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reimburse such amounts from fees credited to the account estab-
lished under section 45303 of title 49, United States Code. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF 
TRANSPORTATION 
SEC. 101. None of the funds made available in this Act to 
the Department of Transportation may be obligated for the Office 
of the Secretary of Transportation to approve assessments or 
reimbursable agreements pertaining to funds appropriated to the 
modal administrations in this Act, except for activities underway 
on the date of enactment of this Act, unless such assessments 
or agreements have completed the normal reprogramming process 
for Congressional notification. 
SEC. 102. The Secretary shall post on the Web site of the 
Department of Transportation a schedule of all meetings of the 
Council on Credit and Finance, including the agenda for each 
meeting, and require the Council on Credit and Finance to record 
the decisions and actions of each meeting. 
SEC. 103. In addition to authority provided by section 327 
of title 49, United States Code, the Department’s Working Capital 
Fund is hereby authorized to provide partial or full payments 
in advance and accept subsequent reimbursements from all Federal 
agencies from available funds for transit benefit distribution serv-
ices that are necessary to carry out the Federal transit pass 
transportation fringe benefit program under Executive Order No. 
13150 and section 3049 of Public Law 109–59: Provided, That 
the Department shall maintain a reasonable operating reserve in 
the Working Capital Fund, to be expended in advance to provide 
uninterrupted transit benefits to Government employees: Provided 
further, That such reserve will not exceed one month of benefits 
payable and may be used only for the purpose of providing for 
the continuation of transit benefits: Provided further, That the 
Working Capital Fund will be fully reimbursed by each customer 
agency from available funds for the actual cost of the transit benefit. 
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATIONS 
(AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND) 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Aviation Administration, 
not otherwise provided for, including operations and research activi-
ties related to commercial space transportation, administrative 
expenses for research and development, establishment of air naviga-
tion facilities, the operation (including leasing) and maintenance 
of aircraft, subsidizing the cost of aeronautical charts and maps 
sold to the public, the lease or purchase of passenger motor vehicles 
for replacement only, in addition to amounts made available by 
Public Law 112–95, $10,410,758,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2020, of which $9,833,400,000 shall be derived from 
the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, of which not to exceed 
$7,841,720,000 shall be available for air traffic organization activi-
ties; not to exceed $1,336,969,000 shall be available for aviation 
safety activities; not to exceed $24,949,000 shall be available for 
commercial 
space 
transportation 
activities; 
not 
to 
exceed
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$816,398,000 shall be available for finance and management activi-
ties; not to exceed $61,258,000 shall be available for NextGen 
and operations planning activities; not to exceed $114,165,000 shall 
be available for security and hazardous materials safety; and not 
to exceed $215,299,000 shall be available for staff offices: Provided, 
That not to exceed 5 percent of any budget activity, except for 
aviation safety budget activity, may be transferred to any budget 
activity under this heading: Provided further, That no transfer 
may increase or decrease any appropriation by more than 5 percent: 
Provided further, That any transfer in excess of 5 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: Provided 
further, That not later than March 31 of each fiscal year hereafter, 
the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall 
transmit to Congress an annual update to the report submitted 
to Congress in December 2004 pursuant to section 221 of Public 
Law 108–176: Provided further, That the amount herein appro-
priated shall be reduced by $100,000 for each day after March 
31 that such report has not been submitted to the Congress: Pro-
vided further, That not later than March 31 of each fiscal year 
hereafter, the Administrator shall transmit to Congress a com-
panion report that describes a comprehensive strategy for staffing, 
hiring, and training flight standards and aircraft certification staff 
in a format similar to the one utilized for the controller staffing 
plan, including stated attrition estimates and numerical hiring goals 
by fiscal year: Provided further, That the amount herein appro-
priated shall be reduced by $100,000 per day for each day after 
March 31 that such report has not been submitted to Congress: 
Provided further, That funds may be used to enter into a grant 
agreement with a nonprofit standard-setting organization to assist 
in the development of aviation safety standards: Provided further, 
That none of the funds in this Act shall be available for new 
applicants for the second career training program: Provided further, 
That none of the funds in this Act shall be available for the 
Federal Aviation Administration to finalize or implement any regu-
lation that would promulgate new aviation user fees not specifically 
authorized by law after the date of the enactment of this Act: 
Provided further, That there may be credited to this appropriation, 
as offsetting collections, funds received from States, counties, 
municipalities, foreign authorities, other public authorities, and 
private sources for expenses incurred in the provision of agency 
