---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 49105"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "49105"
heading: "Capital improvements, construction, and rehabilitation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/49105"
units:
  - "Subtitle VII — Aviation Programs"
  - "Part D — Public Airports"
  - "Chapter 491 — Metropolitan Washington Airports"
---

# §49105. Capital improvements, construction, and rehabilitation

- (a) **Sense of Congress.—** It is the sense of Congress that the [Metropolitan Washington Airports](/usc/49/49103.md?p=3) Authority—
  - (1) should pursue the improvement, construction, and rehabilitation of the facilities at [Washington Dulles International Airport](/usc/49/49103.md?p=4) and [Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport](/usc/49/49103.md?p=5) simultaneously; and
  - (2) to the extent practicable, should cause the improvement, construction, and rehabilitation proposed by the Secretary of Transportation to be completed at [Washington Dulles International Airport](/usc/49/49103.md?p=4) and [Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport](/usc/49/49103.md?p=5) within 5 years after March 30, 1988.
- (b) **Secretary’s Assistance.—** The Secretary shall assist the 3 [airports](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-9) serving the District of Columbia metropolitan area in planning for operational and capital improvements at those [airports](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-9) and shall accelerate consideration of applications for [United States](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-46) Government financial assistance by whichever of the 3 [airports](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-9) is most in need of increasing airside capacity.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 105–102, § 2(26), Nov. 20, 1997, 111 Stat. 2210; amended Pub. L. 105–154, § 2(a)(1)(D), Feb. 6, 1998, 112 Stat. 3.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 49105(a) | (uncodified). | Oct. 18, 1986, Pub. L. 99–500, title VI, § 6006(a), 100 Stat. 1783–378. |
|  |  | Oct. 30, 1986, Pub. L. 99–591, title VI, § 6006(a), 100 Stat. 3341–381. |
| 49105(b) | (uncodified). | Oct. 18, 1986, Pub. L. 99–500, title VI, § 6006(b), 100 Stat. 1783–379. |
|  |  | Oct. 30, 1986, Pub. L. 99–591, title VI, § 6006(b), 100 Stat. 3341–382. |

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 49105 was renumbered section 50105 of this title.

### Amendments

1998—Subsec. (a)(1), (2). Pub. L. 105–154 substituted “Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport” for “Washington National Airport”.