Sec. 901. Short title. 
Sec. 902. Definitions. 
Sec. 903. Interagency research initiative on the impact of aviation on the cli-
mate. 
Sec. 904. Research program on runways. 
Sec. 905. Research on design for certification. 
Sec. 906. Centers of excellence. 
Sec. 907. Airport cooperative research program. 
Sec. 908. Unmanned aircraft systems. 
Sec. 909. Research grants program involving undergraduate students. 
Sec. 910. Research program on space weather and aviation. 
Sec. 911. Aviation gas research and development program. 
Sec. 912. Research reviews and assessments. 
Sec. 913. Review of FAA’s aviation safety-related research programs. 
Sec. 914. Research program on alternative jet fuel technology for civil aircraft. 
Sec. 915. Center for excellence in aviation employment. 
TITLE X—AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND FINANCING 
Sec. 1001. Short title. 
Sec. 1002. Extension and modification of taxes funding airport and airway 
trust fund. 
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 
(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.
‘‘(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. 
‘‘(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 
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.
‘‘(h) ADDITIONAL
PROGRAMS
IN
FISCAL
YEAR 
2008.—Of amounts appropriated under subsection (a), 
$19,500,000 for fiscal year 2008 may be used for— 
‘‘(1) system capacity, planning, and improve-
ment; 
‘‘(2) operations concept validation; 
‘‘(3) NAS weather requirements; 
‘‘(4) Airspace Management Lab; 
‘‘(5) Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS); 
and 
‘‘(6) wind profiling and weather research, Ju-
neau. 
‘‘(i) ADDITIONAL
PROGRAMS
IN
FISCAL
YEARS 
2009–2011.—Of amounts appropriated under subsection 
(a), $14,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2009, 2010, and 
2011 may be used for— 
‘‘(1) system capacity, planning, and improve-
ment; 
‘‘(2) operations concept validation; 
‘‘(3) NAS weather requirements; and 
‘‘(4) Airspace Management Lab.’’. 
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.’’. 
(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. RESEARCH, ENGINEERING, AND DEVELOPMENT. 
Section 48102(a) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (11)(L) by striking ‘‘and’’; 
(2) in paragraph (12)(L) by striking the period 
at the end and inserting a semicolon; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(13) for fiscal year 2008, $335,191,000, in-
cluding— 
‘‘(A) $7,350,000 for fire research and safe-
ty; 
‘‘(B) $4,086,000 for propulsion and fuel 
systems; 
‘‘(C) $2,713,000 for advanced materials 
and structural safety; 
‘‘(D) $3,574,000 for atmospheric hazards 
and digital system safety; 
‘‘(E) $14,931,000 for aging aircraft; 
‘‘(F) $2,202,000 for aircraft catastrophic 
failure prevention research; 
‘‘(G) $14,651,000 for flightdeck mainte-
nance, system integration, and human factors; 
‘‘(H) $9,517,000 for aviation safety risk 
analysis;
‘‘(I) $15,254,000 for air traffic control, 
technical operations, and human factors; 
‘‘(J) $6,780,000 for aeromedical research; 
‘‘(K) $19,888,000 for weather programs; 
‘‘(L) $6,310,000 for unmanned aircraft 
systems research; 
‘‘(M) $18,100,000 for the Next Generation 
Air Transportation System Joint Planning and 
Development Office; 
‘‘(N) $10,755,000 for wake turbulence; 
‘‘(O) $20,469,000 for environment and en-
ergy; 
‘‘(P) $1,184,000 for system planning and 
resource management; 
‘‘(Q) $3,415,000 for the William J. 
Hughes Technical Center Laboratory Facility; 
‘‘(R) $74,200,000 for the Center for Ad-
vanced Aviation System Development; 
‘‘(S) $2,000,000 for the Airport Coopera-
tive Research Program—capacity; 
‘‘(T) $5,000,000 for the Airport Coopera-
tive Research Program—environment; 
‘‘(U) $5,000,000 for the Airport Coopera-
tive Research Program—safety;
‘‘(V) $3,600,000 for GPS civil require-
ments; 
‘‘(W) $15,000,000 for Safe Flight 21, 
Alaska Capstone; 
‘‘(X) $8,907,000 for airports technology 
research—capacity; 
‘‘(Y) $9,805,000 for airports technology 
research—safety; 
‘‘(14) for fiscal year 2009, $481,554,000, in-
cluding— 
‘‘(A) $8,457,000 for fire research and safe-
ty; 
‘‘(B) $4,050,000 for propulsion and fuel 
systems; 
‘‘(C) $2,686,000 for advanced materials 
and structural safety; 
‘‘(D) $3,568,000 for atmospheric hazards 
and digital system safety; 
‘‘(E) $14,683,000 for aging aircraft; 
‘‘(F) $2,158,000 for aircraft catastrophic 
failure prevention research; 
‘‘(G) $37,499,000 for flightdeck mainte-
nance, system integration, and human factors; 
‘‘(H) $8,349,000 for aviation safety risk 
analysis;
‘‘(I) $15,323,000 for air traffic control, 
technical operations, and human factors; 
‘‘(J) $6,932,000 for aeromedical research; 
‘‘(K) $22,336,000 for weather program; 
‘‘(L) $6,738,000 for unmanned aircraft 
systems research; 
‘‘(M) $18,100,000 for the Next Generation 
Air Transportation System Joint Planning and 
Development Office; 
‘‘(N) $10,560,000 for wake turbulence; 
‘‘(O) $35,039,000 for environment and en-
ergy; 
‘‘(P) $1,847,000 for system planning and 
resource management; 
‘‘(Q) $3,548,000 for the William J. 
Hughes Technical Center Laboratory Facility; 
‘‘(R) $85,000,000 for Center for Advanced 
Aviation System Development; 
‘‘(S) $5,000,000 for the Airport Coopera-
tive Research Program—capacity; 
‘‘(T) $5,000,000 for the Airport Coopera-
tive Research Program—environment; 
‘‘(U) $5,000,000 for the Airport Coopera-
tive Research Program—safety;