IIB 

117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1262 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 16, 2021 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 

and Transportation 

AN ACT 

To establish a task force on improvements for certain notices 

to airmen, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Notice to Airmen Im3 provement Act of 2021’’. 

4 SEC. 2. FAA TASK FORCE ON NOTAM IMPROVEMENT. 

5 (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 180 days after 

6 the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of 

7 the Federal Aviation Administration shall establish a task 

8 force to be known as the FAA Task Force on NOTAM 

9 Improvement (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Task 

10 Force’’). 

11 (b) COMPOSITION.—The Task Force shall consist of 

12 members appointed by the Administrator, including at 

13 least one member of each of the following: 

14 (1) Air carrier representatives. 

15 (2) Labor union representatives of airline pilots. 

16 (3) Labor union certified under section 7111 of 

17 title 5, United States Code, to represent FAA air 

18 traffic control specialists assigned to the U.S. 

19 NOTAM Office. 

20 (4) Labor union certified under section 7111 of 

21 title 5, United States Code, to represent FAA aero22 nautical information specialists. 

23 (5) General and business aviation representa24 tives. 

25 (6) Aviation safety experts with knowledge of 

26 NOTAMs. 


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1 (7) Human factors experts. 

2 (c) DUTIES.—The duties of the Task Force shall in3 clude— 

4 (1) reviewing existing methods for presenting 

5 NOTAMs and flight operations information to pilots; 

6 (2) reviewing regulations and policies relating 

7 to NOTAMs, including their content and presen8 tation to pilots; 

9 (3) evaluating and determining best practices to 

10 organize, prioritize, and present flight operations in11 formation in a manner that optimizes pilot review 

12 and retention of relevant information; and 

13 (4) providing recommendations for— 

14 (A) improving the presentation of NOTAM 

15 information in a manner that prioritizes or 

16 highlights the most important information, and 

17 optimizes pilot review and retention of relevant 

18 information; 

19 (B) ways to ensure that NOTAMs are 

20 complete, accurate, and contain the proper in21 formation; 

22 (C) any best practices that the FAA 

23 should consider to improve the accuracy and 

24 understandability of NOTAMs and the display 

25 of flight operations information; and 


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1 (D) ways to work with air carriers, other 

2 airspace users, and aviation service providers to 

3 implement solutions that are aligned with the 

4 recommendations under this paragraph. 

5 (d) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date 

6 of the establishment of the Task Force, the Task Force 

7 shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and In8 frastructure of the House of Representatives and the Com9 mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the 

10 Senate a report detailing— 

11 (1) the results of the reviews and evaluations of 

12 the Task Force under paragraphs (1) through (3) of 

13 subsection (c); 

14 (2) the best practices identified and rec15 ommendations provided by the Task Force under 

16 subsection (c)(4); 

17 (3) any recommendations of the Task Force for 

18 additional regulatory or policy actions to improve the 

19 presentation of NOTAMs; and 

20 (4) the degree to which implementing the rec21 ommendations of the Task Force described under 

22 paragraph (2) will address National Transportation 

23 Safety Board Safety Recommendation A–18–024. 


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1 (e) APPLICABLE LAW.—The Federal Advisory Com2 mittee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall not apply to the Task 

3 Force. 

4 (f) SUNSET.—The Task Force shall terminate on the 

5 later of— 

6 (1) the date on which the Task Force submits 

7 the report required under subsection (d); or 

8 (2) the date that is 18 months after the date 

9 on which the Task Force is established under sub10 section (a). 

11 (g) AUTHORITY.—The Administrator shall have the 

12 authority to carry out the recommendations of the Task 

13 Force detailed in the report required under subsection (d). 

14 (h) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

15 (1) FAA.—The term ‘‘FAA’’ means the Fed16 eral Aviation Administration. 

17 (2) NOTAM.—The term ‘‘NOTAM’’ means no18 tices to airmen required by international or domestic 

19 regulation or law, as described in the order issued by 


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1 the FAA on December 11, 2018, titled ‘‘Notices to 

2 Airmen (NOTAM)’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives June 15, 2021. 

Attest: CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 

Clerk. 


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