[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2477 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2477

To amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit the expansion of the 
passenger or cargo capacity of any airport that is located in a county 
 with a population of more than 9,000,000 and that has the capacity to 
           serve 80,000,000 or more air passengers annually.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 11, 2001

  Ms. Waters introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit the expansion of the 
passenger or cargo capacity of any airport that is located in a county 
 with a population of more than 9,000,000 and that has the capacity to 
           serve 80,000,000 or more air passengers annually.

    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 ``Large Capacity Airport Limitation 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON EXPANSION OF CERTAIN AIRPORTS.

    Section 47101(c) of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``It is in the public interest'' and 
        inserting the following:
            ``(1) In general.--It is in the public interest'';
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Prohibition on expansion of certain airports.--To 
        carry out the policy of paragraph (1), the Secretary shall 
        prohibit the construction of any project for expansion of the 
        passenger or cargo capacity of any airport that is located in a 
        county with a population of more than 9,000,000 and that has 
        the capacity to serve 80,000,000 or more air passengers 
        annually.''; and
            (3) by aligning the remainder of paragraph (1) (as 
        designated by paragraph (1) of this section) with paragraph (2) 
        (as added by paragraph (2) of this section).
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