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the Secretary, Salaries and Expenses’’ to carry out the 
Small Community Air Service Development Program. 
(RESCISSION) 
Of the amounts authorized under sections 48103 and 
48112 of title 49, United States Code, $80,000,000 are 
permanently rescinded from amounts authorized for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2009. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—FEDERAL AVIATION 
ADMINISTRATION 
SEC. 110. None of the funds in this Act may be used 
to compensate in excess of 600 technical staff-years under 
the federally funded research and development center con-
tract between the Federal Aviation Administration and the 
Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development dur-
ing fiscal year 2009. 
SEC. 111. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 
to pursue or adopt guidelines or regulations requiring air-
port sponsors to provide to the Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration 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 pro-
hibition of funds in this section does not apply to negotia-
tions 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 
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land without cost to the FAA for air traffic control facili-
ties. 
SEC. 112. The Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
Administration may reimburse amounts made available to 
satisfy 49 U.S.C. 41742(a)(1) from fees credited under 
49 U.S.C. 45303: Provided, That during fiscal year 2009, 
49 U.S.C. 41742(b) shall not apply, and any amount re-
maining in such account at the close of that fiscal year 
may be made available to satisfy section 41742(a)(1) for 
the subsequent fiscal year. 
SEC. 113. Amounts collected under section 40113(e) 
of title 49, United States Code, shall be credited to the 
appropriation 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 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. 115. (a) No funds provided in this Act may be 
used by the Secretary of Transportation to promulgate 
regulations or take any action regarding the scheduling 
of airline operations at any commercial airport in the 
United States if such regulation or action involves: 
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(1) the auctioning by the Secretary or the FAA 
Administrator of rights or permission to conduct air-
line operations at such an airport, 
(2) the implementation by said Secretary or Ad-
ministrator of peak-period or other forms of conges-
tion pricing at such an airport, 
(3) either: 
(A) withdrawal by the Secretary or Admin-
istrator of a right or permission to conduct op-
erations at such an airport (except when the 
withdrawal is for operational reasons or pursu-
ant to the terms or conditions of such operating 
right or permission), or 
(B) requiring a carrier to transfer involun-
tarily any such right or permission to another 
person, 
(4) the charging by the Secretary or Adminis-
trator of a fee for the right or permission to use 
navigable airspace at such an airport, or 
(5) requiring or providing incentives or dis-
incentives to airport proprietors to take such actions 
themselves. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to: 
(1) prohibit the Secretary or the Administrator 
from imposing per-operation limitations on airports 
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for the purpose of alleviating congestion at such air-
ports, 
(2) prohibit individual airports from imple-
menting peak-period or other congestion pricing at 
such airports, consistent with regulations pertaining 
to airport rates and charges, or 
(3) limit the ability of a State, political subdivi-
sion of a State, or political authority of at least two 
States that owns or operates a commercial airport 
from carrying out its proprietary powers and rights. 
SEC. 116. None of the funds limited by this Act for 
grants under the Airport Improvement Program shall be 
made available to the sponsor of a commercial service air-
port if such sponsor fails to agree to a request from the 
Secretary of Transportation for cost-free space in a non- 
revenue producing, public use area of the airport terminal 
or other airport facilities for the purpose of carrying out 
a public service air passenger rights and consumer out-
reach campaign. 
SEC. 117. Within 60 days of the publication date of 
any Government Accountability Office report reviewing 
the Federal Aviation Administration’s project to redesign 
the airspace over the New York, New Jersey, and Phila-
delphia region, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
Administration shall report in writing to the Committee 
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