S.Amdt. 4048

SA 4048. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3896 proposed by Ms. Collins (for herself, Mr. Kirk, Mr.
Reed, and Mr. Tester) to the bill H.R. 2577, making appropriations for
the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development,
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and
for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in division A, insert the
following:
Sec. __. (a) The Secretary of Transportation shall
establish a program to evaluate unmanned aircraft system
detection and mitigation technologies that--
(1) may be used by airports to locate and track unmanned
aircraft systems and the operators of such systems;
(2) do not interfere with existing airport operations,
navigation, or communications systems;
(3) cannot be disabled or overridden by the owner or
operator of an unmanned aircraft system;
(4) do not rely on the compliance of the manufacturer,
owner, or operator of an unmanned aircraft system.
(b) The Administrator of the Federal Aviation
Administration shall--
(1) not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment
of this Act, submit to Congress a report on the program
required by subsection (a);
(2) establish pilot programs at not more than 3 airports to
deploy and test the most promising technology identified in
the report required by paragraph (1); and
(3) not later than 90 days after such date of enactment,
submit to Congress a report that includes--
(A) the results of the pilot programs established under
paragraph (2); and
(B) recommendations for national unmanned aircraft system
detection and mitigation protocols at airports in the United
States.

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(c) Of amounts in the Airport and Airway Trust Fund
established under section 9502 of the Internal Revenue Code
of 1986, not more than $5,000,000 shall be available to carry
out the pilot programs required by subsection (b)(2).
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