I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2881 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to authorize appropriations for 
the Federal Aviation Administration for fiscal years 2008 through 2011, 
to improve aviation safety and capacity, to provide stable funding for 
the national aviation system, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 27, 2007 
Mr. OBERSTAR (for himself, Mr. MICA, Mr. COSTELLO, Mr. PETRI, Mr. RA-
HALL, Mr. YOUNG of Alaska, Mr. DEFAZIO, Ms. NORTON, Mr. NADLER, 
Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Mr. FILNER, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE 
JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mrs. TAUSCHER, Mr. BOSWELL, Mr. 
HOLDEN, Mr. BAIRD, Mr. LARSEN of Washington, Mr. CAPUANO, Ms. 
CARSON, Mr. BISHOP of New York, Mr. HIGGINS, Mr. CARNAHAN, Mr. 
SALAZAR, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. LIPINSKI, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. SPACE, 
Ms. HIRONO, Mr. ARCURI, Mr. BRALEY of Iowa, Mr. HALL of New York, 
Mr. KAGEN, and Mr. COHEN) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to authorize appro-
priations for the Federal Aviation Administration for 
fiscal years 2008 through 2011, to improve aviation safe-
ty and capacity, to provide stable funding for the na-
tional aviation system, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘FAA Reauthorization Act of 2007’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.— 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Amendments to title 49, United States Code. 
Sec. 3. Effective date. 
TITLE I—AUTHORIZATIONS 
Subtitle A—Funding of FAA Programs 
Sec. 101. Airport planning and development and noise compatibility planning 
and programs. 
Sec. 102. Air navigation facilities and equipment. 
Sec. 103. FAA operations. 
Sec. 104. Funding for aviation programs. 
Subtitle B—Passenger Facility Charges 
Sec. 111. PFC authority. 
Sec. 112. PFC eligibility for bicycle storage. 
Sec. 113. Noise compatibility projects. 
Sec. 114. Intermodal ground access project pilot program. 
Sec. 115. Impacts on airports of accommodating connecting passengers. 
Subtitle C—Fees for FAA Services 
Sec. 121. Update on overflights. 
Sec. 122. Registration fees. 
Subtitle D—AIP Modifications 
Sec. 131. Amendments to AIP definitions. 
Sec. 132. Amendments to grant assurances. 
Sec. 133. Government share of project costs. 
Sec. 134. Amendments to allowable costs. 
Sec. 135. Uniform certification training for airport concessions under disadvan-
taged business enterprise program. 
Sec. 136. Preference for small business concerns owned and controlled by dis-
abled veterans. 
Sec. 137. Calculation of State apportionment fund. 
Sec. 138. Reducing apportionments. 
Sec. 139. Minimum amount for discretionary fund. 
Sec. 140. Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau. 
Sec. 141. Use of apportioned amounts. 
Sec. 142. Sale of private airport to public sponsor. 
Sec. 143. Airport privatization pilot program. 
Sec. 144. Airport security program. 
Sec. 145. Sunset of pilot program for purchase of airport development rights. 
Sec. 146. Extension of grant authority for compatible land use planning and 
projects by State and local governments. 
Sec. 147. Repeal of limitations on Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. 
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Sec. 148. Midway Island Airport. 
Sec. 149. Miscellaneous amendments. 
TITLE II—AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL MODERNIZATION 
Subtitle A—Next Generation Air Transportation System 
Sec. 201. Mission statement; sense of Congress. 
Sec. 202. Next generation air transportation system joint planning and develop-
ment office. 
Sec. 203. Next Generation Air Transportation Senior Policy Committee. 
Sec. 204. Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast services. 
Sec. 205. Inclusion of stakeholders in air traffic control modernization projects. 
Sec. 206. GAO review of challenges associated with transforming to the Next 
Generation Air Transportation System. 
Sec. 207. GAO review of Next Generation Air Transportation System acquisi-
tion and procedures development. 
Sec. 208. DOT inspector general review of operational and approach procedures 
by a third party. 
