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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4927 
To require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to notify 
the public of proposed new Performance Based Navigation Implementa-
tion Process flight procedures, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 3, 2021 
Ms. SPEIER (for herself, Mr. PANETTA, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. SHERMAN, Ms. NOR-
TON, Mr. QUIGLEY, Mr. KHANNA, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. SMITH of 
Washington, and Mr. RASKIN) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Admin-
istration to notify the public of proposed new Perform-
ance Based Navigation Implementation Process flight 
procedures, 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 ‘‘Notify Officials To 
Inform Fully and Impel Educated Decisions Act’’ or the 
‘‘NOTIFIED Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. FAA OUTREACH TO COMMUNITY AND ELECTED OF-
FICIALS WHEN PROPOSING NEW OR MODI-
FIED FLIGHT PROCEDURES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—In order to avoid having to subse-
quently modify products and services developed as a part 
of the NextGen Performance Based Navigation (PBN) 
Implementation Process—FAA Order JO7100.41A, the 
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration 
shall comply with the requirements of this section. 
(b) NOTIFICATION
TO OFFICIALS.—The Adminis-
trator shall notify the public of any proposed new PBN 
flight procedure or flight procedure change affecting air-
space at altitudes below 18,000 feet. This notification 
shall be made not later than 30 days after the date of 
the entry of the procedure into the FAA Performance 
Based Navigation IFP Gateway to the elected governing 
body of each of the cities and counties within 5 miles of 
such a proposed new or modified flight procedure, to any 
Member of Congress whose district is within 5 miles of 
such a proposed new or modified flight procedure, and to 
any Aviation Roundtable whose jurisdictional area is with-
in 5 miles of such a proposed new or modified flight proce-
dure. 
(c) NOTIFICATION CONTENTS.—Notification shall be 
made with sufficient specificity for an official to determine 
if such new or modified flight procedure being processed 
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is likely to affect constituents of such official and shall 
include— 
(1) name of flight procedure; 
(2) name of the proponent of the flight proce-
dure; 
(3) whether the flight procedure is a new or 
modified procedure and, if modified, the changes 
being proposed; 
(4) name of existing procedure if the procedure 
substantially replaces an existing procedure; 
(5) approximate flight path including latitude 
and longitude of the proposed procedure overlaid on 
a satellite map such as Google Earth or similar; 
(6) approximate altitudes of proposed flight 
path; and 
(7) contact person to provide additional infor-
mation. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following defi-
nitions apply: 
(1) AVIATION ROUNDTABLE.—The term ‘‘Avia-
tion Roundtable’’ means an organization designed to 
address community concerns over a sustained period 
of time regarding aircraft operations often associ-
ated with a nearby airport. 
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(2) FAA ORDER JO7100.41A.—The term ‘‘FAA 
Order 
JO7100.41A’’ 
means 
FAA 
Order 
JO7100.41A and any other successor versions of 
such Order. 
(3) FLIGHT
PROCEDURE.—The term ‘‘flight 
procedure’’ means a preplanned Instrument Flight 
Rules (IFR) procedure published for pilot use, in 
graphic or textual format, that provides obstruction 
clearance from the terminal area to the en route 
structure (departure) or from the en route structure 
to the terminal area (arrival). 
(4) IFP.—The term ‘‘IFP’’ means instrument 
flight procedure. 
(5) INSTRUMENT FLIGHT PROCEDURES GATE-
WAY.—The term ‘‘Instrument Flight Procedures 
Gateway’’ means a centralized instrument flight pro-
cedures data portal providing, among others, current 
IFPs under Development or Amendments with Ten-
tative Publication Date and Status. 
(6) ELECTED
GOVERNING
BODY.—The term 
‘‘elected governing body’’ means a municipal body 
having legislative and administrative powers, such as 
passing ordinances and appropriating funds, such as 
a City Council, Town Council, County Board of Su-
pervisors, or similar. 
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(7) PBN.—The term ‘‘PBN’’ means perform-
ance based navigation. 
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