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Union Calendar No. 129

106TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 1551

[Report No. 106–223]

To authorize the Federal Aviation Administration’s civil aviation research

and development programs for fiscal years 2000 and 2001, and for

other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

APRIL 26, 1999

Mrs. MORELLA introduced the following bill; which was referred to the

Committee on Science

JULY 12, 1999

Additional sponsor: Mr. BARCIA

JULY 12, 1999

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on April 26, 1999]

A BILL

To authorize the Federal Aviation Administration’s civil aviation research and development programs for fiscal years

2000 and 2001, 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 ‘‘Civil Aviation Research

3 and Development Authorization Act of 1999’’.

4 SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

5 Section 48102(a) of title 49, United States Code, is

6 amended—

7 (1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph

8 (4)(J);

9 (2) by striking the period at the end of para10 graph (5) and inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon;

11 and

12 (3) by adding at the end the following:

13 ‘‘(6) for fiscal year 2000, $647,538,400

14 including—

15 ‘‘(A) $17,269,000 for system development

16 and infrastructure projects and activities;

17 ‘‘(B) $48,021,500 for capacity and air traf18 fic management technology projects and activi19 ties;

20 ‘‘(C) $18,939,200 for communications, navi21 gation, and surveillance projects and activities;

22 ‘‘(D) $15,765,000 for weather projects and

23 activities;

24 ‘‘(E) $8,715,700 for airport technology

25 projects and activities;
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1 ‘‘(F) $39,639,000 for aircraft safety tech2 nology projects and activities;

3 ‘‘(G) $53,218,000 for system security tech4 nology projects and activities;

5 ‘‘(H) $26,207,000 for human factors and

6 aviation medicine projects and activities;

7 ‘‘(I) $3,481,000 for environment and energy

8 projects and activities;

9 ‘‘(J) $2,171,000 for innovative/cooperative

10 research projects and activities, of which

11 $750,000 shall be for carrying out subsection (h)

12 of this section;

13 ‘‘(K) $266,712,000 for En Route research

14 and development projects and activities;

15 ‘‘(L) $58,900,000 for Terminal research and

16 development projects and activities;

17 ‘‘(M) $3,000,000 for Flight Services research

18 and development projects and activities;

19 ‘‘(N) $69,200,000 for Landing and Naviga20 tion research and development projects and ac21 tivities; and

22 ‘‘(O) $16,300,000 for Equipment and Fa23 cilities research and development projects and

24 activities; and

25 ‘‘(7) for fiscal year 2001, $675,706,795.’’.
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1 SEC. 3. BUDGET DESIGNATION FOR RESEARCH AND DEVEL2 OPMENT ACTIVITIES.

3 Section 48102 of title 49, United States Code, is

4 amended by inserting after subsection (f) the following new

5 subsection:

6 ‘‘(g) DESIGNATION OF ACTIVITIES.—(1) The amounts

7 appropriated under subsection (a) are for the support of

8 all research and development activities carried out by the

9 Federal Aviation Administration that fall within the cat10 egories of basic research, applied research, and development,

11 including the design and development of prototypes, in ac12 cordance with the classifications of the Office of Manage13 ment and Budget Circular A–11 (Budget Formulation/Sub14 mission Process).

15 ‘‘(2) The Department of Transportation’s annual

16 budget request for the Federal Aviation Administration

17 shall identify all of the activities carried out by the Admin18 istration within the categories of basic research, applied re19 search, and development, as classified by the Office of Man20 agement and Budget Circular A–11. Each activity in the

21 categories of basic research, applied research, and develop22 ment shall be identified regardless of the budget category

23 in which it appears in the budget request.’’.