Sec. 209. Expert review of enterprise architecture for Next Generation Air 
Transportation System. 
Sec. 210. NEXTGEN technology testbed. 
Subtitle B—Miscellaneous 
Sec. 211. Clarification of authority to enter into reimbursable agreements. 
Sec. 212. Definition of air navigation facility. 
Sec. 213. Improved management of property inventory. 
Sec. 214. Clarification to acquisition reform authority. 
Sec. 215. Assistance to foreign aviation authorities. 
Sec. 216. Front line manager staffing. 
Sec. 217. Flight service stations. 
TITLE III—SAFETY 
Subtitle A—General Provisions 
Sec. 301. Age standards for pilots. 
Sec. 302. Judicial review of denial of airman certificates. 
Sec. 303. Release of data relating to abandoned type certificates and supple-
mental type certificates. 
Sec. 304. Inspection of foreign repair stations. 
Sec. 305. Runway incursion reduction. 
Sec. 306. Improved pilot licenses. 
Sec. 307. Aircraft fuel tank safety improvement. 
Sec. 308. Flight crew fatigue. 
Sec. 309. OSHA standards. 
Sec. 310. Aircraft surveillance in mountainous areas. 
Sec. 311. Off-airport, low-altitude aircraft weather observation technology. 
Subtitle B—Unmanned Aircraft Systems 
Sec. 321. Commercial unmanned aircraft systems integration plan. 
Sec. 322. Special rules for certain unmanned aircraft systems. 
Sec. 323. Public unmanned aircraft systems. 
Sec. 324. Definitions. 
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TITLE IV—AIR SERVICE IMPROVEMENTS 
Sec. 401. Monthly air carrier reports. 
Sec. 402. Flight operations at Reagan National Airport. 
Sec. 403. EAS contract guidelines. 
Sec. 404. Essential air service reform. 
Sec. 405. Small community air service. 
Sec. 406. Air passenger service improvements. 
Sec. 407. Contents of competition plans. 
Sec. 408. Extension of competitive access reports. 
Sec. 409. Contract tower program. 
Sec. 410. Airfares for members of the Armed Forces. 
Sec. 411. Medical oxygen and portable respiratory assistive devices. 
TITLE V—ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP AND STREAMLINING 
Sec. 501. Amendments to air tour management program. 
Sec. 502. State block grant program. 
Sec. 503. Airport funding of special studies or reviews. 
Sec. 504. Grant eligibility for assessment of flight procedures. 
Sec. 505. CLEEN engine and airframe technology partnership. 
Sec. 506. Prohibition on operating certain aircraft weighing 75,000 pounds or 
less not complying with stage 3 noise levels. 
Sec. 507. Environmental mitigation pilot program. 
Sec. 508. Aircraft departure queue management pilot program. 
Sec. 509. High performance and sustainable air traffic control facilities. 
Sec. 510. Regulatory responsibility for aircraft engine noise and emissions 
standards. 
Sec. 511. Production of alternative jet fuel technology for civil aircraft. 
TITLE VI—FAA EMPLOYEES AND ORGANIZATION 
Sec. 601. MSPB remedial authority for FAA employees. 
Sec. 602. FAA technical training and staffing. 
Sec. 603. Designee program. 
Sec. 604. Staffing model for aviation safety inspectors. 
Sec. 605. Safety critical staffing. 
Sec. 606. Center for excellence in aviation employment. 
Sec. 607. FAA air traffic controller staffing. 
Sec. 608. Assessment of training programs for air traffic controllers. 
Sec. 609. Collegiate training initiative study. 
TITLE VII—AVIATION INSURANCE 
Sec. 701. General authority. 
Sec. 702. Extension of authority to limit third party liability of air carriers 
arising out of acts of terrorism. 
Sec. 703. Clarification of reinsurance authority. 
Sec. 704. Use of independent claims adjusters. 
Sec. 705. Extension of program authority. 
TITLE VIII—MISCELLANEOUS 
Sec. 801. Air carrier citizenship. 
Sec. 802. Disclosure of data to Federal agencies in interest of national security. 
