In the Senate of the United States,
May 12 (legislative day, May 2), 1994.
Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representa-
tives (H.R. 2440) entitled ‘‘An Act to amend the Independent
Safety Board Act of 1974 to authorize appropriations for fis-
cal years 1994, 1995, and 1996, and for other purposes’’, do
pass with the following
AMENDMENT:
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Independent Safety
Board Act Amendments of 1994’’.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
Sec. 309(a) of the Independent Safety Board Act of
1974 (49 App. U.S.C. 1907(a)) is amended to read as fol-
lows:
‘‘(a) There are authorized to be appropriated for the
purposes of this Act not to exceed $37,580,000 for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 1994, $44,000,000 for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 1995, and $45,100,000 for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 1996. Such sums shall re-
main available until expended.’’.
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SEC. 3. APPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN REGULATIONS AND RE-
QUIREMENTS TO THE OPERATION OF PUBLIC
AIRCRAFT.
(a) DEFINITION
OF
PUBLIC
AIRCRAFT.—Section
101(36) of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (49 App.
U.S.C. 1301(36)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘persons or’’ and inserting in
lieu thereof ‘‘persons, or engaged in carrying’’;
(2) by inserting ‘‘(A)’’ immediately after ‘‘For
purposes of this paragraph,’’; and
(3) by striking the period at the end of the sec-
ond sentence and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘, and (B)
‘engaged in carrying persons’ includes the provision
of passenger transportation but does not include (i)
the carriage of crewmembers or of other persons
abroad an aircraft whose presence is required to per-
form, or is associated with the performance of, a gov-
ernmental function such as firefighting, search and
rescue, law enforcement, aeronautical research, or bio-
logical or geological resource management, or (ii) the
carriage of persons (for other than commercial pur-
poses) aboard aircraft operated by the Armed Forces
or an intelligence agency of the United States.’’.
(b) EXEMPTIONS.—Notwithstanding the provisions of
section 610(a) of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (49 App.
U.S.C. 1430(a)), the Administrator of the Federal Aviation
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Administration may grant exemptions pursuant to section
601(c) of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (49 App. U.S.C.
1421(c)) to a governmental entity with respect to an air-
craft which, before the date of enactment of this Act and
while owned or operated by such governmental entity, was
engaged in carrying persons. For purposes of this sub-
section, the term ‘‘engaged in carrying persons’’ has the
meaning given that term under section 101(36) of the Fed-
eral Aviation Act of 1958 (49 App. U.S.C. 1301(36)), as
amended by this Act.
(c) INVESTIGATIVE AUTHORITY OF BOARD.—(1) Sec-
tion 304(a)(1)(A) of the Independent Safety Board Act of
1974 (49 App. U.S.C. 1903(a)(1)(A)) is amended by insert-
ing ‘‘, or any aircraft accident involving a public aircraft
as defined under section 101(36) of the Federal Aviation
Act of 1958 (49 App. U.S.C. 1301(36)) other than an air-
craft operated by the Armed Forces or by an Intelligence
Agency’’ immediately before the semicolon at the end.
(2) Section 304(b) of the Independent Safety Board
Act of 1974 (49 App. U.S.C. 1903(b)) is amended by redes-
ignating paragraph (12) as paragraph (13) and by insert-
ing immediately after paragraph (11) the following new
paragraph:
‘‘(12) The Board, in furtherance of its investiga-
tive duties with respect to public aircraft accidents