DA24FC188327D03DE93C506"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsections (e) and (f) as subsections (f) and (g), respectively; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC230FEF8E02F43A5B2B2E643D0960862"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subsection (d) the following:</text>
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<subsection id="H710CDDE9DEAD4CBCB896A5575090A367"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Scheduling priority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Operations conducted by new entrant air carriers and limited incumbent air carriers shall be provided a scheduling priority over operations conducted by other air carriers granted exemptions pursuant to this section, with the highest scheduling priority provided to beyond-perimeter operations conducted by the new entrant air carriers and limited incumbent air carriers.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCBF717ABFACF4121A50F35BDCB3E6A61"><enum>424.</enum><header>Musical instruments</header>
<subsection id="HB5BFBB0BC6AC46949630C9F702CE1634"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subchapter I of chapter 417 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<section id="HF828D258394F42FAA875C0C5AAED7BBE"><enum>41724.</enum><header>Musical instruments</header>
<subsection id="H2A597A5E2DB147899564F9302EDD7E5C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Instruments in passenger compartment</header><text>An air carrier providing air transportation shall permit a passenger to carry a musical instrument in a closet, baggage compartment, or cargo stowage compartment (approved by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration) in the passenger compartment of the aircraft used to provide such transportation if—</text>
<paragraph id="HC793AD455508466085A58A9101F050DB"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the instrument can be stowed in accordance with the requirements for carriage of carry-on baggage or cargo set forth by the Administrator; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4818F1BE4CE14B83955314ABD17E824E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>there is space for such stowage on the aircraft.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HB1E0CD27AF1647BEACF4997BEC67F668"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Large instruments in passenger compartment</header><text>An air carrier providing air transportation shall permit a passenger to carry a musical instrument that is too large to be secured in a closet, baggage compartment, or cargo stowage compartment pursuant to subsection (a) in the passenger compartment of the aircraft used to provide such transportation if—</text>
<paragraph id="H5014C91B6C12424DB25AEB20F038D158"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the instrument can be stowed in accordance with the requirements for carriage of carry-on baggage or cargo set forth by the Administrator; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H691E69BF7BFE4E87BA6E0BF2E03489D1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the passenger has purchased a seat to accommodate the instrument.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H002F6D2AFD0046C7A64B581FC4F50376"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Instruments as checked baggage</header><text>An air carrier providing air transportation shall transport as baggage a musical instrument that may not be carried in the passenger compartment of the aircraft used to provide such transportation pursuant to subsection (a) or (b) and that is the property of a passenger on the aircraft if—</text>
<paragraph id="H0DDFFD44465946A885EF9350DA610041"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the sum of the length, width, and height of the instrument (measured in inches of the outside linear dimensions of the instrument, including the case) does not exceed 150 inches or the size restrictions for that aircraft;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3516DF34F47947AE8DF5415D29159B01"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the weight of the instrument does not exceed 165 pounds or the weight restrictions for that aircraft; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2C152D400C044EACA734B3DC1054F6DF"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the instrument can be stowed in accordance with the requirements for carriage of baggage or cargo set forth by the Administrator.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HBC3AC813B6FC4BAD9E4C0D9DD2A148C7"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Air carrier terms</header><text>Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting an air carrier from limiting the carrier’s liability for carrying a musical instrument or requiring a passenger to purchase insurance to cover the value of a musical instrument transported by the carrier.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H89111568DD0446308FD01A55C26046F8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>The Secretary of Transportation may prescribe such regulations as may be necessary or appropriate to implement the amendment made by subsection (a).</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HA81E3553BCFE49B2B94ECFF45429587A"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The analysis for such subchapter is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<toc-entry level="section">41724. Musical instruments.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8C264242162340A98785D253E179153A" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>425.</enum><header>Passenger air service improvements</header>
<subsection id="H1CE252156B4441379E635432AC36DC42"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subtitle VII is amended by inserting after chapter 421 the following:</text>
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<chapter id="H26EC5038206C4882BACBE65D7FB4794C"><enum>423</enum><header>Passenger air service improvements</header>
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<toc-entry idref="H37C98FBA244F41AE81917EA3BAC8DB91" level="section">42301. Emergency contingency plans.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="HF0C56397920549B2A7E15F02B6C7D2A9" level="section">42302. Consumer complaints.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry idref="H78BA92E3C1234AE49E493E6CBB4469DD" level="section">42303. Use of insecticides in passenger aircraft.</toc-entry></toc>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H37C98FBA244F41AE81917EA3BAC8DB91" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>42301.</enum><header>Emergency contingency plans</header>
<subsection id="H19063B1AA5094146AB37DCEEADBC130A"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Submission of air carrier and airport plans</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this section, each of the following air carriers and airport operators shall submit to the Secretary of Transportation for review and approval an emergency contingency plan in accordance with the requirements of this section:</text>
<paragraph id="H6D7983E4623D44DC9327CCC17C0DADAE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>An air carrier providing covered air transportation at a large hub or medium hub airport.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF598615A825C4560A55C0631213647BC"><enum>(2)</enum><text>An operator of a large hub or medium hub airport.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H49A535EA902A4F2DACC274BF6D4531FB"><enum>(3)</enum><text>An operator of an airport used by an air carrier described in paragraph (1) for diversions.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HC0E97942A53A41AD83E33E1FAFBFF950"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Air carrier plans</header>
<paragraph id="H09326EA7E4114542ADD562CAE4BA6B4E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Plans for individual airports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An air carrier shall submit an emergency contingency plan under subsection (a) for—</text>
<subparagraph id="H7078A8127BBB4035A9A6DA37DFD41DDF"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">each large hub and medium hub airport at which the carrier provides covered air transportation; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H3CE063F68FA847C797A8D6B9C661295E"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">each large hub and medium hub airport at which the carrier has flights for which the carrier has primary responsibility for inventory control.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H11EDCAF6739344218B66472999660A16"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>An emergency contingency plan submitted by an air carrier for an airport under subsection (a) shall contain a description of how the carrier will—</text>
<subparagraph id="HEDEB9990EA8A4BEBA32A21749F93DB54"><enum>(A)</enum><text>provide food, potable water, restroom facilities, and access to medical treatment for passengers onboard an aircraft at the airport that is on the ground for an extended period of time without access to the terminal;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7750D7697B4346DBBE04F9EE34D29D14"><enum>(B)</enum><text>allow passengers to deplane following excessive tarmac delays; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H9C48901F2EA342C5A5E0C9878A6F6319"><enum>(C)</enum><text>share facilities and make gates available at the airport in an emergency.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HE469DB3BE3BC4BC69AB74EC6B24EA835"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Airport plans</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An emergency contingency plan submitted by an airport operator under subsection (a) shall contain a description of how the operator, to the maximum extent practicable, will—</text>
<paragraph id="HD4CE3A8D549548B0AB604FE7E14B335C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>provide for the deplanement of passengers following excessive tarmac delays;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1C5AF7EADD304467BB559EC5A9C25BAE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>provide for the sharing of facilities and make gates available at the airport in an emergency; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HEC4A7B063CE443FFA0A7BFA3FCDFE85B"><enum>(3)</enum><text>provide a sterile area following excessive tarmac delays for passengers who have not yet cleared U.S. Customs and Border Protection.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H3310FFE1E2B4489C8613085C2C8B8D29"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Updates</header>
<paragraph id="H3748F80B67D24999AC850D9F3D8CF129"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Air carriers</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An air carrier shall update the emergency contingency plan submitted by the carrier under subsection (a) every 3 years and submit the update to the Secretary for review and approval.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCDA33A350FB74EDFB5BFB1075E0937A8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Airports</header><text>An airport operator shall update the emergency contingency plan submitted by the operator under subsection (a) every 5 years and submit the update to the Secretary for review and approval.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H7A2CF6BE6FF743049F2196CD5831454F"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Approval</header>
<paragraph id="H189320B081A747EC8E5E958F369BAD6A"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 60 days after the date of the receipt of an emergency contingency plan submitted under subsection (a) or an update submitted under subsection (d), the Secretary shall review and approve or, if necessary, require modifications to the plan or update to ensure that the plan or update will effectively address emergencies and provide for the health and safety of passengers.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE7F5EF085845467DA0B19B420DDF712D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Failure to approve or require modifications</header><text>If the Secretary fails to approve or require modifications to a plan or update under paragraph (1) within the timeframe specified in that paragraph, the plan or update shall be deemed to be approved.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC19C6240572148DAB9DA9DA958691793"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Adherence required</header><text>An air carrier or airport operator shall adhere to an emergency contingency plan of the carrier or operator approved under this section.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HA78DE3DDA4E841CB82EABC9D243BC7DF"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Minimum standards</header><text>The Secretary may establish, as necessary or desirable, minimum standards for elements in an emergency contingency plan required to be submitted under this section.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H20C61EE5733E4A1DA1A16A8FEB1176A6"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Public access</header><text>An air carrier or airport operator required to submit an emergency contingency plan under this section shall ensure public access to the plan after its approval under this section on the Internet Web site of the carrier or operator or by such other means as determined by the Secretary.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H7F2987FB89754200A16D853A31C59D60"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section, the following definitions apply:</text>
<paragraph id="H45F5C4E088E04E37810ABD6F35CC4F23"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Covered air transportation</header><text>The term <quote>covered air transportation</quote> means scheduled or public charter passenger air transportation provided by an air carrier that operates an aircraft that as originally designed has a passenger capacity of 30 or more seats.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HBEDAA17192B742F7A422C59290BE9B1D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Tarmac delay</header><text>The term <quote>tarmac delay</quote> means the period during which passengers are on board an aircraft on the tarmac—</text>
<subparagraph id="H1D65E27CBB77417C9E9AEC577A32E15D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>awaiting takeoff after the aircraft doors have been closed or after passengers have been boarded if the passengers have not been advised they are free to deplane; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE3705C2F418F4F949B091CC179CF5AF5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>awaiting deplaning after the aircraft has landed.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF0C56397920549B2A7E15F02B6C7D2A9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>42302.</enum><header>Consumer complaints</header>
<subsection id="H17AD0F9D52AF461B9D1EE830B100EBEE" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Transportation shall establish a consumer complaints toll-free hotline telephone number for the use of passengers in air transportation and shall take actions to notify the public of—</text>
<paragraph id="H32D0FE6D37314978997378C6AE3D96FC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>that telephone number; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC4534D665E134F9F943B3A5FBDD204B1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Internet Web site of the Aviation Consumer Protection Division of the Department of Transportation.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H376B283C58894342B3B1F59BB401B64D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Notice to passengers on the internet</header><text>An air carrier or foreign air carrier providing scheduled air transportation using any aircraft that as originally designed has a passenger capacity of 30 or more passenger seats shall include on the Internet Web site of the carrier—</text>
<paragraph id="HCEE4FA6B192C4CD9A239B1D0ACFDB9CE"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the hotline telephone number established under subsection (a);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H441511EDCB144123BC27DC6BAC5B3F8D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the email address, telephone number, and mailing address of the air carrier for the submission of complaints by passengers about air travel service problems; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCF2F46CAC8E54BF48632C33663645E26"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the Internet Web site and mailing address of the Aviation Consumer Protection Division of the Department of Transportation for the submission of complaints by passengers about air travel service problems.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H935F30BDD9184DC79B83B69C8FDA40A5"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Notice to passengers on boarding documentation</header><text>An air carrier or foreign air carrier providing scheduled air transportation using any aircraft that as originally designed has a passenger capacity of 30 or more passenger seats shall include the hotline telephone number established under subsection (a) on—</text>
<paragraph id="HF22467847D194D1A90FD90319ADF36B4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>prominently displayed signs of the carrier at the airport ticket counters in the United States where the air carrier operates; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HDCEF0A3127DB47B19832F3ACF5C1883B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>any electronic confirmation of the purchase of a passenger ticket for air transportation issued by the air carrier.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section commented="no" id="H78BA92E3C1234AE49E493E6CBB4469DD"><enum>42303.</enum><header>Use of insecticides in passenger aircraft</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="H15AAA18495AD4B6B87E1A4CF4F6D4D07"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Information To be provided on the Internet</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Transportation shall establish, and make available to the general public, an Internet Web site that contains a listing of countries that may require an air carrier or foreign air carrier to treat an aircraft passenger cabin with insecticides prior to a flight in foreign air transportation to that country or to apply an aerosol insecticide in an aircraft cabin used for such a flight when the cabin is occupied with passengers.</text></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="H26A2B3A9A179436B96BC2EEF8056F729"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Required disclosures</header><text>An air carrier, foreign air carrier, or ticket agent selling, in the United States, a ticket for a flight in foreign air transportation to a country listed on the Internet Web site established under subsection (a) shall refer the purchaser of the ticket to the Internet Web site established under subsection (a) for additional information.</text></subsection></section></chapter><after-quoted-block>. </after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="H32BF2656A9144CBA8E2016BB2FC3AE2E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Penalties</header><text>Section 46301 is amended in subsections (a)(1)(A) and (c)(1)(A) by inserting <quote>chapter 423,</quote> after <quote>chapter 421,</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H17E0B9036BCC4AD7821BC224B87D8897"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Applicability of requirements</header><text>Except as otherwise provided, the requirements of chapter 423 of title 49, United States Code, as added by this section, shall begin to apply 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H1A21FA20A133422B9325AA70B731850A"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The analysis for subtitle VII is amended by inserting after the item relating to chapter 421 the following:</text>
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<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H128257CF4B9347BBBF43FF01EEDB0E85"><enum>426.</enum><header>Airfares for members of the Armed Forces</header>
<subsection id="H7E4C70338EC5409695B808AC784CD210"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Findings</header><text>Congress finds that—</text>
<paragraph id="HA1FB15BC922243E8A2BA498736107D13"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the Armed Forces is comprised of approximately 1,450,000 members who are stationed on active duty at more than 6,000 military bases in 146 different countries;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H27525B8DCAD14B64B591307B24FCB416"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the United States is indebted to the members of the Armed Forces, many of whom are in grave danger due to their engagement in, or exposure to, combat;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE4943BB258954D2E8B9B04D5F7F19683"><enum>(3)</enum><text>military service, especially in the current war against terrorism, often requires members of the Armed Forces to be separated from their families on short notice, for long periods of time, and under very stressful conditions;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HAF124DDC33B140F88BF166AD2092D243"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the unique demands of military service often preclude members of the Armed Forces from purchasing discounted advance airline tickets in order to visit their loved ones at home; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1F2D35677A28493CA35E40C136A463D9"><enum>(5)</enum><text>it is the patriotic duty of the people of the United States to support the members of the Armed Forces who are defending the Nation’s interests around the world at great personal sacrifice.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HA5FA8DE4CAC74C12A9834F52357B1021"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Sense of Congress</header><text>It is the sense of Congress that—</text>
<paragraph id="H297D4E0C55354B4088108D6A4A0D88BE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>all United States commercial air carriers should seek to lend their support with flexible, generous policies applicable to members of the Armed Forces who are traveling on leave or liberty at their own expense; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H872B9CF28B2344239D08A13C4185DF2E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>each United States air carrier, for all members of the Armed Forces who have been granted leave or liberty and who are traveling by air at their own expense, should—</text>
<subparagraph id="HB44A7FE095B440C586C33460EDBAB6D0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>seek to provide reduced air fares that are comparable to the lowest airfare for ticketed flights and that eliminate to the maximum extent possible advance purchase requirements;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H09992B840BC84F2F9F47620B54312B07"><enum>(B)</enum><text>seek to eliminate change fees or charges and any penalties;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H6600B005C29C41A2A93B580F14693700"><enum>(C)</enum><text>seek to eliminate or reduce baggage and excess weight fees;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H8657C8009C744636B3754235FCF14271"><enum>(D)</enum><text>offer flexible terms that allow members to purchase, modify, or cancel tickets without time restrictions, and to waive fees (including baggage fees), ancillary costs, or penalties; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H93EEFCB9FF614A548C4BF1AE77F972DE"><enum>(E)</enum><text>seek to take proactive measures to ensure that all airline employees, particularly those who issue tickets and respond to members of the Armed Forces and their family members, are trained in the policies of the airline aimed at benefitting members of the Armed Forces who are on leave.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE2FC5538A9A0407A97073150704B5140" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>427.</enum><header>Review of air carrier flight delays, cancellations, and associated causes</header>
<subsection id="HF506C03C07F149CCB91637DC0BA4D53D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Review</header><text>The Inspector General of the Department of Transportation shall conduct a review regarding air carrier flight delays, cancellations, and associated causes to update its 2000 report numbered CR–2000–112 and titled <quote>Audit of Air Carrier Flight Delays and Cancellations</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H7F82113659404FBA98D3A2C3F4688F24"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Assessments</header><text>In conducting the review under subsection (a), the Inspector General shall assess—</text>