Sec. 803. FAA access to criminal history records and database systems. 
Sec. 804. Clarification of air carrier fee disputes. 
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Sec. 805. Study on national plan of integrated airport systems. 
Sec. 806. Consolidation and realignment of FAA facilities. 
Sec. 807. Transportation Security Administration centralized training facility 
feasibility study. 
Sec. 808. GAO study on cooperation of airline industry in international child 
abduction cases. 
Sec. 809. Lost Nation Airport, Ohio. 
Sec. 810. Pollock Municipal Airport, Louisiana. 
Sec. 811. Human intervention and motivation study program. 
Sec. 812. Washington, D.C., Air Defense Identification Zone. 
Sec. 813. Merrill Field Airport, municipality of Anchorage, Alaska. 
Sec. 814. William P. Hobby Airport, Houston, Texas. 
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 49, UNITED STATES CODE. 
Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in 
this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms 
of an amendment to, or a repeal of, a section or other 
provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to 
a section or other provision of title 49, United States 
Code. 
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
Except as otherwise expressly provided, this Act and 
the amendments made by this Act shall apply only to fiscal 
years beginning after September 30, 2007. 
TITLE I—AUTHORIZATIONS 
Subtitle A—Funding of FAA 
Programs 
SEC. 101. AIRPORT PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT AND 
NOISE COMPATIBILITY PLANNING AND PRO-
GRAMS. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION.—Section 48103 is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘September 30, 2003’’ and in-
serting ‘‘September 30, 2007’’; and 
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(2) by striking paragraphs (1) through (4) and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) $3,800,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; 
‘‘(2) $3,900,000,000 fiscal year 2009; 
‘‘(3) $4,000,000,000 fiscal year 2010; and 
‘‘(4) $4,100,000,000 fiscal year 2011.’’. 
(b) OBLIGATIONAL AUTHORITY.—Section 47104(c) 
is amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2007’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘September 30, 2011’’. 
SEC. 102. AIR NAVIGATION FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
48101(a) is amended by striking paragraphs (1) through 
(4) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) $3,120,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; 
‘‘(2) $3,246,000,000 for fiscal year 2009; 
‘‘(3) $3,259,000,000 for fiscal year 2010; and 
‘‘(4) $3,353,000,000 for fiscal year 2011.’’. 
(b) USE OF FUNDS.—Section 48101 is amended by 
striking subsections (c) through (i) and inserting the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(c) WAKE VORTEX MITIGATION.—Of amounts ap-
propriated under subsection (a), such sums as may be nec-
essary for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2011 may 
be used for the development and analysis of wake vortex 
mitigation, including advisory systems. 
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‘‘(d) WEATHER HAZARDS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Of amounts appropriated 
under subsection (a), such sums as may be nec-
essary for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2011 
may be used for the development of in-flight and 
ground-based weather threat mitigation systems, in-
cluding ground de-icing and anti-icing systems and 
other systems for predicting, detecting, and miti-
gating the effects of certain weather conditions on 
both airframes and engines. 
‘‘(2) SPECIFIC HAZARDS.—Weather conditions 
referred to in paragraph (1) include— 
‘‘(A) ground-based icing threats such as 
ice pellets and freezing drizzle; 
‘‘(B) oceanic weather, including convective 
weather, and other hazards associated with oce-
anic operations (where commercial traffic is 
high and only rudimentary satellite sensing is 
available) to reduce the hazards presented to 
commercial 
aviation, 
including 
convective 
weather ice crystal ingestion threats; and 
‘‘(C) en route turbulence prediction. 
‘‘(e) SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS.—Of amounts 
appropriated under subsection (a) and section 106(k)(1), 
such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 
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2008 through 2011 may be used to advance the develop-
ment and implementation of safety management systems. 
‘‘(f) RUNWAY INCURSION REDUCTION PROGRAMS.— 
Of 
amounts 
appropriated 
under 
subsection 
(a), 
$8,000,000 for fiscal year 2008, $10,000,000 for fiscal 
year 2009, $12,000,000 for fiscal year 2010, and 
$12,000,000 for fiscal year 2011 may be used for the de-
velopment and implementation of runway incursion reduc-
tion programs. 
