SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the
‘‘Flight 100—Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act’’.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for
this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Amendments to title 49, United States Code.
Sec. 3. Effective date.
TITLE I—AUTHORIZATIONS
Sec. 101. Federal Aviation Administration operations.
Sec. 102. Air navigation facilities and equipment.
Sec. 103. Airport planning and development and noise compatibility planning
and programs.
Sec. 104. Additional reauthorizations.
Sec. 105. Insurance.
Sec. 106. Pilot program for innovative financing for terminal automation re-
placement systems.
TITLE II—AIRPORT PROJECT STREAMLINING
Sec. 201. Short title.
Sec. 202. Findings.
Sec. 203. Promotion of new runways.
Sec. 204. Airport project streamlining.
Sec. 205. Governor’s certificate.
Sec. 206. Construction of certain airport capacity projects.
Sec. 207. Limitations.
Sec. 208. Relationship to other requirements.
TITLE III—FEDERAL AVIATION REFORM
Sec. 301. Management advisory committee members.
Sec. 302. Reorganization of the Air Traffic Services Subcommittee.
Sec. 303. Clarification of the responsibilities of the Chief Operating Officer.
Sec. 304. Small Business Ombudsman.
Sec. 305. FAA purchase cards.
TITLE IV—AIRLINE SERVICE IMPROVEMENTS
Sec. 401. Improvement of aviation information collection.
Sec. 402. Data on incidents and complaints involving passenger and baggage
security screening.
Sec. 403. Definitions.
Sec. 404. Clarifications to procurement authority.
Sec. 405. Low-emission airport vehicles and ground support equipment.
Sec. 406. Streamlining of the passenger facility fee program.
Sec. 407. Financial management of passenger facility fees.
Sec. 408. Government contracting for air transportation.
Sec. 409. Overflights of national parks.
Sec. 410. Collaborative decisionmaking pilot program.
Sec. 411. Availability of aircraft accident site information.
Sec. 412. Slot exemptions at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Sec. 413. Notice concerning aircraft assembly.
Sec. 414. Special rule to promote air service to small communities.
Sec. 415. Small community air service.
Sec. 416. Type certificates.
Sec. 417. Design organization certificates.
Sec. 418. Counterfeit or fraudulently represented parts violations.
Sec. 419. Runway safety standards.
Sec. 420. Availability of maintenance information.
Sec. 421. Certificate actions in response to a security threat.
Sec. 422. Flight attendant certification.
Sec. 423. Civil penalty for closure of an airport without providing sufficient no-
tice.
Sec. 424. Noise exposure maps.
Sec. 425. Amendment of general fee schedule provision.
Sec. 426. Improvement of curriculum standards for aviation maintenance tech-
nicians.
Sec. 427. Task force on future of air transportation system.
Sec. 428. Air quality in aircraft cabins.
Sec. 429. Recommendations concerning travel agents.
Sec. 430. Task force on enhanced transfer of applications of technology for
military aircraft to civilian aircraft.
Sec. 431. Reimbursement for losses incurred by general aviation entities.
Sec. 432. Impasse procedures for National Association of Air Traffic Special-
ists.
Sec. 433. FAA inspector training.
Sec. 434. Prohibition on air traffic control privatization.
Sec. 435. Airfares for members of the Armed Forces.
Sec. 436. Air carriers required to honor tickets for suspended air service.
Sec. 437. International air show.
Sec. 438. Definition of air traffic controller.
Sec. 439. Justification for air defense identification zone.
Sec. 440. International air transportation.
Sec. 441. Reimbursement of air carriers for certain screening and related ac-
tivities.
Sec. 442. General aviation flights at Ronald Reagan Washington National Air-
port.
Sec. 443. Charter airlines.
Sec. 444. Implementation of chapter 4 noise standards.
Sec. 445. Crew training.
Sec. 446. Review of compensation criteria.
Sec. 447. Review of certain aircraft operations in Alaska.
TITLE V—AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT
Sec. 501. Definitions.
Sec. 502. Replacement of baggage conveyor systems.
Sec. 503. Security costs at small airports.
Sec. 504. Withholding of program application approval.
Sec. 505. Runway safety areas.
Sec. 506. Disposition of land acquired for noise compatibility purposes.
Sec. 507. Grant assurances.
Sec. 508. Allowable project costs.
