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(1) DEVELOPMENT.—The Administrator of the 
Federal Aviation Administration shall develop a 
comprehensive human capital workforce strategy to 
determine the most effective method for addressing 
the need for more air traffic controllers that is called 
for in the June 2002 report of the General Account-
ing Office. 
(2) COMPLETION
DATE.—The Administrator 
shall complete development of the strategy not later 
than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act. 
(3) REPORT.—Not later than 30 days after the 
date on which the strategy is completed, the Admin-
istrator shall transmit to Congress a report describ-
ing the strategy. 
SEC. 102. AIR NAVIGATION FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT. 
Section 48101 is amended—
(1) in subsection (a) by striking paragraphs (1) 
through (5) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) $2,938,000,000 for fiscal year 2004; 
‘‘(2) $2,993,000,000 for fiscal year 2005; 
‘‘(3) $3,053,000,000 for fiscal year 2006; and 
‘‘(4) $3,110,000,000 for fiscal year 2007.’’; 
(2) by striking subsection (b); 
(3) by redesignating (c) as subsection (b);
(4) by striking subsections (d) and (e) and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(c) ENHANCED SAFETY AND SECURITY FOR AIR-
CRAFT OPERATIONS
IN
THE GULF
OF MEXICO.—Of 
amounts appropriated under subsection (a), such sums as 
may be necessary for fiscal years 2004 through 2007 may 
be used to expand and improve the safety, efficiency, and 
security of air traffic control, navigation, low altitude com-
munications and surveillance, and weather services in the 
Gulf of Mexico. 
‘‘(d) OPERATIONAL BENEFITS OF WAKE VORTEX 
ADVISORY SYSTEM.—Of amounts appropriated under sub-
section (a), $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2004 
through 2007 may be used to document and demonstrate 
the operational benefits of a wake vortex advisory system. 
‘‘(e) GROUND-BASED
PRECISION
NAVIGATIONAL 
AIDS.—Of amounts appropriated under subsection (a), 
$20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2004 to 2007 may 
be used to establish a program for the installation, oper-
ation, and maintenance of a closed-loop precision approach 
aid designed to improve aircraft accessibility at moun-
tainous airports with limited land if the approach aid is 
able to provide curved and segmented approach guidance 
for noise abatement purposes and has been certified or 
approved by the Administrator.’’; and
a coordinated review process for airport capacity enhance-
ment projects at congested airports. 
‘‘(b) COORDINATED REVIEWS.—
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The coordinated review 
process under this section shall provide that all envi-
ronmental reviews, analyses, opinions, permits, li-
censes, and approvals that must be issued or made 
by a Federal agency or airport sponsor for an air-
port capacity enhancement project at a congested 
airport will be conducted concurrently, to the max-
imum extent practicable, and completed within a 
time period established by the Secretary, in coopera-
tion with the agencies identified under subsection (c) 
with respect to the project. 
‘‘(2) AGENCY
PARTICIPATION.—Each Federal 
agency identified under subsection (c) shall formu-
late and implement administrative, policy, and pro-
cedural mechanisms to enable the agency to ensure 
completion of environmental reviews, analyses, opin-
ions, permits, licenses, and approvals described in 
paragraph (1) in a timely and environmentally re-
sponsible manner. 
‘‘(c) IDENTIFICATION
OF JURISDICTIONAL AGEN-
CIES.—With respect to each airport capacity enhancement 
project at a congested airport, the Secretary shall identify,
as soon as practicable, all Federal and State agencies that 
may have jurisdiction over environmental-related matters 
that may be affected by the project or may be required 
by law to conduct an environmental-related review or anal-
ysis of the project or determine whether to issue an envi-
ronmental-related permit, license, or approval for the 
project. 
‘‘(d) STATE AUTHORITY.—If a coordinated review 
process is being implemented under this section by the 
Secretary with respect to a project at an airport within 
the boundaries of a State, the State, consistent with State 
law, may choose to participate in such process and provide 
that all State agencies that have jurisdiction over environ-
mental-related matters that may be affected by the project 
or may be required by law to conduct an environmental-
related review or analysis of the project or determine 
whether to issue an environmental-related permit, license, 
or approval for the project, be subject to the process. 
‘‘(e) MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING.—The co-
ordinated review process developed under this section may 
be incorporated into a memorandum of understanding for 
a project between the Secretary and the heads of other 
Federal and State agencies identified under subsection (c) 
with respect to the project and the airport sponsor. 