‘‘(g) RUNWAY STATUS LIGHTS.—Of amounts appro-
priated under subsection (a), $15,000,000 for fiscal year 
2008, $27,000,000 for fiscal year 2009, $12,000,000 for 
fiscal year 2010, and $20,000,000 for 2011 may be used 
for the acquisition and installation of runway status 
lights.’’. 
SEC. 103. FAA OPERATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 106(k)(1) is amended by 
striking subparagraphs (A) through (D) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(A) $8,726,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; 
‘‘(B) $8,978,000,000 for fiscal year 2009; 
‘‘(C) $9,305,000,000 for fiscal year 2010; 
and 
‘‘(D) 
$9,590,000,000 
for 
fiscal 
year 
2011.’’. 
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(b) 
AUTHORIZED
EXPENDITURES.—Section 
106(k)(2) is amended— 
(1) by striking subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), 
(D), and (F); 
(2) by redesignating subparagraphs (E) and 
(G) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively; and 
(3) in subparagraphs (A) and (B) (as so redes-
ignated) by striking ‘‘2004 through 2007’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2008 through 2011’’. 
(c) AIRLINE DATA AND ANALYSIS.—There is author-
ized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Transportation 
out of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund established by 
section 9502 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 
U.S.C. 9502) to fund airline data collection and analysis 
by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics in the Re-
search and Innovative Technology Administration of the 
Department of Transportation— 
(1) $4,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; and 
(2) $6,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2009, 
2010, and 2011. 
SEC. 104. FUNDING FOR AVIATION PROGRAMS. 
(a) AIRPORT
AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND GUAR-
ANTEE.—Section 48114(a)(1)(A) is amended to read as 
follows: 
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‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The total budget re-
sources made available from the Airport and 
Airway Trust Fund each fiscal year through fis-
cal year 2011 pursuant to sections 48101, 
48102, 48103, and 106(k) shall— 
‘‘(i) in each of fiscal years 2008 and 
2009, be equal to 95 percent of the esti-
mated level of receipts plus interest cred-
ited to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund 
for that fiscal year; and 
‘‘(ii) in each of fiscal years 2010 and 
2011, be equal to the sum of— 
‘‘(I) 95 percent of the estimated 
level of receipts plus interest credited 
to the Airport and Airway Trust 
Fund for that fiscal year; and 
‘‘(II) the actual level of receipts 
plus interest credited to the Airport 
and Airway Trust Fund for the sec-
ond preceding fiscal year minus the 
total amount made available for obli-
gation from the Airport and Airway 
Trust Fund for the second preceding 
fiscal year. 
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Such amounts may be used only for avia-
tion investment programs listed in sub-
section (b).’’. 
(b) ADDITIONAL AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIA-
TIONS FROM THE GENERAL FUND.—Section 48114(a)(2) 
is amended by striking ‘‘2007’’ and inserting ‘‘2011’’. 
(c) ESTIMATED LEVEL OF RECEIPTS PLUS INTER-
EST DEFINED.—Section 48114(b)(2) is amended— 
(1) in the paragraph heading by striking 
‘‘LEVEL’’ and inserting ‘‘ESTIMATED LEVEL’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘level of receipts plus interest’’ 
and inserting ‘‘estimated level of receipts plus inter-
est’’. 
(d) 
ENFORCEMENT
OF
GUARANTEES.—Section 
48114(c)(2) is amended by striking ‘‘2007’’ and inserting 
‘‘2011’’. 
Subtitle B—Passenger Facility 
Charges 
SEC. 111. PFC AUTHORITY. 
(a) PFC DEFINED.—Section 40117(a)(5) is amend-
ed to read as follows: 
‘‘(5) PASSENGER FACILITY CHARGE.—The term 
‘passenger facility charge’ means a charge or fee im-
posed under this section.’’. 
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