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49 U.S.C. § 44513 — Regional centers of air transportation excellence
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**(a) General Authority.—** The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may make grants to institutions of higher education to establish and operate regional centers of air transportation excellence. The locations shall be distributed in a geographically fair way.
**(b) Responsibilities.—**
(1) The responsibilities of each center established under this section shall include—
(A) conducting research on—
(i) airspace and airport planning and design;
(ii) airport capacity enhancement techniques;
(iii) human performance in the air transportation environment;
(iv) aviation safety and security;
(v) the supply of trained air transportation personnel, including pilots and mechanics; and
(vi) other aviation issues related to developing and maintaining a safe and efficient air transportation system; and
(B) interpreting, publishing, and disseminating the results of the research.
(2) In conducting research described in paragraph (1)(A) of this subsection, each center may make contracts with nonprofit research organizations and other appropriate persons.
**(c) Applications.—** An institution of higher education interested in receiving a grant under this section may submit an application to the Administrator. The application must be in the form and contain the information that the Administrator requires by regulation.
**(d) Selection Criteria.—** The Administrator shall select recipients of grants under this section on the basis of the following criteria:
(1) the extent to which the needs of the State in which the applicant is located are representative of the needs of the region for improved air transportation services and facilities.
(2) the demonstrated research and extension resources available to the applicant to carry out
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**(a) General Authority.—** The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may make grants to institutions of higher education to establish and operate regional centers of air transportation excellence. The locations shall be distributed in a geographically fair way.
**(b) Responsibilities.—**
(1) The responsibilities of each center established under this section shall include—
(A) conducting research on—
(i) airspace and airport planning and design;
(ii) airport capacity enhancement techniques;
(iii) human performance in the air transportation environment;
(iv) aviation safety and security;
(v) the supply of trained air transportation personnel, including pilots and mechanics; and
(vi) other aviation issues related to developing and maintaining a safe and efficient air transportation system; and
(B) interpreting, publishing, and disseminating the results of the research.
(2) In conducting research described in paragraph (1)(A) of this subsection, each center may make contracts with nonprofit research organizations and other appropriate persons.
**(c) Applications.—** An institution of higher education interested in receiving a grant under this section may submit an application to the Administrator. The application must be in the form and contain the information that the Administrator requires by regulation.
**(d) Selection Criteria.—** The Administrator shall select recipients of grants under this section on the basis of the following criteria:
(1) the extent to which the needs of the State in which the applicant is located are representative of the needs of the region for improved air transportation services and facilities.
(2) the demonstrated research and extension resources available to the applicant to carry out this section.
(3) the ability of the applicant to provide leadership in making national and regional contributions to the solution of both long-range and immediate air transportation problems.
(4) the extent to which the applicant has an established air transportation program.
(5) the demonstrated ability of the applicant to disseminate results of air transportation research and educational programs through a statewide or regionwide continuing education program.
(6) the projects the applicant proposes to carry out under the grant.
**(e) Expenditure Agreements.—** A grant may be made under this section in a fiscal year only if the recipient makes an agreement with the Administrator that the Administrator requires to ensure that the recipient will maintain its total expenditures from all other sources for establishing and operating the center and related research activities at a level at least equal to the average level of those expenditures in the 2 fiscal years of the recipient occurring immediately before November 5, 1990.
**(f) Government’s Share of Costs.—** The United States Government’s share of establishing and operating a center and all related research activities that grant recipients carry out shall not exceed 50 percent of the costs, except that the Administrator may increase such share to a maximum of 75 percent of the costs for a fiscal year if the Administrator determines that a center would be unable to carry out the authorized activities described in this section without additional funds.
**(g) Allocating Amounts.—** The Administrator shall allocate amounts made available to carry out this section in a geographically fair way.
**(h) Annual Report.—** The Administrator shall transmit annually to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate at the time of the President’s budget request a report that lists—
(1) the research projects that have been initiated by each center in the preceding year;
(2) the amount of funding for each research project and the funding source;
(3) the institutions participating in each research project and their shares of the overall funding for each research project; and
(4) the level of cost-sharing for each research project.
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**(a) Economic Regulation.—** In carrying out subpart II of this part and those provisions of subpart IV applicable in carrying out subpart II, the Secretary of Transportation shall consider the following matters, among others, as being in the public interest and consistent with public convenience and necessity:
(1) assigning and maintaining safety as the highest priority in air commerce.
(2) before authorizing new air transportation services, evaluating the safety implications of those services.
(3) preventing deterioration in established safety procedures, recognizing the clear intent, encouragement, and dedication of Congress to further the highest degree of safety in air transportation and air commerce, and to maintain the safety vigilance that has evolved in air transportation and air commerce and has come to be expected by the traveling and shipping public.
