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Sec. 105. Airport security program.
Sec. 106. Contract tower programs
Sec. 107. Automated surface observation system stations.
TITLE II—AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM AMENDMENTS
Sec. 201. Removal of the cap on discretionary fund.
Sec. 202. Innovative use of airport grant funds.
Sec. 203. Matching share.
Sec. 204. Increase in apportionment for noise compatibility planning and pro-
grams.
Sec. 205. Technical amendments.
Sec. 206. Repeal of period of applicability.
Sec. 207. Report on efforts to implement capacity enhancements.
Sec. 208. Prioritization of discretionary projects.
Sec. 209. Public notice before grant assurance requirement waived.
Sec. 210. Definition of public aircraft.
Sec. 211. Terminal development costs.
Sec. 212. Airfield pavement conditions.
Sec. 213. Discretionary grants.
TITLE III—AMENDMENTS TO AVIATION LAW
Sec. 301. Severable services contracts for periods crossing fiscal years.
Sec. 302. Foreign carriers eligible for waiver under Airport Noise and Capacity
Act.
Sec. 303. Government and industry consortia.
Sec. 304. Implementation of Article 83 Bis of the Chicago Convention.
Sec. 305. Foreign aviation services authority.
Sec. 306. Flexibility to perform criminal history record checks; technical amend-
ments to Pilot Records Improvement Act.
Sec. 307. Aviation insurance program amendments.
Sec. 308. Technical corrections to civil penalty provisions.
Sec. 309. Criminal penalty for pilots operating in air transportation without an
airman’s certificate.
Sec. 310. Nondiscriminatory interline interconnection requirements.
TITLE IV—TITLE 49 TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS
Sec. 401. Restatement of 49 U.S.C. 106(g).
Sec. 402. Restatement of 49 U.S.C. 44909.
TITLE V—MISCELLANEOUS
Sec. 501. Oversight of FAA response to year 2000 problem.
Sec. 502. Cargo collision avoidance systems deadline.
Sec. 503. Runway safety areas; precision approach path indicators.
Sec. 504. Airplane emergency locators.
Sec. 505. Counterfeit aircraft parts.
Sec. 506. FAA may fine unruly passengers.
Sec. 507. Higher standards for handicapped access.
Sec. 508. Conveyances of United States Government land.
Sec. 509. Flight operations quality assurance rules.
Sec. 510. Wide area augmentation system.
Sec. 511. Regulation of Alaska air guides.
Sec. 512. Application of FAA regulations.
Sec. 513. Human factors program.
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Sec. 514. Independent validation of FAA costs and allocations.
Sec. 515. Whistleblower protection for FAA employees.
Sec. 516. Report on modernization of oceanic ATC system.
Sec. 517. Report on air transportation oversight system.
Sec. 518. Recycling of EIS.
Sec. 519. Protection of employees providing air safety information.
Sec. 520. Improvements to air navigation facilities.
Sec. 521. Denial of airport access to certain air carriers.
Sec. 522. Tourism.
Sec. 523. Equivalency of FAA and EU safety standards.
Sec. 524. Sense of the Senate on property taxes on public-use airports.
Sec. 525. Federal Aviation Administration Personnel Management System.
Sec. 526. Aircraft and aviation component repair and maintenance advisory
panel.
Sec. 527. Report on enhanced domestic airline competition.
Sec. 528. Aircraft situational display data.
Sec. 529. To express the sense of the Senate concerning a bilateral agreement be-
tween the United States and the United Kingdom regarding
Charlotte-London route.
Sec. 530. To express the sense of the Senate concerning a bilateral agreement be-
tween the United States and the United Kingdom regarding
Cleveland-London route.
Sec. 531. Allocation of Trust Fund funding.
Sec. 532. Taos Pueblo and Blue Lakes Wilderness Area demonstration project.
Sec. 533. Airline marketing disclosure.
Sec. 534. Certain air traffice control towers.
Sec. 535. Compensation under the Death on the High Seas Act.
TITLE VI—AVIATION COMPETITION PROMOTION
Sec. 601. Purpose.
Sec. 602. Establishment of small community aviation development program.
Sec. 603. Community-carrier air service program.
Sec. 604. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 605. Marketing practices.
Sec. 606. Slot exemptions for nonstop regional jet service.
Sec. 607. Exemptions to perimeter rule at Ronald Reagan Washington National
Airport.
Sec. 608. Additional slot exemptions at Chicago O’Hare International Airport.
Sec. 609. Consumer notification of e-ticket expiration dates.
Sec. 610. Joint venture agreements.
Sec. 611. Regional air service incentive options.
Sec. 612. GAO study of air transportation needs.
TITLE VII—NATIONAL PARK OVERFLIGHTS
Sec. 701. Findings.
