To amend title 49, United States Code, to permit the Secretary of Transportation to waive noise restrictions on certain aircraft operations.

Amends Federal aviation law to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to provide a procedure under which a person will be exempt from stage 3 noise level restrictions and be permitted to operate a stage 1 or stage 2 aircraft in nonrevenue service to or from a U.S. airport in order to: (1) sell the aircraft outside the United States; (2) sell the aircraft for scrapping; (3) obtain modification to such aircraft to meet stage 3 noise levels; or (4) test aircraft engines if the aircraft takes off and lands at an airport located at a former military installation closed or realigned under specified law.

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2935 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2935

   To amend title 49, United States Code, to permit the Secretary of 
    Transportation to waive noise restrictions on certain aircraft 
                              operations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 23, 1999

  Mr. McHugh 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 permit the Secretary of 
    Transportation to waive noise restrictions on certain aircraft 
                              operations.

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

SECTION 1. EXEMPTION FROM NOISE RESTRICTIONS FOR CERTAIN AIRCRAFT 
              MODIFICATION AND DISPOSALS.

    Section 47528 is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a) inserting ``or (f)'' after ``(b)''; 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) Aircraft Modification or Disposal.--After December 31, 1999, 
the Secretary may provide a procedure under which a person may operate 
a stage 1 or stage 2 aircraft in nonrevenue service to or from an 
airport in the United States in order to--
            ``(1) sell the aircraft outside the United States;
            ``(2) sell the aircraft for scrapping;
            ``(3) obtain modifications to the aircraft to meet stage 3 
        noise levels; or
            ``(4) test aircraft engines only if the aircraft takes off 
        and lands at an airport that is located at a former military 
        installation closed or realigned under--
                    ``(A) section 2687 of title 10;
                    ``(B) section 201 of the Defense Authorization 
                Amendments and Base Closure Realignment Act (10 U.S.C. 
                2687 note); or
                    ``(C) section 2905 of the Defense Base Closure and 
                Realignment Act of 1990 (10 U.S.C. 2687 note).''.
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