(4) the availability of a variety of adequate, economic, efficient, and low-priced services without unreasonable discrimination or unfair or deceptive practices.
(5) coordinating transportation by, and improving relations among, air carriers, and encouraging fair wages and working conditions.
(6) placing maximum reliance on competitive market forces and on actual and potential competition—
(A) to provide the needed air transportation system; and
(B) to encourage efficient and well-managed air carriers to earn adequate profits and attract capital, considering any material differences between interstate air transportation and foreign air transportation.
(7) developing and maintaining a sound regulatory system that is responsive to the needs of the public and in which decisions are reached promptly to make it easier to adapt the air transportation system to the present and future needs of—
(A) the
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**(a) Establishment and Duties.—**
(1) There is a research advisory committee in the Federal Aviation Administration. The committee shall—
(A) provide advice and recommendations to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration and Congress about needs, objectives, plans, approaches, content, and accomplishments of all aviation research and development activities and programs carried out, including those under sections 44504, 44505, 44507, 44511–44513, and 44912 of this title;
(B) assist in ensuring that the research is coordinated with similar research being conducted outside the Administration;
(C) review the operations of the regional centers of air transportation excellence established under [section 44513 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title49-section44513&num=0&edition=prelim); and
(D) annually review the allocation made by the Administrator of the amounts authorized by [section 48102(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title49-section48102/a&num=0&edition=prelim) among the major categories of research and development activities carried out by the Administration and provide advice and recommendations to the Administrator on whether such allocation is appropriate to meet the needs and objectives identified under subparagraph (A).
(2) The Administrator may establish subordinate committees to provide advice on specific areas of research conducted under sections 44504, 44505, 44507, 44511–44513, and 44912 of this title.
**(b) Members, Chairman, Pay, and Expenses.—**
(1) The committee is composed of not more than 30 members appointed by the Administrator from among individuals who are not employees of the Administration and who are specially qualified to se
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**(a) Type Certificates.—**
(1) **Issuance, investigations, and tests.—** — The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall issue a type certificate for an aircraft, aircraft engine, or propeller, or for an appliance specified under paragraph (2)(A) of this subsection when the Administrator finds that the aircraft, aircraft engine, propeller, or appliance is properly designed and manufactured, performs properly, and meets the regulations and minimum standards prescribed under [section 44701(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title49-section44701/a&num=0&edition=prelim). On receiving an application for a type certificate, the Administrator shall investigate the application and may conduct a hearing. The Administrator shall make, or require the applicant to make, tests the Administrator considers necessary in the interest of safety.
(2) **Specifications.—** — The Administrator may—
(A) specify in regulations those appliances that reasonably require a type certificate in the interest of safety;
(B) include in a type certificate terms required in the interest of safety; and
(C) record on the certificate a numerical specification of the essential factors related to the performance of the aircraft, aircraft engine, or propeller for which the certificate is issued.
(3) **Special rules for new aircraft and appliances.—** — Except as provided in paragraph (4), if the holder of a type certificate agrees to permit another person to use the certificate to manufacture a new aircraft, aircraft engine, propeller, or appliance, the holder shall provide the other person with written evidence, in a form acceptable to the Administrator, of that agreement. Such other person may manufacture a new aircraft, aircraft engin
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TITLE 49—TRANSPORTATION
§ 44513
nology of House of Representatives by House Resolu-
tion No. 5, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, Jan. 5, 2011.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 2003 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 108–176 applicable only to fis-
cal years beginning after Sept. 30, 2003, except as other-
wise specifically provided, see section 3 of Pub. L.
108–176, set out as a note under section 106 of this title.
§ 44512. Catastrophic failure prevention research
grants
(a) GENERAL AUTHORITY.—The Administrator
of the Federal Aviation Administration may
make grants to institutions of higher education
and nonprofit research organizations—
(1) to conduct aviation research related to
the development of technologies and methods
to assess the risk of, and prevent, defects, fail-
ures, and malfunctions of products, parts,
processes, and articles manufactured for use in
aircraft, aircraft engines, propellers, and ap-
pliances that could result in a catastrophic
failure of an aircraft; and
(2) to establish centers of excellence for con-
tinuing the research.
(b) SOLICITATION, APPLICATION, REVIEW, AND
EVALUATION PROCESS.—The Administrator shall
establish a solicitation, application, review, and
evaluation process that ensures providing grants
under this section for proposals having adequate
merit and relevancy to the research described in
subsection (a) of this section.
(Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat.
1182.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
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Section
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Source (Statutes at Large)
44512 ..........
49 App.:1353(h).
Aug. 23, 1958, Pub. L. 85–726,
72 Stat. 731, § 312(h); added
Nov.
5,
1990,
Pub.
L.
101–508, § 9208(b), 104 Stat.
1388–376.
In this section, the words ‘‘institutions of higher edu-
cation’’ are substituted fo
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