Title: NextGen Accountability Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
NextGen Accountability Act
This bill amends the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 to direct the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to establish annual Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) performance goals for each of the national airspace system performance metrics to meet identified performance metric baselines with respect to NextGen projects.
The bill amends the Vision 100--Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act to revise contents of an annual Department of Transportation report to Congress regarding an integrated work plan for the NextGen. The plan shall include, among other things, a description of the progress made in meeting NextGen performance goals relative to the performance metrics.
The bill revises requirements for the award of bonuses to the FAA Chief NextGen Officer. The FAA, for purposes of the award of such bonuses, shall also consider any progress made toward meeting the NextGen performance goals.
The bill revises certain performance goals set forth in the annual performance agreement between the FAA and the NextGen Officer to include quantifiable NextGen airspace efficiency, productivity, capacity, and safety performance objectives.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 320 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 320

  To require the Federal Aviation Administration to establish annual 
     performance objectives and to hold the Chief NextGen Officer 
                accountable for meeting such objectives.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 6, 2017

Mr. Daines (for himself and Mr. Booker) introduced the following bill; 
    which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Federal Aviation Administration to establish annual 
     performance objectives and to hold the Chief NextGen Officer 
                accountable for meeting such objectives.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``NextGen Accountability Act''.

SEC. 2. NEXTGEN ANNUAL PERFORMANCE GOALS.

    Section 214 of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (Public 
Law 112-95; 49 U.S.C. 40101 note) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following:
    ``(d) Annual Performance Goals.--The Administrator shall establish 
annual NextGen performance goals for each of the performance metrics 
set forth in subsection (a) to meet the performance metric baselines 
identified under subsection (b). Such goals shall be established in 
consultation with public and private NextGen stakeholders, including 
the NextGen Advisory Committee.''.

SEC. 3. NEXTGEN METRICS REPORT.

    Section 710(e)(2) of the Vision 100--Century of Aviation 
Reauthorization Act (Public Law 108-176; 49 U.S.C. 40101 note) is 
amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (E), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(F) a description of the progress made in meeting 
                the annual NextGen performance goals relative to the 
                performance metrics established under section 214 of 
                the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (Public 
                Law 112-95; 49 U.S.C. 40101 note).''.

SEC. 4. CHIEF NEXTGEN OFFICER.

    Section 106(s) of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)(B), by adding at the end the 
        following: ``In evaluating the performance of the Chief NextGen 
        Officer for the purpose of awarding a bonus under this 
        subparagraph, the Administrator shall consider the progress 
        toward meeting the NextGen performance goals established 
        pursuant to section 214(d) of the FAA Modernization and Reform 
        Act of 2012 (Public Law 112-95; 49 U.S.C. 40101 note)''; and
            (2) in paragraph (3), by adding at the end the following: 
        ``The annual performance goals set forth in the agreement shall 
        include quantifiable NextGen airspace performance objectives 
        regarding efficiency, productivity, capacity, and safety, which 
        shall be established in consultation with public and private 
        NextGen stakeholders, including the NextGen Advisory 
        Committee.''.
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