Sec. 509. Apportionments to primary airports.
Sec. 510. Cargo airports.
Sec. 511. Considerations in making discretionary grants.
Sec. 512. Flexible funding for nonprimary airport apportionments.
Sec. 513. Use of apportioned amounts.
Sec. 514. Military airport program.
Sec. 515. Terminal development costs.
Sec. 516. Contract towers.
Sec. 517. Airport safety data collection.
Sec. 518. Airport privatization pilot program.
Sec. 519. Innovative financing techniques.
Sec. 520. Airport security program.
Sec. 521. Low-emission airport vehicles and infrastructure.
Sec. 522. Compatible land use planning and projects by State and local govern-
ments.
Sec. 523. Prohibition on requiring airports to provide rent-free space for Fed-
eral Aviation Administration.
Sec. 524. Midway Island Airport.
Sec. 525. Intermodal planning.
Sec. 526. Status review of Marshall Islands airport.
Sec. 527. Report on waivers of preference for buying goods produced in the
United States.
TITLE VI—EXTENSION OF AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND
EXPENDITURE AUTHORITY
Sec. 601. 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
provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to
a section or other provision of title 49, United States
Code.
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
Except as otherwise expressly provided, this Act and
the amendments made by this Act shall be effective on
the date of enactment of this Act.
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.—
‘‘(1) SALARIES, OPERATIONS, AND
MAINTE-
NANCE.—There is authorized to be appropriated to
the Secretary of Transportation for salaries, oper-
ations, and maintenance of the Administration—
‘‘(A) $7,591,000,000 for fiscal year 2004;
‘‘(B) $7,732,000,000 for fiscal year 2005;
‘‘(C) $7,889,000,000 for fiscal year 2006;
and
‘‘(D) $8,064,000,000 for fiscal year 2007.
Such sums shall remain available until expended.
‘‘(2) OPERATION
OF
CENTER
FOR
MANAGE-
MENT AND DEVELOPMENT.—Out of amounts appro-
priated under paragraph (1), such sums as may be
necessary may be expended by the Center for Man-
agement Development of the Federal Aviation Ad-
ministration to operate at least 200 courses each
year and to support associated student travel for
both residential and field courses.
‘‘(3) AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.—Out
of amounts appropriated under paragraph (1), such
sums as may be necessary may be expended by the
Federal Aviation Administration for the establish-
ment and operation of a new office to develop, in co-
ordination with the Department of Defense, the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration, and
the Department of Homeland Security, the next gen-
eration air traffic management system and a transi-
tion plan for the implementation of that system. The
office shall be known as the ‘Next Generation Air
Transportation System Joint Program Office’.
‘‘(4) HELICOPTER
AND
TILTROTOR
PROCE-
DURES.—Out of amounts appropriated under para-
graph (1), such sums as may be necessary may be
expended by the Federal Aviation Administration for
the establishment of helicopter and tiltrotor ap-
proach and departure procedures using advanced
technologies, such as the Global Positioning System
and automatic dependent surveillance, to permit op-
erations in adverse weather conditions to meet the
needs of air ambulance services.
‘‘(5) ADDITIONAL
AIR
TRAFFIC
CONTROL-
LERS.—Out of amounts appropriated under para-
graph (1), such sums as may be necessary may be
expended to hire additional air traffic controllers in
order to meet increasing air traffic demands and to
address the anticipated increase in the retirement of
experienced air traffic controllers.
‘‘(6) COMPLETION OF ALASKA AVIATION SAFE-
TY PROJECT.—Out of amounts appropriated under
paragraph (1), $6,000,000 may be expended for the
completion of the Alaska aviation safety project with
respect to the 3 dimensional mapping of Alaska’s
main aviation corridors.
‘‘(7) AVIATION SAFETY REPORTING SYSTEM.—
Out of amounts appropriated under paragraph (1),
$3,400,000 may be expended on the Aviation Safety
Reporting System.’’.
(b) AIRLINE DATA AND ANALYSIS.—There is author-
ized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Transportation,
out of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund established by
section 9502 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26
U.S.C. 
9502), 
$3,971,000 
for 
fiscal 
year 
2004,
$4,045,000 for fiscal year 2005, $4,127,000 for fiscal year
2006, and $4,219,000 for fiscal year 2007 to gather air-
line data and conduct analyses of such data in the Bureau
of Transportation Statistics of the Department of Trans-
portation.
