[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4029 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4029

   To improve aviation security by requiring air carriers to install 
certain explosive detection equipment at airports and to use explosive 
    resistant cargo containers on aircraft, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 5, 1996

  Mr. Nadler introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
   To improve aviation security by requiring air carriers to install 
certain explosive detection equipment at airports and to use explosive 
    resistant cargo containers on aircraft, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION l. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Aviation Antiterrorism Act of 
1996''.

SEC. 2. INSTALLATION AND USE OF EXPLOSIVE DETECTION EQUIPMENT.

    (a) In General.--Section 44913 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 44913. Explosive material detection and containment
    ``(a) Installation and Use of Explosive Detection Equipment.--
            ``(1) In general.--Not later than 60 days after the date of 
        the enactment of this section, the Administrator of the Federal 
        Aviation Administration shall--
                    ``(A) set minimum standards for equipment that, 
                alone or as part of an integrated system, can detect 
                under realistic air carrier operating conditions, the 
                amounts, configurations, and types of explosive 
                material that would likely be used to cause 
                catastrophic damage to a commercial aircraft; and
                    ``(B) require all air carriers and foreign air 
                carriers providing air transportation or intrastate air 
                transportation to install and use, as expeditiously as 
                possible, such equipment to screen all passenger 
                baggage and all other cargo for explosives at the 
                airports (whether located within or outside the United 
                States) used by such carriers to provide such 
                transportation.
    ``(b) Installation of Explosive Resistant Cargo Containers.--Not 
later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this section, the 
Administrator shall--
            ``(1) set minimum standards for cargo containers that can 
        withstand explosions caused by the types of explosive material 
        that would likely be used to cause catastrophic damage to 
        commercial aircraft; and
            ``(2) require all air carriers and foreign air carriers 
        providing air transportation or intrastate air transportation 
        to install and use, as expeditiously as possible, such 
        equipment.
    ``(c) Grants.--The Secretary of Transportation may provide grants 
to continue the Explosive Detection K-9 Team Training Program to detect 
explosives at airports and on aircraft.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--The table of sections for chapter 449 of 
such title is amended by striking the item relating to section 44913 
and inserting the following:

``44913. Explosive material detection and containment.''.

SEC. 4. AVIATION SECURITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.

    (a) In General.--Subchapter I of chapter 471 of title 49, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 47132. Aviation security assistance programs
    ``(a) Air Carrier Security Assistance Program.--Subject to such 
terms and conditions as the Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
Administration may establish, the Administrator is authorized to make 
grants from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund established under section 
9502 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 9502) to make 
grants to air carriers required to install and use explosive detection 
equipment, explosive resistant cargo containers, or both under section 
44913 of this title to pay up to 100 percent of the cost of acquiring 
such equipment and containers.
    ``(b) Funding.--
            ``(1) Contract authority.--The Administrator is authorized 
        to incur obligations to make grants from funds made available 
        under this section.
            ``(2) Inapplicability of obligation ceilings.--Funds made 
        available by this section shall not be subject to any 
        obligation ceiling.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--The table of sections for such chapter 
is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 47131 the 
following:

``47132. Aviation security assistance programs.''.
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