S.Amdt. 560

SA 560. Mrs. HUTCHISON (for herself, Mr. Rockefeller, and Mr. Ensign)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 98
proposed by Mr. Inouye (for himself and Mr. Baucus) to the bill H.R. 1,
making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation,
infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to
the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for fiscal
year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place insert the following:

FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION

NEXTGEN ACCELERATION

For grants or other agreements to accelerate the transition
to the Next Generation Air Transportation System by
accelerating deployment of ground infrastructure for
Automatic Dependent Surveillance	Broadcast, by accelerating
development of procedures and routes that support
performance-based air navigation, to incentivize aircraft
equipage to use such infrastructure and procedures and
routes, and for additional agency administrative costs
associated with the certification and oversight of the
deployment of these systems, $200,000,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2010: Provided, That the
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall
use the authority under section 106(l)(6) of title 49, United
States Code, to make such grants or agreements: and Provided
further, That, with respect to any incentives for equipage,
the Federal share of the costs shall be no more than 50
percent.

(recission)

Of the amounts authorized under sections 48103 and 48112 of
title 49, United States Code, $200,000,000 are permanently
rescinded from amounts authorized for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2009.
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