I
105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1086
To codify without substantive change laws related to transportation and
to improve the United States Code.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 17, 1997
Mr. HYDE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on the Judiciary
A BILL
To codify without substantive change laws related to
transportation and to improve the United States Code.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. TITLE 26, INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986.
Section 9503(e)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C.
9503(e)(3)) is amended by striking ‘‘such Acts are in effect’’ and all that
follows through the end of the paragraph and substituting ‘‘section
5338(a)(1) or (b)(1) and the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency
Act of 1991 were in effect on December 18, 1991’’.
SEC. 2. TITLE 49, UNITED STATES CODE.
Title 49, United States Code, is amended as follows:
(1) In the item related to subchapter I in the analysis for chapter
5, strike—
‘‘DUTIES AND’’.
(2) In the heading for subchapter I of chapter 5, strike—
‘‘AND’’.
(3) In section 5108(f), strike ‘‘section 552(f)’’ and substitute ‘‘sec-
tion 552(b)’’.
(4) In section 5115(a), strike ‘‘Not later than November 16, 1992,
in’’ and substitute ‘‘In’’.
(5) Section 5303(c) is amended as follows:
(A) In paragraph (1), insert ‘‘and sections 5304–5306 of this
title’’ after ‘‘this section’’.
(B) In paragraph (4)(A), strike ‘‘paragraph (3)’’ and substitute
‘‘paragraph (5)’’.
(C) In paragraph (5)(A), insert ‘‘and sections 5304–5306 of
this title’’ after ‘‘this section’’.
(6) In item 155 in the subtitle analysis for subtitle IV, strike—
‘‘AND TARIFFS’’.
(7) In section 11904(a)(2), strike ‘‘a person’’ and substitute ‘‘per-
son’’.
(8) In section 11906, strike ‘‘of this title’’ and substitute ‘‘of this
part’’.
(9) In section 13506(a)(5), strike ‘‘1141j(a))’’ and substitute
‘‘1141j(a)))’’.
(10) In section 13703(a)(2), strike ‘‘subsection (a)’’ and substitute
‘‘paragraph (1)’’.
(11) In section 13905(e)(1), strike ‘‘31144,’’ and substitute
‘‘31144’’.
(12) In section 14123(c)(2)(B), insert ‘‘in’’ before ‘‘no event’’.
(13) In section 14903(a), insert ‘‘a’’ before ‘‘civil penalty of not more
than’’.
(14) In section 15101(a), strike ‘‘oversee of’’ and substitute ‘‘over-
see’’.
(15) In the item related to section 15904 in the analysis for chapter
159, strike ‘‘certain’’ and substitute ‘‘pipeline’’.
(16) In section 15904(c)(1), strike ‘‘section 11501(b)’’ and sub-
stitute ‘‘15901(b)’’.
(17) In section 16101, redesignate subsection (d) as (c).
(18) In item 305 in the subtitle analysis for subtitle VI, strike—
‘‘NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE TITLE INFORMATION SYSTEM’’
and substitute—
‘‘NATIONAL MOTOR VEHICLE TITLE INFORMATION SYSTEM’’.
(19) In section 30305(b)—
(A) in paragraph (8), as redesignated by section 207(b) of the
Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–324,
110 Stat. 3908), strike ‘‘paragraph (2)’’ and substitute ‘‘sub-
section (a) of this section’’; and
(B) redesignate paragraph (8), as redesignated by section
502(b)(1) of the Federal Aviation Reauthorization Act of 1996
(Public Law 104–264, 110 Stat. 3262), as paragraph (9).
(20) In section 32706(c), strike ‘‘subchapter II of chapter 105’’ and
substitute ‘‘subchapter I of chapter 135’’.
(21) In the analysis of subtitle VII, strike the item related to part
D and substitute—
‘‘PART D—PUBLIC AIRPORTS
‘‘491.
METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON AIRPORTS ..........................................