<paragraph id="H89C2385F8D3248A4B1DFC499B5655B65"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the need for an update on delay and cancellation statistics, including with respect to the number of chronically delayed flights and taxi-in and taxi-out times;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1676829CBFD348629BF8357F73A2C05B"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">air carriers’ scheduling practices;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H82475CBDB6E0498F86A0588BA69D4A56"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the need for a reexamination of capacity benchmarks at the Nation’s busiest airports;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD518C9068DFC417480AEB6452C4F273C"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the impact of flight delays and cancellations on air travelers, including recommendations for programs that could be implemented to address the impact of flight delays on air travelers;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1553ECE377B54164B1B50748E4C53886"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the effect that limited air carrier service options on routes have on the frequency of delays and cancellations on such routes;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4D0674478B154327AD4BFDAE0D78A08A"><enum>(6)</enum><text>the effect of the rules and regulations of the Department of Transportation on the decisions of air carriers to delay or cancel flights; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H16C8ECE29E204BCDB9CC5BC5C23D3F8F"><enum>(7)</enum><text>the impact of flight delays and cancellations on the airline industry.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H54D08CB5655E420480003D47AA29060C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Inspector General shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report on the results of the review conducted under this section, including the assessments described in subsection (b).</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H02A7D96AC9754EB28AE5F46DB29F48A9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>428.</enum><header>Denied boarding compensation</header>
<subsection id="HC4F3D01AEF964AAA8C4A25C784E6C6A3"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Evaluation of denied boarding compensation</header><text>Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, and every 2 years thereafter, the Secretary of Transportation shall evaluate the amount provided by air carriers for denied boarding compensation.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H1C00BFBCA91243C7AA056982C4E51ED0"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Adjustment of amount</header><text>If, upon completing an evaluation required under subsection (a), the Secretary determines that the amount provided for denied boarding compensation should be adjusted, the Secretary shall issue a regulation to adjust such compensation.</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H030F91F9264D426F9E2427B245CD780D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>429.</enum><header>Compensation for delayed baggage</header>
<subsection id="H3D06283E7B78416DAD879DB2A48D38BE"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study</header><text>The Comptroller General shall conduct a study to—</text>
<paragraph id="H5C60CFCDCA6D4C76AB2035B953C30E44"><enum>(1)</enum><text>examine delays in the delivery of checked baggage to passengers of air carriers; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7420CE52462741E3B00683015F1524BB"><enum>(2)</enum><text>assess the options for and examine the impact of establishing minimum standards to compensate a passenger in the case of an unreasonable delay in the delivery of checked baggage.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H5697734343634BE08448D09069D4C7C7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Consideration</header><text>In conducting the study, the Comptroller General shall take into account the additional fees for checked baggage that are imposed by many air carriers and how the additional fees should improve an air carrier’s baggage performance.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H6B3576D20BFB43D1986EBACB025AD93C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall transmit to Congress a report on the results of the study.</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4C96F0A71BF545C0A6EED558AAF35FF3" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>430.</enum><header>Schedule reduction</header>
<subsection id="H7C04EAE88A8543159CBB25830D0554E5"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration determines that—</text>
<paragraph id="HBFEEEA0DA9F54004B2B752B165F1F520"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the aircraft operations of air carriers during any hour at an airport exceed the hourly maximum departure and arrival rate established by the Administrator for such operations; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD5D1D560020149F0878310D98C54D093"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the operations in excess of the maximum departure and arrival rate for such hour at such airport are likely to have a significant adverse effect on the safe and efficient use of navigable airspace,</text></paragraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subsection">the Administrator shall convene a meeting of such carriers to reduce pursuant to section 41722 of title 49, United States Code, on a voluntary basis, the number of such operations so as not to exceed the maximum departure and arrival rate.</continuation-text></subsection>
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H759125A198D7445BABC0EAC4F353F142"><enum>(b)</enum><header>No agreement</header><text>If the air carriers participating in a meeting with respect to an airport under subsection (a) are not able to agree to a reduction in the number of flights to and from the airport so as not to exceed the maximum departure and arrival rate, the Administrator shall take such action as is necessary to ensure such reduction is implemented.</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H049D38EE417E4593AFFE68C22BBC363A" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>431.</enum><header>DOT airline consumer complaint investigations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary of Transportation may investigate consumer complaints regarding—</text>
<paragraph id="HC26615B7674E4CFAB8BF8101A7C98D49"><enum>(1)</enum><text>flight cancellations;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0D210542CA514BB9951F946DF29D73C7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>compliance with Federal regulations concerning overbooking seats on flights;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H157833927DC3482F89FB1033ABEC9EE6"><enum>(3)</enum><text>lost, damaged, or delayed baggage, and difficulties with related airline claims procedures;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1C44A93A59A2445A89412ABCE8516A7B"><enum>(4)</enum><text>problems in obtaining refunds for unused or lost tickets or fare adjustments;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0FC8F53E79BE4B47A5612A9FD59D0ACD"><enum>(5)</enum><text>incorrect or incomplete information about fares, discount fare conditions and availability, overcharges, and fare increases;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6DF6BF14161249EA82E37671102A72CF"><enum>(6)</enum><text>the rights of passengers who hold frequent flyer miles or equivalent redeemable awards earned through customer-loyalty programs; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H70607E74EC504C6591EB657F69ED2787"><enum>(7)</enum><text>deceptive or misleading advertising.</text></paragraph></section>
<section id="H50D86AF271FB430996877A19A59209D5"><enum>432.</enum><header>Study of operators regulated under part 135</header>
<subsection id="H270045C2513E4FCA879D0B14D74E0F39"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study required</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, in consultation with interested parties, shall conduct a study of operators regulated under part 135 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HE59A9AD195094110ADF09E321BF93C9A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Contents</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In conducting the study under subsection (a), the Administrator shall analyze the part 135 fleet in the United States, which shall include analysis of—</text>
<paragraph id="H8EDDE3BAD4C9402F83EE767601705BF7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the size and type of aircraft in the fleet;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H71E3DBF6891D42F59DAC4A835916ADA8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the equipment utilized by the fleet;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HBAF9F30BA7A846EC86626B09B3562B67"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the hours flown each year by the fleet;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFAA92AD918844963A334A2AB5EDEAFE9"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the utilization rates with respect to the fleet;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H068BABC5A032439C946B2954EEEEDE20"><enum>(5)</enum><text>the safety record of various categories of use and aircraft types with respect to the fleet, through a review of the database of the National Transportation Safety Board;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H84FD1C2EC4684FA9B2D446957244A717"><enum>(6)</enum><text>the sales revenues of the fleet; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCEF9F5B5609C4A93A2297F1BAEA002FE"><enum>(7)</enum><text>the number of passengers and airports served by the fleet.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFE2CABF692D149EFAF7CB4904A66DA24"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header>
<paragraph id="H959E01F1C036420C98FBC9D82A2E5D75"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Initial report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report on the results of the study conducted under subsection (a).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4B0F3781B36B41B3B97BCB5D00197B0C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Updates</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 3 years after the date of the submission of the report required under paragraph (1), and every 2 years thereafter, the Administrator shall update the report required under that paragraph and submit the updated report to the committees specified in that paragraph.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="H3857B8F11D764D20B1227D774302F017" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>433.</enum><header>Use of cell phones on passenger aircraft</header>
<subsection id="HF46500F9D94445AFA86A6D79A001D9A9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Cell phone study</header><text>Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall conduct a study on the impact of the use of cell phones for voice communications in an aircraft during a flight in scheduled passenger air transportation where currently permitted by foreign governments in foreign air transportation.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H4CFA3572B25B4AADBD8A8435AAB0C03D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The study shall include—</text>
<paragraph id="HF6FC2A814F3D4F849B766BF92A150A7C"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a review of foreign government and air carrier policies on the use of cell phones during flight;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3D23B86C467F4B0EBA9F3A244C10D1F2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>a review of the extent to which passengers use cell phones for voice communications during flight; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB55D0B5D8443448F8E4EDDD2349A9C73"><enum>(3)</enum><text>a summary of any impacts of cell phone use during flight on safety, the quality of the flight experience of passengers, and flight attendants.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HD824E681F18C489A92B0969967D84AA3"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Comment period</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall publish in the Federal Register the results of the study and allow 60 days for public comment.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H05C9EA3C85B94E088BFDBEE29887FA1A"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Cell phone report</header><text>Not later than 270 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report on the results of the study.</text></subsection></section></subtitle>
<enum>V</enum><header>Environmental Streamlining</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H37A496A511F44E50A89DDF0C3D03F082" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>501.</enum><header>Overflights of national parks</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="H00B2E9FC522142D0B6A458FE6D95F7B9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>General requirements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 40128(a)(1)(C) is amended by inserting <quote>or voluntary agreement under subsection (b)(7)</quote> before <quote>for the park</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="H7AA063C7518347EFA792DDE7A0C52B24"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Exemption for national parks with 50 or fewer flights each year</header><text>Section 40128(a) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph commented="no" id="H7773744C501742E897FE7E4462AB4E97"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Exemption for national parks with 50 or fewer flights each year</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HA4E04C2BBBCF4022A36751CBD9220680"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a national park that has 50 or fewer commercial air tour operations over the park each year shall be exempt from the requirements of this section, except as provided in subparagraph (B).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HCB9D04510530487293EFF1929158C419"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Withdrawal of exemption</header><text>If the Director determines that an air tour management plan or voluntary agreement is necessary to protect park resources and values or park visitor use and enjoyment, the Director shall withdraw the exemption of a park under subparagraph (A).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HE5BF9A6325014C93BC2DB529EC4901C8"><enum>(C)</enum><header>List of parks</header>
<clause commented="no" id="H956B17361CF044C8B7DE5442ECBF9CDC"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director and Administrator shall jointly publish a list each year of national parks that are covered by the exemption provided under this paragraph.</text></clause>
<clause commented="no" id="H6DB69F771D954F3CBE88819CDC5F8525"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Notification of withdrawal of exemption</header><text>The Director shall inform the Administrator, in writing, of each determination to withdraw an exemption under subparagraph (B).</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H67C3F3B6C4AF4B76AF71AD8ACC0C7021"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Annual report</header><text>A commercial air tour operator conducting commercial air tour operations over a national park that is exempt from the requirements of this section shall submit to the Administrator and the Director a report each year that includes the number of commercial air tour operations the operator conducted during the preceding one-year period over such park.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="H806BB8B765094206ABCBDA8C563427D3"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Air tour management plans</header><text>Section 40128(b) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5FCCDA21ADD34887901637902BB45C88" style="USC">
<paragraph commented="no" id="H718A6BDDD14B47869E6C0C754B1C123B"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Voluntary agreements</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H7D368907B7D8454D9C1B116ABBD346EB"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">As an alternative to an air tour management plan, the Director and the Administrator may enter into a voluntary agreement with a commercial air tour operator (including a new entrant commercial air tour operator and an operator that has interim operating authority) that has applied to conduct commercial air tour operations over a national park to manage commercial air tour operations over such national park.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H5B0E66C87C0C40BBA3BE62FB10864F1D"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Park protection</header><text>A voluntary agreement under this paragraph with respect to commercial air tour operations over a national park shall address the management issues necessary to protect the resources of such park and visitor use of such park without compromising aviation safety or the air traffic control system and may—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="H697836D29A7840C29722DE86DD240D95"><enum>(i)</enum><text>include provisions such as those described in subparagraphs (B) through (E) of paragraph (3);</text></clause>
<clause commented="no" id="HE7D34DC2E40C434C9B74F417E43B1D71"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>include provisions to ensure the stability of, and compliance with, the voluntary agreement; and</text></clause>
<clause commented="no" id="HC09D3935EC0D43188CBF098F8D68807E"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>provide for fees for such operations.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA6107B3F8DDC4F5CB5A5232410634DE8"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Public</header><text>The Director and the Administrator shall provide an opportunity for public review of a proposed voluntary agreement under this paragraph and shall consult with any Indian tribe whose tribal lands are, or may be, flown over by a commercial air tour operator under a voluntary agreement under this paragraph. After such opportunity for public review and consultation, the voluntary agreement may be implemented without further administrative or environmental process beyond that described in this subsection.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HFD5A9E17C8F340D88FFE8801B90B66BC"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Termination</header>
<clause commented="no" id="HA08993AFAEF146DA83DE1735F3558C1F"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A voluntary agreement under this paragraph may be terminated at any time at the discretion of—</text>
<subclause commented="no" id="H9FE51C2B88D7479CAEB706BD6036FEB9"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the Director, if the Director determines that the agreement is not adequately protecting park resources or visitor experiences; or</text></subclause>
<subclause commented="no" id="H2BA85564F2D64FA8804886EB34745724"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the Administrator, if the Administrator determines that the agreement is adversely affecting aviation safety or the national aviation system.</text></subclause></clause>
<clause commented="no" id="HD6B5F6C8AF1541C69F1F2D5EDAE61C03"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Effect of termination</header><text>If a voluntary agreement with respect to a national park is terminated under this subparagraph, the operators shall conform to the requirements for interim operating authority under subsection (c) until an air tour management plan for the park is in effect.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="H3B27F3B35CEB410BB11BA4276FCADCAA"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Interim operating authority</header><text>Section 40128(c) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H917E86B2ADB4424AAD63BA46F77D7669"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (2)(I) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HB465F7697AF545E9BE0A8FA5FF200729" style="OLC">
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HFA60F9E8916C49E4948F333AFBAB7382"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">may allow for modifications of the interim operating authority without further environmental review beyond that described in this subsection, if—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="HEBBC904DEA2F49CAB52A12B9E800D6FB"><enum>(i)</enum><text>adequate information regarding the existing and proposed operations of the operator under the interim operating authority is provided to the Administrator and the Director;</text></clause>
<clause commented="no" id="HB1D0D7C2A96E4874A15A98C6E8F6313F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the Administrator determines that there would be no adverse impact on aviation safety or the air traffic control system; and</text></clause>
<clause commented="no" id="H6F9EBB63294E49568BCCEFC14B46ED6B"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the Director agrees with the modification, based on the professional expertise of the Director regarding the protection of the resources, values, and visitor use and enjoyment of the park.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HC65904A2782242AC9626CB4770DFA896"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3)(A) by striking <quote>if the Administrator determines</quote> and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HE31FD924AD3B478298E9D3668184C189" style="USC"><text>without further environmental process beyond that described in this paragraph, if—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="H5F1448B32B414A228F6D86BC01D78035"><enum>(i)</enum><text>adequate information on the proposed operations of the operator is provided to the Administrator and the Director by the operator making the request;</text></clause>
<clause commented="no" id="HC617F819212348E998A8B15CEF572240"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the Administrator agrees that there would be no adverse impact on aviation safety or the air traffic control system; and</text></clause>
<clause commented="no" id="HB3E19FE7617D44BB854DFB6BFE85E629"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the Director agrees, based on the Director’s professional expertise regarding the protection of park resources and values and visitor use and enjoyment.</text></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="HE851424C5F764FEBA69FD88D00EF6A2D"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Operator reports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 40128 is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H737365B09A5549ACB7947D82B7B1373B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsections (d), (e), and (f) as subsections (e), (f), and (g), respectively; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H3E5C5F6965674F119CF87DFAA7E5BB1F"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subsection (c) the following:</text>
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<subsection commented="no" id="HCE4FDD258FA44798B5D04225FC9C6978"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Commercial air tour operator reports</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H964C15F240A84788A69DEF0BA8CB6EC6"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Each commercial air tour operator conducting a commercial air tour operation over a national park under interim operating authority granted under subsection (c) or in accordance with an air tour management plan or voluntary agreement under subsection (b) shall submit to the Administrator and the Director a report regarding the number of commercial air tour operations over each national park that are conducted by the operator and such other information as the Administrator and Director may request in order to facilitate administering the provisions of this section.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H669DD739F13141EFB130B4AB99F4BBB0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Report submission</header><text>Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of the <short-title>FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011</short-title>, the Administrator and the Director shall jointly issue an initial request for reports under this subsection. The reports shall be submitted to the Administrator and the Director with a frequency and in a format prescribed by the Administrator and the Director.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2596EB23104F4D11830031D9AA8F9A6C" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>502.</enum><header>State block grant program</header>
<subsection id="H90AAA2914E494810AB614B1F3A241F5E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>General requirements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 47128(a) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H5D26BEFAAF2E4EE68AB017C68C2E99ED"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the first sentence by striking <quote>prescribe regulations</quote> and inserting <quote>issue guidance</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6F2989485CFD45FAA25D9C497CD54032"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in the second sentence by striking <quote>regulations</quote> and inserting <quote>guidance</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H6E017AF020E34C658F27E961944AD0A6"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Applications and selection</header><text>Section 47128(b)(4) is amended by inserting before the semicolon the following: <quote>, including the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), State and local environmental policy acts, Executive orders, agency regulations and guidance, and other Federal environmental requirements</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HD333C9DC29D446B79ECA35D94360C8CE"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Environmental analysis and coordination requirements</header><text>Section 47128 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H3A90AC1A4B9B43A4A2F01B4CBC79424A" style="OLC">
