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Calendar No. 536
105TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4057
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
AUGUST 31, 1998
Received; read twice and placed on the calendar
AN ACT
To amend title 49, United States Code, to reauthorize pro-
grams of the Federal Aviation Administration, 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
‘‘Airport Improvement Program Reauthorization Act of
1998’’.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Amendments to title 49, United States Code.
Sec. 3. Applicability.
Sec. 4. Administrator defined.
TITLE I—AIRPORT AND AIRWAY IMPROVEMENTS
Sec. 101. Airport improvement program.
Sec. 102. Airway facilities improvement program.
Sec. 103. FAA operations.
Sec. 104. AIP formula changes.
Sec. 105. Grants from small airport fund.
Sec. 106. Innovative use of airport grant funds.
Sec. 107. Airport security program.
Sec. 108. Matching share for State block grant program.
Sec. 109. Treatment of certain facilities as airport-related projects.
Sec. 110. Terminal development costs.
Sec. 111. Conveyances of surplus property for public airports.
Sec. 112. Construction of runways.
Sec. 113. Potomac Metroplex terminal radar approach control facility.
Sec. 114. General facilities authority.
Sec. 115. Transportation assistance for Olympic cities.
Sec. 116. Denial of airport access to certain air carriers.
Sec. 117. Period of applicability of amendments.
Sec. 118. Technical amendments.
TITLE II—CONTRACT TOWER PROGRAM
Sec. 201. Contract towers.
TITLE III—FAMILY ASSISTANCE
Sec. 301. Responsibilities of National Transportation Safety Board.
Sec. 302. Air carrier plans.
Sec. 303. Foreign air carrier plans.
Sec. 304. Applicability of Death on the High Seas Act.
TITLE IV—WAR RISK INSURANCE PROGRAM
Sec. 401. Aviation insurance program amendments.
TITLE V—SAFETY
Sec. 501. Cargo collision avoidance systems deadline.
Sec. 502. Records of employment of pilot applicants.
Sec. 503. Whistleblower protection for FAA employees.
Sec. 504. Safety risk mitigation programs.
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Sec. 505. Flight operations quality assurance rules.
Sec. 506. Small airport certification.
Sec. 507. Marking of life limited aircraft parts.
TITLE VI—WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION
Sec. 601. Protection of employees providing air safety information.
Sec. 602. Civil penalty.
TITLE VII—CENTENNIAL OF FLIGHT COMMISSION
Sec. 701. Short title.
Sec. 702. Findings.
Sec. 703. Establishment.
Sec. 704. Membership.
Sec. 705. Duties.
Sec. 706. Powers.
Sec. 707. Staff and support services.
Sec. 708. Contributions.
Sec. 709. Exclusive right to name, logos, emblems, seals, and marks.
Sec. 710. Reports.
Sec. 711. Audit of financial transactions.
Sec. 712. Advisory Board.
Sec. 713. Definitions.
Sec. 714. Termination.
Sec. 715. Authorization of appropriations.
TITLE VIII—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Sec. 801. Clarification of regulatory approval process.
Sec. 802. Duties and powers of Administrator.
Sec. 803. Prohibition on release of offeror proposals.
Sec. 804. Multiyear procurement contracts.
Sec. 805. Federal Aviation Administration personnel management system.
Sec. 806. General facilities and personnel authority.
Sec. 807. Implementation of article 83 bis of the Chicago Convention.
Sec. 808. Public availability of airmen records.
Sec. 809. Government and industry consortia.
Sec. 810. Passenger manifest.
Sec. 811. Cost recovery for foreign aviation services.
Sec. 812. Technical corrections to civil penalty provisions.
Sec. 813. Enhanced vision technologies.
Sec. 814. Foreign carriers eligible for waiver under Airport Noise and Capacity
Act.
Sec. 815. Typographical errors.
Sec. 816. Acquisition management system.
Sec. 817. Independent validation of FAA costs and allocations.
Sec. 818. Elimination of backlog of equal employment opportunity complaints.
Sec. 819. Newport News, Virginia.
Sec. 820. Grant of easement, Los Angeles, California.
Sec. 821. Regulation of Alaska air guides.
Sec. 822. Public aircraft defined.