‘‘(f) EFFECT OF FAILURE TO MEET DEADLINE.—
‘‘(1) NOTIFICATION OF CONGRESS AND CEQ.—
If the Secretary determines that a Federal agency, 
State agency, or airport sponsor that is participating 
in a coordinated review process under this section 
with respect to a project has not met a deadline es-
tablished under subsection (b) for the project, the 
Secretary shall notify, within 30 days of the date of 
such determination, the Committee on Transpor-
tation and Infrastructure of the House of Represent-
atives, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation of the Senate, the Council on Envi-
ronmental Quality, and the agency or sponsor in-
volved about the failure to meet the deadline. 
‘‘(2) AGENCY REPORT.—Not later than 30 days 
after date of receipt of a notice under paragraph (1), 
the agency or sponsor involved shall submit a report 
to the Secretary, the Committee on Transportation 
and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives, 
the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Trans-
portation of the Senate, and the Council on Environ-
mental Quality explaining why the agency or sponsor 
did not meet the deadline and what actions it in-
tends to take to complete or issue the required re-
view, analysis, opinion, license, or approval.
‘‘(g) PURPOSE AND NEED.—For any environmental 
review, analysis, opinion, permit, license, or approval that 
must be issued or made by a Federal or State agency that 
is participating in a coordinated review process under this 
section with respect to an airport capacity enhancement 
project at a congested airport and that requires an anal-
ysis of purpose and need for the project, the agency, not-
withstanding any other provision of law, shall be bound 
by the project purpose and need as defined by the Sec-
retary. 
‘‘(h) ALTERNATIVES ANALYSIS.—The Secretary shall 
determine the reasonable alternatives to an airport capac-
ity enhancement project at a congested airport. Any other 
Federal or State agency that is participating in a coordi-
nated review process under this section with respect to the 
project shall consider only those alternatives to the project 
that the Secretary has determined are reasonable. 
‘‘(i) SOLICITATION AND CONSIDERATION OF COM-
MENTS.—In applying subsections (g) and (h), the Sec-
retary shall solicit and consider comments from interested 
persons and governmental entities. 
‘‘(j) MONITORING BY TASK FORCE.—The Transpor-
tation Infrastructure Streamlining Task Force, estab-
lished by Executive Order 13274 (67 Fed. Reg. 59449; 
relating to environmental stewardship and transportation
infrastructure project reviews) may monitor airport 
projects that are subject to the coordinated review process 
under this section. 
‘‘§ 47172. Categorical exclusions 
‘‘Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment 
of this section, the Secretary of Transportation shall de-
velop and publish a list of categorical exclusions from the 
requirement that an environmental assessment or an envi-
ronmental impact statement be prepared under the Na-
tional Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 
et seq.) for projects at airports. 
‘‘§ 47173. Access restrictions to ease construction 
‘‘At the request of an airport sponsor for a congested 
airport, the Secretary of Transportation may approve a 
restriction on use of a runway to be constructed at the 
airport to minimize potentially significant adverse noise 
impacts from the runway only if the Secretary determines 
that imposition of the restriction—
‘‘(1) is necessary to mitigate those impacts and 
expedite construction of the runway; 
‘‘(2) is the most appropriate and a cost-effective 
measure to mitigate those impacts, taking into con-
sideration any environmental tradeoffs associated 
with the restriction; and
‘‘(3) would not adversely affect service to small 
communities, adversely affect safety or efficiency of 
the national airspace system, unjustly discriminate 
against any class of user of the airport, or impose 
an undue burden on interstate or foreign commerce. 
‘‘§ 47174. Airport revenue to pay for mitigation 
‘‘(a) 
IN
GENERAL.—Notwithstanding 
section 
47107(b), section 47133, or any other provision of this 
title, the Secretary of Transportation may allow an airport 
sponsor carrying out an airport capacity enhancement 
project at a congested airport to make payments, out of 
revenues generated at the airport (including local taxes on 
aviation fuel), for measures to mitigate the environmental 
impacts of the project if the Secretary finds that—
‘‘(1) the mitigation measures are included as 
part of, or support, the preferred alternative for the 
project in the documentation prepared pursuant to 
the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 
U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); 
‘‘(2) the use of such revenues will provide a sig-
nificant incentive for, or remove an impediment to, 
approval of the project by a State or local govern-
ment; and
‘‘(3) the cost of the mitigation measures is rea-
sonable in relation to the mitigation that will be 
achieved. 
