FAA Reauthorization Bills - Comparison

Issue Brief

ISSUE

H.R. 1000

S. 82

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