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Small Airport Regulation Relief Act of 2023

Source: Congress.gov · 330 words in original text

What This Bill Does

This bill changes how the federal government distributes Airport Improvement Program money to small airports for fiscal years 2024, 2025, and 2026. The bill allows certain small airports to use passenger boarding numbers from their best year between 2019 and 2021 instead of using current year numbers to calculate their funding.

Who It Affects

The Secretary of Transportation and sponsors of small airports that had fewer than 10,000 passenger boardings in their recent years but had 10,000 or more passenger boardings in calendar year 2019.

Key Provisions

* The Secretary must distribute Airport Improvement Program money based on passenger boarding numbers from calendar year 2019, 2020, or 2021 (whichever year had the most boardings) for fiscal years 2024, 2025, and 2026 if the airport meets two conditions. (Sec. 2) * An airport qualifies for this special rule if it had fewer than 10,000 passenger boardings during the calendar year normally used to calculate funding for that fiscal year. (Sec. 2) * An airport also must have had 10,000 or more passenger boardings during calendar year 2019 to receive this special funding treatment. (Sec. 2)

What Changes

The law changes which year's passenger boarding numbers small airports must use to receive federal Airport Improvement Program funding for three fiscal years. Instead of using current year numbers, eligible airports can use their strongest performance year from 2019, 2020, or 2021.

Important Definitions

Passenger boardings means the number of times people get on airplanes at an airport.

Effective Date

Not specified in bill text

II 118TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION S. 1046 To amend title 49, United States Code, with respect to apportionments for small airports under the Airport Improvement Program, and for other purposes. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES MARCH 29, 2023 Mr. BARRASSO introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation A BILL To amend title 49, United States Code, with respect to apportionments for small airports under the Airport Im- provement Program, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Small Airport Regula- 4 tion Relief Act of 2023’’. 5 SEC. 2. APPORTIONMENTS. 6 Section 47114(c)(1) of title 49, United States Code, 7 is amended by adding at the end the following: 8 VerDate Sep 11 2014 20:16 Apr 07, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S1046.IS S1046 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 2 •S 1046 IS ‘‘(K) SPECIAL RULE FOR FISCAL YEARS 1 2024 THROUGH 2026.—Notwithstanding sub- 2 paragraph (A), the Secretary shall apportion to 3 the sponsor of an airport under that subpara- 4 graph, for each of fiscal years 2024, 2025, and 5 2026, an amount based on the number of pas- 6 senger boardings at the airport during calendar 7 year 2019, 2020, or 2021, whichever had the 8 highest number of passenger boardings, if the 9 airport had— 10 ‘‘(i) fewer than 10,000 passenger 11 boardings during the calendar year used to 12 calculate the apportionment for fiscal year 13 2024, 2025, or 2026, as applicable, under 14 subparagraph (A); and 15 ‘‘(ii) 10,000 or more passenger 16 boardings during calendar year 2019.’’. 17 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 20:16 Apr 07, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\S1046.IS S1046 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB

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