<subsection id="HA867CC48EBA04103AD0CFCB222F135E6"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Environmental analysis and coordination requirements</header><text>A Federal agency, other than the Federal Aviation Administration, that is responsible for issuing an approval, license, or permit to ensure compliance with a Federal environmental requirement applicable to a project or activity to be carried out by a State using amounts from a block grant made under this section shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H37A90D0F0066480F98C0090200FDAC2F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>coordinate and consult with the State;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1BA12D9B5E1244EB9BC81D2B02CC28BD"><enum>(2)</enum><text>use the environmental analysis prepared by the State for the project or activity if such analysis is adequate; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6CEA0427A80346AAB8F95B8C52AAC10E"><enum>(3)</enum><text>as necessary, consult with the State to describe the supplemental analysis the State must provide to meet applicable Federal requirements.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section id="H9CE5AA66E8F645F092D6CA6C3A239B36"><enum>503.</enum><header>NextGen environmental efficiency projects streamlining</header>
<subsection id="H1DB16E67CEBD414FB1B3E9ACF88C62AE"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Aviation project review process</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 47171(a) is amended in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by striking <quote>and aviation security projects</quote> and inserting <quote>aviation security projects, and NextGen environmental efficiency projects</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HFC383F96E1224748A9ED0D1C45EDF121"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Aviation projects subject to a streamlined Environmental review process</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 47171(b) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HAF91EDE8B94944B8AAA85038E0CBBA7C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by amending paragraph (1) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7FEEAAA7ECCD4B5A97A28EB35D5EE62B" style="USC">
<paragraph id="H364979C5C78142208B292C39BC52B73F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Airport capacity enhancement projects at congested airports and certain NextGen environmental efficiency projects</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The following projects shall be subject to the coordinated and expedited environmental review process requirements set forth in this section:</text>
<subparagraph id="HD88BAE4C8F5043308BEE70BB21A5F20D"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An airport capacity enhancement project at a congested airport.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7FC2E61AA4C74AAD90261B2549B3F1C7"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A NextGen environmental efficiency project at an Operational Evolution Partnership airport or any congested airport.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2A0A111DEA5046D99E19EED3A08EC04A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H5AE719C022AA4F229258834959F67DF9"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the heading by striking <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="USC">and aviation security projects</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="USC">projects, aviation security projects, and any NextGen environmental efficiency projects</header-in-text></quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD92F8CCFE5CD4725A120D20751321023"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A) by striking <quote>or aviation security project</quote> and inserting <quote>, an aviation security project, or any NextGen environmental efficiency project</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H36537CFAFE2C4DA590D172C47E96A033"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B) by striking <quote>or aviation security project</quote> and inserting <quote>, aviation security project, or NextGen environmental efficiency project</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB2DAC7C11C104C1F89B2B0ADD728A293"><enum>(c)</enum><header>High priority for environmental reviews</header><text>Section 47171(c)(1) is amended by striking <quote>an airport capacity enhancement project at a congested airport</quote> and inserting <quote>a project described in subsection (b)(1)</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HFDCCE1957F9C4B77A18E036CC288A667"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Identification of jurisdictional agencies</header><text>Section 47171(d) is amended by striking <quote>each airport capacity enhancement project at a congested airport</quote> and inserting <quote>a project described in subsection (b)(1)</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HD66AFFC2EB68455FA172D104398752D5"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Lead agency responsibility</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 47171(h) is amended by striking <quote>airport capacity enhancement projects at congested airports</quote> and inserting <quote>projects described in subsection (b)(1)</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H84422C7CBD4A4131A5A640B9EDD6CC4A"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Alternatives analysis</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 47171(k) is amended by striking <quote>an airport capacity enhancement project at a congested airport</quote> and inserting <quote>a project described in subsection (b)(1)</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HCA2243409EA44A2E92DBB801CE27AB0A"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 47171 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC4D45117679940E29961ED50523181FA" style="USC">
<subsection id="H4AB36683962F4172BC0FCF6F71516E4D"><enum>(n)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the following definitions apply:</text>
<paragraph id="H69EB3FAF4FB8443C923B7209FA120829"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Congested airport</header><text>The term <quote>congested airport</quote> means an airport that accounted for at least one percent of all delayed aircraft operations in the United States in the most recent year for which data is available and an airport listed in table 1 of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Airport Capacity Benchmark Report 2004.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H04E52B5049B345A6A7B88A00DAEEE091"><enum>(2)</enum><header>NextGen environmental efficiency project</header><text>The term <quote>NextGen environmental efficiency project</quote> means a Next Generation Air Transportation System aviation project that—</text>
<subparagraph id="H26B35D912C784D51BE263CBF56397F3F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>develops and certifies performance-based navigation procedures; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H18726D39308549D083EB331B83DEA4A9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>develops other environmental mitigation projects the Secretary may designate as facilitating a reduction in noise, fuel consumption, or emissions from air traffic operations.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HD60C8FDCD06C440DA4F660505C09ED8A"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Performance-based navigation</header><text>The term <quote>performance-based navigation</quote> means a framework for defining performance requirements in navigation specifications that—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H3A39822D68924791977CE722CD85D35E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>can be applied to an air traffic route, instrument procedure, or defined airspace; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H35BEDFFC430C4626A3A0CCDA0F55BFB7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>provides a basis for the design and implementation of automated flight paths, airspace design, and obstacle clearance.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5F8A02B6EB8D411DB6D2200825647DFE" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>504.</enum><header>Airport funding of special studies or reviews</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 47173(a) is amended by striking <quote>services of consultants in order to</quote> and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H2C5BD85A1FE249B38EB172A2A19BE001" style="OLC"><text>services of consultants—</text>
<paragraph id="H456022A075E0419DBDA775E4D2FB7681"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to facilitate the timely processing, review, and completion of environmental activities associated with an airport development project;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H31C100E7DD6A44668890BCF7A6429D3D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to conduct special environmental studies related to an airport project funded with Federal funds;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2E5652A1542C4F12BB4EC271D67862D1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>to conduct special studies or reviews to support approved noise compatibility measures described in part 150 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H35B81B5E8E074696AAE62E7F57CFABB6"><enum>(4)</enum><text>to conduct special studies or reviews to support environmental mitigation in a record of decision or finding of no significant impact by the Federal Aviation Administration; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3AC6111B5F0A4E1185FA0212305FC76F"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to facilitate the timely processing, review, and completion of environmental activities associated with new or amended flight procedures, including performance-based navigation procedures, such as required navigation performance procedures and area navigation procedures.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAEC944E2B5CE4581A76C22597A638B29"><enum>505.</enum><header>Noise compatibility programs</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 47504(a)(2) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H9A821AD154EF4D2B92EB1897DD995DEF"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon in subparagraph (D);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HAC55EE9D904548D98262CA733C509993"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>operations.</quote> in subparagraph (E) and inserting <quote>operations; and</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HBBA195D661CF40EDB34B25F97CCB4341"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H4D79323F986F4CBDA0D4A49A178DE885" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="HA6C2A6E1DA3549A797444A73A76895FA" indent="up1"><enum>(F)</enum><text>conducting comprehensive land use planning (including master plans, traffic studies, environmental evaluation, and economic and feasibility studies), jointly with neighboring local jurisdictions undertaking community redevelopment in an area in which land or other property interests have been acquired by the operator pursuant to this section, to encourage and enhance redevelopment opportunities that reflect zoning and uses that will prevent the introduction of additional incompatible uses and enhance redevelopment potential.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section>
<section id="HDEE358C5D01C4FC9B86CC2BDCE3A1762"><enum>506.</enum><header>Grant eligibility for assessment of flight procedures</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 47504 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HA62A8744B919458DB0BA888DD3EF2A15" style="OLC">
<subsection id="HCD43EF8AC5CE449A828146F3DD5D08ED"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Grants for assessment of flight procedures</header>
<paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2EE21BF14B884E35B978E1614E9BBFED"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In accordance with subsection (c)(1), the Secretary may make a grant to an airport operator to assist in completing environmental review and assessment activities for proposals to implement flight procedures at such airport that have been approved as part of an airport noise compatibility program under subsection (b).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA0E102BE369C484A9485491803237BBF"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Additional staff</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator may accept funds from an airport operator, including funds provided to the operator under paragraph (1), to hire additional staff or obtain the services of consultants in order to facilitate the timely processing, review, and completion of environmental activities associated with proposals to implement flight procedures at such airport that have been approved as part of an airport noise compatibility program under subsection (b).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H55DB9C7B86644BC2996ABEE551FA0DB9"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Receipts credited as offsetting collections</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding section 3302 of title 31, any funds accepted under this section—</text>
<subparagraph id="HB5B0290BA83B45A9A15389E7C65BFA08"><enum>(A)</enum><text>shall be credited as offsetting collections to the account that finances the activities and services for which the funds are accepted;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H40B8383E318B4BDF919D45D77BA79E11"><enum>(B)</enum><text>shall be available for expenditure only to pay the costs of activities and services for which the funds are accepted; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H5872AA4240AD4359BAEEBDDFC8F659EB"><enum>(C)</enum><text>shall remain available until expended.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H62B73D62D5F44C159FAE04EA2B04A218"><enum>507.</enum><header>Determination of fair market value of residential properties</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 47504 (as amended by this Act) is further amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection id="H0884C048B4A94E06A61A02B52F42C11C"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Determination of fair market value of residential properties</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In approving a project to acquire residential real property using financial assistance made available under this section or chapter 471, the Secretary shall ensure that the appraisal of the property to be acquired disregards any decrease or increase in the fair market value of the real property caused by the project for which the property is to be acquired, or by the likelihood that the property would be acquired for the project, other than that due to physical deterioration within the reasonable control of the owner.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="H850CB28628364EDD8D5043C2738EAC9D"><enum>508.</enum><header>Prohibition on operating certain aircraft weighing 75,000 pounds or less not complying with stage 3 noise levels</header>
<subsection id="H3674706B4117403F8BEFE291873AE9E5"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subchapter II of chapter 475 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<section id="HA42AFB5B712340A18A755E63B545B810"><enum>47534.</enum><header>Prohibition on operating certain aircraft weighing 75,000 pounds or less not complying with stage 3 noise levels</header>
<subsection id="H6E374E240DD747F2840767D4D1458802"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Prohibition</header><text>Except as otherwise provided by this section, after December 31, 2014, a person may not operate a civil subsonic jet airplane with a maximum weight of 75,000 pounds or less, and for which an airworthiness certificate (other than an experimental certificate) has been issued, to or from an airport in the United States unless the Secretary of Transportation finds that the aircraft complies with stage 3 noise levels.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H522B2E50B9D54BF9BC7FB286F2BD5394"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Aircraft operations outside 48 contiguous States</header><text>Subsection (a) shall not apply to aircraft operated only outside the 48 contiguous States.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H43F334AB85E7492CA68E408E039A5146"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Temporary operations</header><text>The Secretary may allow temporary operation of an aircraft otherwise prohibited from operation under subsection (a) to or from an airport in the contiguous United States by granting a special flight authorization for one or more of the following circumstances:</text>
<paragraph id="H7C5566A203D4415E9DD637B4CE077398"><enum>(1)</enum><text>To sell, lease, or use the aircraft outside the 48 contiguous States.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9A5A895C9619499DB6784D6563ADE9E1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>To scrap the aircraft.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H54F140BE5FA2406FBE20ADA424B64DB6"><enum>(3)</enum><text>To obtain modifications to the aircraft to meet stage 3 noise levels.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H211B8C485B7845F1A9FA2679D3EC4164"><enum>(4)</enum><text>To perform scheduled heavy maintenance or significant modifications on the aircraft at a maintenance facility located in the contiguous 48 States.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB1B2A4EDDE244E028F27F985CE1B143D"><enum>(5)</enum><text>To deliver the aircraft to an operator leasing the aircraft from the owner or return the aircraft to the lessor.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HDDEA5AC743E94DF89F9F12A7EC7361E3"><enum>(6)</enum><text>To prepare, park, or store the aircraft in anticipation of any of the activities described in paragraphs (1) through (5).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1413CB1083C842A09A2C80C4A17A3088"><enum>(7)</enum><text>To provide transport of persons and goods in the relief of an emergency situation.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5894F5D2C75B4A5A9D1FEAEB8ACB9E9E"><enum>(8)</enum><text>To divert the aircraft to an alternative airport in the 48 contiguous States on account of weather, mechanical, fuel, air traffic control, or other safety reasons while conducting a flight in order to perform any of the activities described in paragraphs (1) through (7).</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H51274247D4234143824E8DC7A4A05C96"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>The Secretary may prescribe such regulations or other guidance as may be necessary for the implementation of this section.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H0E9FE50E3D064F28A6A7AB335A8C9AA3"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Statutory construction</header>
<paragraph id="H58C313290AE64180B9E480A823AED7E5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>AIP grant assurances</header><text>Noncompliance with subsection (a) shall not be construed as a violation of section 47107 or any regulations prescribed thereunder.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF812B0DDD6874335AF7DF17661583B3E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Pending applications</header><text>Nothing in this section may be construed as interfering with, nullifying, or otherwise affecting determinations made by the Federal Aviation Administration, or to be made by the Administration, with respect to applications under part 161 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, that were pending on the date of enactment of this section.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H74EA851F5B1245A0AC068ED3266B43AC"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header>
<paragraph id="HBF39A6A6529A46F888197C4048E6F16B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Section 47531 is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H5DA806ABB506496790FBC37FCEDAE18C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the section heading by striking <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">for violating sections 47528–47530</header-in-text></quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H8F867E16ED4D4E7F9B2506A5A1CCB358"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>47529, or 47530</quote> and inserting <quote>47529, 47530, or 47534</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE0A36DB42485463D807331ABB3EF42AA"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Section 47532 is amended by inserting <quote>or 47534</quote> after <quote>47528–47531</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HEB886D77FF7340A8A1645C8B4DEC29F4"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The analysis for subchapter II of chapter 475 is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="HD95BD156251C449E8C1E449A69F5D3FF"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking the item relating to section 47531 and inserting the following:</text>
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<toc-entry level="section">47531. Penalties.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H1AA1E06D2EA24BB4977697B19D050410"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<toc-entry level="section">47534. Prohibition on operating certain aircraft weighing 75,000 pounds or less not complying with stage 3 noise levels.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H54BDAA810A29461B81E3E42749AD9334" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>509.</enum><header>Aircraft departure queue management pilot program</header>
<subsection id="HC717919817B045F8AE0C393CC9C28967"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Transportation shall carry out a pilot program at not more than 5 public-use airports under which the Federal Aviation Administration shall use funds made available under section 48101(a) to test air traffic flow management tools, methodologies, and procedures that will allow air traffic controllers of the Administration to better manage the flow of aircraft on the ground and reduce the length of ground holds and idling time for aircraft.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HC0CA10CF61ED4D97857659B8F18EEC95"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Selection criteria</header><text>In selecting from among airports at which to conduct the pilot program, the Secretary shall give priority consideration to airports at which improvements in ground control efficiencies are likely to achieve the greatest fuel savings or air quality or other environmental benefits, as measured by the amount of reduced fuel, reduced emissions, or other environmental benefits per dollar of funds expended under the pilot program.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HF0051D6DE7274252910DAC484107793F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Maximum amount</header><text>Not more than a total of $2,500,000 may be expended under the pilot program at any single public-use airport.</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H36FF7267BEB64D9DBFBD8ED7A693DE45" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>510.</enum><header>High performance, sustainable, and cost-effective air traffic control facilities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may implement, to the extent practicable, sustainable practices for the incorporation of energy-efficient design, equipment, systems, and other measures in the construction and major renovation of air traffic control facilities of the Administration in order to reduce energy consumption at, improve the environmental performance of, and reduce the cost of maintenance for such facilities.</text></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H350641D057284B1DBDA805996E9E17E8" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>511.</enum><header>Sense of Congress</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">It is the sense of Congress that—</text>
<paragraph id="H732E1096B7BA4841846B7A0DC11F2407"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the European Union directive extending the European Union’s emissions trading proposal to international civil aviation without working through the International Civil Aviation Organization (in this section referred to as the <quote>ICAO</quote>) in a consensus-based fashion is inconsistent with the Convention on International Civil Aviation, completed in Chicago on December 7, 1944 (TIAS 1591; commonly known as the <quote>Chicago Convention</quote>), and other relevant air services agreements and antithetical to building international cooperation to address effectively the problem of greenhouse gas emissions by aircraft engaged in international civil aviation; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H35AB3558552242EFAB785AECF1785CB1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the European Union and its member states should instead work with other contracting states of ICAO to develop a consensual approach to addressing aircraft greenhouse gas emissions through ICAO.</text></paragraph></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5A5FA4E631BE4682800A6177C60F3478" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>512.</enum><header>Aviation noise complaints</header>
