[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2790 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2790

 To prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration 
             from closing certain flight service stations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 31, 1997

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration 
             from closing certain flight service stations.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Community Flight Safety Act of 
1997''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON CLOSING OF CERTAIN FLIGHT SERVICE STATIONS.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Administrator of 
the Federal Aviation Administration may not close any flight service 
station that--
            (1) is located in the contiguous United States and within 
        50 miles from the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean, the Gulf of 
        Mexico, or one of the Great Lakes; and
            (2) is located in an area that the Administrator determines 
        has weather conditions requiring aircraft to operate under 
        instrument flight rules on an average of 180 days or more per 
        year.

SEC. 3. REOPENING OF CERTAIN FLIGHT SERVICE STATIONS.

    Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall reopen 
any flight service station that was closed after September 1, 1997, and 
that met the requirements of paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 2 in 
1996.

SEC. 4. FUNDING FOR REOPENING AND OPERATION OF CERTAIN FLIGHT SERVICE 
              STATIONS.

    Section 41742(b) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting before the period at the end of the first sentence the 
following: ``and not to exceed $300,000 per fiscal year to reopen 
flight service stations under section 3 of the Community Flight Safety 
Act of 1997 and to operate such flight service stations''.
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