To apportion amounts to airports for airport improvements in proportion to the amounts of air traffic at the airports and to limit aggregate apportionments to the aggregate amount apportioned for fiscal year 2009.

SA 3539. Mr. COBURN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3452 proposed by Mr. Rockefeller to the bill H.R. 1586, to
impose an additional tax on bonuses received from certain TARP
recipients; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

Beginning on page 34, strike line 8 and all that follows
through page 36, line 4, and insert the following:
(i) Proportional Apportionments.--Section 47114(c) is
amended by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the
following:
``(1) Primary airports.--The Secretary shall apportion to
the sponsor of each primary and non-primary airport for each
fiscal year an amount that bears the same ratio to the amount
subject to apportionment for fiscal year 2009 as the number
of passenger boardings at the airport during the prior
calendar year bears to the aggregate of all passenger
boardings at all primary airports during that calendar
year.''.
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