S.Amdt. 2655

SA 2655. Mr. MERKLEY (for himself and Mr. Wyden) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr.
Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain) and intended to be proposed to the
bill H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. IMPROVING THE ESSENTIAL AIR SERVICE PROGRAM.

Section 41731 of title 49, United States Code, is amended
by adding at the end the following new subsection:
``(g) Exception for Certain Locations With High Military
Use.--Subparagraph (D) of subsection (a)(1) shall not apply
with respect to any location that--
``(1) is certified under part 139 of title 14, Code of
Federal Regulations;
``(2) is not owned by the Federal government; and
``(3) for which not less than 10 percent of airport
operations in 2017 were by aircraft of the Armed Forces.''.
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