<subsection id="HEF243492BA2D48AFA5FBA50047DE2226"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Telephone number posting</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, each owner or operator of a large hub airport (as defined in section 40102(a) of title 49, United States Code) shall publish on an Internet Web site of the airport a telephone number to receive aviation noise complaints related to the airport.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H83FD3B8FCF574000B00853889196B1DA"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Summaries and reports</header><text>Not later than 15 months after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, an owner or operator that receives noise complaints from 25 individuals during the preceding year under subsection (a) shall submit to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration a report regarding the number of complaints received and a summary regarding the nature of such complaints. The Administrator shall make such information available to the public by electronic means.</text></subsection></section>
<enum>VI</enum><header>FAA Employees and Organization</header>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3B5B53DA492B47FAB35C82D92BA8243F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>601.</enum><header>Federal Aviation Administration personnel management system</header>
<subsection id="H14EEA54DF6604700A6D51B2CC1BC7967"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Dispute resolution</header><text>Section 40122(a) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HF0EDB66891BB489AA5B7831F633F583C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs (4) and (5), respectively; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H492F6F1E4F584E918A2B9CB41F3529B5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="H795F66EDB0FA43D6B0DB7A02206CDEE6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Dispute resolution</header>
<subparagraph id="H7662601BA920452F92B1DB91B119E484"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Mediation</header><text>If the Administrator does not reach an agreement under paragraph (1) or the provisions referred to in subsection (g)(2)(C) with the exclusive bargaining representative of the employees, the Administrator and the bargaining representative—</text>
<clause id="H09EE27E8E56845EAA265E088C737ACEF"><enum>(i)</enum><text>shall use the services of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to attempt to reach such agreement in accordance with part 1425 of title 29, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of enactment of the <short-title>FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011</short-title>); or</text></clause>
<clause id="HF573F070484B426FA24F81EA44E0CA90"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>may by mutual agreement adopt alternative procedures for the resolution of disputes or impasses arising in the negotiation of the collective-bargaining agreement.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H18E93B092A6F4C65992E1C09BE826D40"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Mid-term bargaining</header><text>If the services of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service under subparagraph (A)(i) do not lead to the resolution of issues in controversy arising from the negotiation of a mid-term collective-bargaining agreement, the Federal Service Impasses Panel shall assist the parties in resolving the impasse in accordance with section 7119 of title 5.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HA8912BA904AB4220A67F3168606FD9E0"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Binding arbitration for term bargaining</header>
<clause id="H05A4E265D5284C3FB07C1F7D6EBD11F7"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Assistance from federal service impasses panel</header><text>If the services of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service under subparagraph (A)(i) do not lead to the resolution of issues in controversy arising from the negotiation of a term collective-bargaining agreement, the Administrator and the exclusive bargaining representative of the employees (in this subparagraph referred to as the <quote>parties</quote>) shall submit their issues in controversy to the Federal Service Impasses Panel. The Panel shall assist the parties in resolving the impasse by asserting jurisdiction and ordering binding arbitration by a private arbitration board consisting of 3 members.</text></clause>
<clause id="HCAADB318F0B840CBABEFF60116DDC9FA"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Appointment of arbitration board</header><text>The Executive Director of the Panel shall provide for the appointment of the 3 members of a private arbitration board under clause (i) by requesting the Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to prepare a list of not less than 15 names of arbitrators with Federal sector experience and by providing the list to the parties. Not later than 10 days after receiving the list, the parties shall each select one person from the list. The 2 arbitrators selected by the parties shall then select a third person from the list not later than 7 days after being selected. If either of the parties fails to select a person or if the 2 arbitrators are unable to agree on the third person in 7 days, the parties shall make the selection by alternately striking names on the list until one arbitrator remains.</text></clause>
<clause id="H61A94AB649494009879FB816588FBAC6"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Framing issues in controversy</header><text>If the parties do not agree on the framing of the issues to be submitted for arbitration, the arbitration board shall frame the issues.</text></clause>
<clause id="H3BE4E2239A174F1DA4936A912EE82ECD"><enum>(iv)</enum><header>Hearings</header><text>The arbitration board shall give the parties a full and fair hearing, including an opportunity to present evidence in support of their claims and an opportunity to present their case in person, by counsel, or by other representative as they may elect.</text></clause>
<clause id="H80E0103FBF25435AB1263A01A0D46F37"><enum>(v)</enum><header>Decisions</header><text>The arbitration board shall render its decision within 90 days after the date of its appointment. Decisions of the arbitration board shall be conclusive and binding upon the parties.</text></clause>
<clause id="H034B580193264E45B165430D1C141191"><enum>(vi)</enum><header>Matters for consideration</header><text>The arbitration board shall take into consideration such factors as—</text>
<subclause id="HD67C131A2E0F4B5888F96F3FE3EBBE6B"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the effect of its arbitration decisions on the Federal Aviation Administration’s ability to attract and retain a qualified workforce;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HC99D349E5C1D4CFFBDFBC66631E17D29"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the effect of its arbitration decisions on the Federal Aviation Administration’s budget;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H850BDD6B95E14F42B9D3EF18FB43C872"><enum>(III)</enum><text>the effect of its arbitration decisions on other Federal Aviation Administration employees; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HD090C15820984618AC77BB5146031811"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>any other factors whose consideration would assist the board in fashioning a fair and equitable award.</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H4CED069B5D554234B1CB363F52780127"><enum>(vii)</enum><header>Costs</header><text>The parties shall share costs of the arbitration equally.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC2162CE9B6424A348A45F9FC874FC515"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Ratification of agreements</header><text>Upon reaching a voluntary agreement or at the conclusion of the binding arbitration under paragraph (2)(C), the final agreement, except for those matters decided by an arbitration board, shall be subject to ratification by the exclusive bargaining representative of the employees, if so requested by the bargaining representative, and the final agreement shall be subject to approval by the head of the agency in accordance with the provisions referred to in subsection (g)(2)(C).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEA35D66845DE4712BF2BD33B1821E669"><enum>602.</enum><header>Presidential rank award program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 40122(g)(2) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HC3A2AEE773A1425DB313C904274A740A"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (G) by striking <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H13735A4DFC524CB198E27F1E0E4CF063"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (H) by striking <quote>Board.</quote> and inserting <quote>Board; and</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4FEB3137B1A0463C97ED68476075E88B"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H61179785C70746BA94CCCE1768A33D16" style="USC">
<subparagraph id="H6D409A41CF534E719B2B7BFCA5C3279D"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">subsections (b), (c), and (d) of section 4507 (relating to Meritorious Executive or Distinguished Executive rank awards) and subsections (b) and (c) of section 4507a (relating to Meritorious Senior Professional or Distinguished Senior Professional rank awards), except that—</text>
<clause id="H1FE47832B83C436DB904B217D540842F"><enum>(i)</enum><text>for purposes of applying such provisions to the personnel management system—</text>
<subclause id="H9D7474018EBB423F86EFE5CF8C7AA78F"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the term <term>agency</term> means the Department of Transportation;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H87BEA80EF0284AD59D4E62E3A541324A"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the term <term>senior executive</term> means a Federal Aviation Administration executive;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H62B1A015BA10472795B008128B34A949"><enum>(III)</enum><text>the term <term>career appointee</term> means a Federal Aviation Administration career executive; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H01A75DF3865047CFBF5E36F3E01131A1"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>the term <term>senior career employee</term> means a Federal Aviation Administration career senior professional;</text></subclause></clause>
<clause display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6C509E9A939445A4AB8DFE9E73E68E4C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>receipt by a career appointee or a senior career employee of the rank of Meritorious Executive or Meritorious Senior Professional entitles the individual to a lump-sum payment of an amount equal to 20 percent of annual basic pay, which shall be in addition to the basic pay paid under the Federal Aviation Administration Executive Compensation Plan; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H568892C9CF8140D091829C9CFAC4F972"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>receipt by a career appointee or a senior career employee of the rank of Distinguished Executive or Distinguished Senior Professional entitles the individual to a lump-sum payment of an amount equal to 35 percent of annual basic pay, which shall be in addition to the basic pay paid under the Federal Aviation Administration Executive Compensation Plan.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6AF0869200EE48EBA3E4B7AEB39E05F5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>603.</enum><header>FAA technical training and staffing</header>
<subsection id="HB8002127E3404F0EA1CF4C9F4B07ADDC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study</header>
<paragraph id="H428669E4F79A4A4EBCD4C33DCBEE39FA"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall conduct a study to assess the adequacy of the Administrator’s technical training strategy and improvement plan for airway transportation systems specialists (in this section referred to as <quote>FAA systems specialists</quote>).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7E4A32DD72F548D9A1EF75809EA5CFCF"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The study shall include—</text>
<subparagraph id="H2171FF4B48F64B6E946B5C5DA4ACD86A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a review of the current technical training strategy and improvement plan for FAA systems specialists;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF22F55C4480B4DDFA9CCC6B968B86358"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">recommendations to improve the technical training strategy and improvement plan needed by FAA systems specialists to be proficient in the maintenance of the latest technologies;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H049D04917DC9465598E307FA8A752612"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of actions that the Administration has undertaken to ensure that FAA systems specialists receive up-to-date training on the latest technologies; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H8300BB99DC2E4DE08A3ACF51F3FB927A"><enum>(D)</enum><text>a recommendation regarding the most cost-effective approach to provide training to FAA systems specialists.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1C958EB7124A4DF8A6D8F569BAE1CD28"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report on the results of the study.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H0927456F81BE4BD3A63E826A7A65FF3B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Workload of systems specialists</header>
<paragraph id="H7BB84221A99247878338673BA3E2FED2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Study by National Academy of Sciences</header><text>Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall make appropriate arrangements for the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study of the assumptions and methods used by the Federal Aviation Administration to estimate staffing needs for FAA systems specialists to ensure proper maintenance and certification of the national airspace system in the most cost effective manner.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB3D8C84B0BFB44E7AEDC6766655FD66B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Consultation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In conducting the study, the National Academy of Sciences shall interview interested parties, including labor, government, and industry representatives.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H17B1E8BABE4C4709A339FAF54720C287"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than one year after the initiation of the arrangements under paragraph (1), the National Academy of Sciences shall submit to Congress a report on the results of the study.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC753D7D9510F4705AFF73A7D6721B061" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>604.</enum><header>Safety critical staffing</header>
<subsection id="HE266165C8C57459DB7042FEF44D2A8C5"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than October 1, 2011, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall implement, to the extent practicable and in a cost-effective manner, the staffing model for aviation safety inspectors developed pursuant to the National Academy of Sciences study entitled <quote>Staffing Standards for Aviation Safety Inspectors</quote>. In doing so, the Administrator shall consult with interested persons, including aviation safety inspectors.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HE988784C6D584FF29FDB3D7B6D9424AC"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than October 1 of each fiscal year beginning after September 30, 2011, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, the staffing model described in subsection (a).</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H12ADE7FCD5A84E44A334CB97C3348B78"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Safety critical positions defined</header><text>In this section, the term <quote>safety critical positions</quote> means—</text>
<paragraph id="HA61E4C7273CA4F59A94DEA7D00D6A737"><enum>(1)</enum><text>aviation safety inspectors, safety technical specialists, and operational support positions in the Flight Standards Service (as such terms are used in the Administration’s fiscal year 2011 congressional budget justification); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H41C9C39559214C539DEED1C6165E2EA6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>manufacturing safety inspectors, pilots, engineers, chief scientific and technical advisors, safety technical specialists, and operational support positions in the Aircraft Certification Service (as such terms are used in the Administration’s fiscal year 2011 congressional budget justification).</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA27B183E52134A4B9F22A9D107BF0897" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>605.</enum><header>FAA air traffic controller staffing</header>
<subsection id="H3F8C84F94E36490893674786CEFBF58B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study by National Academy of Sciences</header><text>Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall enter into appropriate arrangements with the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study of the air traffic controller standards used by the Federal Aviation Administration (in this section referred to as the <quote>FAA</quote>) to estimate staffing needs for FAA air traffic controllers to ensure the safe operation of the national airspace system in the most cost effective manner.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H1255B121C67047B7927F837DC4365ED6"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Consultation</header><text>In conducting the study, the National Academy of Sciences shall interview interested parties, including employee, Government, and industry representatives.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H37513591397C44368B9CBF9AC40C375A"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The study shall include—</text>
<paragraph id="H3D73868D40FC4E2686B9CB6571E020B3"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an examination of representative information on productivity, human factors, traffic activity, and improved technology and equipment used in air traffic control;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9C3913FBE4EE439C85311A6801C7A7E1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an examination of recent National Academy of Sciences reviews of the complexity model performed by MITRE Corporation that support the staffing standards models for the en route air traffic control environment; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H889B4130E5B84ED984E298D746776290"><enum>(3)</enum><text>consideration of the Administration’s current and estimated budgets and the most cost-effective staffing model to best leverage available funding.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H3A857D54256F4D8B8A1507A2850843E4"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the National Academy of Sciences shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report on the results of the study.</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8888DA384DE94321BDAFAF8D4AA71CA9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>606.</enum><header>Air traffic control specialist qualification training</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 44506 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HB328634928E84E86BB4E84D8E90C50E0"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFA30EEAB7C2F4CEA8BCAED184DB1D26E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after subsection (c) the following:</text>
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<subsection id="H7D197C14C4F74699A94540FFC3C086A5"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Air traffic control specialist qualification training</header>
<paragraph id="HF1CD4069C4BA4822BA5393D163BC783C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Appointment of air traffic control specialists</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator is authorized to appoint a qualified air traffic control specialist candidate for placement in an airport traffic control facility if the candidate has—</text>
<subparagraph id="HE5FE363DA4CD4049BD3EFE912F9B7F71"><enum>(A)</enum><text>received a control tower operator certification (referred to in this subsection as a <quote>CTO</quote> certificate); and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H45C327B735394B46BF1B034407F45461"><enum>(B)</enum><text>satisfied all other applicable qualification requirements for an air traffic control specialist position.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6E1664644BEE4F7081F6F5FDC4984910"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Compensation and benefits</header><text>An individual appointed under paragraph (1) shall receive the same compensation and benefits, and be treated in the same manner as, any other individual appointed as a developmental air traffic controller.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H17BC3D7DB6574B2AA59B127CB5044131"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of the FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report that evaluates the effectiveness of the air traffic control specialist qualification training provided pursuant to this section, including the graduation rates of candidates who received a CTO certificate and are working in airport traffic control facilities.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HDE458E32EE3843BBB95B132BAD434566"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Additional appointments</header><text>If the Administrator determines that air traffic control specialists appointed pursuant to this subsection are more successful in carrying out the duties of an air traffic controller than air traffic control specialists hired from the general public without any such certification, the Administrator shall increase the number of appointments of candidates who possess such certification.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H762F7572AC974524ABE11CACCC4090D9"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Reimbursement for travel expenses associated with certifications</header>
<subparagraph id="H5FC96D0916BC4CF6B0CAF0E458A7C400"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to subparagraph (B), the Administrator may accept reimbursement from an educational entity that provides training to an air traffic control specialist candidate to cover reasonable travel expenses of the Administrator associated with issuing certifications to such candidates.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB8C3FE3E2E7C4DA49AFA73A07ECC7AE5"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Treatment of reimbursements</header><text>Notwithstanding section 3302 of title 31, any reimbursement authorized to be collected under subparagraph (A) shall—</text>
<clause id="H1182E16A1F5C47FC855903285E3518E0"><enum>(i)</enum><text>be credited as offsetting collections to the account that finances the activities and services for which the reimbursement is accepted;</text></clause>
<clause id="H5DDEC45A713C4EA3A0B56BD64E74FE9A"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>be available for expenditure only to pay the costs of activities and services for which the reimbursement is accepted, including all costs associated with collecting such reimbursement; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H55C03648104348059437FC68B6F6D71C"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>remain available until expended.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCC18FDF800C04854B455F947A7BBCA11" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>607.</enum><header>Assessment of training programs for air traffic controllers</header>
<subsection id="HA8F9331B22E742F1AA893E29CF984323"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall conduct a study to assess the adequacy of training programs for air traffic controllers, including the Administrator’s technical training strategy and improvement plan for air traffic controllers.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H45EF3ABE0C944A1AB170132828E3E101"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The study shall include—</text>
