Title: F-AIR Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Fairness in Airspace Includes Residents Act or the F-AIR Act
This bill revises the priorities of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in developing plans and policy for the use of navigable airspace.
Specifically, the FAA must ensure (1) the safety of aircraft as a primary priority in developing such plans and policy; and (2) the minimization of the impact of aviation noise, and other health impacts, on residents and communities, and other impacts of the use of airspace on the environment as a secondary priority on an equal basis with the efficient use of airspace.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5109 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5109

To amend title 49, United States Code, to expand the priorities of the 
  Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration in developing 
        plans and policy for the use of the navigable airspace.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 14, 2019

  Ms. Speier (for herself, Mr. Case, Ms. Norton, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. 
Panetta, Mr. Quigley, Mr. Rouda, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Suozzi, Mr. 
    Raskin, Ms. Eshoo, and Mr. Smith of Washington) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
                           and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to expand the priorities of the 
  Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration in developing 
        plans and policy for the use of the navigable airspace.

    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 ``Fairness in Airspace Includes 
Residents Act'' or the ``F-AIR Act''.

SEC. 2. SOVEREIGNTY AND USE OF AIRSPACE.

    (a) In General.--Section 40103(b)(1) of title 49, United States 
Code, is amended to read as follows:
    ``(1)(A) The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration 
shall develop plans and policy for the use of the navigable airspace 
and assign by regulation or order the use of the airspace necessary to 
ensure--
            ``(i) as a primary priority, the safety of aircraft; and
            ``(ii) as secondary co-equal priorities--
                    ``(I) the efficient use of airspace; and
                    ``(II) the minimization of the impact of aviation 
                noise, and other health impacts, on residents and 
                communities, and other impacts of the use of airspace 
                on the environment.
    ``(B) The Administrator may modify or revoke an assignment when 
required in the public interest.''.
    (b) Updates to FAA Priorities.--Not later than 12 months after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal 
Aviation Administration shall--
            (1) review the regulations, policies, procedures, and 
        processes of the Administration and modify them as necessary to 
        reflect the priorities in clauses (i) and (ii) of section 
        40103(b)(1)(A) of title 49, United States Code, as added by 
        subsection (a); and
            (2) update the mission statement of the Administration to 
        reflect such priorities.
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