(c) HUMAN CAPITAL WORKFORCE STRATEGY.—
(1) DEVELOPMENT.—The Administrator of the
Federal Aviation Administration shall develop a
comprehensive human capital workforce strategy to
determine the most effective method for addressing
the need for more air traffic controllers that is called
for in the June 2002 report of the General Account-
ing Office.
(2) COMPLETION
DATE.—The Administrator
shall complete development of the strategy not later
than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act.
(3) REPORT.—Not later than 30 days after the
date on which the strategy is completed, the Admin-
istrator shall transmit to Congress a report describ-
ing the strategy.
(d) GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF AVIATION SAFETY
REPORTING SYSTEM.—Not later than 90 days after the
date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall
transmit to Congress a report on the long-term goals and
objectives of the Aviation Safety Reporting System and
how such system interrelates with other safety reporting
systems of the Federal Government.
SEC. 102. AIR NAVIGATION FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT.
Section 48101 is amended—
(1) in subsection (a) by striking paragraphs (1)
through (5) and inserting the following:
‘‘(1) $3,138,000,000 for fiscal year 2004;
‘‘(2) $2,993,000,000 for fiscal year 2005;
‘‘(3) $3,053,000,000 for fiscal year 2006; and
‘‘(4) $3,110,000,000 for fiscal year 2007.’’;
(2) by striking subsection (b);
(3) by redesignating (c) as subsection (b);
(4) by striking subsections (d) and (e) and in-
serting the following:
‘‘(c) ENHANCED SAFETY AND SECURITY FOR AIR-
CRAFT OPERATIONS
IN
THE GULF
OF MEXICO.—Of
amounts appropriated under subsection (a), such sums as
may be necessary for fiscal years 2004 through 2007 may
be used to expand and improve the safety, efficiency, and
security of air traffic control, navigation, low altitude com-
munications and surveillance, and weather services in the
Gulf of Mexico.
‘‘(d) OPERATIONAL BENEFITS OF WAKE VORTEX
ADVISORY SYSTEM.—Of amounts appropriated under sub-
section (a), $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2004
through 2007 may be used to document and demonstrate
the operational benefits of a wake vortex advisory system.
‘‘(e) GROUND-BASED
PRECISION
NAVIGATIONAL
AIDS.—Of amounts appropriated under subsection (a),
$20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2004 to 2007 may
be used to establish a program for the installation, oper-
ation, and maintenance of a closed-loop precision approach
aid designed to improve aircraft accessibility at moun-
tainous airports with limited land if the approach aid is
able to provide curved and segmented approach guidance
for noise abatement purposes and has been certified or
approved by the Administrator.’’; and
(5) in subsection (f)—
(A) by striking ‘‘for fiscal years beginning
after September 30, 2000’’; and
(B) by inserting ‘‘may be used’’ after ‘‘nec-
essary’’.
SEC. 103. AIRPORT PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT AND
NOISE COMPATIBILITY PLANNING AND PRO-
GRAMS.
(a) AUTHORIZATION.—Section 48103 is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘September 30, 1998’’ and in-
serting ‘‘September 30, 2003’’; and
(2) by striking paragraphs (1) through (5) and
inserting:
‘‘(1) $3,400,000,000 for fiscal year 2004;
‘‘(2) $3,600,000,000 for fiscal year 2005;
‘‘(3) $3,800,000,000 for fiscal year 2006; and
‘‘(4) $4,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2007.’’.
(b) OBLIGATIONAL AUTHORITY.—Section 47104(c)
is amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2003’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘September 30, 2007’’.
SEC. 104. ADDITIONAL REAUTHORIZATIONS.
(a) CONTRACT AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL TOWER PILOT
PROGRAM.—Section 47124(b)(3)(E) is amended by strik-
ing 
‘‘$6,000,000 
per 
fiscal 
year’’ 
and 
inserting
‘‘$6,500,000 for fiscal year 2004, $7,000,000 for fiscal
year 2005, $7,500,000 for fiscal year 2006, and
$8,000,000 for fiscal year 2007’’.
(b) SMALL
COMMUNITY
AIR
SERVICE.—Section
41743(e)(2) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ the first place it appears
and inserting a comma; and
(2) by inserting after ‘‘2003’’ the following ‘‘,
and $35,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2004
through 2008’’.
