an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provision
of law, the reference shall be considered to be made to a
section or other provision of title 49, United States Code.
SEC. 3. APPLICABILITY.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as otherwise specifically
provided, this Act and the amendments made by this Act
apply only to fiscal years beginning after September 30,
1998.
(b) LIMITATION
ON STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION.—
Nothing in this Act or any amendment made by this Act
shall be construed as affecting funds made available for a
fiscal year ending before October 1, 1998.
SEC. 4. ADMINISTRATOR DEFINED.
In this Act, the term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Ad-
ministrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.
TITLE I—AIRPORT AND AIRWAY
IMPROVEMENTS
SEC. 101. AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.
(a) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section
48103 is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘September 30, 1996’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘September 30, 1998’’; and
(2) by striking ‘‘$2,280,000,000’’ and all that fol-
lows through the period at the end and inserting the
s following: ‘‘$2,347,000,000 for fiscal years ending
before October 1, 1999.’’.
(b) OBLIGATIONAL AUTHORITY.—Section 47104(c) is
amended by striking ‘‘1998’’ and inserting ‘‘1999’’.
SEC. 102. AIRWAY FACILITIES IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.
(a) GENERAL
AUTHORIZATION
AND
APPROPRIA-
TIONS.—Section 48101(a) is amended by adding at the end
the following:
‘‘(3) $2,131,000,000 for fiscal year 1999.’’.
(b) UNIVERSAL ACCESS SYSTEMS.—Section 48101 is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(d) UNIVERSAL ACCESS SYSTEMS.—Of the amounts
appropriated under subsection (a) for fiscal year 1999,
$8,000,000 may be used for the voluntary purchase and in-
stallation of universal access systems.’’.
SEC. 103. FAA OPERATIONS.
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FROM GEN-
ERAL FUND.—Section 106(k) is amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—’’ before
‘‘There’’;
(2) in paragraph (1) (as so designated) by strik-
ing ‘‘$5,158,000,000’’ and all that follows through the
period at the end and inserting the following:
‘‘$5,632,000,000 for fiscal year 1999.’’;
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(2) 
AUTHORIZED
EXPENDITURES.—Of 
the
amounts appropriated under paragraph (1) for fiscal
year 1999—
‘‘(A) $450,000 may be used for wildlife haz-
ard mitigation measures and management of the
wildlife strike database of the Federal Aviation
Administration;
‘‘(B) such sums as may be necessary may be
used to fund an office within the Federal Avia-
tion Administration dedicated to supporting in-
frastructure systems development for both general
aviation and the vertical flight industry; and
‘‘(C) such sums as may be necessary may be
used to revise existing terminal and en route
procedures and instrument flight rules to facili-
tate the takeoff, flight, and landing of tiltrotor
aircraft and to improve the national airspace
system by separating such aircraft from con-
gested flight paths of fixed-wing aircraft.’’; and
(4) by indenting paragraph (1) (as designated
by paragraph (1) of this subsection) and aligning
such paragraph (1) with paragraph (2) (as added by
paragraph (2) of this subsection).
(b) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS
FROM
TRUST FUND.—Section 48104 is amended—
(1) by striking subsection (b) and redesignating
subsection (c) as subsection (b);
(2) in subsection (b), as so redesignated—
(A) in the subsection heading by striking
‘‘FISCAL YEARS 1994–1998’’ and inserting ‘‘FIS-
CAL YEAR 1999’’; and
(B) in the matter preceding paragraph (1)
by striking ‘‘each of fiscal years 1994 through
1998’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal year 1999’’.
(c) LIMITATION
ON
OBLIGATING
OR
EXPENDING
AMOUNTS.—Section 48108(c) is amended by striking
‘‘1998’’ and inserting ‘‘1999’’.
SEC. 104. AIP FORMULA CHANGES.
(a) DISCRETIONARY FUND.—Section 47115 is amend-
ed—
(1) by striking subsection (g);
(2) by redesignating subsection (h) as subsection
(g); and
(3) by inserting before the period at the end of
subsection (g) (as so redesignated) the following:
‘‘with funds made available under this section and, if
such funds are not sufficient, with funds made avail-
able under sections 47114(c)(1)(A), 47114(c)(2),
47114(d), and 47117(e) on a pro rata basis’’.
(b) AMOUNTS APPORTIONED TO SPONSORS.—Section
47114(c)(1) is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (A)(v) by inserting ‘‘subject
to subparagraph (C),’’ before ‘‘$.50’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(C) The amount to be apportioned for a fiscal year
for a passenger described in subparagraph (A)(v) shall be
reduced to $.40 if the total amount made available under
section 
48103 
for 
such 
fiscal 
year 
is 
less 
than
$1,350,000,000.’’.
(c) ENTITLEMENT
FOR
GENERAL
AVIATION
AIR-
PORTS.—Section 47114(d)(2) is amended—
(1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) by
striking ‘‘18.5 percent’’ and inserting ‘‘20 percent’’;
(2) in subparagraph (A) by striking ‘‘0.66’’ and
inserting ‘‘0.62; and
(3) in each of subparagraphs (B) and (C) by
striking ‘‘49.67’’ and inserting ‘‘49.69’’.
(d) USE OF APPORTIONMENTS FOR ALASKA, PUERTO
RICO, AND HAWAII.—Section 47114(d)(3) is amended to
read as follows:
‘‘(3) SPECIAL RULE.—An amount apportioned
under paragraph (2) of this subsection for airports in
Alaska, Puerto Rico, or Hawaii may be made avail-
able by the Secretary for any public airport in those
respective jurisdictions.’’.
(e) USE OF STATE-APPORTIONED FUNDS FOR SYSTEM
PLANNING.—Section 47114(d) is further amended by add-
ing at the end the following:
‘‘(4) INTEGRATED AIRPORT SYSTEM PLANNING.—
Notwithstanding paragraph (2), funds made available
under this subsection may be used for integrated air-
port system planning that encompasses 1 or more pri-
mary airports.’’.
(f) GRANTS
FOR AIRPORT NOISE COMPATIBILITY
PLANNING.—Section 47117(e)(1) is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (A) by striking ‘‘31 per-
cent’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘33 per-
cent’’; and
(2) in subparagraph (B) by striking ‘‘At least’’
and all that follows through ‘‘sponsors of current’’
and inserting ‘‘At least 4 percent to sponsors of cur-
rent’’.
(g) SUPPLEMENTAL APPORTIONMENT FOR ALASKA.—
Section 47114(e) is amended—
(1) in the subsection heading by striking ‘‘AL-
TERNATIVE’’ and inserting ‘‘SUPPLEMENTAL’’;
(2) in paragraph (1)—