To repeal the essential air service program.

SA 4. Mr. McCAIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 223, to modernize the air traffic control system,
improve the safety, reliability, and availability of transportation by
air in the United States, provide modernization of the air traffic
control system, reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration, and
for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

Beginning on page 128, strike line 5 and all that follows
through page 141, line 9, and insert the following:

SEC. 411. REPEAL OF ESSENTIAL AIR SERVICE PROGRAM.

(a) In General.--Subchapter II of chapter 417 of title 49,
United States Code, is repealed.
(b) Conforming Amendments.--Title 49, United State Code, is
further amended--
(1) in section 329(b)(1), by striking ``except that'' and
all the follows through the semicolon;
(2) in section 40109(f)(3)(B), by striking ``, including
the minimum'' and all that follows through ``this title'';
(3) in section 40117(e)(2), by striking subparagraph (B)
and redesignating subparagraphs (C) through (F) as
subparagraphs (B) through (E), respectively;
(4) in section 41110--
(A) in subsection (a)(2)(B), by striking ``41712, and
41731-41742'' and inserting ``and 41712''; and
(B) in subsection (c)--
(i) in paragraph (1), by striking ``carrier--'' and all
that follows through ``does not provide'' and inserting
``carrier does not provide''; and
(ii) in paragraph (2), by striking ``(1)(B)'' and inserting
``(1)''; and
(5) in section 47124(b)(3)(C), by striking clause (iv) and
redesignating clauses (v) through (vii) as clauses (iv)
through (vi), respectively.

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