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FAA LAW LIBRARY

Calendar No. 1581
85th Congress 2d Session} SENATE { Report No. 1556

CAA Library
AMENDMENTS TO THE FEDERAL AIRPORT ACT

May 13 (legislative day, May 12), 1958.- Ordered to be printed

Mr. Monroney, from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany S. 3502]

The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (S. 3502) to amend the Federal Airport Act in order to extend the time for making grants under the provisions of such act, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the bill as amended do pass.

PURPOSE OF THE BILL

The Federal Airport Act which authorizes the Secretary of commerce to obligate $63 million annually on a matching fund basis expires at the close of fiscal year 1959.
The purpose of this bill is (1) to extend the act on a matching fund basis through fiscal year 1963 at an increased level of $100 million annually, effective for the year 1959; (2) to provide a separate, special fund of $75 million for immediate discretionary allocation by the Secretary during fiscal year 1959, also on a matching fund basis; (3) to eliminate parking lots and certain concession areas in terminal buildings from eligibility for Federal matching funds under the provisions of the act; (4) to provide Federal assistance on a matching fund basis to certain small airports for the sealing and filling of joints on runway pavements; and (5) to require publication by January 1 each year of the proposed program of airport developments for the next fiscal year.

COMMITTEE ACTION

Hearings on the bill were conducted by the Aviation Subcommittee over a period of 4 days, April 14, 15, 16, and 17. Related bills, S. 1189 and S. 3533, which proposed other changes in the Federal Airport Act weere made part of the same hearings and one of them, S. 3533, which has been modified, as subsequently explained, was adopted as an

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