Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Resilient Airports Act”.
Resilient Airports Act
A BILL
To amend title 49, United States Code, to define critical airport infrastructure, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Airport improvement definitions
Section 47102 of title 49, United States Code, is amended—
in paragraph (3) by adding at the end the following:
“(S) improvement of any critical airport infrastructure at a general aviation airport that is—
“(i) a nonhub, small hub, medium hub, or large hub airport to increase resilience for the purpose of resuming flight operations under visual flight rules following a natural disaster; or
“(ii) identified as a Federal staging area or Incident Support Base in a plan that is part of the National Preparedness Goal and National Preparedness System established by the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act and described by Presidential Policy Directive 8 and/or predetermined as a staging location within a Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Emergency Management Performance Grant recipient’s approved Distribution Management Plan Annex to their existing Emergency Operations Plan for the purpose of resuming flight operations under visual flight rules following a natural disaster.”
by redesignating paragraphs (14), (15), (16), (17), (18), (19), (20), (21), (22), (23), (24), (26), (27), and (28) as paragraphs (16), (17), (18), (19), (20), (21), (22), (23), (24), (25), (27), (28), (29), and (30), respectively;
by redesignating paragraphs (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), and (13) as paragraphs (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), and (14), respectively;
by inserting after paragraph (14), as so redesignated, the following:
“(15) “natural disaster” means earthquake, flooding, high water, wildfires, hurricane, storm surge, tidal wave, tornado, tsunami, or wind driven water.”
by inserting after paragraph (7) the following:
“(8) “critical airport infrastructure” means runways, taxiways, and aprons necessary to sustain either—
“(A) commercial service flight operations; or
“(B) flight operations at a general aviation airport that is identified as a Federal staging area or Incident Support Base in a plan that is part of the National Preparedness Goal and National Preparedness System established by the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act and described by Presidential Policy Directive 8 and/or predetermined as a staging location within a Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Emergency Management Performance Grant recipient’s approved Distribution Management Plan Annex to their existing Emergency Operations Plan.”