(c) REGIONAL AIR SERVICE INCENTIVE PROGRAM.—
Section 41766 is amended by striking ‘‘2003’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘2007’’.
(d) FUNDING FOR AVIATION PROGRAMS.—Section
106 of the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Re-
form Act for the 21st Century (49 U.S.C. 48101 note)
is amended by striking ‘‘2003’’ each place it appears and
inserting ‘‘2007’’.
(e) DESIGN-BUILD CONTRACTING.—Section 139(e)
of the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform
Act for the 21st Century (49 U.S.C. 47104 note) is
amended by striking ‘‘2003’’ and inserting ‘‘2007’’.
(f) METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON AIRPORTS AU-
THORITY.—Section 49108 is amended by striking ‘‘2004’’
and inserting ‘‘2007’’.
SEC. 105. INSURANCE.
(a) TERMINATION.—Section 44310 is amended to
read as follows:
‘‘§ 44310. Termination date
‘‘Effective December 31, 2007, the authority of the
Secretary of Transportation to provide insurance and rein-
surance under this chapter shall be limited to—
‘‘(1) the operation of an aircraft by an air car-
rier or foreign air carrier in foreign air commerce or
between at least 2 points, all of which are outside
the United States; and
‘‘(2) insurance obtained by a department, agen-
cy, or instrumentality of the United States under
section 44305.’’.
(b) EXTENSION OF POLICIES.—Section 44302(f)(1)
is amended by striking ‘‘through December 31, 2004,’’
and inserting ‘‘thereafter’’.
(c) AIRCRAFT
MANUFACTURER
LIABILITY
FOR
THIRD PARTY CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF ACTS OF TER-
RORISM.—Section 44303(b) is amended by adding at the
end the following: ‘‘The Secretary may extend the provi-
sions of this subsection to the United States manufacturer
(as defined in section 44310) of the aircraft of the air
carrier involved.’’.
(d) VENDORS, AGENTS, SUBCONTRACTORS, AND
MANUFACTURERS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 443 is amended—
(A) by redesignating section 44310 (as
amended by subsection (a) of this section) as
section 44311; and
(B) by inserting after section 44309 the
following:
‘‘§ 44310. Vendors, agents, subcontractors, and manu-
facturers
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Transportation
may extend the application of any provision of this chapter
to a loss by a vendor, agent, and subcontractor of an air
carrier and a United States manufacturer of an aircraft
used by an air carrier but only to the extent that the loss
involved an aircraft of an air carrier.
‘‘(b) UNITED STATES MANUFACTURER DEFINED.—
In this section, the term ‘United States manufacturer’
means a manufacturer incorporated under the laws of a
State of the United States and having its principal place
of business in the United States.’’.
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The analysis
for chapter 443 is amended by striking the item re-
lating to section 44310 and inserting the following:
‘‘44310. Vendors, agents, subcontractors, and manufacturers.
‘‘44311. Termination date.’’.
(e) TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.—Effective November
19, 2001, section 124(b) of the Aviation and Transpor-
tation Security Act (115 Stat. 631) is amended by striking
‘‘to carry out foreign policy’’ and inserting ‘‘to carry out
the foreign policy’’.
SEC. 106. PILOT PROGRAM FOR INNOVATIVE FINANCING
FOR TERMINAL AUTOMATION REPLACEMENT
SYSTEMS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—In order to test the cost-effective-
ness and feasibility of long-term financing of moderniza-
tion of major air traffic control systems, the Administrator
of the Federal Aviation Administration may establish a
pilot program to test innovative financing techniques
through amending a contract, subject to section 1341 of
title 31, United States Code, of more than one, but not
more than 20, fiscal years to purchase and install terminal
automation replacement systems for the Administration.
Such amendments may be for more than one, but not
more than 10 fiscal years.
(b) CANCELLATION.—A contract described in sub-
section (a) may include a cancellation provision if the Ad-
ministrator determines that such a provision is necessary
and in the best interest of the United States. Any such
provision shall include a cancellation liability schedule that
covers reasonable and allocable costs incurred by the con-
tractor through the date of cancellation plus reasonable
profit, if any, on those costs. Any such provision shall not
apply if the contract is terminated by default of the con-
tractor.