TITLE IX—NATIONAL PARKS AIR TOUR MANAGEMENT
Sec. 901. Short title.
Sec. 902. Findings.
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Sec. 903. Air tour management plans for national parks.
Sec. 904. Advisory group.
Sec. 905. Reports.
Sec. 906. Exemptions.
Sec. 907. Definitions.
TITLE X—EXTENSION OF AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND
EXPENDITURE AUTHORITY
Sec. 1001. Extension of expenditure authority.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 49, UNITED STATES CODE.
Except as otherwise specifically provided, whenever in
this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms
of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provi-
sion of law, the reference shall be considered to be made
to a section or other provision of title 49, United States
Code.
SEC. 3. APPLICABILITY.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as otherwise specifically
provided, this Act and the amendments made by this Act
apply only to fiscal years beginning after September 30,
1998.
(b) LIMITATION ON STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION.—
Nothing in this Act or any amendment made by this Act
shall be construed as affecting funds made available for
a fiscal year ending before October 1, 1998.
SEC. 4. ADMINISTRATOR DEFINED.
In this Act, the term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Ad-
ministrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.
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TITLE I—AIRPORT AND AIRWAY
IMPROVEMENTS
SEC. 101. AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section
48103 is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘September 30, 1996’’ and in-
serting ‘‘September 30, 1998’’; and
(2) by striking ‘‘$2,280,000,000’’ and all that
follows through the period at the end and inserting
the following: ‘‘$2,347,000,000 for fiscal years end-
ing before October 1, 1999.’’.
(b) OBLIGATIONAL AUTHORITY.—Section 47104(c)
is amended by striking ‘‘1998’’ and inserting ‘‘1999’’.
SEC. 102. AIRWAY FACILITIES IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.
(a) GENERAL
AUTHORIZATION
AND
APPROPRIA-
TIONS.—Section 48101(a) is amended by adding at the
end the following:
‘‘(3) $2,131,000,000 for fiscal year 1999.’’.
(b) UNIVERSAL ACCESS SYSTEMS.—Section 48101 is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(d) UNIVERSAL ACCESS SYSTEMS.—Of the amounts
appropriated under subsection (a) for fiscal year 1999,
$8,000,000 may be used for the voluntary purchase and
installation of universal access systems.’’.
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SEC. 103. FAA OPERATIONS.
(a) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS
FROM
GENERAL FUND.—Section 106(k) is amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—’’ before
‘‘There’’;
(2) in paragraph (1) (as so designated) by
striking ‘‘$5,158,000,000’’ and all that follows
through the period at the end and inserting the fol-
lowing: ‘‘$5,632,000,000 for fiscal year 1999.’’;
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(2) AUTHORIZED
EXPENDITURES.—Of the
amounts appropriated under paragraph (1) for fiscal
year 1999—
‘‘(A) $450,000 may be used for wildlife
hazard mitigation measures and management of
the wildlife strike database of the Federal Avia-
tion Administration;
‘‘(B) such sums as may be necessary may
be used to fund an office within the Federal
Aviation Administration dedicated to supporting
infrastructure systems development for both
general aviation and the vertical flight industry;
‘‘(C) such sums as may be necessary may
be used to revise existing terminal and en route
procedures and instrument flight rules to facili-
tate the takeoff, flight, and landing of tiltrotor
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aircraft and to improve the national airspace
system by separating such aircraft from con-
gested flight paths of fixed-wing aircraft; and
‘‘(D) $3,000,000 may be used to establish
a prototype helicopter infrastructure using cur-
rent technologies (such as the Global Position-
ing System) to support all-weather, emergency
medical service for trauma patients.’’; and
(4) by indenting paragraph (1) (as designated
by paragraph (1) of this subsection) and aligning
such paragraph (1) with paragraph (2) (as added by
paragraph (2) of this subsection).
(b) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS
FROM
TRUST FUND.—Section 48104 is amended—
(1) by striking subsection (b) and redesignating
subsection (c) as subsection (b);
(2) in subsection (b), as so redesignated—
(A) in the subsection heading by striking
‘‘FISCAL
YEARS
1994–1998’’ and inserting
‘‘FISCAL YEAR 1999’’; and
(B) in the matter preceding paragraph (1)
by striking ‘‘each of fiscal years 1994 through
1998’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal year 1999’’.
