APPRISE Act

Bill: 117-hr-4924
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2021-08-03
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Latest action: action_date: 2021-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-08-03
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>All Participating in Process Reaching Informed Solutions for Everyone Act or the</b> <b>APPRISE Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Federal Aviation Administration to ensure that an aviation roundtable technical representative or consultant is allowed to participate in the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) performance-based navigation implementation process for new or modified flight procedures affecting their communities. NextGen performance-based navigation is an advanced, satellite-enabled form of air navigation that creates 3-D flight paths.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4924 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES August 3, 2021 Ms. Speier (for herself, Ms. Eshoo , Mr. Panetta , Mr. Sherman , Ms. Norton , Mr. Quigley , Mr. Khanna , Ms. Lee of California , Mr. Smith of Washington , and Mr. Raskin ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure A BILL To direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to ensure representatives of aviation roundtables may participate in the NextGen performance-based navigation implementation process of the Federal Aviation Administration, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the All Participating in Process Reaching Informed Solutions for Everyone Act or the APPRISE Act . 2. Performance-based navigation implementation process (a) In general In carrying out the implementation process for NextGen performance-based navigation (as described in FAA Order JO7100.41A, or any subsequent similar order), the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall ensure that any covered aviation roundtable may appoint a technical representative or consultant to participate as member of the core working group or the full working group of such process on the same terms and conditions as a representative of the industry, an airport, or a participating proponent of a procedure. (b) Covered aviation roundtable defined The term covered aviation roundtable means an aviation roundtable— (1) that is the actual or de facto proponent of a proposed new or modified performance-based navigation flight procedure; or (2) for which the modified procedure path to be implemented in the process described in subsection (a) is within 5 miles of the jurisdictional area of the aviation roundtable. (c) Report to Congress Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report on the progress made toward implementing the requirements under subsection (a).