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Technology Research, and $10,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, shall be available and transferred to ‘‘Office of the Sec-
retary, Salaries and Expenses’’ to carry out the Small Community 
Air Service Development Program: Provided further, That in addi-
tion to airports eligible under section 41743 of title 49, United 
States Code, such program may include the participation of an 
airport that serves a community or consortium that is not larger 
than a small hub airport, according to FAA hub classifications 
effective at the time the Office of the Secretary issues a request 
for proposals. 
GRANTS-IN-AID FOR AIRPORTS 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Grants-In-Aid for Airports’’, to 
enable the Secretary of Transportation to make grants for projects 
as authorized by subchapter 1 of chapter 471 and subchapter 1 
of chapter 475 of title 49, United States Code, $500,000,000, to 
remain available through September 30, 2021: Provided, That 
amounts made available under this heading shall be derived from 
the general fund, and such funds shall not be subject to apportion-
ment formulas, special apportionment categories, or minimum 
percentages under chapter 471: Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall distribute funds provided under this heading as discretionary 
grants to airports: Provided further, That the amount made avail-
able under this heading shall not be subject to any limitation 
on obligations for the Grants-in-Aid for Airports program set forth 
in any Act: Provided further, That the Administrator of the Federal 
Aviation Administration may retain up to 0.5 percent of the funds 
provided under this heading to fund the award and oversight by 
the Administrator of grants made under this heading. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION 
SEC. 110. None of the funds in this Act may be used to com-
pensate in excess of 600 technical staff-years under the federally 
funded research and development center contract between the Fed-
eral Aviation Administration and the Center for Advanced Aviation 
Systems Development during fiscal year 2019. 
SEC. 111. None of the funds in this Act shall be used to 
pursue or adopt guidelines or regulations requiring airport sponsors 
to provide to the Federal Aviation Administration without cost 
building construction, maintenance, utilities and expenses, or space 
in airport sponsor-owned buildings for services relating to air traffic 
control, air navigation, or weather reporting: Provided, That the 
prohibition of funds in this section does not apply to negotiations 
between the agency and airport sponsors to achieve agreement 
on ‘‘below-market’’ rates for these items or to grant assurances 
that require airport sponsors to provide land without cost to the 
Federal Aviation Administration for air traffic control facilities. 
SEC. 112. The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration may reimburse amounts made available to satisfy 49 U.S.C. 
41742(a)(1) from fees credited under 49 U.S.C. 45303 and any 
amount remaining in such account at the close of that fiscal year 
may be made available to satisfy section 41742(a)(1) for the subse-
quent fiscal year. 
SEC. 113. Amounts collected under section 40113(e) of title 
49, United States Code, shall be credited to the appropriation
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current at the time of collection, to be merged with and available 
for the same purposes of such appropriation. 
SEC. 114. None of the funds in this Act shall be available 
for paying premium pay under subsection 5546(a) of title 5, United 
States Code, to any Federal Aviation Administration employee 
unless such employee actually performed work during the time 
corresponding to such premium pay. 
SEC. 115. None of the funds in this Act may be obligated 
or expended for an employee of the Federal Aviation Administration 
to purchase a store gift card or gift certificate through use of 
a Government-issued credit card. 
SEC. 116. None of the funds in this Act may be obligated 
or expended for retention bonuses for an employee of the Federal 
Aviation Administration without the prior written approval of the 
Assistant Secretary for Administration of the Department of 
Transportation. 
SEC. 117. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
of the funds made available under this Act or any prior Act may 
be used to implement or to continue to implement any limitation 
on the ability of any owner or operator of a private aircraft to 
obtain, upon a request to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
Administration, a blocking of that owner’s or operator’s aircraft 
registration number from any display of the Federal Aviation 
Administration’s Aircraft Situational Display to Industry data that 
is made available to the public, except data made available to 
a Government agency, for the noncommercial flights of that owner 
or operator. 
SEC. 118. None of the funds in this Act shall be available 
for salaries and expenses of more than eight political and Presi-
dential appointees in the Federal Aviation Administration. 
SEC. 119. None of the funds made available under this Act 
may be used to increase fees pursuant to section 44721 of title 
49, United States Code, until the Federal Aviation Administration 
provides to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
a report that justifies all fees related to aeronautical navigation 
products and explains how such fees are consistent with Executive 
Order 13642. 
SEC. 119A. None of the funds in this Act may be used to 
close a regional operations center of the Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration or reduce its services unless the Administrator notifies 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations not less than 
90 full business days in advance. 
SEC. 119B. None of the funds appropriated or limited by this 
Act may be used to change weight restrictions or prior permission 
rules at Teterboro airport in Teterboro, New Jersey. 
SEC. 119C. None of the funds provided under this Act may 
be used by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration 
to withhold from consideration and approval any new application 
for participation in the Contract Tower Program, or for reevaluation 
of Cost-share Program participants as long as the Federal Aviation 
Administration has received an application from the airport, and 
as long as the Administrator determines such tower is eligible 
using the factors set forth in the Federal Aviation Administration 
report, Establishment and Discontinuance Criteria for Airport 
Traffic Control Towers (FAA–APO–90–7 as of August, 1990). 