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(c) LIMITATION
ON OBLIGATING
OR EXPENDING
AMOUNTS.—Section 48108(c) is amended by striking
‘‘1998’’ and inserting ‘‘1999’’.
SEC. 104. AIP FORMULA CHANGES.
(a) DISCRETIONARY
FUND.—Section 47115 is
amended—
(1) by striking subsection (g);
(2) by redesignating subsection (h) as sub-
section (g); and
(3) by inserting before the period at the end of
subsection (g) (as so redesignated) the following:
‘‘with funds made available under this section and,
if such funds are not sufficient, with funds made
available 
under 
sections 
47114(c)(1)(A),
47114(c)(2), 47114(d), and 47117(e) on a pro rata
basis’’.
(b) AMOUNTS APPORTIONED TO SPONSORS.—Section
47114(c)(1) is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (A)(v) by inserting ‘‘sub-
ject to subparagraph (C),’’ before ‘‘$.50’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(C) The amount to be apportioned for a fiscal year
for a passenger described in subparagraph (A)(v) shall be
reduced to $.40 if the total amount made available under
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section 48103 for such fiscal year is less than
$1,350,000,000.’’.
(c) ENTITLEMENT
FOR GENERAL AVIATION AIR-
PORTS.—Section 47114(d)(2) is amended—
(1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A)
by striking ‘‘18.5 percent’’ and inserting ‘‘20 per-
cent’’;
(2) in subparagraph (A) by striking ‘‘0.66’’ and
inserting ‘‘0.62; and
(3) in each of subparagraphs (B) and (C) by
striking ‘‘49.67’’ and inserting ‘‘49.69’’.
(d) USE OF APPORTIONMENTS FOR ALASKA, PUERTO
RICO, AND HAWAII.—Section 47114(d)(3) is amended to
read as follows:
‘‘(3) SPECIAL RULE.—An amount apportioned
under paragraph (2) of this subsection for airports
in Alaska, Puerto Rico, or Hawaii may be made
available by the Secretary for any public airport in
those respective jurisdictions.’’.
(e) USE OF STATE-APPORTIONED FUNDS FOR SYS-
TEM PLANNING.—Section 47114(d) is further amended by
adding at the end the following:
‘‘(4) INTEGRATED
AIRPORT
SYSTEM
PLAN-
NING.—Notwithstanding paragraph (2), funds made
available under this subsection may be used for inte-
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grated airport system planning that encompasses 1
or more primary airports.’’.
(f) GRANTS
FOR AIRPORT NOISE COMPATIBILITY
PLANNING.—Section 47117(e)(1) is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (A) by striking ‘‘31 per-
cent’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘33 per-
cent’’; and
(2) in subparagraph (B) by striking ‘‘At least’’
and all that follows through ‘‘sponsors of current’’
and inserting ‘‘At least 4 percent to sponsors of cur-
rent’’.
(g) SUPPLEMENTAL APPORTIONMENT
FOR ALAS-
KA.—Section 47114(e) is amended—
(1) in the subsection heading by striking ‘‘AL-
TERNATIVE’’ and inserting ‘‘SUPPLEMENTAL’’;
(2) in paragraph (1)—
(A) by striking ‘‘Instead of apportioning
amounts for airports in Alaska under’’ and in-
serting ‘‘IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘those airports’’ and in-
serting ‘‘airports in Alaska’’;
(3) in paragraph (2) by inserting ‘‘AUTHORITY
FOR DISCRETIONARY GRANTS.—’’ before ‘‘This sub-
section’’;
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(4) by striking paragraph (3) and inserting the
following:
‘‘(3) AIRPORTS
ELIGIBLE
FOR
FUNDS.—An
amount apportioned under this subsection may be
used for any public airport in Alaska.’’; and
(5) by indenting paragraph (1) and aligning it
and paragraph (2) with paragraph (3) (as amended
by paragraph (4) of this subsection).
(h) REPEAL OF APPORTIONMENT LIMITATION ON
COMMERCIAL SERVICE AIRPORTS IN ALASKA.—Section
47117 is amended by striking subsection (f) and by redes-
ignating subsections (g) and (h) as subsections (f) and (g),
respectively.
