[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Pages 11726-11727]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           TEXT OF AMENDMENTS

  SA 2257. Mr. McCAIN (for himself and Mr. Flake) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 22, to amend 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt employees with health 
coverage under TRICARE or the Veterans Administration from being taken 
into account for purposes of determining the employers to which the 
employer mandate applies under the Patient Protection and Affordable 
Care Act; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. REVIEW AND NOTIFICATIONS OF CATEGORICAL EXCLUSIONS 
                   GRANTED FOR NEXT GENERATION FLIGHT PROCEDURES.

       Section 213(c) of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 
     2012 (Public Law 112-95; 49 U.S.C. 40101 note) is amended by 
     adding at the end the following:
       ``(3) Notifications and consultations.--Not less than 30 
     days before granting a categorical exclusion under this 
     subsection for a new procedure, the Administrator shall 
     notify and consult with the affected public and the operator 
     of the airport at which the procedure would be implemented.
       ``(4) Review of certain categorical exclusions.--
       ``(A) In general.--The Administrator shall review a 
     decision of the Administrator made on or after February 14, 
     2012, and before the date of the enactment of this paragraph 
     to grant a categorical exclusion under this subsection with 
     respect to a procedure to be implemented at an airport to 
     determine if the implementation of the procedure had a 
     significant effect on the human environment in the community 
     in which the airport is located if the operator of that 
     airport requests such a review and demonstrates that there is 
     good cause to believe that the implementation of the 
     procedure had such an effect.
       ``(B) Content of review.--If, in conducting a review under 
     subparagraph (A) with respect to a procedure implemented at 
     an airport, the Administrator, in consultation with the 
     operator of the airport, determines that implementing the 
     procedure had a significant effect on the human environment 
     in the community in which the airport is located, the 
     Administrator shall--
       ``(i) consult with the operator of the airport to identify 
     measures to mitigate the effect of the procedure on the human 
     environment; and
       ``(ii) in conducting such consultations, consider the use 
     of alternative flight paths.''.

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