SEC. 119D. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
of the funds made available in this Act may be obligated or expended
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to limit the use of an Organization Designation Authorization’s 
(ODA) delegated functions documented in its procedures manual 
on a type certification project unless the Administrator documents 
a systemic airworthiness noncompliance performance issue as a 
result of inspection or oversight that the safety of air commerce 
requires a limitation with regard to a specific authorization or 
where an ODA’s capability has not been previously established 
in terms of a new compliance method or design feature: Provided, 
That in such cases FAA shall work with the ODA holder if requested 
to develop the capability to execute that function safely, efficiently 
and effectively: Provided further, That this section does not limit 
the authority of the Federal Aviation Administration to pursue 
emergency actions on ODAs where specific safety issues are noted. 
SEC. 119E. None of the funds made available by this Act 
and apportioned under section 47114(d) of title 49, United States 
Code, shall be made available for construction of a storage building, 
or a portion of such building, to shelter snow equipment in excess 
of equipment needs established by standards issued by the Sec-
retary of Transportation that is owned by an airport categorized 
as a local general aviation airport as indicated in Federal Aviation 
Administration 2017- 2021 National Plan of Integrated Airport 
Systems (NPIAS) report unless such airport sponsor certifies con-
formity with the following: 
(1) The storage building, or portion thereof, to be con-
structed will be used to store snow removal equipment exclu-
sively used for clearing airfield pavement of snow and ice 
following a weather event. 
(2) The 30-year annual snowfall normal of the nearest 
weather station based on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration Summary of Monthly Normals 1981-2010 
exceeds 26 inches. 
(3) The airport serves as a base for a medical air ambulance 
transport aircraft; (d)that the airport master record (Form 5010- 
1) effective on September 14, 2017 for the airport indicates 
45 based aircraft consisting of single engine, multiple engine, 
and jet engine aircraft. 
(4) The airport sponsor will complete design of the storage 
building not later than fiscal year 2018 and initiate construction 
of the storage building not later than fiscal year 2019. 
(5) The area of the storage building, or portion thereof, 
to be funded under this section shall not exceed 6,000 square 
feet. 
SEC. 119F. (a) TERMINAL AERODROME FORECAST.—The Adminis-
trator shall permit an air carrier operation under part 121 of 
title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, to operate to a destination 
determined to be under visual flight rules without a Terminal 
Aerodrome Forecast or Meteorological Aerodrome Report if a current 
Area Forecast, supplemented by other local weather observations 
or reports, is available, and an alternate airport that has an avail-
able Terminal Aerodrome Forecast and weather report is specified. 
The air carrier shall have approved procedures for dispatch and 
en route weather evaluation and shall operate under instrument 
flight rules en route to the destination. 
(b) LIMITATION.—Without a written finding of necessity, based 
on objective and historical evidence of imminent threat to safety, 
the Administrator shall not promulgate any operation specification,
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policy, or guidance document that is more restrictive than, or 
requires procedures that are not expressly stated in, the regulations. 
SEC. 119G. Of the funds provided under the heading ‘‘Grants- 
in-aid for Airports’’, up to $3,500,000 shall be for necessary 
expenses, including an independent verification regime, to provide 
reimbursement to airport sponsors that do not provide gateway 
operations and providers of general aviation ground support services 
located at those airports closed during a temporary flight restriction 
(TFR) for any residence of the President that is designated or 
identified to be secured by the United States Secret Service, and 
for direct and incremental financial losses incurred while such 
airports are closed solely due to the actions of the Federal Govern-
ment: Provided, That no funds shall be obligated or distributed 
to airport sponsors that do not provide gateway operations and 
providers of general aviation ground support services until an inde-
pendent audit is completed: Provided further, That losses incurred 
as a result of violations of law, or through fault or negligence, 
of such operators and service providers or of third parties (including 
airports) are not eligible for reimbursements: Provided further, That 
obligation and expenditure of funds are conditional upon full release 
of the United States Government for all claims for financial losses 
resulting from such actions. 
FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
(HIGHWAY TRUST FUND) 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
Not to exceed $446,444,304, together with advances and 
reimbursements received by the Federal Highway Administration, 
shall be obligated for necessary expenses for administration and 
operation of the Federal Highway Administration. In addition, 
$3,248,000 shall be transferred to the Appalachian Regional 
Commission in accordance with section 104(a) of title 23, United 
States Code. 
FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAYS 
(LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS) 
(HIGHWAY TRUST FUND) 
Funds available for the implementation or execution of Federal- 
aid highway and highway safety construction programs authorized 
under titles 23 and 49, United States Code, and the provisions 
of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act shall not exceed 
total obligations of $45,268,596,000 for fiscal year 2019: Provided, 
That the Secretary may collect and spend fees, as authorized by 
title 23, United States Code, to cover the costs of services of expert 
firms, including counsel, in the field of municipal and project finance 
to assist in the underwriting and servicing of Federal credit 
instruments and all or a portion of the costs to the Federal Govern-
ment of servicing such credit instruments: Provided further, That 
such fees are available until expended to pay for such costs: Pro-
vided further, That such amounts are in addition to administrative