(i) DESIGNATING CURRENT AND FORMER MILITARY
AIRPORTS.—Section 47118 is amended—
(1) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘12’’ and in-
serting ‘‘15’’;
(2) by striking subsection (c) and redesignating
subsections (d) through (f) as subsections (c)
through (e), respectively;
(3) in subsection (c), as so redesignated, by
striking 
‘‘47117(e)(1)(E)’’ 
and 
inserting
‘‘47117(e)(1)(B)’’; and
(4) by adding at the end the following:
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‘‘(f) DESIGNATION
OF GENERAL AVIATION AIR-
PORT.—Notwithstanding any other provision of this sec-
tion, at least 1 of the airports designated under subsection
(a) shall be a general aviation airport that is a former
military installation closed or realigned under a law de-
scribed in subsection (a)(1).’’.
(j) ELIGIBILITY OF RUNWAY INCURSION PREVEN-
TION DEVICES.—
(1) POLICY.—Section 47101(a)(11) is amended
by inserting ‘‘(including integrated in-pavement
lighting systems for runways and taxiways and other
runway and taxiway incursion prevention devices)’’
after ‘‘activities’’.
(2) MAXIMUM USE OF SAFETY FACILITIES.—
Section 47101(f) is amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of para-
graph (9); and
(B) by striking the period at the end of
paragraph (10) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(11) runway and taxiway incursion prevention
devices, including integrated in-pavement lighting
systems for runways and taxiways.’’.
(3) AIRPORT
DEVELOPMENT
DEFINED.—Sec-
tion 47102(3)(B)(ii) is amended by inserting ‘‘and
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including integrated in-pavement lighting systems
for runways and taxiways and other runway and
taxiway incursion prevention devices’’ before the
semicolon at the end.
SEC. 105. GRANTS FROM SMALL AIRPORT FUND.
(a) SET-ASIDE FOR MEETING SAFETY TERMS IN
AIRPORT OPERATING CERTIFICATES.—Section 47116 is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(e) SET-ASIDE FOR MEETING SAFETY TERMS IN
AIRPORT OPERATING CERTIFICATES.—In the first fiscal
year beginning after the effective date of regulations
issued to carry out section 44706(b) with respect to air-
ports described in section 44706(a)(2), and in each of the
next 4 fiscal years, the lesser of $15,000,000 or 20 percent
of the amounts distributed to sponsors of airports under
subsection (b)(2) shall be used to assist the airports in
meeting the terms established by the regulations. If the
Secretary publishes in the Federal Register a finding that
all the terms established by the regulations have been met,
this subsection shall cease to be effective as of the date
of such publication.’’.
(b) NOTIFICATION OF SOURCE OF GRANT.—Section
47116 is further amended by adding at the end the follow-
ing:
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‘‘(f) NOTIFICATION OF SOURCE OF GRANT.—When-
ever the Secretary makes a grant under this section, the
Secretary shall notify the recipient of the grant, in writing,
that the source of the grant is from the small airport
fund.’’.
SEC. 106. INNOVATIVE USE OF AIRPORT GRANT FUNDS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter I of chapter 471 is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘§ 47135. Innovative financing techniques
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Transportation
may approve applications under this subchapter for not
more than 20 projects for which grants made under this
subchapter may be used to implement innovative financing
techniques.
‘‘(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of implementing inno-
vative financing techniques under this section shall be to
provide information on the benefits and difficulties of
using such techniques for airport development projects.
‘‘(c) LIMITATION.—In no case shall the implementa-
tion of an innovative financing technique under this sec-
tion be used in a manner giving rise to a direct or indirect
guarantee of any airport debt instrument by the United
States Government.
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‘‘(d) INNOVATIVE
FINANCING
TECHNIQUE
DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘innovative financing
technique’ is limited to—
‘‘(1) payment of interest;
‘‘(2) commercial bond insurance and other cred-
it enhancement associated with airport bonds for eli-
gible airport development; and
‘‘(3) flexible non-Federal matching require-
ments.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The analysis for
subchapter 1 of chapter 471 is amended by adding at the
end the following:
‘‘47135. Innovative financing techniques.’’.
