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(B) the establishment of turbine height and 
density limitations on such wind farms; 
(C) requirements for notice to the Adminis-
tration under section 44718(a) of title 49, 
United States Code, before the construction, al-
teration, establishment, or expansion of a such a 
wind farm; and 
(D) any other requirements or recommenda-
tions designed to address Administration safety 
or operational concerns related to the construc-
tion, alteration, establishment, or expansion of 
such wind farms. 
(2) PUBLIC ACCESS TO INFORMATION.—To the 
extent feasible, taking into consideration security, 
operational, and public safety concerns (as deter-
mined by the Administrator), the Administrator shall 
provide public access to information regarding the 
planning, construction, and operation of wind farms 
in proximity to critical FAA facilities on, or by link-
age from, the homepage of the Federal Aviation Ad-
ministration’s public website. 
(d) CONSULTATION WITH OTHER FEDERAL AGEN-
CIES.—In carrying out this section, the Administrator and 
the Comptroller General shall consult, as appropriate, with
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the Secretaries of the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, Home-
land Security, and Energy— 
(1) to coordinate the requirements of each de-
partment for future air space needs; 
(2) to determine what the acceptable risks are to 
the existing infrastructure of each department; and 
(3) to define the different levels of risk for such 
infrastructure. 
(e) REPORTS.—The Administrator and the Comp-
troller General shall provide a copy of reports under sub-
sections (a) and (b), respectively, to the Senate Committee 
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Sen-
ate Committee on Armed Services, the House of Representa-
tives Committee on Homeland Security, the House of Rep-
resentatives Committee on Armed Services, and the House 
of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology, 
as appropriate. 
(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) ADMINISTRATION.—The term ‘‘Administra-
tion’’ means the Federal Aviation Administration. 
(2) 
ADMINISTRATOR.—The 
term 
‘‘Adminis-
trator’’ means the Administrator of the Federal Avia-
tion Administration. 
(3) CRITICAL FAA FACILITIES.—The term ‘‘crit-
ical FAA facilities’’ means facilities on which are lo-
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cated navigational aides, surveillance systems, or 
communications systems used by the Administration 
in administration of the national airspace system. 
(4) WIND FARM.—The term ‘‘wind farm’’ means 
an installation of 1 or more wind turbines used for 
the generation of electricity. 
SEC. 612. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR EQUIPMENT 
TO CLEAN AND MONITOR THE ENGINE AND 
APU BLEED AIR SUPPLIED ON PRESSURIZED 
AIRCRAFT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Fed-
eral Aviation Administration shall, to the degree prac-
ticable, implement a research program for the identification 
or development of appropriate and effective air cleaning 
technology and sensor technology for the engine and auxil-
iary power unit (APU) bleed air supplied to the passenger 
cabin and flight deck of all pressurized aircraft. 
(b) TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENTS.—The technology re-
ferred to in subsection (a) should, at a minimum, have the 
capacity— 
(1) to remove oil-based contaminants from the 
bleed air supplied to the passenger cabin and flight 
deck; and
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(2) to detect and record oil-based contaminants 
in the portion of the total air supplied to the pas-
senger cabin and flight deck from bleed air. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to 
the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 
of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report on 
the results of the research and development work carried 
out under this section. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are 
authorized to be appropriated such sums are as necessary 
to carry out this section. 
TITLE VII—MISCELLANEOUS 
SEC. 701. GENERAL AUTHORITY. 
(a) THIRD PARTY LIABILITY.—Section 44303(b) is 
amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2009,’’ and inserting 
‘‘December 31, 2012,’’. 
(b) EXTENSION OF PROGRAM AUTHORITY.—Section 
44310 is amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2013.’’ and 
inserting ‘‘October 1, 2017.’’. 
(c) WAR RISK.—Section 44302(f)(1) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘September 30, 2009,’’ and in-
serting ‘‘September 30, 2011,’’; and
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(2) by striking ‘‘December 31, 2009,’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘December 31, 2011,’’. 
SEC. 702. HUMAN INTERVENTION MANAGEMENT STUDY. 