‘‘(b) MITIGATION OF AIRCRAFT NOISE.—Mitigation 
measures described in subsection (a) may include the insu-
lation of residential buildings and buildings used primarily 
for educational or medical purposes to mitigate the effects 
of aircraft noise and the improvement of such buildings 
as required for the insulation of the buildings under local 
building codes. 
‘‘§ 47175. Airport funding of FAA staff 
‘‘(a) 
ACCEPTANCE
OF
SPONSOR-PROVIDED 
FUNDS.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may 
accept funds from an airport sponsor, including funds pro-
vided to the sponsor under section 47114(c), to hire addi-
tional staff or obtain the services of consultants in order 
to facilitate the timely processing, review, and completion 
of environmental activities associated with an airport de-
velopment project. 
‘‘(b) ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION.—Instead of pay-
ment from an airport sponsor from funds apportioned to 
the sponsor under section 47114, the Administrator, with 
agreement of the sponsor, may transfer funds that would 
otherwise be apportioned to the sponsor under section
47114 to the account used by the Administrator for activi-
ties described in subsection (a). 
‘‘(c) RECEIPTS CREDITED AS OFFSETTING COLLEC-
TIONS.—Notwithstanding section 3302 of title 31, any 
funds accepted under this section, except funds trans-
ferred pursuant to subsection (b)—
‘‘(1) shall be credited as offsetting collections to 
the account that finances the activities and services 
for which the funds are accepted; 
‘‘(2) shall be available for expenditure only to 
pay the costs of activities and services for which the 
funds are accepted; and 
‘‘(3) shall remain available until expended. 
‘‘(d) MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT.—No funds may be 
accepted pursuant to subsection (a), or transferred pursu-
ant to subsection (b), in any fiscal year in which the Fed-
eral Aviation Administration does not allocate at least the 
amount it expended in fiscal year 2002, excluding 
amounts accepted pursuant to section 337 of the Depart-
ment of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, 2002 (115 Stat. 862), for the activities de-
scribed in subsection (a). 
‘‘§ 47176. Authorization of appropriations 
‘‘In addition to the amounts authorized to be appro-
priated under section 106(k), there is authorized to be ap-
propriated to the Secretary of Transportation, out of the 
Airport and Airway Trust Fund established under section 
9502 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 
9502), $4,200,000 for fiscal year 2004 and for each fiscal 
year thereafter to facilitate the timely processing, review, 
and completion of environmental activities associated with 
airport capacity enhancement projects at congested air-
ports.
‘‘§ 47177. Designation of aviation safety and aviation 
security projects for priority environ-
mental review 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator of the Fed-
eral Aviation Administration may designate an aviation 
safety or aviation security project for priority environ-
mental review. The Administrator may not delegate this 
designation authority. 
‘‘(b) PROJECT DESIGNATION CRITERIA.—The Ad-
ministrator shall establish guidelines for the designation 
of an aviation safety or aviation security project for pri-
ority environmental review. Such guidelines shall include 
consideration of—
‘‘(1) the importance or urgency of the project; 
‘‘(2) the potential for undertaking the environ-
mental review under existing emergency procedures
under the National Environmental Policy Act of 
1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); 
‘‘(3) the need for cooperation and concurrent 
reviews by other Federal or State agencies; and 
‘‘(4) the prospect for undue delay if the project 
is not designated for priority review. 
‘‘(c) COORDINATED ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS.—
‘‘(1) TIMELINES AND HIGH PRIORITY FOR CO-
ORDINATED
ENVIRONMENTAL
REVIEWS.—The Ad-
ministrator, in consultation with the heads of af-
fected agencies, shall establish specific timelines for 
the coordinated environmental review of an aviation 
safety or aviation security project designated under 
subsection (a). Such timelines shall be consistent 
with the timelines established in existing laws and 
regulations. Each Federal agency with responsibility 
for project environmental reviews, analyses, opinions, 
permits, licenses, and approvals shall accord any 
such review a high priority and shall conduct the re-
view expeditiously and, to the maximum extent pos-
sible, concurrently with other such reviews. 