49101’’.
(22) In the item related to section 41502 in the analysis for chapter
415, strike ‘‘common’’.
(23) The catchline for section 41502 is amended by striking ‘‘com-
mon’’.
(24) In section 41713(b)(4)(B)(ii), strike ‘‘10102’’ and substitute
‘‘13102’’.
(25) In section 41714(d)(1), strike ‘‘sections 6005(c)(5) and 6009(e)
of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Act of 1986’’ and substitute
‘‘sections 49104(a)(5) and 49111(e) of this title’’.
(26) Insert after part C of subtitle VII the following:
‘‘PART D—PUBLIC AIRPORTS
‘‘CHAPTER 491—METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON
AIRPORTS
‘‘Sec.
‘‘49101.
Findings.
‘‘49102.
Purpose.
‘‘49103.
Definitions.
‘‘49104.
Lease of Metropolitan Washington Airports.
‘‘49105.
Capital improvements, construction, and rehabilitation.
‘‘49106.
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.
‘‘49107.
Federal employees at Metropolitan Washington Airports.
‘‘49108.
Limitations.
‘‘49109.
Nonstop flights.
‘‘49110.
Use of Dulles Airport Access Highway.
‘‘49111.
Relationship to and effect of other laws.
‘‘49112.
Separability and effect of judicial order.
‘‘§ 49101. Findings
‘‘Congress finds that—
‘‘(1) the 2 federally owned airports in the metropolitan area of the
District of Columbia constitute an important and growing part of the
commerce, transportation, and economic patterns of Virginia, the Dis-
trict of Columbia, and the surrounding region;
‘‘(2) Baltimore/Washington International Airport, owned and oper-
ated by Maryland, is an air transportation facility that provides service
to the greater Metropolitan Washington region together with the 2 fed-
erally owned airports, and timely Federal-aid grants to Baltimore/
Washington International Airport will provide additional capacity to
meet the growing air traffic needs and to compete with other airports
on a fair basis;
‘‘(3) the United States Government has a continuing but limited in-
terest in the operation of the 2 federally owned airports, which serve
the travel and cargo needs of the entire Metropolitan Washington re-
gion as well as the District of Columbia as the national seat of govern-
ment;
‘‘(4) operation of the Metropolitan Washington Airports by an inde-
pendent local authority will facilitate timely improvements at both air-
ports to meet the growing demand of interstate air transportation occa-
sioned by the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 (Public Law 95–504;
92 Stat. 1705);
‘‘(5) all other major air carrier airports in the United States are op-
erated by public entities at the State, regional, or local level;
‘‘(6) any change in status of the 2 airports must take into account
the interest of nearby communities, the traveling public, air carriers,
general aviation, airport employees, and other interested groups, as well
as the interests of the United States Government and State govern-
ments involved;
‘‘(7) in recognition of a perceived limited need for a Federal role in
the management of these airports and the growing local interest, the
Secretary of Transportation has recommended a transfer of authority
from the Federal to the local/State level that is consistent with the
management of major airports elsewhere in the United States;
‘‘(8) an operating authority with representation from local jurisdic-
tions, similar to authorities at all major airports in the United States,
will improve communications with local officials and concerned resi-
dents regarding noise at the Metropolitan Washington Airports;
‘‘(9) a commission of congressional, State, and local officials and
aviation representatives has recommended to the Secretary that trans-
fer of the federally owned airports be as a unit to an independent au-
thority to be created by Virginia and the District of Columbia; and
‘‘(10) the Federal interest in these airports can be provided through
a lease mechanism which provides for local control and operation.
‘‘§ 49102. Purpose
‘‘(a) GENERAL.—The purpose of this chapter is to authorize the transfer
of operating responsibility under long-term lease of the 2 Metropolitan
Washington Airport properties as a unit, including access highways and
other related facilities, to a properly constituted independent airport author-
ity created by Virginia and the District of Columbia, in order to achieve