SEC. 107. AIRPORT SECURITY PROGRAM.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 471 (as amended by sec-
tion 106 of this Act) is amended by adding the following
new section:
‘‘§ 47136. Airport security program
‘‘(a) GENERAL AUTHORITY.—To improve security at
public airports in the United States, the Secretary of
Transportation shall carry out not less than one project
to test and evaluate innovative airport security systems
and related technology.
‘‘(b) PRIORITY.—In carrying out this section, the
Secretary shall give the highest priority to a request from
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an eligible sponsor for a grant to undertake a project
that—
‘‘(1) evaluates and tests the benefits of innova-
tive airport security systems or related technology,
including explosives detection systems, for the pur-
pose of improving airport and aircraft physical secu-
rity and access control; and
‘‘(2) provides testing and evaluation of airport
security systems and technology in an operational,
test bed environment.
‘‘(c) MATCHING SHARE.—Notwithstanding section
47109, the United States Government’s share of allowable
project costs for a project under this section is 100 per-
cent.
‘‘(d) TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—The Secretary may
establish such terms and conditions as the Secretary de-
termines appropriate for carrying out a project under this
section, including terms and conditions relating to the
form and content of a proposal for a project, project assur-
ances, and schedule of payments.
‘‘(e) ELIGIBLE SPONSOR DEFINED.—In this section,
the term ‘eligible sponsor’ means a nonprofit corporation
composed of a consortium of public and private persons,
including a sponsor of a primary airport, with the nec-
essary engineering and technical expertise to successfully
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conduct the testing and evaluation of airport and aircraft
related security systems.
‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Of the
amounts made available to the Secretary under section
47115 in a fiscal year, the Secretary shall make available
not less than $5,000,000 for the purpose of carrying out
this section.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The analysis for
subchapter 1 of such chapter is amended by adding at the
end the following:
‘‘47136. Airport security program.’’.
SEC. 108. MATCHING SHARE FOR STATE BLOCK GRANT
PROGRAM.
Section 47109(a) is amended—
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as
paragraphs (3) and (4), respectively;
(2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the follow-
ing:
‘‘(2) not more than 90 percent for a project
funded by a grant issued to and administered by a
State under section 47128, relating to the State
block grant program;’’;
(3) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph
(3) (as so redesignated); and
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(4) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (4) (as so redesignated) and inserting ‘‘;
and’’.
SEC. 109. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN FACILITIES AS AIR-
PORT-RELATED PROJECTS.
Section 40117 is amended by adding at the end the
following:
‘‘(j) SHELL OF TERMINAL BUILDING AND AIRCRAFT
FUELING FACILITIES.—In order to enable additional air
service by an air carrier with less than 50 percent of the
scheduled passenger traffic at an airport, the Secretary
may consider the shell of a terminal building (including
heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) and aircraft
fueling facilities adjacent to an airport terminal building
to be an eligible airport-related project under subsection
(a)(3)(E).’’.
SEC. 110. TERMINAL DEVELOPMENT COSTS.
(a) 
REPAYING
BORROWED
MONEY.—Section
47119(a) is amended—
(1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1)—
(A) by striking ‘‘0.05’’ and inserting
‘‘0.25’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘between January 1, 1992,
and October 31, 1992,’’ and inserting ‘‘between
August 1, 1986, and September 30, 1990, or
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between June 1, 1991, and October 31, 1992,’’;
and
(2) in paragraph (1)(B) by striking ‘‘an airport
development project outside the terminal area at
that airport’’ and inserting ‘‘any needed airport de-
velopment project affecting safety, security, or ca-
pacity’’.
(b) 
NONHUB
AIRPORTS.—Section 
47119(c) 
is
amended by striking ‘‘0.05’’ and inserting ‘‘0.25’’.
SEC. 111. CONVEYANCES OF SURPLUS PROPERTY FOR PUB-
LIC AIRPORTS.
(a) REQUESTS
BY
PUBLIC
AGENCIES.—Section
47151 is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(d) REQUESTS BY PUBLIC AGENCIES.—Except with
respect to a request made by another department, agency,
or instrumentality of the executive branch of the United
States Government, such a department, agency, or instru-
mentality shall give priority consideration to a request
made by a public agency (as defined in section 47102)
for surplus property described in subsection (a) for use
at a public airport.’’.