24 SEC. 4. NATIONAL AVIATION RESEARCH PLAN.

25 Section 44501(c) of title 49, United States Code, is

26 amended—
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1 (1) in paragraph (2)(B)—

2 (A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of clause

3 (iii);

4 (B) by striking the period at the end of

5 clause (iv) and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘; and’’;

6 and

7 (C) by adding at the end the following new

8 clause:

9 ‘‘(v) highlight the research and development tech10 nology transfer activities that promote technology

11 sharing among government, industry, and academia

12 through the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation

13 Act of 1980.’’; and

14 (2) in paragraph (3), by inserting ‘‘The report

15 shall be prepared in accordance with requirements of

16 section 1116 of title 31, United States Code.’’ after

17 ‘‘effect for the prior fiscal year.’’.

18 SEC. 5. INTEGRATED SAFETY RESEARCH PLAN.

19 (a) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than March 1, 2000, the

20 Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Ad21 ministration and the Administrator of the Federal Aviation

22 Administration shall jointly prepare and transmit to the

23 Congress an integrated civil aviation safety research and

24 development plan.
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1 (b) CONTENTS.—The plan required by subsection (a)

2 shall include—

3 (1) an identification of the respective research

4 and development requirements, roles, and responsibil5 ities of the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis6 tration and the Federal Aviation Administration;

7 (2) formal mechanisms for the timely sharing of

8 information between the National Aeronautics and

9 Space Administration and the Federal Aviation Ad10 ministration, including a requirement that the FAA11 NASA Coordinating Committee established in 1980

12 meet at least twice a year; and

13 (3) procedures for increased communication and

14 coordination between the Federal Aviation Adminis15 tration research advisory committee established under

16 section 44508 of title 49, United States Code, and the

17 NASA Aeronautics and Space Transportation Tech18 nology Advisory Committee, including a proposal for

19 greater cross-membership between those 2 advisory

20 committees.

21 SEC. 6. INTERNET AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION.

22 The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Adminis23 tration shall make available through the Internet home page

24 of the Federal Aviation Administration the abstracts relat25 ing to all research grants and awards made with funds au-
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1 thorized by the amendments made by this Act. Nothing in

2 this section shall be construed to require or permit the re3 lease of any information prohibited by law or regulation

4 from being released to the public.

5 SEC. 7. RESEARCH ON NONSTRUCTURAL AIRCRAFT SYS6 TEMS.

7 Section 44504(b)(1) of title 49, United States Code, is

8 amended by inserting ‘‘, including nonstructural aircraft

9 systems,’’ after ‘‘life of aircraft’’.

10 SEC. 8. ELIGIBILITY FOR AWARDS.

11 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator of the Federal

12 Aviation Administration shall exclude from consideration

13 for grant agreements made by that Administration with

14 funds appropriated pursuant to the amendments made by

15 this Act any person who received funds, other than those

16 described in subsection (b), appropriated for a fiscal year

17 after fiscal year 1999, under a grant agreement from any

18 Federal funding source for a project that was not subjected

19 to a competitive, merit-based award process, except as spe20 cifically authorized by this Act. Any exclusion from consid21 eration pursuant to this subsection shall be effective for a

22 period of 5 years after the person receives such Federal

23 funds.

24 (b) EXCEPTION.—Subsection (a) shall not apply to the

25 receipt of Federal funds by a person due to the membership
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1 of that person in a class specified by law for which assist2 ance is awarded to members of the class according to a for3 mula provided by law.

4 (c) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the

5 term ‘‘grant agreement’’ means a legal instrument whose

6 principal purpose is to transfer a thing of value to the re7 cipient to carry out a public purpose of support or stimula8 tion authorized by a law of the United States, and does

9 not include the acquisition (by purchase, lease, or barter)

10 of property or services for the direct benefit or use of the

11 United States Government. Such term does not include a

12 cooperative agreement (as such term is used in section 6305

13 of title 31, United States Code) or a cooperative research

14 and development agreement (as such term is defined in sec15 tion 12(d)(1) of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innova16 tion Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3710a(d)(1))).

Union Calendar No. 129

106TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 1551

[Report No. 106–223]

A BILL

To authorize the Federal Aviation Administration’s

purposes.for fiscal years 2000 and 2001, and for othercivil aviation research and development programs

JULY 12, 1999

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union,