[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 194 (Thursday, November 4, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7934]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4428. Mr. INHOFE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed to 
the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 
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. ___. GRANT ELIGIBILITY OF CERTAIN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL 
                   TOWER COVERED PROJECTS.

       (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, the airport sponsor of a covered project shall be 
     eligible for a grant under subchapter I of chapter 471 and 
     subchapter I of chapter 475 of title 49, United States Code, 
     from any funds made available by an Act of Congress for 
     ``Grants-In-Aid for Airports'' for fiscal years 2022 and 
     2023.
       (b) Covered Projects Defined.--In subsection (a), the term 
     ``covered project'' means a project for relocating, 
     reconstructing, repairing, or improving an air traffic 
     control tower that--
       (1) is owned by the sponsor of a primary airport;
       (2) as of the date of enactment of this Act, was over 60 
     years of age; and
       (3) in fiscal year 2019, handled over 300,000 total 
     terminal operations.
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