Air Traffic Control Tower Funding Restoration Act

Air Traffic Control Tower Funding Restoration Act - Amends the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 to increase funding to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for air traffic organization activities. Allocates certain appropriations for contract tower program for contract towers in operation as of February 1, 2013.

Specifies offsetting rescissions from FY2013 FAA appropriations for facilities and equipment and for research, engineering, and development.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1432 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1432

 To amend the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 
   2013, to modify the amounts appropriated for the Federal Aviation 
                Administration, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 9, 2013

Mr. Cotton (for himself, Mr. Hudson, and Mr. Braley of Iowa) introduced 
      the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 
   2013, to modify the amounts appropriated for the Federal Aviation 
                Administration, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Air Traffic Control Tower Funding 
Restoration Act''.

SEC. 2. MODIFICATION OF FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION FUNDING.

    (a) In General.--Title VIII of Division F of the Consolidated and 
Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013, is amended by adding at 
the end the following:
    ``Sec. 1811.  Notwithstanding section 1101, the level for 
`Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, 
Operations' shall be $9,703,395,000: Provided, That the amounts 
specified in the matter under the heading `Federal Aviation 
Administration--Operations' in title I of the Transportation, Housing 
and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 
(division C of Public Law 112-55; 125 Stat. 645) shall be applied to 
funds appropriated by this division--
            ``(1) by substituting `$7,492,738,000' for 
        `$7,442,738,000'; and
            ``(2) by substituting `$10,350,000 shall be for the 
        contract tower cost-sharing program and not less than 
        $130,500,000 shall be for the contract tower program for 
        contract towers in operation as of February 1, 2013' for 
        `$10,350,000 shall be for the contract tower cost-sharing 
        program'.''.
    (b) Offsetting Rescissions.--Of amounts appropriated for fiscal 
years before fiscal year 2013 that remain available for obligation as 
of the date of the enactment of this Act and that are not designated an 
emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget 
or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the 
following amounts are rescinded from the following accounts:
            (1) ``Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation 
        Administration, Facilities and Equipment'', $23,861,002.
            (2) ``Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation 
        Administration, Research, Engineering, and Development'', 
        $26,183,998.
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