<paragraph id="H39122378A3F9475E89F267C8B5028559"><enum>(1)</enum><text>a review of the current training system for air traffic controllers, including the technical training strategy and improvement plan;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD25C69D1F0B94538A0026EFF4B69055F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>an analysis of the competencies required of air traffic controllers for successful performance in the current and future projected air traffic control environment;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB63CA3B77D2A4A1C912FECBD1911B342"><enum>(3)</enum><text>an analysis of the competencies projected to be required of air traffic controllers as the Federal Aviation Administration transitions to the Next Generation Air Transportation System;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8634B985505A413A9D832BE8163FE450"><enum>(4)</enum><text>an analysis of various training approaches available to satisfy the controller competencies identified under paragraphs (2) and (3);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H45629604A2C54DD7B981D33B728E3497"><enum>(5)</enum><text>recommendations to improve the current training system for air traffic controllers, including the technical training strategy and improvement plan; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC76A1D097E5745239EEF4A6084D3A331"><enum>(6)</enum><text>the most cost-effective approach to provide training to air traffic controllers.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H6E5BD93CCF184A9E875F8D2620040B85"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report on the results of the study.</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA98D9A3D5BEA4134AB189EEE2BA74677" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>608.</enum><header>Collegiate training initiative study</header>
<subsection id="H66F32C0021AE4CC1839EC0D604F2DB8D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Comptroller General shall conduct a study on training options for graduates of the Collegiate Training Initiative program (in this section referred to as <quote>CTI</quote> programs) conducted under section 44506(c) of title 49, United States Code.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H7F0AEE3B4B61490E89FF85FC38B4FE11"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The study shall analyze the impact of providing as an alternative to the current training provided at the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center of the Federal Aviation Administration a new controller orientation session at the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center for graduates of CTI programs followed by on-the-job training for newly hired air traffic controllers who are graduates of CTI programs and shall include an analysis of—</text>
<paragraph id="HD16E7EF626884E09814BDD8522C41454"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the cost effectiveness of such an alternative training approach; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD9565BE79D054361B3E9BBFA95961832"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the effect that such an alternative training approach would have on the overall quality of training received by graduates of CTI programs.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H1A8D3128B13C4438AF3124589A247F70"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report on the results of the study.</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB25AB86C100C4C869E912126C1B85418" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>609.</enum><header>FAA facility conditions</header>
<subsection id="HF1CFE66BC34C408EB197E0DCAB4F4015"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study</header><text>The Comptroller General shall conduct a study of—</text>
<paragraph id="HAB43F4D738744ECBAB7BA15376C87AD7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the conditions of a sampling of Federal Aviation Administration facilities across the United States, including offices, towers, centers, and terminal radar air control;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA489AA68A6AD464683BCDA5B89068DEA"><enum>(2)</enum><text>reports from employees of the Administration relating to respiratory ailments and other health conditions resulting from exposure to mold, asbestos, poor air quality, radiation, and facility-related hazards in facilities of the Administration;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H87189DB0986446D28B61C1A45CE158E3"><enum>(3)</enum><text>conditions of such facilities that could interfere with such employees' ability to effectively and safely perform their duties;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6A0A10615A9F4F7584790D3115898260"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the ability of managers and supervisors of such employees to promptly document and seek remediation for unsafe facility conditions;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC6C4F64EF21C411795A8B65D0B85C496"><enum>(5)</enum><text>whether employees of the Administration who report facility-related illnesses are treated appropriately;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H084B1CD096F044DDB96BB55D84E7C39B"><enum>(6)</enum><text>utilization of scientifically approved remediation techniques to mitigate hazardous conditions in accordance with applicable State and local regulations and Occupational Safety and Health Administration practices by the Administration; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2437CDDACB3F43FF923551750DDC4629"><enum>(7)</enum><text>resources allocated to facility maintenance and renovation by the Administration.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H3781769D52D14A859109AECC1B8AD3DF"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Facility condition indices</header><text>The Comptroller General shall review the facility condition indices of the Administration for inclusion in the recommendations under subsection (c).</text></subsection>
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0313A2A105DC48F4A9A7C6B25B00EAF5"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Recommendations</header><text>Based on the results of the study and review of facility condition indices under subsection (a), the Comptroller General shall make such recommendations as the Comptroller General considers necessary to—</text>
<paragraph id="H6F51C84B61D64455B5B9016FB74B75FF"><enum>(1)</enum><text>prioritize those facilities needing the most immediate attention based on risks to employee health and safety;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1DDC266D51A147BAA6BFF73C0C26B14D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>ensure that the Administration is using scientifically approved remediation techniques in all facilities; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H53DE0931DEB3434E8B4316A33FB8A351"><enum>(3)</enum><text>assist the Administration in making programmatic changes so that aging facilities do not deteriorate to unsafe levels.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H27A2A91611684B829499EFCF58175F07"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall submit to the Administrator, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report on results of the study, including the recommendations under subsection (c).</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4BB2D947DD0740618B18B5DB75E20519" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>610.</enum><header>Frontline manager staffing</header>
<subsection id="HC27CF5823E074221A59CA3DDC8E9642D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study</header><text>Not later than 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall commission an independent study on frontline manager staffing requirements in air traffic control facilities.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HC4E5BDB7955A4C04B7C83762DF95E4AA"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Considerations</header><text>In conducting the study, the Administrator may take into consideration—</text>
<paragraph id="H7681F6F4F9DE4472B9C0A871F3D0BC44"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the managerial tasks expected to be performed by frontline managers, including employee development, management, and counseling;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H293D7813DA2C42809E764B4081B74D42"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the number of supervisory positions of operation requiring watch coverage in each air traffic control facility;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H91214C3DC3314AC69E876CF7A03C4658"><enum>(3)</enum><text>coverage requirements in relation to traffic demand;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1F0FDC92634C4DB3B38603D2295B6D7B"><enum>(4)</enum><text>facility type;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4DD2097AC2F34264BF2BAE52A5F67F87"><enum>(5)</enum><text>complexity of traffic and managerial responsibilities;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HDABB77ADC4D64E97A6EDEDED72668730"><enum>(6)</enum><text>proficiency and training requirements; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE8B55933C9A5424BB0CB93C0031626B1"><enum>(7)</enum><text>such other factors as the Administrator considers appropriate.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HFFA2478366A0464C8E26365F1329E411"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Participation</header><text>The Administrator shall ensure the participation of frontline managers who currently work in safety-related operational areas of the Administration.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HDC613F2EBEC341159912F543AD17789B"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Determinations</header><text>The Administrator shall transmit any determinations made as a result of the study to the heads of the appropriate lines of business within the Administration, including the Chief Operating Officer of the Air Traffic Organization.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H53024CFC581245619BF0DAC8D85CD62E"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 9 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report on the results of the study and a description of any determinations submitted to the Chief Operating Officer under subsection (c).</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HDA57A33F5D6E4158903BD4D52922C1FF"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>In this section, the term <quote>frontline manager</quote> means first-level, operational supervisors and managers who work in safety-related operational areas of the Administration.</text></subsection></section>
<enum>VII</enum><header>Aviation Insurance</header>
<section id="H332EAC2232DC48CE8D8CC27ED5402BFD"><enum>701.</enum><header>General authority</header>
<subsection id="HD2833E4F00C24A78BE5532DCEF21D03C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Extension of policies</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 44302(f)(1) is amended by striking <quote>shall extend through</quote> and all that follows through <quote>the termination date</quote> and inserting <quote>shall extend through September 30, 2013, and may extend through December 31, 2013, the termination date</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="H666D767C60A647879E529256F5A742AE"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Successor program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 44302(f) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph commented="no" id="HBD70E59CB09044B49D2B41D690DBF301"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Successor program</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HF690F72BD2ED47C7A82794831A59CCFD"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">After December 31, 2021, coverage for the risks specified in a policy that has been extended under paragraph (1) shall be provided in an airline industry sponsored risk retention or other risk-sharing arrangement approved by the Secretary.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HB187E3B008D848249C8D7C5D3FAFD46D"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Transfer of premiums</header>
<clause commented="no" id="H62801F539DE0420496597EC3DC803097"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On December 31, 2021, and except as provided in clause (ii), premiums collected by the Secretary from the airline industry after September 22, 2001, for any policy under this subsection, and interest earned thereon, as determined by the Secretary, shall be transferred to an airline industry sponsored risk retention or other risk-sharing arrangement approved by the Secretary.</text></clause>
<clause commented="no" id="H1BBE135B905A474B8DD16AABE8B70634"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Determination of amount transferred</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amount transferred pursuant to clause (i) shall be less—</text>
<subclause commented="no" id="HA447708EC829449EB3341827DA5E9D1E"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount of any claims paid out on such policies from September 22, 2001, through December 31, 2021;</text></subclause>
<subclause commented="no" id="HD41FD81EC18D47BF8F5CF8B5C86DACA9"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the amount of any claims pending under such policies as of December 31, 2021; and</text></subclause>
<subclause commented="no" id="H5F472E13996A444C9AD0939F227AA553"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the cost, as determined by the Secretary, of administering the provision of insurance policies under this chapter from September 22, 2001, through December 31, 2021.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section id="H071617196AEA495888E2F8CE1C7D2BFC"><enum>702.</enum><header>Extension of authority to limit third-party liability of air carriers arising out of acts of terrorism</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The first sentence of section 44303(b) is amended by striking <quote>ending on</quote> and all that follows through <quote>the Secretary may certify</quote> and inserting <quote>ending on December 31, 2013, the Secretary may certify</quote>.</text></section>
<section id="HE6098612712A48DFA333A27126130E22"><enum>703.</enum><header>Clarification of reinsurance authority</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The second sentence of section 44304 is amended by striking <quote>the carrier</quote> and inserting <quote>any insurance carrier</quote>.</text></section>
<section id="H075C163CD2A745B294977373990AFA6B"><enum>704.</enum><header>Use of independent claims adjusters</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The second sentence of section 44308(c)(1) is amended by striking <quote>agent</quote> and inserting <quote>agent, or a claims adjuster who is independent of the underwriting agent,</quote>.</text></section>
<enum>VIII</enum><header>Miscellaneous</header>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H32EC1925549445F9A598AC2A8D55958D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>801.</enum><header>Disclosure of data to Federal agencies in interest of national security</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 40119(b) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="H2C09738CF5BF40CFBF5D676D756B3701" indent="up1"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Section 552a of title 5 shall not apply to disclosures that the Administrator may make from the systems of records of the Administration to any Federal law enforcement, intelligence, protective service, immigration, or national security official in order to assist the official receiving the information in the performance of official duties.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFA61FF50AB664AA3880BCC32A1CFA9EB" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>802.</enum><header>FAA access to criminal history records and database systems</header>
<subsection id="HD98B894099FB46B2A483FCA4EADD2FC7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Chapter 401 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<section id="H0112D53597C345868DE2C0BE2249629D"><enum>40130.</enum><header>FAA access to criminal history records and database systems</header>
<subsection id="HF3504FFBF3D747E6A55413BA17BDB954"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Access to records and database systems</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H56B90F12588C46E8B317C7723603B83E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Access to information</header><text>Notwithstanding section 534 of title 28, and regulations issued to implement such section, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may have direct access to a system of documented criminal justice information maintained by the Department of Justice or by a State, but may do so only for the purpose of carrying out civil and administrative responsibilities of the Administration to protect the safety and security of the national airspace system or to support the missions of the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, and other law enforcement agencies.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H62F9ED066DDA49F48134FA2FDB9EE89A"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Release of information</header><text>In accessing a system referred to in paragraph (1), the Administrator shall be subject to the same conditions and procedures established by the Department of Justice or the State for other governmental agencies with direct access to the system.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H25729C2394A9498C8D58081F11668BE2"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>The Administrator may not use the direct access authorized under paragraph (1) to conduct criminal investigations.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HAEFB74F6BDE4402FBA6AFBC754B0FCA4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Designated employees</header><text>The Administrator shall designate, by order, employees of the Administration who shall carry out the authority described in subsection (a). The designated employees may—</text>
<paragraph id="HF4C4A277970B4BE2AEC08F0AE3E102CA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>have direct access to and receive criminal history, driver, vehicle, and other law enforcement information contained in the law enforcement databases of the Department of Justice, or any jurisdiction of a State, in the same manner as a police officer employed by a State or local authority of that State who is certified or commissioned under the laws of that State;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE82AF93909564378B7D1832967883E1C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>use any radio, data link, or warning system of the Federal Government, and of any jurisdiction in a State, that provides information about wanted persons, be-on-the-lookout notices, warrant status, or other officer safety information to which a police officer employed by a State or local authority in that State who is certified or commissioned under the laws of that State has direct access and in the same manner as such police officer; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H66E93D0C2D9B4F018CD4743FD4167CED"><enum>(3)</enum><text>receive Federal, State, or local government communications with a police officer employed by a State or local authority in that State in the same manner as a police officer employed by a State or local authority in that State who is commissioned under the laws of that State.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H7404B6B184D04EFFA6E61F487AF7605F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>System of documented criminal justice information defined</header><text>In this section, the term <term>system of documented criminal justice information</term> means any law enforcement database, system, or communication containing information concerning identification, criminal history, arrests, convictions, arrest warrants, wanted or missing persons, including the National Crime Information Center and its incorporated criminal history databases and the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H0C2189A1FD65411BAFA695108F650ED2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The analysis for chapter 401 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">40130. FAA access to criminal history records and database systems.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1602BE2C336D40B486963CFFE1805055" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>803.</enum><header>Civil penalties technical amendments</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 46301 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H4EE95B51ACB7476B9276A76B5010B32B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)(1)(A) by inserting <quote>chapter 451,</quote> before <quote>section 47107(b)</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HDEC5A1A0A538483C80EF745BBCB407E2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (a)(5)(A)(i)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H57D1F2A2DF9C4BC1885D15762E090CA0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or chapter 449</quote> and inserting <quote>chapter 449</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H87728A4A60D942B8A0B557C0E7326B0B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting after <quote>44909)</quote> the following: <quote>, or chapter 451</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H31D376058A8E451B93B256AFBC2E982A"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (d)(2)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HF576B5E7EFDE461A97AF4BD95B7AB9EC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting after <quote>44723)</quote> the following: <quote>, chapter 451 (except section 45107)</quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H746C31FEB5F246ED84B41D50CDF69012"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting after <quote>44909),</quote> the following: <quote>section 45107,</quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H5B2C7A085E494240809FC621071F3B1D"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking <quote>46302</quote> and inserting <quote>section 46302</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H6F958AD8DD26441A9F26E0AE065E9C32"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by striking <quote>46303</quote> and inserting <quote>section 46303</quote>; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H698E3E0732B34E09A1E33B08616B386F"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (f)(1)(A)(i)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H29D246164FC245F7923D51DD826C610D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or chapter 449</quote> and inserting <quote>chapter 449</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H97158819F97E4A55A1BB69D53E3DB246"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting after <quote>44909)</quote> the following: <quote>, or chapter 451</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></section>
<section id="H9753B758E8EB4DDBB6BC4CF4BC180051"><enum>804.</enum><header>Realignment and consolidation of FAA services and facilities</header>
<subsection id="H395E839B8E4E48D7835E1768F5678752"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 445 (as amended by this Act) is further amended by adding at the end the following new section:</text>
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<section id="H5D006D6D53D94451B3B92ECD850AD0E3"><enum>44519.</enum><header>Realignment and consolidation of FAA services and facilities</header>
<subsection id="H341B727C44A64B22BE485CF1C0F5BE6B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Purpose</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The purpose of this section is to establish a fair process that will result in the realignment and consolidation of FAA services and facilities to help reduce capital, operating, maintenance, and administrative costs and facilitate Next Generation Air Transportation System air traffic control modernization efforts without adversely affecting safety.</text></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" id="HB9A915C6325A420AA14BC60C5EBC0A5A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>General authority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the requirements of this section, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall realign and consolidate FAA services and facilities pursuant to recommendations made by the Aviation Facilities and Services Board established under subsection (g).</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H746F6414CFF542E696498FA85D55AC29"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Administrator’s recommendations</header>
<paragraph id="H1AAC59B7246944F2B275C06FE2F7A2F5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Proposed criteria</header>
<subparagraph id="H9300B16DECCF45729CD9096787CFB7B0"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Administrator shall develop proposed criteria for use by the Administrator in making recommendations for the realignment and consolidation of FAA services and facilities under this section.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HFFDBBD9EF32748EF855CF3EDEF6E4943"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Publication; transmittal to Congress</header><text>Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator shall publish the proposed criteria in the Federal Register and transmit the proposed criteria to the congressional committees of interest.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H37E3EC349AE949E9A5500A57A931DFC7"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Notice and comment</header><text>The Administrator shall provide an opportunity for public comment on the proposed criteria for a period of at least 30 days and shall include notice of that opportunity in the Federal Register.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5BF65470D4244F2EB8DAA9FDF0F50EE0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Final criteria</header>
