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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 in this Act may be used 
to compensate in excess of 600 technical staff-years under 
the federally funded research and development center con-
tract between the Federal Aviation Administration and the 
Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development dur-
ing fiscal year 2019. 
SEC. 111. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 
to pursue or adopt guidelines or regulations requiring air-
port sponsors to provide to the Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration 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 pro-
hibition of funds in this section does not apply to negotia-
tions 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 
Administration may reimburse amounts made available to
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satisfy 49 U.S.C. 41742(a)(1) from fees credited under 
49 U.S.C. 45303 and any amount remaining in such ac-
count at the close of that fiscal year may be made available 
to satisfy section 41742(a)(1) 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 of such 
appropriation. 
SEC. 114. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able for paying premium pay under subsection 5546(a) of 
title 5, United States Code, to any Federal Aviation Ad-
ministration employee unless such employee actually per-
formed work during the time corresponding to such pre-
mium pay. 
SEC. 115. None of the funds in this Act may be obli-
gated or expended for an employee of the Federal Aviation 
Administration to purchase a store gift card or gift certifi-
cate through use of a Government-issued credit card. 
SEC. 116. None of the funds in this Act may be obli-
gated or expended for retention bonuses for an employee 
of the Federal Aviation Administration without the prior 
written approval of the Assistant Secretary for Adminis-
tration of the Department of Transportation.
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SEC. 117. 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 Administra-
tion, a blocking of that owner’s or operator’s aircraft reg-
istration number from any display of the Federal Aviation 
Administration’s Aircraft Situational Display to Industry 
data that is made available to the public, except data made 
available to a Government agency, for the noncommercial 
flights of that owner or operator. 
SEC. 118. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able for salaries and expenses of more than eight political 
and Presidential appointees in the Federal Aviation Ad-
ministration. 
SEC. 119. None of the funds made available under 
this Act may be used to increase fees pursuant to section 
44721 of title 49, United States Code, until the Federal 
Aviation Administration provides to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations a report that justifies all 
fees related to aeronautical navigation products and ex-
plains how such fees are consistent with Executive Order 
13642.
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SEC. 119A. None of the funds in this Act may be 
used to close a regional operations center of the Federal 
Aviation Administration or reduce its services unless the 
Administrator notifies the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations not less than 90 full business days in 
advance. 
SEC. 119B. None of the funds appropriated or lim-
ited by this Act may be used to change weight restrictions 
or prior permission rules at Teterboro airport in 
Teterboro, New Jersey. 
SEC. 119C. None of the funds provided under this 
Act may be used by the Administrator of the Federal Avia-
tion Administration to withhold from consideration and 
approval any new application for participation in the Con-
tract Tower Program, or for reevaluation of Cost-share 
Program participants as long as the Federal Aviation Ad-
ministration has received an application from the airport, 
and as long as the Administrator determines such tower 
is eligible using the factors set forth in the Federal Avia-
tion Administration report, Establishment and Dis-
continuance Criteria for Airport Traffic Control Towers 
(FAA–APO–90–7 as of August, 1990). 
SEC. 119D. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, none of the funds made available in this Act may be 
obligated or expended to limit the use of an Organization
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Designation Authorization’s (ODA) delegated functions 
documented in its procedures manual on a type certifi-
cation project unless the Administrator documents a sys-
temic airworthiness noncompliance performance issue as 
a result of inspection or oversight that the safety of air 
commerce requires a limitation with regard to a specific 
authorization or where an ODA’s capability has not been 
previously established in terms of a new compliance meth-
od or design feature: Provided, That in such cases FAA 
shall work with the ODA holder if requested to develop 
the capability to execute that function safely, efficiently 
and effectively: Provided further, That this section does 
not limit the authority of the Federal Aviation Administra-
tion to pursue emergency actions on ODAs where specific 
safety issues are noted. 
SEC. 119E. None of the funds made available by this 
Act and apportioned under section 47114(d) of title 49, 
United States Code, shall be made available for construc-
tion of a storage building, or a portion of such building, 
to shelter snow equipment in excess of equipment needs 
established by standards issued by the Secretary of Trans-
portation that is owned by an airport categorized as a local 
general aviation airport as indicated in Federal Aviation 
Administration 2017- 2021 National Plan of Integrated
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Airport Systems (NPIAS) report unless such airport spon-
sor certifies conformity with the following: 
(1) The storage building, or portion thereof, to 
be constructed will be used to store snow removal 
equipment exclusively used for clearing airfield pave-
ment of snow and ice following a weather event. 
(2) The 30-year annual snowfall normal of the 
nearest weather station based on the National Oce-
anic and Atmospheric Administration Summary of 
Monthly Normals 1981-2010 exceeds 26 inches. 
(3) The airport serves as a base for a medical 
air ambulance transport aircraft; (d)that the airport 
master record (Form 5010-1) effective on September 
14, 2017 for the airport indicates 45 based aircraft 
consisting of single engine, multiple engine, and jet 
engine aircraft. 
(4) The airport sponsor will complete design of 
the storage building not later than fiscal year 2018 
and initiate construction of the storage building not 
later than fiscal year 2019. 
(5) The area of the storage building, or portion 
thereof, to be funded under this section shall not ex-
ceed 6,000 square feet. 
SEC. 119F. (a) TERMINAL
AERODROME
FORE-
CAST.—The Administrator shall permit an air carrier op-