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PUBLIC LAW 211-AUG. 3, 1955

Public Law 211

CHAPTER 494

AN ACT To amend the Federal Airport Act, as amended.

August 3, 1955 [S. 1855]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Federal Airport United States of America in Congress assembled. That paragraph Act, amendment. (3) of section 2(a) of the Federal Airport Act (49 U.S.C. 1101- 60 Stat. 170. 1119) is amended to read as follows: "Airpor "(3) 'Airport development' means (A) any work involved in velopment".t d e constructing, improving, or repairing a public airport or portion thereof, including the construction, alteration, and repair of airport passenger or freight terminal buildings and other airport administrative buildings and the removal, lowering, relocation, and marking and lighting of airport hazards, and (B) any acquisition of land or of any interest therein, or of any easement through or other interest in air space, which is necessary to permit any such w'ork or to remove or mitigate or prevent or limit the establishment of, airport hazards; but such term does not include the construction, alteration, or repair of airport hangars." SEC. 2. The first two sentences of subsection (a) of section 3 of such 49 USC 1102. Act are amended to read as follows: National airport "SEC. 3. (a) The Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to plan. prepare, and thereafter, at least three months prior to the close of each fiscal year, to revise, a national plan for the development of public airports in the United States, including the Territory of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Such plan shall specify, in terms of general location and type of development, the projects considered by the Secretary to be necessary to provide a system of public airports adequate to anticipate and meet the needs of civil aeronautics, which projects shall include all types of airport development eligible for Federal aid under this Act and shall not be limited to any classes or categories of public airports." 49 USC 1103. SEC. 3. Section 4 of such Act is amended to read as follows: Dev "SEC. 4. I n order to bring about, in conformity with the national grants.e l o p m e n t airport plan prepared and from time to time revised as provided in this Act, the establishment of a nationwide system of public airports adequate to meet the present and future needs of civil aeronautics, the Secretary of Commerce is authorized, within the limits of the obligation authority provided in section 5, to make grants of funds to sponsors for airport development as hereinafter provided." SEC. 4. Section 5 of such Act is amended to read as follows: 49 USC 1104. "SEC. 5. (a) For the purpose of carrying out this Act with respect Appropriations. to projects in the several States, there are hereby authorized to be obligated by the execution of grant agreements pursuant to section 12 the sum of $40,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1956, and 49 USC 1111. the sum of $60,000,000 for each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1957, June 30, 1958, and June 30, 1959. Each such authorized amount shall become available for obligation beginning July 1 of the fiscal year for which it is authorized, and shall continue to be so available until so obligated, "(b) For the purpose of carrying out this Act with respect to projects in the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii, and in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, there are hereby authorized to be obligated by the execution of grant agreements pursuant to section 12 the sum of $2,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1956, and the sum 49 USC 1111. of $3,000,000 for each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1957, June 30, 1958, and June 30, 1959. Each such authorized amount shall become available for obligation beginning July 1 of the fiscal year for

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