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of 1985 are designated by the Congress as an emergency require-
ment pursuant to 4001(a)(1) of S. Con. Res 14 (117th Congress), 
the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2022, and 
to legislation establishing fiscal year 2026 budget enforcement in 
the House of Representatives: Provided further, That the amount 
of additional new budget authority is designated by the Congress 
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to such section 
4001(a) and to legislation establishing fiscal year 2026 budget 
enforcement in the House of Representatives. 
SEC. 109C. None of the funds made available by this or any 
other Act shall be used to cancel or seek to renegotiate an existing 
contract under the essential air service program under subchapter 
II of chapter 417 of title 49, United States Code, before the standard 
period of rebidding occurring prior to a contract’s expiration unless 
in response to an explicit written request from the EAS Community: 
Provided, That this section shall only apply to existing contracts 
under which the carrier is in compliance with the contract terms. 
SEC. 109D. Of the unobligated balances of funds remaining 
from— 
(1) ‘‘Transportation Planning, Research, and Development’’ 
account in title I of division A of Public Law 111–117, 
$108,147.49 is hereby permanently rescinded; and 
(2) ‘‘Transportation Planning, Research, and Development’’ 
account in title I of division F of Public Law 108–199, $744,000 
is hereby permanently rescinded. 
SEC. 109E. Of the unobligated balances from amounts made 
available for ‘‘Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing 
Program’’ in section 420 of title IV of division G of Public Law 
116–6, $25,476 is hereby permanently rescinded. 
SEC. 109F. Of the unobligated balances from amounts made 
available for ‘‘Department of Transportation—Office of the Sec-
retary—Salaries and Expenses’’ in Public Law 119–4, $10,368,826 
is hereby permanently rescinded. 
SEC. 109G. Of the unobligated balances from amounts made 
available until expended for ‘‘Department of Transportation—Office 
of the Secretary—Research and Technology’’ in division L of title 
I of Public Law 117–103, $1,272,800.79 is hereby permanently 
rescinded. 
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATIONS 
(AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND) 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Aviation Administration 
(FAA), not otherwise provided for, including operations and research 
activities related to commercial space transportation, administrative 
expenses for research and development, establishment of air naviga-
tion facilities, the operation (including leasing) and maintenance 
of aircraft, subsidizing the cost of aeronautical charts and maps 
sold to the public, the lease or purchase of passenger motor vehicles 
for replacement only, $13,710,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2027, of which $13,040,600,000 to be derived from 
the Airport and Airway Trust Fund: Provided, That of the amounts 
made available under this heading—
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(1) not less than $1,842,037,000 shall be available for avia-
tion safety activities; 
(2) $10,340,667,000 shall be available for air traffic 
organization activities; 
(3) $41,755,000 shall be available for commercial space 
transportation activities; 
(4) $963,410,000 shall be available for finance and manage-
ment activities; 
(5) $65,813,000 shall be available for NextGen and oper-
ations planning activities; 
(6) $154,896,000 shall be available for security and haz-
ardous materials safety activities; and 
(7) $301,422,000 shall be available for staff offices: 
Provided further, That of the amounts allocated under the previous 
proviso— 
(A) not less than $379,223,000 shall be for aircraft certifi-
cation service; 
(B) not less than $100,000,000 shall be for the Office of 
Aerospace Medicine; 
(C) not less than $279,200,000 shall be used to fund direct 
operations of the current air traffic control towers in the con-
tract tower program, including the contract tower cost share 
program, and any airport that is currently qualified or that 
will qualify for the program during the fiscal year; 
(D) $6,000,000 shall be for the pilot program to convert 
high activity air traffic control towers operating under the 
contract tower program to FAA staffed visual flight rules 
towers, as authorized under section 625 of the FAA Reauthor-
ization Act of 2024, and to prioritize the contract towers as 
required under section 625(a)(2) of such Act; 
(E) not less than $16,000,000 shall be for the Office of 
Spectrum Engineering; 
(F) $6,000,000 shall be for unmanned aircraft system test 
ranges; 
(G) not less than $7,500,000 shall be for the internship 
program authorized under section 404 of the FAA Reauthoriza-
tion Act of 2024 (Public Law 118–63); 
(H) not less than $1,000,000 shall be for the human inter-
vention motivation study contract and the flight attendant drug 
and alcohol program contract; and 
(I) $3,000,000 shall be for the FAA’s veterans’ pilot training 
program: 
Provided further, That not to exceed 5 percent of any budget 
activity, except for aviation safety budget activity, may be trans-
ferred to any budget activity under this heading: Provided further, 
That no transfer may increase or decrease any appropriation under 
this heading by more than 5 percent: Provided further, That any 
transfer in excess of 5 percent shall be treated as a reprogramming 
of funds under section 405 of this Act and shall not be available 
for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with the proce-
dures set forth in that section: Provided further, That not later 
than 45 days after the submission of the budget request, the 
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall transmit 
to Congress an annual update to the report submitted to Congress 
in December 2004 pursuant to section 221 of the Vision 100-Century 
of Aviation Reauthorization Act (49 U.S.C. 44506 note): Provided 
further, That not later than 45 days after the submission of the
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budget request, the Administrator shall transmit to Congress 
reports that describe a comprehensive strategy for staffing, hiring, 
and training of flight standards and aircraft certification staff, 
and airway transportation system specialists in a format similar 
to the one utilized for the controller staffing plan, including stated 
attrition estimates and numerical hiring goals by fiscal year: Pro-
