[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 96 (Monday, June 11, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3636]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2655. Mr. MERKLEY (for himself and Mr. Wyden) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. 
Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain) and intended to be proposed to the 
bill H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. IMPROVING THE ESSENTIAL AIR SERVICE PROGRAM.

       Section 41731 of title 49, United States Code, is amended 
     by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(g) Exception for Certain Locations With High Military 
     Use.--Subparagraph (D) of subsection (a)(1) shall not apply 
     with respect to any location that--
       ``(1) is certified under part 139 of title 14, Code of 
     Federal Regulations;
       ``(2) is not owned by the Federal government; and
       ``(3) for which not less than 10 percent of airport 
     operations in 2017 were by aircraft of the Armed Forces.''.
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