Resilient Airports Act

I 118TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 3059 To amend title 49, United States Code, to define critical airport infrastructure, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MAY 2, 2023 Mr. KILMER (for himself, Mr. BLUMENAUER, and Mr. LAMALFA) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure A BILL To amend title 49, United States Code, to define critical airport infrastructure, 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 ‘‘Resilient Airports 4 Act’’. 5 SEC. 2. AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT DEFINITIONS. 6 Section 47102 of title 49, United States Code, is 7 amended— 8 (1) in paragraph (3) by adding at the end the 9 following: 10 VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:46 May 13, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H3059.IH H3059 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 2 •HR 3059 IH ‘‘(S) improvement of any critical airport 1 infrastructure at a general aviation airport that 2 is— 3 ‘‘(i) a nonhub, small hub, medium 4 hub, or large hub airport to increase resil- 5 ience for the purpose of resuming flight 6 operations under visual flight rules fol- 7 lowing a natural disaster; or 8 ‘‘(ii) identified as a Federal staging 9 area or Incident Support Base in a plan 10 that is part of the National Preparedness 11 Goal and National Preparedness System 12 established by the Post-Katrina Emergency 13 Management Reform Act and described by 14 Presidential Policy Directive 8 and/or pre- 15 determined as a staging location within a 16 Department of Homeland Security, Fed- 17 eral Emergency Management Agency, 18 Emergency Management Performance 19 Grant recipient’s approved Distribution 20 Management Plan Annex to their existing 21 Emergency Operations Plan for the pur- 22 pose of resuming flight operations under 23 visual flight rules following a natural dis- 24 aster.’’; 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:46 May 13, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H3059.IH H3059 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 3 •HR 3059 IH (2) by redesignating paragraphs (14), (15), 1 (16), (17), (18), (19), (20), (21), (22), (23), (24), 2 (26), (27), and (28) as paragraphs (16), (17), (18), 3 (19), (20), (21), (22), (23), (24), (25), (27), (28), 4 (29), and (30), respectively; 5 (3) by redesignating paragraphs (8), (9), (10), 6 (11), (12), and (13) as paragraphs (9), (10), (11), 7 (12), (13), and (14), respectively; 8 (4) by inserting after paragraph (14), as so re- 9 designated, the following: 10 ‘‘(15) ‘natural disaster’ means earthquake, 11 flooding, high water, wildfires, hurricane, storm 12 surge, tidal wave, tornado, tsunami, or wind driven 13 water.’’; and 14 (5) by inserting after paragraph (7) the fol- 15 lowing: 16 ‘‘(8) ‘critical airport infrastructure’ means run- 17 ways, taxiways, and aprons necessary to sustain ei- 18 ther— 19 ‘‘(A) commercial service flight operations; 20 or 21 ‘‘(B) flight operations at a general aviation 22 airport that is identified as a Federal staging 23 area or Incident Support Base in a plan that is 24 part of the National Preparedness Goal and 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:46 May 13, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H3059.IH H3059 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 4 •HR 3059 IH National Preparedness System established by 1 the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Re- 2 form Act and described by Presidential Policy 3 Directive 8 and/or predetermined as a staging 4 location within a Department of Homeland Se- 5 curity, Federal Emergency Management Agen- 6 cy, Emergency Management Performance Grant 7 recipient’s approved Distribution Management 8 Plan Annex to their existing Emergency Oper- 9 ations Plan.’’. 10 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:46 May 13, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H3059.IH H3059 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS