---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 47130"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "47130"
heading: "Airport safety data collection"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/47130"
units:
  - "Subtitle VII — Aviation Programs"
  - "Part B — Airport Development and Noise"
  - "Chapter 471 — Airport Development"
  - "Subchapter I — Airport Improvement"
---

# §47130. Airport safety data collection


Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may award a contract, using sole source or limited source authority, or enter into a cooperative agreement with, or provide a grant from amounts made available under [section 48103](/usc/49/48103.md) to, a private company or entity for the collection of [airport](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-9) safety data. In the event that a grant is provided under this section, the [United States](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-46) Government’s share of the cost of the data collection shall be 100 percent.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–305, title I, § 118(a), Aug. 23, 1994, 108 Stat. 1580; amended Pub. L. 108–176, title I, § 154, Dec. 12, 2003, 117 Stat. 2507.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2003—Pub. L. 108–176 reenacted section catchline without change and amended text generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may contract, using sole source or limited source authority, for the collection of airport safety data.”

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2003 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 108–176 applicable only to fiscal years beginning after Sept. 30, 2003, except as otherwise specifically provided, see section 3 of Pub. L. 108–176, set out as a note under section 106 of this title.