Within 6 months after the date of enactment of this 
Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administra-
tion shall develop a Human Intervention Management 
Study program for cabin crews employed by commercial 
air carriers in the United States. 
SEC. 703. AIRPORT PROGRAM MODIFICATIONS. 
The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration— 
(1) shall establish a formal, structured certifi-
cation training program for the airport concessions 
disadvantaged business enterprise program; and 
(2) may appoint 3 additional staff to implement 
the programs of the airport concessions disadvantaged 
business enterprise initiative. 
SEC. 704. MISCELLANEOUS PROGRAM EXTENSIONS. 
(a) MARSHALL ISLANDS, FEDERATED STATES OF MI-
CRONESIA, AND PALAU.—Section 47115(j) is amended by 
striking ‘‘2009,’’ and inserting ‘‘2011,’’. 
(b) MIDWAY ISLAND AIRPORT.—Section 186(d) of the 
Vision 100—Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act (117 
Stat. 2518) is amended by striking ‘‘2009,’’ and inserting 
‘‘2011,’’.
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SEC. 705. EXTENSION OF COMPETITIVE ACCESS REPORTS. 
Section 47107(s) is amended by striking paragraph 
(3). 
SEC. 706. UPDATE ON OVERFLIGHTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 45301(b) is amended to 
read as follows: 
‘‘(b) LIMITATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—In establishing fees under 
subsection (a), the Administrator shall ensure that the 
fees required by subsection (a) are reasonably related 
to the Administration’s costs, as determined by the 
Administrator, of providing the services rendered. 
Services for which costs may be recovered include the 
costs of air traffic control, navigation, weather serv-
ices, training, and emergency services which are 
available to facilitate safe transportation over the 
United States, and other services provided by the Ad-
ministrator or by programs financed by the Adminis-
trator to flights that neither take off nor land in the 
United States. The determination of such costs by the 
Administrator is not subject to judicial review. 
‘‘(2) ADJUSTMENT OF FEES.—The Administrator 
shall adjust the overflight fees established by sub-
section (a)(1) by expedited rulemaking and begin col-
lections under the adjusted fees by October 1, 2010. In 
developing the adjusted overflight fees, the Adminis-
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trator shall seek and consider the recommendations, if 
any, offered by the Aviation Rulemaking Committee 
for Overflight Fees that are intended to ensure that 
overflight fees are reasonably related to the Adminis-
trator’s costs of providing air traffic control and re-
lated services to overflights. In addition, the Adminis-
trator may periodically modify the fees established 
under this section either on the Administrator’s own 
initiative or on a recommendation from the Air Traf-
fic Control Modernization Board. 
‘‘(3) COST DATA.—The adjustment of overflight 
fees under paragraph (2) shall be based on the costs 
to the Administration of providing the air traffic con-
trol and related activities, services, facilities, and 
equipment using the available data derived from the 
Administration’s cost accounting system and cost al-
location system to users, as well as budget and oper-
ational data. 
‘‘(4) AIRCRAFT ALTITUDE.—Nothing in this sec-
tion shall require the Administrator to take into ac-
count aircraft altitude in establishing any fee for air-
craft operations in en route or oceanic airspace. 
‘‘(5) COSTS DEFINED.—In this subsection, the 
term ‘costs’ means those costs associated with the op-
eration, maintenance, debt service, and overhead ex-
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penses of the services provided and the facilities and 
equipment used in such services, including the pro-
jected costs for the period during which the services 
will be provided. 
‘‘(6) PUBLICATION; COMMENT.—The Adminis-
trator shall publish in the Federal Register any fee 
schedule under this section, including any adjusted 
overflight fee schedule, and the associated collection 
process as a proposed rule, pursuant to which public 
comment will be sought and a final rule issued.’’. 
(b) ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION.—Section 45303(c)(2) 
is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(2) shall be available to the Administrator for 
expenditure for purposes authorized by Congress for 
the Federal Aviation Administration, however, fees es-
tablished by section 45301(a)(1) of this title shall be 
available only to pay the cost of activities and serv-
ices for which the fee is imposed, including the costs 
to determine, assess, review, and collect the fee; and’’. 