<subparagraph id="H77C24558DC5445F29C603E58C69FBAD5"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Administrator shall establish final criteria based on the proposed criteria developed under paragraph (1).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HC12834049C5E45EA9A0E71E07EEA83DA"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Publication; transmittal to Congress</header><text>Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator shall publish the final criteria in the Federal Register and transmit the final criteria to the congressional committees of interest.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H10399CEE762B4C84A4328F3E8D0931FC"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Recommendations</header>
<subparagraph id="H779EB9544D91404DABE7647AB254403B"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall make recommendations for the realignment and consolidation of FAA services and facilities under this section based on the final criteria established under paragraph (2).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H5348C897EB954A8AA9D00AEEE555B12A"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The recommendations shall consist of a list of FAA services and facilities for realignment and consolidation, together with a justification for each service and facility included on the list.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H6C0560A3DD2A45DE81A4F322DA66876F"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Publication; transmittal to Board and Congress</header><text>Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator shall publish the recommendations in the Federal Register and transmit the recommendations to the Board and the congressional committees of interest.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD2184D9B40A94E4BB0C273734A1B739B"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Information</header><text>The Administrator shall make available to the Board and the Comptroller General all information used by the Administrator in establishing the recommendations.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HA37FE0F8669041BC82C3DBFB20E5C691"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Additional recommendations</header><text>The Administrator is authorized to make additional recommendations under this paragraph every 2 years.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HB76C00B03DA04BDF95A5FD82DED470A6"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Board’s review and recommendations</header>
<paragraph id="H5755E31BC260417E8BA37BDDCF7AAB1B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Public hearings</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 30 days after the date of receipt of the Administrator’s recommendations under subsection (c), the Board shall conduct public hearings on the recommendations.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1D0A7D64F73448B1B68F33C7FDE3CB1A"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Board’s recommendations</header>
<subparagraph id="H48149BFE79234038965738A3C74E8AAA"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Report to Congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Based on the Board’s review and analysis of the Administrator’s recommendations and any public comments received under paragraph (1), the Board shall develop a report containing the Board’s findings and conclusions concerning the Administrator’s recommendations, together with the Board’s recommendations for realignment and consolidation of FAA services and facilities. The Board shall explain and justify in the report any recommendation made by the Board that differs from a recommendation made by the Administrator.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H604111D4FD6F4208B793B1CC59FA15C6"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Publication in Federal Register; transmittal to Congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 60 days after the date of receipt of the Administrator’s recommendations under subsection (c), the Board shall publish the report in the Federal Register and transmit the report to the congressional committees of interest.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H114A96A1191144EEABD00DAFAA0A456B"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Assistance of Comptroller General</header><text>The Comptroller General shall assist the Board, to the extent requested by the Board, in the Board’s review and analysis of the Administrator’s recommendations.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HC07E7C4FD8FD4732B0D42F3B7976B31A"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Realignment and consolidation of FAA services and facilities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to subsection (f), the Administrator shall—</text>
<paragraph id="HE8E5730F7EEE41C1A7D2384A768C4B85"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">realign or consolidate the FAA services and facilities recommended for realignment or consolidation by the Board in a report transmitted under subsection (d);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1CD1662EA21A4901A700865563D33F94"><enum>(2)</enum><text>initiate all such realignments and consolidations not later than one year after the date of the report; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H97F8F455069F48A6A76D66C748E24335"><enum>(3)</enum><text>complete all such realignments and consolidations not later than 3 years after the date of the report.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H6FE8961DDB184380A8D7340B555C76B3"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Congressional disapproval</header>
<paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA8C70E0AB92F40218F2BFCA9830CD569"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator may not carry out a recommendation of the Board for realignment or consolidation of FAA services and facilities that is included in a report transmitted under subsection (d) if a joint resolution of disapproval is enacted disapproving such recommendation before the earlier of—</text>
<subparagraph id="HECE7391BD5C14955A2B0F449BE2CA1BF"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the last day of the 30-day period beginning on the date of the report; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HA0A2017726C34FB2893FA519D61B22A4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the adjournment of Congress sine die for the session during which the report is transmitted.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE9563C63686A4701AA2BD0B2A46F9421"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Computation of 30-day period</header><text>For purposes of paragraph (1)(A), the days on which either house of Congress is not in session because of an adjournment of more than 3 days to a day certain shall be excluded in computation of the 30-day period.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HEC9D6C1415854A4D9B96EC34D788DB72"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Aviation Facilities and Services Board</header>
<paragraph id="HACB0A2A54B8F4575836B7ABF399C9203"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary of Transportation shall establish an independent board to be known as the <quote>Aviation Facilities and Services Board</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB2EA420425C84D3093254490E5BB9936"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Composition</header><text>The Board shall be composed of the following members:</text>
<subparagraph id="HB8835B12B2E14BE4AAA83C19D60B9258"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The Secretary (or a designee of the Secretary), who shall be the Chair of the Board.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H1B7E363D13444A4C9EA1ACA21D58C17C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Two members appointed by the Secretary, who may not be officers or employees of the Federal Government.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD7ED86A2D92246D29302AC9979348C4E"><enum>(C)</enum><text>The Comptroller General (or a designee of the Comptroller General), who shall be a nonvoting member of the Board.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA91C31F12BD14A2E8CA5CC087E4F3E9B"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Duties</header><text>The Board shall carry out the duties specified for the Board in this section.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H320E600D5D91466284BA3C117BBD4712"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Term</header><text>The members of the Board to be appointed under paragraph (2)(B) shall each be appointed for a term of 3 years.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA50918FE94A74CA9A53A8C6BD47B329C"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Vacancies</header><text>A vacancy in the Board shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment was made, but the individual appointed to fill the vacancy shall serve only for the unexpired portion of the term for which the individual’s predecessor was appointed.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD4525D2AD6E04A03A3DA706E48DBA81B"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Compensation and benefits</header><text>A member of the Board may not receive any compensation or benefits from the Federal Government for serving on the Board, except that—</text>
<subparagraph id="HD2A2A971960F4B10ABE236385293A935"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a member shall receive compensation for work injuries under subchapter I of chapter 81 of title 5; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H5E0A0B062ACC45EB91C49BE4FDFB70FA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a member shall be paid actual travel expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence expenses when away from the member’s usual place of residence in accordance with section 5703 of title 5.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9338384B1DB1428CA1B4AFF6F88E45D4"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Staff</header><text>The Administrator shall make available to the Board such staff, information, and administrative services and assistance as may be reasonably required to enable the Board to carry out its responsibilities under this section. The Board may employ experts and consultants on a temporary or intermittent basis with the approval of the Secretary.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H539D41D9DC53497C92A9BF50212F57C9"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Federal Advisory Committee Act</header><text>The Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall not apply to the Board.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H0D922CD449D146F1BDDFC90C2EC852BC"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header>
<paragraph id="H2ED986BA845145A088DCF66529645F50"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator for each of fiscal years 2011 through 2014 $200,000 for the Board to carry out its duties.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5E34C4B5650340208D21BA3E5D603397"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Availability of amounts</header><text>Amounts appropriated pursuant to paragraph (1) shall remain available until expended.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H5A8B242120624A1E95B2FE7CC79C11E3"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Effect on other authorities</header><text>Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the authorities provided in section 44503 or the existing authorities or responsibilities of the Administrator under this title to manage the operations of the Federal Aviation Administration, including realignment or consolidation of facilities or services.</text></subsection>
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFEC08B3A6037478E99042EE278A82010"><enum>(j)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the following definitions apply:</text>
<paragraph id="H32AC67E6B0C548C8A54D13DF63446984"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Board</header><text>The term <quote>Board</quote> means the Aviation Facilities and Services Board established under subsection (g).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6784033AC64E41C19761A313CE5237BF"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Congressional committees of interest</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>congressional committees of interest</quote> means the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7BD0B3093F2C42E4850C78F68485B729"><enum>(3)</enum><header>FAA</header><text>The term <quote>FAA</quote> means the Federal Aviation Administration.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5A26F6F46DC54FA7BE215CBF37350EB1"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Realignment</header><text>The term <quote>realignment</quote> includes any action that relocates functions and personnel positions but does not include an overall reduction in personnel resulting from workload adjustments.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H79142271240D449485B13ADB5EEE8B6D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The analysis for chapter 445 (as amended by this Act) is further amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H77A81961BD504934B291055D52D55280" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>805.</enum><header>Limiting access to flight decks of all-cargo aircraft</header>
<subsection id="H9DADE4CFCF1D4ABDA0BA91CC209E836E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, in consultation with appropriate air carriers, aircraft manufacturers, and air carrier labor representatives, shall conduct a study to assess the feasibility of developing a physical means, or a combination of physical and procedural means, to prohibit individuals other than authorized flight crewmembers from accessing the flight deck of an all-cargo aircraft.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H0AE6E22C923047919B37F86C6B776B70"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report on the results of the study.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HEE85AE25FA5F4E389A747590E61BFE08"><enum>806.</enum><header>Consolidation or elimination of obsolete, redundant, or otherwise unnecessary reports; use of electronic media format</header>
<subsection id="HFFB9670C89CD445293F1EE206B600E1D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Consolidation or elimination of reports</header><text>Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, and every 2 years thereafter, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report containing—</text>
<paragraph id="H59729AF2CE6E4E70B286C1D578978DDB"><enum>(1)</enum><text>a list of obsolete, redundant, or otherwise unnecessary reports the Administration is required by law to submit to the Congress or publish that the Administrator recommends eliminating or consolidating with other reports; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC1043DDC284A451AB3B7E7EDADC1CD17"><enum>(2)</enum><text>an estimate of the cost savings that would result from the elimination or consolidation of those reports.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HA6F27BE235F147409E2E8DE6BAA1F36C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Use of electronic media for reports</header>
<paragraph id="HF6E3F62BE1C744CCA340847BE7A26598"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Administration—</text>
<subparagraph id="H47D255AD72784CA2B4B1010139E21BAC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>may not publish any report required or authorized by law in printed format; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0B05A8FA336744399E40B5657E9FC9D7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>shall publish any such report by posting it on the Administration's Internet Web site in an easily accessible and downloadable electronic format.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF87432D9DAC34DD78A00774BAC23E02C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Exception</header><text>Paragraph (1) does not apply to any report with respect to which the Administrator determines that—</text>
<subparagraph id="H258B73B51DE74FA7AA90C4E005281208"><enum>(A)</enum><text>its publication in printed format is essential to the mission of the Federal Aviation Administration; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H781F30627849486697BFFB649A5007C5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>its publication in accordance with the requirements of paragraph (1) would disclose matter—</text>
<clause id="H41B07AE3FE0B469EBBB78298D65B951E"><enum>(i)</enum><text>described in section 552(b) of title 5, United States Code; or</text></clause>
<clause id="H56A66C5F1ECE4B83B7D23E8BDD061123"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the disclosure of which would have an adverse impact on aviation safety or security, as determined by the Administrator.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAB2EC5F5354A4A19BD513B89A1E10482"><enum>807.</enum><header>Prohibition on use of certain funds</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary of Transportation may not use any funds made available pursuant to this Act (including any amendment made by this Act) to name, rename, designate, or redesignate any project or program authorized by this Act (including any amendment made by this Act) for an individual then serving in Congress as a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Senator.</text></section>
<section id="H65FF6A91C68A4B47B6EAC65222926C6D"><enum>808.</enum><header>Study on aviation fuel prices</header>
<subsection id="H25498C7F1CE943C78317FA6C5E13C9C9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall conduct a study and report to Congress on the impact of increases in aviation fuel prices on the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and the aviation industry in general.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H5854556AF16D442D960BE44325C8E632"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The study shall include an assessment of the impact of increases in aviation fuel prices on—</text>
<paragraph id="H6DF87F06DB1343039E3159ED520D379C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>general aviation;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HBD7CD30811DD47888171764BB22FF21E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>commercial passenger aviation;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFC3796BE1FB9480094AF260CFE9FD888"><enum>(3)</enum><text>piston aircraft purchase and use;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H30A519E1A4E94A4FB940B129764916E2"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the aviation services industry, including repair and maintenance services;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4B234B975D5046248E9C0B8D0F74111E"><enum>(5)</enum><text>aviation manufacturing;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4BC0A8419586466899C222152874221E"><enum>(6)</enum><text>aviation exports; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC5D0D096240A42198AC495E3DD2AC3C2"><enum>(7)</enum><text>the use of small airport installations.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HF8BDA16D91264931BA94886355AEB45A"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Assumptions about aviation fuel prices</header><text>In conducting the study required by subsection (a), the Comptroller General shall use the average aviation fuel price for fiscal year 2010 as a baseline and measure the impact of increases in aviation fuel prices that range from 5 percent to 200 percent over the 2010 baseline.</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFFA5F868AD82400F951AB84E531E07F0" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>809.</enum><header>Wind turbine lighting</header>
<subsection id="H23E5E37522E34B8CB409B0464B46DC06"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study</header><text>The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall conduct a study on wind turbine lighting systems.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HDF0FE83DE4194EF1A18BB89D780011CB"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>In conducting the study, the Administrator shall examine the following:</text>
<paragraph id="H14F75612A24E4E97A8A7FD2553F24AEA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The aviation safety issues associated with alternative lighting strategies, technologies, and regulations.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE0AB23EB9A0B43B198A1DAC85AE93EA7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The feasibility of implementing alternative lighting strategies or technologies to improve aviation safety.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB4A16CBF43864A14AEC087EF7A8FFBE5"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Any other issue relating to wind turbine lighting.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB39998CB0C704D58A3A9916DB8F62C95"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report on the results of the study, including information and recommendations concerning the issues examined under subsection (b).</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H757AF772662344B19D4963709AF0D926" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>810.</enum><header>Air-rail code sharing study</header>
<subsection id="H3C456BB9A8254881AFF95538A365D324"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Code share study</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall initiate a study regarding—</text>
<paragraph id="HF448CE2D2FD14EA08E7015C614848AD8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the existing airline and intercity passenger rail code sharing arrangements; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H78770B96FFE44E00817856A4FA24E2DB"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the feasibility, costs to taxpayers and other parties, and benefits of increasing intermodal connectivity of airline and intercity passenger rail facilities and systems to improve passenger travel.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HCD80FCA52B9E463BB5EA3D7BEE143A9F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Considerations</header><text>In conducting the study, the Comptroller General shall consider—</text>
<paragraph id="H0D39FD15A80844E7B7206FB865D6B58F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the potential costs to taxpayers and other parties and benefits of the implementation of more integrated scheduling between airlines and Amtrak or other intercity passenger rail carriers achieved through code sharing arrangements;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC015A129BF7C4B1BA39EE4FB94058947"><enum>(2)</enum><text>airport and intercity passenger rail operations that can improve connectivity between airports and intercity passenger rail facilities and stations;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0EAECC75B7224EC685D0D2A289F0A043"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the experience of other countries with airport and intercity passenger rail connectivity; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2F3CC2E0CA4A4A7882EAE6492E7E011A"><enum>(4)</enum><text>such other issues the Comptroller General considers appropriate.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H93523CD88E0A4F9CAFADC51D8497783D"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than one year after commencing the study required by subsection (a), the Comptroller General shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report on the results of the study, including any conclusions of the Comptroller General resulting from the study.</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H14938D501F714F3BAEBA6906E4056212" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>811.</enum><header>D.C. Metropolitan Area Special Flight Rules Area</header>
<subsection id="H89F70A6544E2425CB2953DEB91C3F148"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Submission of Plan to Congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of Defense, shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a plan for the D.C. Metropolitan Area Special Flight Rules Area.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H8CDB41DAA3094546ABD010EC0A36EFE7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Contents of Plan</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The plan shall outline specific changes to the D.C. Metropolitan Area Special Flight Rules Area that will decrease operational impacts and improve general aviation access to airports in the National Capital Region that are currently impacted by the zone.</text></subsection></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H92D483E4CFA946B5876E51B24D8DE706" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>812.</enum><header>FAA review and reform</header>
<subsection id="H21876CD7D31F4B1CB8676C09A562F0B4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Agency review</header><text>Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall undertake a thorough review of each program, office, and organization within the Administration, including the Air Traffic Organization, to identify—</text>
