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further, That the amounts in the table entitled ‘‘Allocation of Funds 
for FAA Facilities and Equipment from the Infrastructure Invest-
ment and Jobs Act—Fiscal Year 2023’’ in the explanatory statement 
described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this 
consolidated Act) shall be the baseline for application of reprogram-
ming and transfer authorities for the current fiscal year pursuant 
to paragraph (7) of such section 405 for amounts referred to in 
the preceding proviso: Provided further, That, notwithstanding para-
graphs (5) and (6) of such section 405, unless prior approval is 
received from the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, 
not to exceed 10 percent of any funding level specified for projects 
and activities in the table referred to in the preceding proviso 
may be transferred to any other funding level specified for projects 
and activities in such table and no transfer of such funding levels 
may increase or decrease any funding level in such table by more 
than 10 percent: Provided further, That of the amounts made avail-
able under this heading for terminal facilities, $45,000,000 shall 
be made available for the purposes, and in amounts, specified 
for Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending 
in the table entitled ‘‘Community Project Funding/Congressionally 
Directed Spending’’ included in the explanatory statement described 
in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated 
Act). 
RESEARCH, ENGINEERING, AND DEVELOPMENT 
(AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND) 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for 
research, engineering, and development, as authorized under part 
A of subtitle VII of title 49, United States Code, including construc-
tion of experimental facilities and acquisition of necessary sites 
by lease or grant, $255,000,000, to be derived from the Airport 
and Airway Trust Fund and to remain available until September 
30, 2025: Provided, That there may be credited to this appropriation 
as offsetting collections, funds received from States, counties, 
municipalities, other public authorities, and private sources, which 
shall be available for expenses incurred for research, engineering, 
and development: Provided further, That amounts made available 
under this heading shall be used in accordance with the explanatory 
statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division 
A of this consolidated Act): Provided further, That not to exceed 
10 percent of any funding level specified under this heading in 
the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter 
preceding division A of this consolidated Act) may be transferred 
to any other funding level specified under this heading in the 
explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter pre-
ceding division A of this consolidated Act): Provided further, That 
no transfer may increase or decrease any funding level by more 
than 10 percent: Provided further, That any transfer in excess 
of 10 percent shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under 
section 405 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation 
or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth 
in that section.
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GRANTS-IN-AID FOR AIRPORTS 
(LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION) 
(LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS) 
(AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND) 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For liquidation of obligations incurred for grants-in-aid for air-
port planning and development, and noise compatibility planning 
and programs as authorized under subchapter I of chapter 471 
and subchapter I of chapter 475 of title 49, United States Code, 
and under other law authorizing such obligations; for procurement, 
installation, and commissioning of runway incursion prevention 
devices and systems at airports of such title; for grants authorized 
under section 41743 of title 49, United States Code; and for inspec-
tion activities and administration of airport safety programs, 
including those related to airport operating certificates under sec-
tion 44706 of title 49, United States Code, $3,350,000,000, to be 
derived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That none of the amounts made 
available under this heading shall be available for the planning 
or execution of programs the obligations for which are in excess 
of $3,350,000,000, in fiscal year 2023, notwithstanding section 
47117(g) of title 49, United States Code: Provided further, That 
none of the amounts made available under this heading shall be 
available for the replacement of baggage conveyor systems, reconfig-
uration of terminal baggage areas, or other airport improvements 
that are necessary to install bulk explosive detection systems: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding section 47109(a) of title 49, 
United States Code, the Government’s share of allowable project 
costs under paragraph (2) of such section for subgrants or paragraph 
(3) of such section shall be 95 percent for a project at other than 
a large or medium hub airport that is a successive phase of a 
multi-phased construction project for which the project sponsor 
received a grant in fiscal year 2011 for the construction project: 
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
of amounts limited under this heading, not less than $137,372,000 
shall be available for administration, $15,000,000 shall be available 
for the Airport Cooperative Research Program, $40,828,000 shall 
be available for Airport Technology Research, and $10,000,000, 
to remain available until expended, shall be available and trans-
ferred to ‘‘Office of the Secretary, Salaries and Expenses’’ to carry 
out the Small Community Air Service Development Program: Pro-
vided further, That in addition to airports eligible under section 
41743 of title 49, United States Code, such program may include 
the participation of an airport that serves a community or consor-
tium that is not larger than a small hub airport, according to 
FAA hub classifications effective at the time the Office of the 
Secretary issues a request for proposals. 
