[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1708 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1708

To amend title 49, United States Code, to expand passenger facility fee 
             eligibility for noise compatibility projects.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 27, 2007

Ms. Harman (for herself and 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 expand passenger facility fee 
             eligibility for noise compatibility projects.

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

SECTION 1. EXPANDED PASSENGER FACILITY FEE ELIGIBILITY FOR NOISE 
              COMPATIBILITY PROJECTS.

    Section 40117(b) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
            ``(7) Noise mitigation for certain schools.--
                    ``(A) In general.--In addition to the uses 
                specified in paragraphs (1), (4), and (6), the 
                Secretary may authorize a passenger facility fee 
                imposed under paragraph (1) or (4) at a large hub 
                airport (as defined in section 47102) that is the 
                subject of an amended judgment and final order in 
                condemnation filed on January 7, 1980, by the Superior 
                Court of the State of California for the county of Los 
                Angeles, to be used for a project to carry out noise 
                mitigation for a building, or for the replacement of a 
                relocatable building with a permanent building, in the 
                noise impacted area surrounding the airport where such 
                building is used primarily for educational purposes, 
                notwithstanding the air easement granted or any terms 
                to the contrary in such judgment and final order, if--
                            ``(i) the Secretary determines the building 
                        is adversely affected by airport noise;
                            ``(ii) the building is owned or chartered 
                        by the school district that was the plaintiff 
                        in Case No. 986,442 or Case No. 986,446 that 
                        was resolved by such judgment and final order;
                            ``(iii) the project is for a school 
                        identified in the settlement agreements 
                        effective February 16, 2005, between the 
                        airport and the school districts;
                            ``(iv) in the case of a project to replace 
                        a relocatable building with a permanent 
                        building, the eligible project costs are 
                        limited to the actual structural construction 
                        costs necessary to mitigate aircraft noise in 
                        instructional classrooms to an interior noise 
                        level meeting current standards of the Federal 
                        Aviation Administration; and
                            ``(v) the project otherwise meets the 
                        requirements of this section for authorization 
                        of a passenger facility fee.
                    ``(B) Eligible project costs.--In subparagraph 
                (A)(iv), the term `eligible project costs' means the 
                difference between the cost of standard school 
                construction and the cost of construction necessary to 
                mitigate classroom noise to the standards of the 
                Federal Aviation Administration.''.
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