services, including receipts for the maintenance and operation of 
air navigation facilities, and for issuance, renewal or modification 
of certificates, including airman, aircraft, and repair station certifi-
cates, or for tests related thereto, or for processing major repair 
or alteration forms: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated 
under this heading, not less than $168,000,000 shall be used to 
fund direct operations of the current 254 air traffic control towers 
in the contract tower program, including the contract tower cost 
share program, and any airport that is currently qualified or that 
will qualify for the program during the fiscal year: Provided further, 
That none of the funds in this Act for aeronautical charting and 
cartography are available for activities conducted by, or coordinated 
through, the Working Capital Fund: Provided further, That none 
of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this 
Act or any other Act may be used to eliminate the Contract Weather
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Observers program at any airport: Provided further, That of the 
amount appropriated under this heading, up to $6,000,000 shall 
be used for providing matching funds to qualified commercial enti-
ties seeking to demonstrate or validate technologies that the Federal 
Aviation Administration considers essential to the safe integration 
of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the National Airspace 
System at Federal Aviation Administration designated UAS test 
sites: Provided further, That not later than 60 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
Administration shall identify essential integration technologies that 
could be demonstrated or validated at test sites designated in 
accordance with the preceding proviso. 
FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT 
(AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND) 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for acquisi-
tion, establishment, technical support services, improvement by 
contract or purchase, and hire of national airspace systems and 
experimental facilities and equipment, as authorized under part 
A of subtitle VII of title 49, United States Code, including initial 
acquisition of necessary sites by lease or grant; engineering and 
service testing, including construction of test facilities and acquisi-
tion of necessary sites by lease or grant; construction and furnishing 
of quarters and related accommodations for officers and employees 
of the Federal Aviation Administration stationed at remote localities 
where such accommodations are not available; and the purchase, 
lease, or transfer of aircraft from funds available under this 
heading, including aircraft for aviation regulation and certification; 
to be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, 
$3,000,000,000, of which $512,823,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2020, $2,372,127,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2021, and $115,050,000 shall remain available until 
expended: Provided, That there may be credited to this appropria-
tion funds received from States, counties, municipalities, other 
public authorities, and private sources, for expenses incurred in 
the establishment, improvement, and modernization of national 
airspace systems: Provided further, That no later than March 31, 
the Secretary of Transportation shall transmit to the Congress 
an investment plan for the Federal Aviation Administration which 
includes funding for each budget line item for fiscal years 2020 
through 2024, with total funding for each year of the plan con-
strained to the funding targets for those years as estimated and 
approved by the Office of Management and Budget. 
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, $191,100,000, to be derived from the Airport 
and Airway Trust Fund and to remain available until September 
30, 2021: Provided, That there may be credited to this appropriation 
as offsetting collections, funds received from States, counties,
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municipalities, other public authorities, and private sources, which 
shall be available for expenses incurred for research, engineering, 
and development: Provided further, That funds made available 
under this heading shall be used in accordance with the joint 
explanatory statement accompanying this Act: Provided further, 
That not to exceed 10 percent of any funding level specified under 
this heading in the joint explanatory statement accompanying this 
Act may be transferred to any other funding level specified under 
this heading in the joint explanatory statement accompanying this 
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 reprogram-
ming 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. 
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, $3,000,000,000, to be 
derived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That none of the funds 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 2019, notwithstanding section 47117(g) of title 49, 
United States Code: Provided further, That none of the funds under 
this heading shall be available for the replacement of baggage 
conveyor systems, reconfiguration of terminal baggage areas, or 
other airport improvements that are necessary to install bulk explo-
sive detection systems: Provided further, That notwithstanding sec-
tion 47109(a) of title 49, United States Code, the Government’s 
share of allowable project costs under paragraph (2) for subgrants 
or paragraph (3) of that 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 funds limited under this heading, not more than 
$112,600,000 shall be available for administration, not less than 
$15,000,000 shall be available for the Airport Cooperative Research 
Program, not less than $33,210,000 shall be available for Airport