GRANTS-IN-AID FOR AIRPORTS 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Grants-In-Aid for Airports’’, to 
enable the Secretary of Transportation to make grants for projects 
as authorized by subchapter 1 of chapter 471 and subchapter 1
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of chapter 475 of title 49, United States Code, $558,555,000, to 
remain available through September 30, 2025: Provided, That 
amounts made available under this heading shall be derived from 
the general fund, and such funds shall not be subject to apportion-
ment formulas, special apportionment categories, or minimum 
percentages under chapter 471 of title 49, United States Code: 
Provided further, That of the sums appropriated under this 
heading— 
(1) $283,555,000 shall be made available for the purposes, 
and in amounts, specified for Community Project Funding/ 
Congressionally Directed Spending in the table entitled 
‘‘Community 
Project 
Funding/Congressionally 
Directed 
Spending’’ included in the explanatory statement described in 
section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated 
Act); and 
(2) up to $275,000,000 shall be made available to the Sec-
retary to distribute as discretionary grants to airports, of which 
not less than $25,000,000 shall be made available to any 
commercial service airport, notwithstanding the requirement 
for the airport to be located in an air quality nonattainment 
or maintenance area in section 47102(3)(K) and 47102(3)(L) 
of title 49, United States Code, for work necessary to construct 
or modify airport facilities to provide low-emission fuel systems, 
gate electrification, other related air quality improvements, 
acquisition of airport-owned vehicles or ground support equip-
ment with low-emission technology: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may make discretionary grants 
to primary airports for airport-owned infrastructure required for 
the on-airport distribution, blending, or storage of sustainable avia-
tion fuels that achieve at least a 50 percent reduction in lifecycle 
greenhouse gas emissions, using a methodology determined by the 
Secretary, including, but not limited to, on-airport construction 
or expansion of pipelines, rail lines and spurs, loading and off- 
loading facilities, blending facilities, and storage tanks: Provided 
further, That the Secretary may make discretionary grants for 
airport development improvements of primary runways, taxiways, 
and aprons necessary at a nonhub, small hub, medium hub, or 
large hub airport to increase operational resilience for the purpose 
of resuming commercial service flight operations following an earth-
quake, flooding, high water, hurricane, storm surge, tidal wave, 
tornado, tsunami, wind driven water, or winter storms: Provided 
further, That the amounts made available under this heading shall 
not be subject to any limitation on obligations for the Grants- 
in-Aid for Airports program set forth in any Act: Provided further, 
That the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration 
may retain up to 0.5 percent of the amounts made available under 
this heading to 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 made available by this Act may 
be used to compensate in excess of 600 technical staff-years under 
the federally funded research and development center contract 
between the Federal Aviation Administration and the Center for 
Advanced Aviation Systems Development during fiscal year 2023.
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SEC. 111. None of the funds made available by this Act shall 
be used to pursue or adopt guidelines or regulations requiring 
airport sponsors to provide to the Federal Aviation Administration 
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 prohibition on the use of funds in this section 
does not apply to negotiations 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 Adminis-
tration may reimburse amounts made available to satisfy section 
41742(a)(1) of title 49, United States Code, from fees credited under 
section 45303 of title 49, United States Code, and any amount 
remaining in such account at the close of any fiscal year may 
be made available to satisfy section 41742(a)(1) of title 49, United 
States Code, 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 as such appropriation. 
SEC. 114. None of the funds made available by this Act shall 
be available for paying premium pay under section 5546(a) of title 
5, United States Code, to any Federal Aviation Administration 
employee unless such employee actually performed work during 
the time corresponding to such premium pay. 
SEC. 115. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be obligated or expended for an employee of the Federal Aviation 
Administration to purchase a store gift card or gift certificate 
through use of a Government-issued credit card. 
SEC. 116. 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 
Administration, a blocking of that owner’s or operator’s aircraft 
registration number, Mode S transponder code, flight identification, 
call sign, or similar identifying information from any ground based 
display to the public that would allow the real-time or near real- 
time flight tracking of that aircraft’s movements, except data made 
available to a Government agency, for the noncommercial flights 
of that owner or operator. 
SEC. 117. None of the funds made available by this Act shall 
be available for salaries and expenses of more than nine political 
and Presidential appointees in the Federal Aviation Administration. 
SEC. 118. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to increase fees pursuant to section 44721 of title 49, 
United States Code, until the Federal Aviation Administration pro-
vides to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations a 
report that justifies all fees related to aeronautical navigation prod-
ucts and explains how such fees are consistent with Executive 
Order No. 13642. 
SEC. 119. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to close a regional operations center of the Federal Aviation