<paragraph id="H2D7B3F12005140B88F7BD5829E69F724"><enum>(1)</enum><text>duplicative positions, programs, roles, or offices;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H24625B4A25624E8195413EA8EB2C680C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>wasteful practices;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC494B1BE56604B6FB7531D8D3E21752D"><enum>(3)</enum><text>redundant, obsolete, or unnecessary functions;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H74AC753E3D5E434688B47B0B92CE1766"><enum>(4)</enum><text>inefficient processes; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H17B0C3DA454342D88B6FECC2A9B01180"><enum>(5)</enum><text>ineffectual or outdated policies.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HA0781E8BE20D4AF581A5E286411F24A8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Actions To streamline and reform FAA</header><text>Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall undertake such actions as may be necessary to address the Administrator’s findings under subsection (a), including—</text>
<paragraph id="H35F6B7BD3BAA4641A13F7F0B29058276"><enum>(1)</enum><text>consolidating, phasing-out, or eliminating duplicative positions, programs, roles, or offices;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H74A3724F40184CBE8146D65F83822586"><enum>(2)</enum><text>eliminating or streamlining wasteful practices;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H775B71ED179D4AFA8B67609F0014773B"><enum>(3)</enum><text>eliminating or phasing-out redundant, obsolete, or unnecessary functions;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3955D263261C406AAD5B839271B322AD"><enum>(4)</enum><text>reforming and streamlining inefficient processes so that the activities of the Administration are completed in an expedited and efficient manner; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA264E7182D2E4292901E076D3DDA08F1"><enum>(5)</enum><text>reforming or eliminating ineffectual or outdated policies.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H30E50113847B492BB3412D752A80A4F6"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Authority</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Administrator shall have the authority to undertake the actions required under subsection (b).</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HED7ED2D167B84153AC6D50721D1A9F7E"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Report to Congress</header><text>Not later than 150 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report on the actions taken by the Administrator under this section, including any recommendations for legislative or administrative actions.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H22BCE7C90DA1418D9FD0CB4F8CF57A36" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>813.</enum><header>Cylinders of compressed oxygen or other oxidizing gases</header>
<subsection id="H4362A973BC474A058EAB430F026B8529"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to subsection (b), the transportation within the State of Alaska of cylinders of compressed oxygen or other oxidizing gases aboard aircraft shall be exempt from compliance with the regulations described in subsection (c) to the extent that the regulations require that oxidizing gases transported aboard aircraft be enclosed in outer packaging capable of passing the flame penetration and resistance test and the thermal resistance test, without regard to the end use of the cylinders.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H0F8A1A6F7DB74E998291F055A6694355"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Applicability of exemption</header><text>The exemption provided by subsection (a) shall apply in circumstances in which transportation of the cylinders by ground or vessel is unavailable and transportation by aircraft is the only practical means for transporting the cylinders to their destination.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HF11E1CE31FD340B69EB1DA4EDED388FC"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Description of regulatory requirements</header><text>The regulations referred to in subsection (a) are the regulations of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration contained in sections 173.302(f)(3), 173.302(f)(4), 173.302(f)(5), 173.304(f)(3), 173.304(f)(4), 173.304(f)(5), and 175.501(b) of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations.</text></subsection></section>
<enum>IX</enum><header>National Mediation Board</header>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H56848F281A5740DC84B582746856992C"><enum>901.</enum><header>Authority of Inspector General</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title I of the Railway Labor Act (45 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<section id="HF98201832F1C448B9EC42034DD36FBA0"><enum>15.</enum><header>Authority of Inspector General</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HEABA46890F5A4621B04CAA52B3422B36"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Inspector General of the Department of Transportation, in accordance with the mission of the Inspector General to prevent and detect fraud and abuse, is authorized to review the financial management, property management, and business operations of the Mediation Board, including internal accounting and administrative control systems, to determine compliance with applicable Federal laws, rules, and regulations.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HEC2C13D46EA345A7925060D5808BC2A7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Duties</header><text>In carrying out this section, the Inspector General shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H4FBAE708F0044251B8226A7FE72D2309"><enum>(1)</enum><text>keep the chairman of the Mediation Board and Congress fully and currently informed about problems relating to administration of the internal accounting and administrative control systems of the Mediation Board;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6AAE970C2E6E4FB6AB94B8F17EB86388"><enum>(2)</enum><text>issue findings and recommendations for actions to address such problems; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8C906C3B5108447FB3554D3DA73D304A"><enum>(3)</enum><text>report periodically to Congress on any progress made in implementing actions to address such problems.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H907A9094C88B4CF68E165722E5499322"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Access to information</header><text>In carrying out this section, the Inspector General may exercise authorities granted to the Inspector General under subsections (a) and (b) of section 6 of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.).</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H597D3CE80EE44432AE61CEC24E363ED1"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Authorizations of Appropriations</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H4683D9D11E4740AFA5241A33969FB149"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Funding</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Transportation for use by the Inspector General of the Department of Transportation not more than $125,000 for each of fiscal years 2011 through 2014 to cover expenses associated with activities pursuant to the authority exercised under this section.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4F313B6492F04CF99D7A10A82726C333"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Reimbursable agreement</header><text>In the absence of an appropriation under this subsection for an expense referred to in paragraph (1), the Inspector General and the Mediation Board shall have a reimbursable agreement to cover such expense.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC704C47F999B46E690ADC99FD15E17A6"><enum>902.</enum><header>Evaluation and audit of National Mediation Board</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title I of the Railway Labor Act (as amended by section 901 of this Act) is further amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<section id="HEC02CEFCAE9B4C319309993513ACBD96"><enum>16.</enum><header>Evaluation and audit of Mediation Board</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HE8E35EFDF0A743558559BF597FC8C06A"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>In order to promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in the administration of the programs, operations, and activities of the Mediation Board, the Comptroller General shall evaluate and audit the programs and expenditures of the Mediation Board. Such an evaluation and audit shall be conducted at least annually, but may be conducted as determined necessary by the Comptroller General or the appropriate congressional committees.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HC751EB1412764B7A858AA524EC58C4D2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Responsibility of comptroller general</header><text>The Comptroller General shall evaluate and audit Mediation Board programs, operations, and activities, including at a minimum—</text>
<paragraph id="H6784BA86E8614C7D9D687C8A3D76B553"><enum>(1)</enum><text>information management and security, including privacy protection of personally identifiable information;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7A5945D71FBE48FB803C5EB592269C0E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>resource management;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF555E5A86F1F4318BE15B16EC1595EE3"><enum>(3)</enum><text>workforce development;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0F5C552AD0B2444DAC3691FAD8E8A78D"><enum>(4)</enum><text>procurement and contracting planning, practices, and policies;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4D51305B84214B1289BFE62EA384F3BC"><enum>(5)</enum><text>the extent to which the Mediation Board follows leading practices in selected management areas; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCB272993DB0945EE8B91962D5BCF1D6C"><enum>(6)</enum><text>the processes the Mediation Board follows to address challenges in—</text>
<subparagraph id="HBA15A0CA532342A4B6FEDA6686F97149"><enum>(A)</enum><text>initial investigations of representation applications;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD2E2BB26B63843B388B73C2CDD46BA66"><enum>(B)</enum><text>determining and certifying representatives of employees; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HCDBD00A5CA394571B543F8E1323C4292"><enum>(C)</enum><text>ensuring that the process occurs without interference, influence, or coercion.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HE3CE8AEBE0BB4D69BF2ABE4B9D372C9B"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Appropriate congressional committees defined</header><text>In this section, the term <quote>appropriate congressional committees</quote> means the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="H0F3634A98FEF407199BB5E554488B975"><enum>903.</enum><header>Repeal of rule</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Effective January 1, 2011, the rule prescribed by the National Mediation Board relating to representation election procedures published on May 11, 2010 (95 Fed. Reg. 26062) and revising sections 1202 and 1206 of title 29, Code of Federal Regulations, shall have no force or effect.</text></section>
<enum>X</enum><header>Federal Aviation Research and Development Reauthorization Act of 2011</header>
<section id="H1F2261637A424FE586449CA9A424C85E"><enum>1001.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Federal Aviation Research and Development Reauthorization Act of 2011</short-title></quote>.</text></section>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9B48B883C1E54F5AB2A1A01614063031"><enum>1002.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title, the following definitions apply:</text>
<paragraph id="H0B8F0CF75FCB4438BB7250506DD28AD2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Administrator</header><text>The term <term>Administrator</term> means the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6C6E22A38E9543FFA07DED9AA7D60E95"><enum>(2)</enum><header>FAA</header><text>The term <term>FAA</term> means the Federal Aviation Administration.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7331B5A6EC354D59A2AD08943DE799F3"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Institution of higher education</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>institution of higher education</term> has the same meaning given the term in section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a)).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H62AE64517924497DA15D15607D01F93B"><enum>(4)</enum><header>NASA</header><text>The term <term>NASA</term> means the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3B22638250EB48E88692379FCB0B4C90"><enum>(5)</enum><header>National Research Council</header><text>The term <term>National Research Council</term> means the National Research Council of the National Academies of Science and Engineering.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H19F8CDB4DC444307AEB73C8772C84ABE"><enum>(6)</enum><header>NOAA</header><text>The term <term>NOAA</term> means the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA7A548A588564087BB4E010718775C45"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Secretary</header><text>The term <term>Secretary</term> means the Secretary of Transportation.</text></paragraph></section>
<section id="H69DAEEB168E64DAC8C1124B62C498C05"><enum>1003.</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header>
<subsection id="HCB1239F781174FDA85A6663D335683C7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 48102(a) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HDC743817C0CF49D3A5B7CD9CC6D8FCA8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the matter before paragraph (1) by striking <quote>of this title</quote> and inserting <quote>of this title and, for each of fiscal years 2011 through 2014, under subsection (g)</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H163ABB2F864A4CE7B22763D1D9E92435"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (11)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HF9431E803FCF478F8860A08EE0906A7E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (K) by inserting <quote>and</quote> at the end; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HBB4FF2A65ED749A5B486F717296F3261"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (L) by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA8A0726982D3420FB55418F54EDEB724"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph (13) by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF9D259EECBC9490383BFD592DF36DF29"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in paragraph (14) by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE5861762F12D44F9B69D52B5C86B491D"><enum>(5)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H955B43B56C9D4765BACBCB265EF833C2" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" id="H6782E1F0859F4304AEBA9C0E094C1C34"><enum>(15)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for fiscal year 2011, $165,020,000; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9D3D5A8828974F5B94048A9D7A3EA197"><enum>(16)</enum><text>for each of the fiscal years 2012 through 2014, $146,827,000.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HC8AEE81B3E4540AA973513CCA806F640"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Specific program limitations</header><text>Section 48102 is amended by inserting after subsection (f) the following:</text>
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<subsection id="H191936287B8147998277A27125FCE66A"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Specific authorizations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The following programs described in the research, engineering, and development account of the national aviation research plan required under section 44501(c) are authorized:</text>
<paragraph id="H13E72CA6CE174891AF9D913033E6B166"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fire Research and Safety.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9A87B22D16F14994BD4775EC0CDB54F0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Propulsion and Fuel Systems.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE9DA549BB1E4479282579B77CFE6EB1C"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Advanced Materials/Structural Safety.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA4ED5D32AE704EBB92AF8561D72E735B"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Atmospheric Hazards—Aircraft Icing/Digital System Safety.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2AA0D3A0542947068A8BF97A54A7211B"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Continued Airworthiness.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2CB490E5090348CAB51B01AF05219304"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Aircraft Catastrophic Failure Prevention Research.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD993AF2FF143497EB0B19F25538555FF"><enum>(7)</enum><text>Flightdeck/Maintenance/System Integration Human Factors.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9FD358DF647A4CDCACB0CC1336A680D9"><enum>(8)</enum><text>System Safety Management.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5A4A94D3D99B41A4B507C9B860A84AAA"><enum>(9)</enum><text>Air Traffic Control/Technical Operations Human Factors.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H935667CE64254EFF989C8D03ACA314B0"><enum>(10)</enum><text>Aeromedical Research.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFB1371903A2C4396B77C5047D3A5D61C"><enum>(11)</enum><text>Weather Program.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0307AB39178C4835AA5BB873342541D9"><enum>(12)</enum><text>Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0EE656A9530D4B489B4C7DE0957EA202"><enum>(13)</enum><text>NextGen—Alternative Fuels for General Aviation.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE6C64CBA37CE488A8CA86C8B4675B6F1"><enum>(14)</enum><text>Joint Planning and Development Office.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H25AF59F7C4B041F69693112FC81F5BD6"><enum>(15)</enum><text>NextGen—Wake Turbulence Research.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H458698A1E7E04BCBB2BA6F8CE10CB4C7"><enum>(16)</enum><text>NextGen—Air Ground Integration Human Factors.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2650AD8F393C49219D298B0E4E525F48"><enum>(17)</enum><text>NextGen—Self Separation Human Factors.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2D740911B8694C3BA1C14AE57B46455C"><enum>(18)</enum><text>NextGen—Weather Technology in the Cockpit.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE49D1CD97E1448FE972AAE737383D4B2"><enum>(19)</enum><text>Environment and Energy Research.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7CADD1ACAFDE433B901782EA4208FC5D"><enum>(20)</enum><text>NextGen Environmental Research—Aircraft Technologies, Fuels, and Metrics.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6F2BF2A544224C84B466B7FD4560399C"><enum>(21)</enum><text>System Planning and Resource Management.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H10893E3E435F4958A2505F1CFC5939AF"><enum>(22)</enum><text>The William J. Hughes Technical Center Laboratory Facility.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H1D22DB943F14426984CF3F419BE6D186"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Program authorizations</header><text>If the other accounts described in the national aviation research plan required under section 44501(c) of title 49, United States Code, are authorized for each of the fiscal years 2011 through 2014, the following research and development activities are authorized:</text>
<paragraph id="H44A9FD49E90548C79E042C4255B484E3"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Runway Incursion Reduction.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HAD473B6882AD4164B7E4359CE3B72C5E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>System Capacity, Planning, and Improvement.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H25BB7016A1B54086B9D95AA4BF6A9BBA"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Operations Concept Validation.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8C4031E9BE304FF78A8B716E3E75462C"><enum>(4)</enum><text>NAS Weather Requirements.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF27276E9F208494CAC5CD320DD860064"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Airspace Management Program.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H966BCC212709433589063D003468F7AA"><enum>(6)</enum><text>NextGen—Air Traffic Control/Technical Operations Human Factors.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3B926922F28A4C998CA9CCB9F8AE4406"><enum>(7)</enum><text>NextGen—Environment and Energy—Environmental Management System and Advanced Noise and Emissions reduction.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H973C63CC1E9E4FA28BF6AC230293B70E"><enum>(8)</enum><text>NextGen—New Air Traffic Management Requirements.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H80C345F78EE24A82AB2D14136E4E58BD"><enum>(9)</enum><text>NextGen—Operations Concept Validation—Validation Modeling.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0CAAB5A25AFC46DCBC70AC3D83051D11"><enum>(10)</enum><text>NextGen—System Safety Management Transformation.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC25C0C64922043A4841A71CC6578B763"><enum>(11)</enum><text>NextGen—Wake Turbulence—Recategorization.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC8FE714BE0294D249AF00C66196F5EBB"><enum>(12)</enum><text>NextGen—Operational Assessments.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H93F86BB73DB344F18AFD9CEECB43890F"><enum>(13)</enum><text>NextGen—Staffed NextGen Towers.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3628A02DB6C246B19541D70925C439EE"><enum>(14)</enum><text>Center for Advanced Aviation System Development.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5BAC05AD675341ADB6868A38A7C61BC1"><enum>(15)</enum><text>Airports Technology Research Program—Capacity.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1BA35F21879446CBA12BB29E172532D0"><enum>(16)</enum><text>Airports Technology Research Program—Safety.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HBCB3D8C7D6634F83B03241CA5214A4C1"><enum>(17)</enum><text>Airports Technology Research Program—Environment.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H78B82E6B0D2E479A886A805ED41D2320"><enum>(18)</enum><text>Airport Cooperative Research—Capacity.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HEE89702E9099453888D102AA494F05D2"><enum>(19)</enum><text>Airport Cooperative Research—Environment.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2C2A922AEA8C4111A95C43C204DD50E2"><enum>(20)</enum><text>Airport Cooperative Research—Safety.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="H15969C1D65DC4F9C9E6AA75B176995C8"><enum>1004.</enum><header>Unmanned aircraft systems</header>
<subsection id="H39A9FAB7C2C948B39AE367E49489EEB2"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Research initiative</header><text>Section 44504(b) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H09EF39E3AF6A425FB7DE298509E3A37D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (6) by striking <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB52F29014FB84F3DA08513FAF5C3644B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (7) by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD4EE4741448349FDA71FECD95D663797"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="H8625ADAD887241AA8C6E820F2079789F"><enum>(8)</enum><text>in conjunction with other Federal agencies, as appropriate, to develop technologies and methods to assess the risk of and prevent defects, failures, and malfunctions of products, parts, and processes for use in all classes of unmanned aircraft systems that could result in a catastrophic failure of the unmanned aircraft that would endanger other aircraft in the national airspace system.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H7F0CF51564B645389AD76325E139312B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Systems, procedures, facilities, and devices</header><text>Section 44505(b) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HCC9C610BB5954AFBAC7D7ED50EFC1FD2"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (4) by striking <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H64A4FB0995D543BAA80BF1ABC8FC2A5D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (5)(C) by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0E06A3065A1F49B4ADB0A737B10C397D"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="H9A2C341FB0F9439080E0D8C2F12A9019"><enum>(6)</enum><text>to develop a better understanding of the relationship between human factors and unmanned aircraft system safety; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HBED785DB61ED4FB1B546712B4F369D91"><enum>(7)</enum><text>to develop dynamic simulation models for integrating all classes of unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace system without any degradation of existing levels of safety for all national airspace system users.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="H6ED88085876F49CAB8474AC366AE0A68"><enum>1005.</enum><header>Research program on runways</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 44505(c) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H7927DCA88270466E8FD8A18967DCF033"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraphs (3) through (6) as paragraphs (5) through (8); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2D5A0D52F51142D28333EDC9E854B4D0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="H59FB4A8419EB4DD8870E6F02B46BF496"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">improved runway surfaces;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H28F87C7F2A8E4CC9A7912F024819B561"><enum>(4)</enum><text>engineered material restraining systems for runways at both general aviation airports and airports with commercial air carrier operations;</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section>
