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tured in the United States versus funds spent on arti-
cles, materials, or supplies manufactured outside of 
the United States. 
(c) The head of each Federal agency submitting a re-
port under subsection (a) shall make the report publicly 
available to the maximum extent practicable. 
(d) This section shall not apply to acquisitions made 
by an agency, or component thereof, that is an element of 
the intelligence community as set forth in or designated 
under section 3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 
U.S.C. 401a(4)). 
SEC. 846. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to administer, implement, or enforce the 
amendment made to section 515.533 of title 31, Code of Fed-
eral Regulations, that was published in the Federal Register 
on February 25, 2005. 
TITLE IX 
AIR TRANSPORTATION TO AND FROM LOVE 
FIELD 
SEC. 901. MODIFICATION OF PROVISIONS REGARDING 
FLIGHTS TO AND FROM LOVE FIELD, TEXAS. 
(a) EXPANDED SERVICE.—Section 29(c) of the Inter-
national Air Transportation Competition Act of 1979 is 
amended by striking ‘‘carrier, if (1)’’ and all that follows 
and inserting the following: ‘‘carrier. Air carriers and, with
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regard to foreign air transportation, foreign air carriers, 
may offer for sale and provide through service and ticketing 
to or from Love Field, Texas, and any domestic or foreign 
destination through any point within Texas, New Mexico, 
Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Mis-
souri, and Alabama.’’. 
(b) REPEAL.—Section 29 of the International Air 
Transportation Competition Act of 1979 (Public Law 96– 
192; 94 Stat. 48 et seq.) is repealed on the date that is 8 
years after the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 902. TREATMENT OF INTERNATIONAL NON-STOP 
FLIGHTS TO AND FROM LOVE FIELD, TEXAS. 
No person may provide, or offer to provide, air trans-
portation of passengers for compensation or hire between 
Love Field, Texas, and any point or points outside the 50 
States or the District of Columbia on a non-stop basis, and 
no official or employee of the United States Government 
may take any action to make or designate Love Field, 
Texas, an initial point of entry into the United States or 
a last point of departure from the United States. 
SEC. 903. CHARTER FLIGHTS AT LOVE FIELD, TEXAS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Charter flights (as defined in 14 
CFR 212.2) at Love Field, Texas, shall be limited to des-
tinations within the 50 United States and the District of 
Columbia and shall be limited to no more than 10 per
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month per air carrier for charter flights beyond Texas, New 
Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mis-
sissippi, Missouri, or Alabama. 
(b) CARRIERS THAT LEASE GATES.—Except for a 
flight operated by a Federal agency or by an air carrier 
under contract to a Federal agency or in extraordinary cir-
cumstances or irregular operations, all flights operated by 
air carriers that lease terminal gate space at Love Field, 
Texas, shall depart from and arrive at one of those leased 
gates. 
(c) CARRIERS THAT DO NOT LEASE GATES.—A char-
ter flight operated by an air carrier that does not lease ter-
minal space at Love Field, Texas, may operate from non- 
terminal facilities or one of the terminal gates. 
SEC. 904. AGREEMENT OF THE PARTIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection 
(b), any action taken by the City of Dallas, the City of Fort 
Worth, Southwest Airlines, American Airlines, or the Dal-
las-Fort Worth International Airport Board (referred to in 
this section as the ‘‘parties’’) that is reasonably necessary 
to implement the provisions of the agreement dated July 
11, 2006, and titled ‘‘Contract Among the City of Dallas, 
the City of Fort Worth, Southwest Airlines Co., American 
Airlines, Inc., and DFW International Airport Board In-
corporating the Substance of the Terms of the June 15, 2006
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Joint Statement Between the Parties to Resolve the ‘Wright 
Amendment’ Issues’’, and such agreement, shall be deemed 
to comply in all respects with the parties’ obligations under 
title 49, United States Code, and any other competition 
laws. 
(b) LIMITATIONS ON STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION.— 
Nothing in this section shall be construed— 
(1) to limit the obligations of the parties under 
the existing programs of the United States Depart-
ment of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Ad-
ministration relating to aviation safety, labor, envi-
ronmental, national historic preservation, civil rights, 
small business concerns (including disadvantaged 
business enterprise), veteran’s preference, and dis-
ability access; 
(2) to limit the obligations of the parties under 
the existing aviation security programs of the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security and the Transportation 
Security Administration at Love Field, Texas; or 
(3) to authorize the parties to offer marketing in-
centives that are in violation of Federal law, rules, 
orders, agreements, and other requirements. 
(c) LOVE FIELD GATES.—The number of gates avail-
able for passenger air service at Love Field, Texas, shall
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be reduced, as soon as practicable, to no more than 20 gates, 
and thereafter shall not exceed a maximum of 20 gates. 
(d) GENERAL AVIATION.—Nothing in the agreement 
described in subsection (a) shall affect general aviation serv-
ice at Love Field, Texas, including flights to or from Love 
Field by general aviation aircraft for air taxi service, pri-
vate or sport flying, aerial photography, crop dusting, cor-
porate aviation, medical evacuation, flight training, police 
or fire fighting, and similar general aviation purposes, or 
by aircraft operated by any Federal agency or by any air-
line under contract to any agency of the U.S. Government. 
(e) ENFORCEMENT.—Notwithstanding any other pro-
vision of law, the Secretary of Transportation and the Ad-
ministrator of the Federal Aviation Administration are 
prohibited from making findings or determinations, pro-
mulgating orders or rules, withholding airport improve-
ment grants or approvals thereof, denying passenger facility 
charge applications, or taking any other action either self- 
initiated or on behalf of third parties, that is inconsistent 
with the provisions of the agreement described in subsection 
(a), or that challenge the legality of any of its provisions. 
SEC. 905. JURISDICTION. 
The Department of Transportation shall have exclusive 
jurisdiction with respect to the agreement described in sec-
tion 5(a) of this Act.
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SEC. 906. APPLICABILITY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The provisions of this Act shall 
apply only to actions taken with respect to Love Field, 
Texas, or air transportation to or from Love Field, Texas, 
under the agreement described in section 5(a) of this Act 
and shall have no application to any other airport. 
(b) SAFETY REVIEW.—The provisions of this Act shall 
not take effect if, within 30 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Ad-
ministration determines and notifies the Congress that 
aviation operations in the airspace serving Love Field, 
Texas, and the Dallas-Fort Worth area that will be facili-
tated by the agreement described in section 5(a) and by this 
Act, cannot be accommodated in compliance with FAA safe-
ty standards in accordance with section 40101 of title 49, 
United States Code. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transportation, Treas-
ury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007’’.
Calendar No. 535 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H.R. 5576 
[Report No. 109–293] 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Departments of 
Transportation, Treasury, and Housing and 
Urban Development, the Judiciary, District of 
Columbia, and independent agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2007, and for other 
purposes. 
JUNE 15, 2006 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on 
Appropriations 
JULY 26, 2006 
Reported with an amendment