Title: AIR Act of 2020
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Airport Infrastructure Readiness Act of 2020 or the AIR Act of 2020
This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to apportion Airport Improvement Program funding for FY2022 and FY2023 to an airport sponsor based on the number of passenger boardings at such airport that would result in the highest apportioned amount during either calendar year 2018, calendar year 2019, or the full calendar year prior to the current fiscal year.
Additionally, DOT shall not calculate a benefit-to-cost ratio with respect to an air traffic control tower participating in the Contract Tower Program on the basis of an annual aircraft traffic decrease in FY2020 and FY2021. Under the Contract Tower Program, air traffic control towers are staffed by employees of private companies rather than by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees. The FAA is required to perform a benefit-cost analysis to determine eligibility for participation in the program.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4162 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4162

               To provide certainty for airport funding.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              July 2, 2020

  Mrs. Fischer (for herself, Ms. Sinema, Mr. Cruz, and Ms. Duckworth) 
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 provide certainty for airport funding.

    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 ``Airport Infrastructure Readiness Act 
of 2020'' or the ``AIR Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM APPORTIONMENTS TO PRIMARY AIRPORTS.

    Section 47114(c)(1) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
                    ``(J) Special rule for fiscal years 2022 and 
                2023.--Notwithstanding subparagraph (A) and the absence 
                of scheduled passenger aircraft service at an airport, 
                the Secretary shall apportion in fiscal years 2022 and 
                2023 to the sponsor of the airport an amount based on 
                the number of passenger boardings at the airport during 
                whichever of the following years that would result in 
                the highest apportioned amount:
                            ``(i) Calendar year 2018.
                            ``(ii) Calendar year 2019.
                            ``(iii) The prior full calendar year prior 
                        to the current fiscal year.''.

SEC. 3. AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL CONTRACT PROGRAM.

    Notwithstanding section 47124(d)(1)(B) of title 49, United States 
Code, the Secretary of Transportation shall not calculate a benefit-to-
cost ratio with respect to an air traffic control tower participating 
in the Contract Tower Program on the basis of an annual aircraft 
traffic decrease in fiscal years 2020 and 2021.
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