Sec. 702. Air tour management plans for national parks.
Sec. 703. Advisory group.
Sec. 704. Overflight fee report.
Sec. 705. Prohibition of commercial air tours over the Rocky Mountain National
Park.
TITLE VIII—CENTENNIAL OF FLIGHT COMMEMORATION
Sec. 801. Short title.
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Sec. 802. Findings.
Sec. 803. Establishment.
Sec. 804. Membership.
Sec. 805. Duties.
Sec. 806. Powers.
Sec. 807. Staff and support services.
Sec. 808. Contributions.
Sec. 809. Exclusive right to name, logos, emblems, seals, and marks.
Sec. 810. Reports.
Sec. 811. Audit of financial transactions.
Sec. 812. Advisory board.
Sec. 813. Definitions.
Sec. 814. Termination.
Sec. 815. Authorization of appropriations.
TITLE IX—EXTENSION OF AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND
EXPENDITURE AUTHORITY
Sec. 901. Extension of expenditure authority.
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 provi-
sion, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section
or other provision of title 49, United States Code.
TITLE I—AUTHORIZATIONS
SEC. 101. FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION OPER-
ATIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 106(k) is amended to read
as follows:
‘‘(k) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR OPER-
ATIONS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be
appropriated to the Secretary of Transportation for
operations of the Administration $5,631,000,000 for
fiscal year 1999 and $5,784,000,000 for fiscal year
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2000. Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated
for fiscal year 1999, not more than $9,100,000 shall
be used to support air safety efforts through payment
of United States membership obligations, to be paid
as soon as practicable.
‘‘(2) 
AUTHORIZED
EXPENDITURES.—Of 
the
amounts appropriated under paragraph (1) $450,000
may be used for wildlife hazard mitigation measures
and management of the wildlife strike database of the
Federal Aviation Administration.
‘‘(3) UNIVERSITY CONSORTIUM.—There are au-
thorized to be appropriated not more than $9,100,000
for the 3 fiscal year period beginning with fiscal year
1999 to support a university consortium established
to provide an air safety and security management
certificate program, working cooperatively with the
Federal Aviation Administration and United States
air carriers. Funds authorized under this para-
graph—
‘‘(A) may not be used for the construction
of a building or other facility; and
‘‘(B) shall be awarded on the basis of open
competition.’’.
(b) COORDINATION.—The authority granted the Sec-
retary under section 41717 of title 49, United States Code,
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does not affect the Secretary’s authority under any other
provision of law.
SEC. 102. AIR NAVIGATION FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 48101(a) is amended by
striking paragraphs (1) and (2) and inserting the following:
‘‘(1) for fiscal year 1999—
‘‘(A) $222,800,000 for engineering, develop-
ment, test, and evaluation: en route programs;
‘‘(B) $74,700,000 for engineering, develop-
ment, test, and evaluation: terminal programs;
‘‘(C) $108,000,000 for engineering, develop-
ment, test, and evaluation: landing and naviga-
tional aids;
‘‘(D) $17,790,000 for engineering, develop-
ment, test, and evaluation: research, test, and
evaluation equipment and facilities programs;
‘‘(E) $391,358,300 for air traffic control fa-
cilities and equipment: en route programs;
‘‘(F) $492,315,500 for air traffic control fa-
cilities and equipment: terminal programs;
‘‘(G) $38,764,400 for air traffic control fa-
cilities and equipment: flight services programs;
‘‘(H) $50,500,000 for air traffic control fa-
cilities and equipment: other ATC facilities pro-
grams;
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‘‘(I) $162,400,000 for non-ATC facilities
and equipment programs;
‘‘(J) $14,500,000 for training and equip-
ment facilities programs;
‘‘(K) $280,800,000 for mission support pro-
grams;
‘‘(L) $235,210,000 for personnel and related
expenses; and
‘‘(2) $2,189,000,000 for fiscal year 2000.’’.
(b) CONTINUATION OF ILS INVENTORY PROGRAM.—
Section 44502(a)(4)(B) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘fiscal years 1995 and 1996’’ and
inserting ‘‘fiscal years 1999 and 2000’’; and
(2) by striking ‘‘acquisition,’’ and inserting ‘‘ac-
quisition under new or existing contracts,’’.
(c) LIFE-CYCLE COST ESTIMATES.—The Adminis-
trator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall estab-
lish life-cycle cost estimates for any air traffic control mod-
ernization project the total life-cycle costs of which equal
or exceed $50,000,000.
SEC. 103. AIRPORT PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT AND
NOISE COMPATIBILITY PLANNING AND PRO-
GRAMS.
(a) EXTENSION AND AUTHORIZATION.—Section 48103
is amended by—