(b) NOTICE AND PUBLIC COMMENT; PUBLICATION
OF DECISIONS.—Section 47153(a) is amended—
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(1) in paragraph (1) by inserting ‘‘, after pro-
viding notice and an opportunity for public com-
ment,’’ after ‘‘if the Secretary decides’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(3) PUBLICATION
OF
DECISIONS.—The Sec-
retary shall publish in the Federal Register any deci-
sion to waive a term under paragraph (1) and the
reasons for the decision.’’.
(c) CONSIDERATIONS.—Section 47153 is amended by
adding at the end the following:
‘‘(c) CONSIDERATIONS.—In deciding whether to
waive a term required under section 47152 or add another
term, the Secretary shall consider the current and future
needs of the users of the airport and the interests of the
owner of the property.’’.
(d) REFERENCES TO GIFTS.—Chapter 471 is amend-
ed—
(1) in section 47151—
(A) in subsection (a)—
(i) in the matter preceding paragraph
(1) by striking ‘‘give’’ and inserting ‘‘con-
vey to’’; and
(ii) in paragraph (2) by striking
‘‘gift’’ and inserting ‘‘conveyance’’;
(B) in subsection (b)—
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(i) by striking ‘‘giving’’ and inserting
‘‘conveying’’; and
(ii) by striking ‘‘gift’’ and inserting
‘‘conveyance’’; and
(C) in subsection (c)—
(i) in the subsection heading by strik-
ing ‘‘GIVEN’’ and inserting ‘‘CONVEYED’’;
and
(ii) by striking ‘‘given’’ and inserting
‘‘conveyed’’;
(2) in section 47152—
(A) in the section heading by striking
‘‘gifts’’ and inserting ‘‘conveyances’’; and
(B) in the matter preceding paragraph (1)
by striking ‘‘gift’’ and inserting ‘‘conveyance’’;
(3) in section 47153(a)(1)—
(A) by striking ‘‘gift’’ each place it appears
and inserting ‘‘conveyance’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘given’’ and inserting
‘‘conveyed’’; and
(4) in the analysis for such chapter by striking
the item relating to section 47152 and inserting the
following:
‘‘47152. Terms of conveyances.’’.
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SEC. 112. CONSTRUCTION OF RUNWAYS.
Notwithstanding any provision of law that specifically
restricts the number of runways at a single international
airport, the Secretary of Transportation may obligate
funds made available under chapters 471 and 481 of title
49, United States Code, for any project to construct a new
runway at such airport, unless this section is expressly re-
pealed.
SEC. 113. POTOMAC METROPLEX TERMINAL RADAR AP-
PROACH CONTROL FACILITY.
(a) SITE SELECTION.—The Administrator may not
select a site for, or begin construction of, the Potomac
Metroplex terminal radar approach control facility before
the 90th day after the Administrator transmits to Con-
gress a report on the relative costs and benefits of con-
structing the facility on land already owned by the United
States, including land located outside the Washington,
D.C., metropolitan area.
(b) CONTENTS OF REPORT.—The report to be trans-
mitted under subsection (a) shall include—
(1) a justification for the current construction
plan, including the size and cost of the consolidated
facility; and
(2) a complete risk analysis of the possibility
that the redesigned airspace may not be completed,
or may be only partially completed, including an ex-
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day of the period for public comment provided for in the
notice of proposed rulemaking, the Administrator shall
issue a final rule on implementing such program.
SEC. 507. MARKING OF LIFE LIMITED AIRCRAFT PARTS.
(a) MARKING AUTHORITY.—Chapter 447 is amended
by adding the following new section:
‘‘§ 44725. Marking of life limited aircraft parts
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator of the Fed-
eral Aviation Administration shall conduct a rulemaking
proceeding to determine the most effective way to perma-
nently mark all life limited civil aviation parts. In accord-
ance with that determination, the Administrator shall
issue a rule to require the mandatory marking of all such
parts that exceed their useful life.
‘‘(b) DEADLINES.—In conducting the rulemaking
proceeding under subsection (a), the Administrator
shall—
‘‘(1) not later than 180 days after the date of
enactment of this section, issue a notice of proposed
rulemaking; and
‘‘(2) not later than 120 days after the close of
the comment period on the proposed rule, issue a
final rule.’’.
(b) CIVIL PENALTY.—Section 46301(a) is amend-
ed—