‘‘(2) AGENCY
PARTICIPATION.—Each Federal 
agency identified under subsection (c) shall formu-
late and implement administrative, policy, and pro-
cedural mechanisms to enable the agency to ensure
completion of environmental reviews, analyses, opin-
ions, permits, licenses, and approvals described in 
paragraph (1) in a timely and environmentally re-
sponsible manner. 
‘‘(d) STATE PARTICIPATION.—
‘‘(1) INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE.—If a pri-
ority environmental review process is being imple-
mented under this section with respect to a project 
within the boundaries of a State with applicable 
State environmental requirements and approvals, the 
Administrator shall invite the State to participate in 
the process. 
‘‘(2) STATE CHOICE.—A State invited to par-
ticipate in a priority environmental review process, 
consistent with State law, may choose to participate 
in such process and direct that all State agencies, 
which have jurisdiction by law to conduct an envi-
ronmental review or analysis of the project to deter-
mine whether to issue an environmentally related 
permit, license, or approval for the project, be sub-
ject to the process. 
‘‘(e) FAILURE TO GIVE PRIORITY REVIEW.—
‘‘(1) NOTICE.—If the Secretary of Transpor-
tation determines that a Federal agency or a partici-
pating State is not complying with the requirements
‘‘(iii) Not later than 10 days after the com-
mencement of any proceeding for a termination of 
parental rights to an Indian child. 
‘‘(iv) Not later than 10 days after the com-
mencement of any adoptive proceeding concerning 
an Indian child. 
‘‘(B) A notice of any proposed preadoptive or adop-
tive placement described in subparagraph (A)(ii) may be 
provided before the birth of an Indian child if a party re-
ferred to in paragraph (1) contemplates a specific adoptive 
or preadoptive placement. 
‘‘(3) If, after the expiration of the applicable period 
specified in paragraph (2), a party referred to in para-
graph (1) discovers that the child involved may be an In-
dian child—
‘‘(A) the party shall provide notice under para-
graph (1) not later than 10 days after the discovery; 
and 
‘‘(B) any applicable time limit specified in sub-
section (e) shall apply to the notice provided under 
subparagraph (A) only if the party referred to in 
paragraph (1) has, on or before commencement of 
the placement, made a good faith investigation con-
cerning whether the child involved may be an Indian 
child.’’.
‘‘(A) A requirement that the eligible agency pro-
vide public notice of intent to collect a passenger fa-
cility fee so as to inform those interested persons and 
agencies who may be affected, which public notice 
may include—
‘‘(i) publication in local newspapers of gen-
eral circulation; 
‘‘(ii) publication in other local media; and 
‘‘(iii) posting the notice on the agency’s Web 
site. 
‘‘(B) A requirement for submission of public 
comments no sooner than 30 days, and no later than 
45 days, after the date of the publication of the notice. 
‘‘(C) A requirement that the agency include in 
its application or notice submitted under subpara-
graph (A) copies of all comments received under sub-
paragraph (B).’’; and 
(4) in the first sentence of paragraph (4) (as re-
designated by paragraph (2) of this subsection) by 
striking ‘‘shall’’ and inserting ‘‘may’’. 
(b) PILOT PROGRAM FOR PASSENGER FACILITY FEE 
AUTHORIZATIONS AT NONHUB AIRPORTS.—Section 40117 
is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(l) PILOT PROGRAM FOR PASSENGER FACILITY FEE 
AUTHORIZATIONS AT NONHUB AIRPORTS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall establish 
a pilot program to test alternative procedures for au-
thorizing eligible agencies for nonhub airports to im-
pose passenger facility fees. An eligible agency may 
impose in accordance with the provisions of this sub-
section a passenger facility fee under this section. For 
purposes of the pilot program, the procedures in this 
subsection shall apply instead of the procedures other-
wise provided in this section. 
‘‘(2) NOTICE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR CONSULTA-
TION.—The eligible agency must provide reasonable 
notice and an opportunity for consultation to air car-
riers and foreign air carriers in accordance with sub-
section (c)(2) and must provide reasonable notice and 
opportunity for public comment in accordance with 
subsection (c)(3). 
‘‘(3) NOTICE OF INTENTION.—The eligible agency 
must submit to the Secretary a notice of intention to 
impose a passenger facility fee under this subsection. 