(c) CONTRACT PROVISIONS.—If feasible and prac-
ticable for the pilot program, the Administrator may make
an advance contract provision to achieve economic-lot pur-
chases and more efficient production rates.
(d) LIMITATION.—The Administrator may not amend
a contract under this section until the program for the
terminal automation replacement systems has been
rebaselined in accordance with the acquisition manage-
ment system of the Administration.
(e) ANNUAL REPORTS.—At the end of each fiscal
year during the term of the pilot program, the Adminis-
trator shall transmit to the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Com-
mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House
of Representatives a report on how the Administrator has
implemented in such fiscal year the pilot program, the
number and types of contracts or contract amendments
that are entered into under the program, and the pro-
gram’s cost-effectiveness.
(f) FUNDING.—Out of amounts appropriated under
section 48101 for fiscal year 2004, $200,000,000 shall be
used to carry out this section.
TITLE II—AIRPORT PROJECT
STREAMLINING
SEC. 201. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Airport Streamlining
Approval Process Act of 2003’’.
SEC. 202. FINDINGS.
Congress finds that—
(1) airports play a major role in interstate and
foreign commerce;
(2) congestion and delays at our Nation’s major
airports have a significant negative impact on our
Nation’s economy;
(3) airport capacity enhancement projects at
congested airports are a national priority and should
be constructed on an expedited basis;
(4) airport capacity enhancement projects must
include an environmental review process that pro-
vides local citizenry an opportunity for consideration
of and appropriate action to address environmental
concerns; and
(5) the Federal Aviation Administration, airport
authorities, communities, and other Federal, State,
and local government agencies must work together
to develop a plan, set and honor milestones and
deadlines, and work to protect the environment while
sustaining the economic vitality that will result from
the continued growth of aviation.
SEC. 203. PROMOTION OF NEW RUNWAYS.
Section 40104 is amended by adding at the end the
following:
‘‘(c) AIRPORT CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT PROJECTS
AT CONGESTED AIRPORTS.—In carrying out subsection
(a), the Administrator shall take action to encourage the
construction of airport capacity enhancement projects at
congested airports as those terms are defined in section
47178.’’.
SEC. 204. AIRPORT PROJECT STREAMLINING.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 471 is amended by in-
serting after section 47153 the following:
‘‘SUBCHAPTER III—AIRPORT PROJECT
STREAMLINING
‘‘§ 47171. DOT as lead agency
‘‘(a) AIRPORT PROJECT REVIEW PROCESS.—The
Secretary of Transportation shall develop and implement
a coordinated review process for airport capacity enhance-
ment projects at congested airports.
‘‘(b) COORDINATED REVIEWS.—
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The coordinated review
process under this section shall provide that all envi-
ronmental reviews, analyses, opinions, permits, li-
censes, and approvals that must be issued or made
by a Federal agency or airport sponsor for an air-
port capacity enhancement project at a congested
airport will be conducted concurrently, to the max-
imum extent practicable, and completed within a
time period established by the Secretary, in coopera-
tion with the agencies identified under subsection (c)
with respect to the project.
‘‘(2) AGENCY
PARTICIPATION.—Each Federal
agency identified under subsection (c) shall formu-
late and implement administrative, policy, and pro-
cedural mechanisms to enable the agency to ensure
completion of environmental reviews, analyses, opin-
ions, permits, licenses, and approvals described in
paragraph (1) in a timely and environmentally re-
sponsible manner.
‘‘(c) IDENTIFICATION
OF JURISDICTIONAL AGEN-
CIES.—With respect to each airport capacity enhancement
project at a congested airport, the Secretary shall identify,
as soon as practicable, all Federal and State agencies that
may have jurisdiction over environmental-related matters
that may be affected by the project or may be required
by law to conduct an environmental-related review or anal-
ysis of the project or determine whether to issue an envi-
ronmental-related permit, license, or approval for the
project.
‘‘(d) STATE AUTHORITY.—If a coordinated review
process is being implemented under this section by the
Secretary with respect to a project at an airport within
the boundaries of a State, the State, consistent with State
law, may choose to participate in such process and provide
that all State agencies that have jurisdiction over environ-
mental-related matters that may be affected by the project
or may be required by law to conduct an environmental-
related review or analysis of the project or determine
whether to issue an environmental-related permit, license,
or approval for the project, be subject to the process.
‘‘(e) MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING.—The co-
ordinated review process developed under this section may