vided further, That the amounts made available under this heading 
shall be reduced by $100,000 for each day after 45 days after 
the submission of the budget request that reports containing the 
information described in the preceding two provisos have not been 
transmitted to Congress: Provided further, That funds may be used 
to enter into a grant agreement with a nonprofit standard-setting 
organization to assist in the development of aviation safety stand-
ards: Provided further, That none of the funds made available 
by this Act shall be available for new applicants for the second 
career training program: Provided further, That none of the funds 
made available by this Act shall be available for the Federal Avia-
tion Administration to finalize or implement any regulation that 
would promulgate new aviation user fees not specifically authorized 
by law after the date of the enactment of this Act: Provided further, 
That there may be credited to this appropriation, as offsetting 
collections, funds received from States, counties, municipalities, 
foreign authorities, other public authorities, and private sources 
for expenses incurred in the provision of agency services, including 
receipts for the maintenance and operation of air navigation facili-
ties, and for issuance, renewal or modification of certificates, 
including airman, aircraft, and repair station certificates, or for 
tests related thereto, or for processing major repair or alteration 
forms: Provided further, That not later than 120 days after enact-
ment of this Act, the Administrator shall transmit to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations a report on all expendi-
tures related to the contract tower program from the most recent 
fiscal year, including a breakout for administrative costs, contract 
support expenses, insurance, equipment procured and installed in 
contract towers, new starts, and aggregate payments for operating 
the contract towers: Provided further, That not later than 180 
days after enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall transmit 
to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations a report 
on the FAA’s ongoing efforts and future plans to equip contract 
towers with radar displays and other technology that the FAA 
believes are necessary to enhance aviation safety: Provided further, 
That none of the funds made available by this Act for aeronautical 
charting and cartography are available for activities conducted by, 
or coordinated through, the Working Capital Fund: Provided fur-
ther, That not less than $4,000,000 of amounts made available 
for staff offices shall be used to establish the Office of the Assistant 
Administrator for Rulemaking and Regulatory Improvement as 
authorized under section 106(c) of title 49, United States Code: 
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act or any other Act may be used to elimi-
nate the contract weather observers program at any airport.
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FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT 
(AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND) 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for acquisi-
tion, establishment, technical support services, improvement by 
contract or purchase, and hire of national airspace systems and 
experimental facilities and equipment, as authorized under part 
A of subtitle VII of title 49, United States Code, including initial 
acquisition of necessary sites by lease or grant; engineering and 
service testing, including construction of test facilities and acquisi-
tion of necessary sites by lease or grant; construction and furnishing 
of quarters and related accommodations for officers and employees 
of the Federal Aviation Administration stationed at remote localities 
where such accommodations are not available; and the purchase, 
lease, or transfer of aircraft from funds made available under this 
heading, including aircraft for aviation regulation and certification; 
to be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, 
$4,000,000,000, of which $697,850,000 is for personnel and related 
expenses and shall remain available until September 30, 2027, 
and $3,302,150,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2028: 
Provided, That the sums appropriated under this heading in this 
Act shall be made available for the purposes, and in the amounts, 
specified for spending in the table entitled ‘‘Allocation of FAA Facili-
ties and Equipment Funding in This Act—Fiscal Year 2026’’ 
included for this division in the explanatory statement described 
in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated 
Act): Provided further, That the sums appropriated under this 
heading in title VIII of division J of the Infrastructure Investment 
and Jobs Act (Public Law 117–58) shall be made available for 
the purposes, and in the amounts, specified for spending in the 
table entitled ‘‘Allocation of FAA Facilities and Equipment Funding 
in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act—Fiscal Year 2026’’ 
included for this division in the explanatory statement described 
in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated 
Act): Provided further, That amounts repurposed pursuant to the 
preceding proviso shall continue to be treated as amounts specified 
in section 103(b) of division A of Public Law 118–5: Provided further, 
That there may be credited to this appropriation funds received 
from States, counties, municipalities, other public authorities, and 
private sources, for expenses incurred in the establishment, 
improvement, and modernization of national airspace systems: Pro-
vided further, That not later than 30 days after submission of 
the budget request, the Secretary of Transportation shall transmit 
to the Congress an investment plan for the Federal Aviation 
Administration which includes funding for each budget line item 
for fiscal years 2027 through 2031, with total funding for each 
year of the plan constrained to the funding targets for those years 
as estimated and approved by the Office of Management and 
Budget: Provided further, That section 405 of this Act shall apply 
to amounts made available under the heading in this Act and 
in title VIII of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (division 
J of Public Law 117–58): Provided further, That, notwithstanding 
subsections (a)(5) and (a)(6) of such section 405, unless prior 
approval is received from the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations, not to exceed 7 percent of any funding level specified 
for projects and activities in the tables incorporated by reference