SEC. 707. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS. 
Section 40122(g), as amended by section 307 of this 
Act, is further amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘section 2302(b), relating to 
whistleblower protection,’’ in paragraph (2)(A) and 
inserting ‘‘sections 2301 and 2302,’’;
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(2) by striking ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon in 
paragraph (2)(H); 
(3) by striking ‘‘Plan.’’ in paragraph (2)(I)(iii) 
and inserting ‘‘Plan;’’; 
(4) by adding at the end of paragraph (2) the 
following: 
‘‘(J) section 5596, relating to back pay; and 
‘‘(K) sections 6381 through 6387, relating to 
Family and Medical Leave.’’; and 
(5) by adding at the end of paragraph (3) ‘‘Not-
withstanding any other provision of law, retroactive 
to April 1, 1996, the Board shall have the same reme-
dial authority over such employee appeals that it had 
as of March 31, 1996.’’. 
SEC. 708. FAA TECHNICAL TRAINING AND STAFFING. 
(a) STUDY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Comptroller General shall 
conduct a study of the training of airway transpor-
tation systems specialists of the Federal Aviation Ad-
ministration that includes— 
(A) an analysis of the type of training pro-
vided to such specialists; 
(B) an analysis of the type of training that 
such specialists need to be proficient in the 
maintenance of the latest technologies;
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(C) actions that the Administration has un-
dertaken to ensure that such specialists receive 
up-to-date training on such technologies; 
(D) the amount and cost of training pro-
vided by vendors for such specialists; 
(E) the amount and cost of training pro-
vided by the Administration after developing in- 
house training courses for such specialists; 
(F) the amount and cost of travel required 
of such specialists in receiving training; and 
(G) a recommendation regarding the most 
cost-effective approach to providing such train-
ing. 
(2) REPORT.—Within 1 year after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall 
transmit a report on the study containing the Comp-
troller General’s findings and recommendations to the 
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Trans-
portation and the House of Representatives Com-
mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure. 
(b) STUDY BY NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator 
of the Federal Aviation Administration shall contract 
with the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a
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study of the assumptions and methods used by the 
Federal Aviation Administration to estimate staffing 
needs for Federal Aviation Administration air traffic 
controllers, system specialists, and engineers to ensure 
proper maintenance, certification, and operation of 
the National Airspace System. The National Academy 
of Sciences shall consult with the Exclusive Bar-
gaining Representative certified under section 7111 of 
title 5, United States Code, and the Administration 
(including the Civil Aeronautical Medical Institute) 
and examine data entailing human factors, traffic ac-
tivity, and the technology at each facility. 
(2) CONTENTS.—The study shall include— 
(A) recommendations for objective staffing 
standards that maintain the safety of the Na-
tional Airspace System; and 
(B) the approximate length of time for de-
veloping such standards. 
(3) REPORT.—Not later than 24 months after 
executing a contract under subsection (a), the Na-
tional Academy of Sciences shall transmit a report 
containing its findings and recommendations to the 
Congress. 
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(1) SAFETY
STAFFING
MODEL.—Within 12 
months after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administra-
tion shall develop a staffing model for aviation safety 
inspectors. In developing the model, the Adminis-
trator shall consult with representatives of the avia-
tion safety inspectors and other interested parties. 
(2) SAFETY INSPECTOR STAFFING.—The Federal 
Aviation Administration aviation safety inspector 
staffing requirement shall be no less than the staffing 
levels indicated as necessary in the staffing model de-
scribed under subsection (a). 
(d) ALASKA FLIGHT SERVICE STATIONS.—Not later 
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Administrator, in conjunction with flight service station 
personnel, shall submit a report to Congress on the future 
of flight service stations in Alaska, which includes— 
(1) an analysis of the number of flight service 
specialists needed, the training needed by such per-
sonnel, and the need for a formal training and hiring 
program for such personnel; 
(2) a schedule for necessary inspection, upgrades, 
and modernization of stations and equipment; and