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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, $554,180,000, to 
remain available through September 30, 2024: 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 of title 49, United States Code: 
Provided further, That of the amounts made available under this 
heading, $279,180,135 shall be made available for the purposes, 
and in amounts, specified for Community Project Funding/Congres-
sionally Directed Spending in the table entitled ‘‘Community Project 
Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending’’ included in the 
explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter pre-
ceding division A of this consolidated Act): Provided further, That 
any funds made available under this heading in this Act that 
remain available after the distribution of funds under the preceding 
proviso shall be available to the Secretary to distribute as discre-
tionary grants to airports: Provided further, That the amounts 
made available 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 amounts made available 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 made available by this Act may 
be used to compensate in excess of 600 technical staff-years under 
the federally funded research and development center contract 
between the Federal Aviation Administration and the Center for 
Advanced Aviation Systems Development during fiscal year 2022. 
SEC. 111. None of the funds made available by 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 on the use 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 section 
41742(a)(1) of title 49, United States Code, from fees credited under
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section 45303 of title 49, United States Code, and any amount 
remaining in such account at the close of any fiscal year may 
be made available to satisfy section 41742(a)(1) of title 49, United 
States Code, 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 as such appropriation. 
SEC. 114. None of the funds made available by this Act shall 
be available for paying premium pay under section 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 made available by 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. 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, Mode S transponder code, flight identification, 
call sign, or similar identifying information from any ground based 
display to the public that would allow the real-time or near real- 
time flight tracking of that aircraft’s movements, except data made 
available to a Government agency, for the noncommercial flights 
of that owner or operator. 
SEC. 117. None of the funds made available by this Act shall 
be available for salaries and expenses of more than nine political 
and Presidential appointees in the Federal Aviation Administration. 
SEC. 118. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to increase fees pursuant to section 44721 of title 49, 
United States Code, until the Federal Aviation Administration pro-
vides to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations a 
report that justifies all fees related to aeronautical navigation prod-
ucts and explains how such fees are consistent with Executive 
Order No. 13642. 
SEC. 119. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to close a regional operations center of the Federal Aviation 
Administration or reduce its services unless the Administrator noti-
fies the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations not less 
than 90 full business days in advance. 
SEC. 119A. None of the funds made available by or limited 
by this Act may be used to change weight restrictions or prior 
permission rules at Teterboro airport in Teterboro, New Jersey. 
SEC. 119B. None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration to withhold from consideration and approval any new 
application for participation in the Contract Tower Program, or 
for reevaluation of Cost-share Program participants so long as 
the Federal Aviation Administration has received an application 
from the airport, and so long as the Administrator determines 
such tower is eligible using the factors set forth in Federal Aviation 
Administration published establishment criteria.
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SEC. 119C. None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used to open, close, redesignate as a lesser office, or reorga-
nize a regional office, the aeronautical center, or the technical 
center unless the Administrator submits a request for the re-
programming of funds under section 405 of this Act. 
SEC. 119D. The Federal Aviation Administration Administra-
tive Services Franchise Fund may be reimbursed after performance 
or paid in advance from funds available to the Federal Aviation 
Administration and other Federal agencies for which the Fund 
performs services. 
SEC. 119E. 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 serv-
ices, or other aviation tenants, 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 Government: 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 independent 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 reimburse-
ments: 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. 
SEC. 119F. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available to the FAA may be used to carry out the FAA’s obligations 
under section 44502(e) of title 49, United States Code, unless the 
eligible air traffic system or equipment to be transferred to the 
FAA under section 44502(e) of title 49, United States Code, was 
purchased by the transferor airport— 
(1) during the period of time beginning on October 5, 2018 
and ending on December 31, 2021; or 
(2) on or after January 1, 2022 for transferor airports 
located in a non-contiguous states. 
FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
(HIGHWAY TRUST FUND) 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
Not to exceed $463,716,697 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: Provided, That 
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.
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FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAYS 
(LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS) 
(HIGHWAY TRUST FUND) 
Funds available for the implementation or execution of author-
ized Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs 
shall not exceed total obligations of $57,473,430,072 for fiscal year 
2022. 
(LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION) 
(HIGHWAY TRUST FUND) 
For the payment of obligations incurred in carrying out author-
ized Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs 
authorized under title 23, United States Code, $58,212,430,072 
derived from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit 
Account), to remain available until expended. 
HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
There is hereby appropriated to the Secretary $2,444,927,823: 
Provided, That the funds made available under this heading shall 
be derived from the general fund, shall be in addition to any 
funds provided for fiscal year 2022 in this or any other Act for: 
(1) ‘‘Federal-aid Highways’’ under chapter 1 of title 23, United 
States Code; (2) the Appalachian Development Highway System 
as authorized under section 1069(y) of Public Law 102–240; or 
(3) the Northern Border Regional Commission (40 U.S.C. 15101 
et seq.), and shall not affect the distribution or amount of funds 
provided in any other Act: Provided further, That, except for funds 
made available under this heading for the Northern Border Regional 
Commission, section 11101(e) of Public Law 117–58 shall apply 
to funds made available under this heading: Provided further, That 
unless otherwise specified, amounts made available under this 
heading shall be available until September 30, 2025, and shall 
not be subject to any limitation on obligations for Federal-aid high-
ways or highway safety construction programs set forth in any 
Act making annual appropriations: Provided further, That of the 
funds made available under this heading— 
(1) $846,927,823 shall be made available for the purposes, 
and in the amounts, specified for Community Project Funding/ 
Congressionally Directed Spending in the table entitled 
‘‘Community 
Project 
Funding/Congressionally 
Directed 
Spending’’ included in the explanatory statement described in 
section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated 
Act); 
(2) $100,000,000 shall be for necessary expenses for 
construction of the Appalachian Development Highway System 
as authorized under section 1069(y) of Public Law 102–240; 
(3) $75,000,000 shall be for the nationally significant Fed-
eral lands and Tribal projects program under section 1123 
of the FAST Act (23 U.S.C. 201 note);