This shall include—
‘‘(A) information that the Secretary may 
require by regulation on each project for which 
authority to impose a passenger facility fee is 
sought;
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‘‘(iii) with respect to an airport develop-
ment project involving the location of an airport 
or runway or major runway extension at a me-
dium or large hub airport, the airport sponsor 
has made available to and has provided upon 
request to the metropolitan planning organiza-
tion in the area in which the airport is located, 
if any, a copy of the proposed amendment to 
the airport layout plan to depict the project and 
a copy of any airport master plan in which the 
project is described or depicted;’’. 
SEC. 526. STATUS REVIEW OF MARSHALL ISLANDS AIR-
PORT. 
Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall review 
the status of the airport on the Marshall Islands and re-
port to Congress on whether it is appropriate and nec-
essary for that airport to receive grants under the airport 
improvement program. 
SEC. 527. REPORT ON WAIVERS OF PREFERENCE FOR BUY-
ING GOODS PRODUCED IN THE UNITED 
STATES. 
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall 
submit to Congress a report on the waiver contained in
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section 50101(b) of title 49, United States Code (relating 
to buying goods produced in the United States). The re-
port shall, at a minimum, include—
(1) a list of all waivers granted pursuant to 
that section since the date of enactment of that sec-
tion; and 
(2) for each such waiver—
(A) the specific authority under such sec-
tion 50101(b) for granting the waiver; and 
(B) the rationale for granting the waiver. 
TITLE VI—EXTENSION OF AIR-
PORT 
AND 
AIRWAY 
TRUST 
FUND 
EXPENDITURE 
AU-
THORITY 
SEC. 601. EXTENSION OF EXPENDITURE AUTHORITY. 
Paragraph (1) of section 9502(d) of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986 (relating to expenditures from Airport 
and Airway Trust Fund) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘October 1, 2003’’ and inserting 
‘‘October 1, 2007’’, and
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(2) by inserting ‘‘or the Flight 100—Century of 
Aviation Reauthorization Act’’ before the semicolon 
at the end of subparagraph (A).
Passed the House of Representatives June 11, 2003. 
Attest: 
JEFF TRANDAHL, 
Clerk.
national securities exchange, a national securities as-
sociation, a securities clearing agency, a contract 
market designated under the Commodity Exchange 
Act, a derivatives transaction execution facility reg-
istered under the Commodity Exchange Act, or a 
board of trade (as defined in the Commodity Ex-
change Act) or in a resolution of the governing 
board thereof and a right,’’. 
(j) LIQUIDATION, TERMINATION, OR ACCELERATION 
OF SWAP AGREEMENTS.—Section 560 of title 11, United 
States Code, is amended—
(1) by amending the section heading to read as 
follows: 
‘‘§ 560. Contractual right to liquidate, terminate, or 
accelerate a swap agreement’’; 
(2) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘termi-
nation of a swap agreement’’ and inserting ‘‘liquida-
tion, termination, or acceleration of one or more 
swap agreements’’; 
(3) by striking ‘‘in connection with any swap 
agreement’’ and inserting ‘‘in connection with the 
termination, liquidation, or acceleration of one or 
more swap agreements’’; and 
(4) in the second sentence, by striking ‘‘As 
used’’ and all that follows through ‘‘right,’’ and in-
a comprehensive resolution to the environmental and 
health problems related to the Tar Creek Superfund site.
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108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2117
To amend the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act and the 
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act to remove certain com-
petitive advantages granted to the housing-related government-sponsored 
enterprises relative to other secondary mortgage market enterprises, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 15, 2003
Mr. STARK introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To amend the Federal National Mortgage Association Char-
ter Act and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corpora-
tion Act to remove certain competitive advantages grant-
ed to the housing-related government-sponsored enter-
prises relative to other secondary mortgage market enter-
prises, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Secondary Mortgage 
Market Fair Competition Act’’.
SEC. 2. REPEAL OF EXEMPTION FROM STATE AND LOCAL 
TAXATION. 
(a) FANNIE MAE.—Section 309(c) of the Federal Na-
tional Mortgage Association Charter Act (12 U.S.C. 
1723a(c)) is amended—
(1) by striking paragraph (2); and 
(2) by striking ‘‘(1)’’. 
(b) FREDDIE MAC.—Section 303 of the Federal 
Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act (12 U.S.C. 1452) 
is amended by striking subsection (e). 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after 
the date of the enactment of this Act.
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