Issue Brief |
ISSUE | ||
Budget treatment | No similar provision. | Title IX |
FAA Management Reforms | Sec. 906-907 | Sec. 302-304 |
Emergency Certificate Revocations | Sec. 311 | Sec. 712 |
Aeronautical Charts | Title VIII | No similar provision. |
Terminal Automated Radar Display and Information System. Directs the FAA to develop a national policy and procedures concerning TARDIS. | Sec. 447 | No similar provision. |
Taos Pueblo and Blue Lakes Demonstration Project. Requires a study of the feasibility of a demonstration project requiring all aircraft to maintain an altitude of 5,000 feet above ground level. | Sec. 429 | No similar provision. |
Conveyances of U.S. Government Land | Sec. 408 | Sec. 136 |
Public Notice Before Grant Assurance Requirement Waived | Sec. 208 | No similar provision. |
Denial of Airport Access to Certain Air Carriers. Allows certain reliever airports to deny access to a specified class of users. | Sec. 421 | Sec. 154 |
Land Use Compliance Report. Requires report on airports not in compliance with grant assurances and other requirements. | No similar provision. | Sec. 737 |
Landfills Interfering with Air Commerce. Prevents the construction of a landfill within six miles of an airport for safety reasons. | No similar provision. | Sec. 511 |
Privately Owned Reliever Airports. Changes the definition of "Public-Use" airports. Coupled with the Administration’s intention to more restrictively define reliever airports, this may affect 66 privately owned reliever airports. | Sec. 205(e) | No similar provision. |
Land Conveyances. Both bills contain examples of airport land conveyances and releases from airport grant agreements. | Sec. 440, Sec. 445, Sec. 449, Sec. 452 | Sec. 723, Sec. 724 |
Cincinnati-Municipal Blue Ash Airport. Allows the sale of the airport from the City of Cincinnati to the City of Blue Ash in advance of the expiration of certain grant agreements. | Sec. 441 | Sec. 732 |
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