<section id="H0A00AA96FC864CD7960EF5E3992E65FF"><enum>1006.</enum><header>Research on design for certification</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 44505 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H00E242A9F3AF42949CBCD7F0EA3327AD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA6BA721A0DE2433B8317C278F77DC0C1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after subsection (c) the following:</text>
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<subsection id="H38540BB643374A9ABBD1110CA0BD633D"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Research on design for certification</header>
<paragraph id="H8EA53C1650974F7C8E61BCD6C2F7B9D9"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Research</header><text>Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Federal Aviation Research and Development Reauthorization Act of 2011</short-title>, the Administrator shall conduct research on methods and procedures to improve both confidence in and the timeliness of certification of new technologies for their introduction into the national airspace system.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H894128580F754689AE00B797E6098A3C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Research plan</header><text>Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Federal Aviation Research and Development Reauthorization Act of 2011</short-title>, the Administrator shall develop a plan for the research under paragraph (1) that contains the objectives, proposed tasks, milestones, and 5-year budgetary profile.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFFC34B643B8F4287B6873D34967D4E1E"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Review</header><text>The Administrator shall enter into an arrangement with the National Research Council to conduct an independent review of the plan developed under paragraph (2) and shall provide the results of that review to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Federal Aviation Research and Development Reauthorization Act of 2011</short-title>.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section>
<section id="H0A0691C22DBA47FBBD3F44684A899CD0"><enum>1007.</enum><header>Airport cooperative research program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 44511(f) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H8BBA02E650D847578D53736F66986E7A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1) by striking <quote>establish a 4-year pilot</quote> and inserting <quote>maintain an</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE257C68517F24AF893AA565B14DE2F19"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (4)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H452E15FF729248F783F5AF168349661E"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>Not later than 6 months after the expiration of the program under this subsection, </quote> and inserting <quote>Not later than September 30, 2012,</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE6D611CC4BDF4BAAAF7D6B07CC17BA53"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>program, including recommendations as to the need for establishing a permanent airport cooperative research program</quote> and inserting <quote>program</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></section>
<section id="HBD27081D26DA4A21B2B9F4C514632BBC"><enum>1008.</enum><header>Centers of excellence</header>
<subsection id="HA06876B28A974F4D82FF54144524553C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Government’s share of costs</header><text>Section 44513(f) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subsection id="H757896F91BE3453B8745166FCF5578EB"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Government’s share of costs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The United States Government’s share of establishing and operating a center and all related research activities that grant recipients carry out shall not exceed 50 percent of the costs, except that the Administrator may increase such share to a maximum of 75 percent of the costs for any fiscal year if the Administrator determines that a center would be unable to carry out the authorized activities described in this section without additional funds.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H6603D20B0B354FC29A310CAFDEDC72D3"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Annual report</header><text>Section 44513 is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection id="HD1397CEAC9664B2C9D4DBDA412EEAA13"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Annual report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall transmit annually to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate at the time of the President’s budget request a report that lists—</text>
<paragraph id="H07AB201D0EAE47EB957CC251E7801716"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the research projects that have been initiated by each center in the preceding year;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCE41170585B942EFB6BFE6833BCA2A5B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the amount of funding for each research project and the funding source;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF853E3CB6BBB4AEF919BF7EC9DC112E5"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the institutions participating in each project and their shares of the overall funding for each research project; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7F6ADCDF77E44872972D5EE9F61FBE9B"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the level of cost-sharing for each research project.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section id="H712E827CC8E348DCA787C276D8CDA360" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>1009.</enum><header>Center of excellence for aviation human resource research</header>
<subsection id="H4DC6024200DB4902B43EEFE13102732D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Using amounts made available under section 48102(a) of title 49, United States Code, the Administrator may establish a center of excellence to conduct research on—</text>
<paragraph id="HC7E90AFD889C4ED4B52804B9744ACB43"><enum>(1)</enum><text>human performance in the air transportation environment, including among air transportation personnel such as air traffic controllers, pilots, and technicians; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H348CB807E82241AAB2C0BFD804175D16"><enum>(2)</enum><text>any other aviation human resource issues pertinent to developing and maintaining a safe and efficient air transportation system.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H126F4C1A2BC94777936DCBC540FC3243"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Activities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Activities conducted under this section may include the following:</text>
<paragraph id="H93D97C408DA743BCB8E6D8D1CD6B88BA"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Research, development, and evaluation of training programs for air traffic controllers, aviation safety inspectors, airway transportation safety specialists, and engineers.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6B52EEC31EF840B3932D36820BDB1509"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Research and development of best practices for recruitment into the aviation field for mission critical positions.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3C01F5ED6EBE4285A7F4A61793162E16"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Research, in consultation with other relevant Federal agencies, to develop a baseline of general aviation employment statistics and an analysis of future needs in the aviation field.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H68059652093344A59797FE8B1B27505F"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Research and the development of a comprehensive assessment of the airframe and powerplant technician certification process and its effect on employment trends.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA65631ED1F4A41A49FB1547ABB35DD70"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Evaluation of aviation maintenance technician school environments.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H71904981D7FF4E1D88E3763BD8EF33A2"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Research and an assessment of the ability to develop training programs to allow for the transition of recently unemployed and highly skilled mechanics into the aviation field.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="H6537C226E69D4353A8BADC0410BEE6EC"><enum>1010.</enum><header>Interagency research on aviation and the environment</header>
<subsection id="H206FACD0D0DB429987AD5CD59B7AF52B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Using amounts made available under section 48102(a) of title 49, United States Code, the Administrator, in coordination with NASA and after consultation with other relevant agencies, may maintain a research program to assess the potential effect of aviation on the environment and, if warranted, to evaluate approaches to address any such effect.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HDFFBE22A6E1F4D308B6E0A61CFE4F746"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Research plan</header>
<paragraph id="H30B73BB8C04749D3BC8EC315A4033E51"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Administrator, in coordination with NASA and after consultation with other relevant agencies, shall jointly develop a plan to carry out the research under subsection (a).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H93C5B084FE9D4751A187F4853E09CF88"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>Such plan shall contain an inventory of current interagency research being undertaken in this area, future research objectives, proposed tasks, milestones, and a 5-year budgetary profile.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H48E6092951E94B2E852F52CAA0A8C486"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Requirements</header><text>Such plan—</text>
<subparagraph id="HF529B2BC940346B790B8F0B8BC376E96"><enum>(A)</enum><text>shall be completed not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HBE9355C30D7D49E0AF06D7EDED7CEAFC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>shall be submitted to Congress for review; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0DE848D1D1594B33B6375C9BE3A79496"><enum>(C)</enum><text>shall be updated, as appropriate, every 3 years after the initial submission.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="H965D5683A0A74913BB1456DCF67D4FD6"><enum>1011.</enum><header>Aviation fuel research and development program</header>
<subsection id="H2EE70973152B4965B2C0F89CEB1BBDC2"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Using amounts made available under section 48102(a) of title 49, United States Code, the Administrator, in coordination with the NASA Administrator, shall continue research and development activities into the qualification of an unleaded aviation fuel and safe transition to this fuel for the fleet of piston engine aircraft.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H91565E48F8AB4C2A9F00243B2C88EF95"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Requirements</header><text>In carrying out the program under subsection (a), the Administrator shall, at a minimum—</text>
<paragraph id="H052263D5568C4D7BB6EF2C4288B7AA2C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, develop a research and development plan containing the specific research and development objectives, including consideration of aviation safety, technical feasibility, and other relevant factors, and the anticipated timetable for achieving the objectives;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE5E8E212BBC84C609AE1451432A33CCC"><enum>(2)</enum><text>assess the methods and processes by which the FAA and industry may expeditiously certify and approve new aircraft and recertify existing aircraft with respect to unleaded aviation fuel;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA21F18D2914A420E9957C90BF03AD516"><enum>(3)</enum><text>assess technologies that modify existing piston engine aircraft to enable safe operation of the aircraft using unleaded aviation fuel and determine the resources necessary to certify those technologies; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0E013CA9CC1047F6B7360D9B45B34297"><enum>(4)</enum><text>develop recommendations for appropriate policies and guidelines to facilitate a transition to unleaded aviation fuel for piston engine aircraft.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HDB6C01B153B646A185FD44C1429C1B8F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Collaborations</header><text>In carrying out the program under subsection (a), the Administrator shall collaborate with—</text>
<paragraph id="HA2A0ECF511934313B8C0BF5321E1CD34"><enum>(1)</enum><text>industry groups representing aviation consumers, manufacturers, and fuel producers and distributors; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE34285600B8F41409B223CFB3AF44056"><enum>(2)</enum><text>other appropriate Federal agencies.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H9D4A009AEB984F168CE2620939C4D377"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 270 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall provide a report to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate on the plan, information obtained, and policies and guidelines developed pursuant to subsection (b).</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HA9A3BD0C819344FBBE286281AA46C335"><enum>1012.</enum><header>Research program on alternative jet fuel technology for civil aircraft</header>
<subsection id="HC6A05E014CC049038CEC100C259971EC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Research program</header><text>Using amounts made available under section 48102(a) of title 49, United States Code, the Secretary shall conduct a research program related to developing and certifying jet fuel from alternative sources (such as coal, natural gas, biomass, ethanol, butanol, and hydrogen) through grants or other measures authorized under section 106(l)(6) of such title, including reimbursable agreements with other Federal agencies.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H5BF3F525A259445EAFAA3F8F35114AC8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Participation by stakeholders</header><text>In conducting the program, the Secretary shall provide for participation by educational and research institutions and by industry partners that have existing facilities and experience in the research and development of technology for alternative jet fuels.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H0F31F09DC70D406D90C91E73050EF037"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Collaborations</header><text>In conducting the program, the Secretary may collaborate with existing interagency programs—</text>
<paragraph id="H305E6BA700E942688F531A8901EAB458"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to further the research and development of alternative jet fuel technology for civil aircraft, including feasibility studies; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H55493E4D658F48998A5DF0ECEF9F14AB"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to exchange information with the participants in the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="HD91FA52B841344D98CB1577B8D6849C1"><enum>1013.</enum><header>Review of FAA’s energy- and environment-related research programs</header>
<subsection id="H5C35E669E99A442C94E0E3D392F8C01F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Review</header><text>Using amounts made available under section 48102(a) of title 49, United States Code, the Administrator shall conduct a review of FAA energy-related and environment-related research programs. The review shall assess whether—</text>
<paragraph id="H10F1CD4922B1423EB68C8BB2597D527B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the programs have well-defined, prioritized, and appropriate research objectives;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H029629D397BE493090B41110EFF987FA"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the programs are properly coordinated with the energy- and environment-related research programs at NASA, NOAA, and other relevant agencies;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H18D936E608B541B082EB6BE1F860A2BA"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the programs have allocated appropriate resources to each of the research objectives; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9D57294DA15345ABA2BF6223BEBB6A45"><enum>(4)</enum><text>there exist suitable mechanisms for transitioning the research results into FAA’s operational technologies and procedures and certification activities.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H72A42531B3C440249D9F36EF695C995E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Report</header><text>A report containing the results of such review shall be provided to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H26688638F38E4F8194A2F4FA92A44F28"><enum>1014.</enum><header>Review of FAA’s aviation safety-related research programs</header>
<subsection id="H6F47E2BF89584605BDEE0D2BAEAB72B4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Review</header><text>Using amounts made available under section 48102(a) of title 49, United States Code, the Administrator shall conduct a review of the FAA’s aviation safety-related research programs. The review shall assess whether—</text>
<paragraph id="HDB402EF27A91474AA889DA42B05A4757"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the programs have well-defined, prioritized, and appropriate research objectives;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H71A987A1BE7B4F1C80F01F198550EB6F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the programs are properly coordinated with the safety research programs of NASA and other relevant Federal agencies;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7668969983344424A050BB56DDCDF2BE"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the programs have allocated appropriate resources to each of the research objectives;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7F9D6C500C224EE9BDAB45094431C9C4" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the programs should include a determination about whether a survey of participants across the air transportation system is an appropriate way to study safety risks within such system; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H130AC3904D18485A9F65D38610F84EDC"><enum>(5)</enum><text>there exist suitable mechanisms for transitioning the research results from the programs into the FAA’s operational technologies and procedures and certification activities in a timely manner.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H7A0B56092938431D9C0D4FEF4504F9C6"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Aviation safety-Related research programs To be assessed</header><text>The FAA aviation safety-related research programs to be assessed under the review shall include, at a minimum, the following:</text>
<paragraph id="H9675D0109CD24B1A99DD7C3B9224AACF"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Air traffic control/technical operations human factors.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8CBF49F948D84359BA64B5F377ABA57F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Runway incursion reduction.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC5D266B8B5D94B84BA45F1A98EFF73E0"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Flightdeck/maintenance system integration human factors.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H558788E119A3491BB6472EB7E3FE3368"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Airports technology research—safety.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H30BD519B1D0F454F8A7DA99386197CC8"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Airport Cooperative Research Program—safety.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD532D9D865E94A86881352614B180B3E"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Weather Program.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCF8310002BA449459723D2E559623B64"><enum>(7)</enum><text>Atmospheric hazards/digital system safety.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H183BE62BA61844758CC2B2556B9798AB"><enum>(8)</enum><text>Fire research and safety.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2C814C43040349FBA342B25340286210"><enum>(9)</enum><text>Propulsion and fuel systems.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2D23E532B320453FA9622C5FBACBECC1"><enum>(10)</enum><text>Advanced materials/structural safety.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H63ECD5AF6167465995D42821C30AB655"><enum>(11)</enum><text>Aging aircraft.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H12047F5FC1E849D3963F6985408705A5"><enum>(12)</enum><text>Aircraft catastrophic failure prevention research.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC8BC569B296A43EC9DC61C97EDF6EBEC"><enum>(13)</enum><text>Aeromedical research.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5B730B08C3BE4BD89A14C0A4FFDC479D"><enum>(14)</enum><text>Aviation safety risk analysis.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFA3D668737BB45DC90BA275A64FB8F5D"><enum>(15)</enum><text>Unmanned aircraft systems research.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H00394556F7F84BFF84DBD039BEBE8848"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 14 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report on the results of such review.</text></subsection></section>
<enum>XI</enum><header>Airport and Airway Trust Fund Financing</header>
<section id="H31C633A888514C4DBE65E3FBB752D7EB" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>1101.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Airport and Airway Trust Fund Financing Reauthorization Act of 2011</short-title></quote>.</text></section>
<section id="H2C3B38E69F4F4206A1BA6BA2BE6E0B91"><enum>1102.</enum><header>Extension of Airport and Airway Trust Fund expenditure authority</header>
<subsection id="HCD196973200442F1AC95E35334E63D7C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Paragraph (1) of section 9502(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H88DB6D1B07A64D38BF33CB3327C40753"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>April 1, 2011</quote> and inserting <quote>October 1, 2014</quote>, and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H14E0A03EDCFD4E809D63BDDD2339392B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>or the FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011</quote> before the semicolon at the end of subparagraph (A).</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H093A7247C7524F87BED03C21AE2DEC57"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>Paragraph (2) of section 9502(e) of such Code is amended by striking <quote>April 1, 2011</quote> and inserting <quote>October 1, 2014</quote>.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H92B5D569BEEB47458A7876637E865A2B"><enum>1103.</enum><header>Extension of taxes funding Airport and Airway Trust Fund</header>
<subsection id="HE21A55ABBB9A4D86B3312C3315AB82A6"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Fuel taxes</header><text>Subparagraph (B) of section 4081(d)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote>March 31, 2011</quote> and inserting <quote>September 30, 2014</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H42204B2EA11B4519ADCE8B987000BDE1"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Ticket taxes</header>
<paragraph id="HF978821555B84D2D814551604F5D4110"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Persons</header><text>Clause (ii) of section 4261(j)(1)(A) of such Code is amended by striking <quote>March 31, 2011</quote> and inserting <quote>September 30, 2014</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H196793AA0F0346EDACBDFD05506EA008"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Property</header><text>Clause (ii) of section 4271(d)(1)(A) of such Code is amended by striking <quote>March 31, 2011</quote> and inserting <quote>September 30, 2014</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<enum>XII</enum><header>Compliance With Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010</header>
<section id="H34F38302ABF744238F441BF38E33DD5D"><enum>1201.</enum><header>Compliance provision</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, shall be determined by reference to the latest statement titled <quote>Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation</quote> for this Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, provided that such statement has been submitted prior to the vote on passage.</text></section>