Helicopter Fuel System Safety Act

Helicopter Fuel System Safety Act

This bill directs the Federal Aviation Administration, in accordance with the safety recommendations of the National Transportation Safety Board (A-15-12), to issue regulations to ensure that certain fuel system crash resistance requirements are met by requiring that all newly manufactured helicopters, regardless of the design's original certification date, have fuel systems that meet such crash-worthiness requirements.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4574 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4574

    To require the Federal Aviation Administration to adopt safety 
  standards regarding fuel systems in newly manufactured helicopters.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 12, 2016

  Mr. Perlmutter (for himself and Mr. Polis) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Federal Aviation Administration to adopt safety 
  standards regarding fuel systems in newly manufactured helicopters.

    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 ``Helicopter Fuel System Safety Act''.

SEC. 2. HELICOPTER CRASH-RESISTANT FUEL SYSTEMS.

    Not later than December 31, 2016, in accordance with the safety 
recommendations of the National Transportation Safety Board (A-15-12), 
the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall issue 
regulations to ensure that the requirements of section 952 of part 27 
and section 952 of part 29 of title 14 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations are met by requiring that all newly manufactured 
helicopters, regardless of the design's original certification date, 
have fuel systems that meet the crash-worthiness requirements of such 
sections.
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