[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 52 (Wednesday, April 6, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S1765]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3508. Ms. COLLINS (for herself, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Tillis, Mr. 
Inhofe, and Mr. Moran) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 3464 submitted by Mr. Thune (for himself and Mr. 
Nelson) to the bill H.R. 636, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 to permanently extend increased expensing limitations, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 40, line 15, strike ``and'' and all that follows 
     through line 25, and insert the following:
       (3) indicating how airports can comply with applicable 
     Federal Aviation Administration orders governing weather 
     observations given the current documented limitations of 
     automated surface observing systems; and
       (4) identifying the process through which the Federal 
     Aviation Administration analyzed the safety hazards 
     associated with the elimination of the contract weather 
     observer program.
       (b) Continued Use of Contract Weather Observers.--The 
     Administrator may not discontinue the contract weather 
     observer program at any airport until October 1, 2017.
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