1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Defending Essential Flights and Ensuring National Security Efforts (DEFENSE) Act of 2018”.
Defending Essential Flights and Ensuring National Security Efforts (DEFENSE) Act of 2018
A BILL
To amend title 49, United States Code, to improve the essential air service program.
2. 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.”