Resilient Airports Act

Subjects: Transportation and Public Works


<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3059 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3059

   To amend title 49, United States Code, to define critical airport 
                infrastructure, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 2, 2023

 Mr. Kilmer (for himself, Mr. Blumenauer, and Mr. LaMalfa) introduced 
      the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                   Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 49, United States Code, to define critical airport 
                infrastructure, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Resilient Airports Act''.

SEC. 2. AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT DEFINITIONS.

    Section 47102 of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(S) improvement of any critical airport 
                infrastructure at a general aviation airport that is--
                            ``(i) a nonhub, small hub, medium hub, or 
                        large hub airport to increase resilience for 
                        the purpose of resuming flight operations under 
                        visual flight rules following a natural 
                        disaster; or
                            ``(ii) identified as a Federal staging area 
                        or Incident Support Base in a plan that is part 
                        of the National Preparedness Goal and National 
                        Preparedness System established by the Post-
                        Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act and 
                        described by Presidential Policy Directive 8 
                        and/or predetermined as a staging location 
                        within a Department of Homeland Security, 
                        Federal Emergency Management Agency, Emergency 
                        Management Performance Grant recipient's 
                        approved Distribution Management Plan Annex to 
                        their existing Emergency Operations Plan for 
                        the purpose of resuming flight operations under 
                        visual flight rules following a natural 
                        disaster.'';
            (2) by redesignating paragraphs (14), (15), (16), (17), 
        (18), (19), (20), (21), (22), (23), (24), (26), (27), and (28) 
        as paragraphs (16), (17), (18), (19), (20), (21), (22), (23), 
        (24), (25), (27), (28), (29), and (30), respectively;
            (3) by redesignating paragraphs (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), 
        and (13) as paragraphs (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), and (14), 
        respectively;
            (4) by inserting after paragraph (14), as so redesignated, 
        the following:
            ``(15) `natural disaster' means earthquake, flooding, high 
        water, wildfires, hurricane, storm surge, tidal wave, tornado, 
        tsunami, or wind driven water.''; and
            (5) by inserting after paragraph (7) the following:
            ``(8) `critical airport infrastructure' means runways, 
        taxiways, and aprons necessary to sustain either--
                    ``(A) commercial service flight operations; or
                    ``(B) flight operations at a general aviation 
                airport that is identified as a Federal staging area or 
                Incident Support Base in a plan that is part of the 
                National Preparedness Goal and National Preparedness 
                System established by the Post-Katrina Emergency 
                Management Reform Act and described by Presidential 
                Policy Directive 8 and/or predetermined as a staging 
                location within a Department of Homeland Security, 
                Federal Emergency Management Agency, Emergency 
                Management Performance Grant recipient's approved 
                Distribution Management Plan Annex to their existing 
                Emergency Operations Plan.''.
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