USE OF PFC REDUCED APPORTIONMENT FUNDS.

SEC. 9112. USE OF PFC REDUCED APPORTIONMENT FUNDS. (a) Addition of Funds to Existing Discretionary Fund.—Section 507(c)(1) of the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 (49 U.S.C. App. 2206(c)(1)) is amended by inserting after the first sentence the following new sentences: “Twenty-five percent of the amounts which are not apportioned under this section as a result of subsection (b)(7) shall be added to such discretionary fund. Fifty percent of amounts added to such discretionary fund pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be used for making grants for projects at small hub airports (as such term is defined in section 419(k) of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958).”. (b) Small Airport Fund.—Section 507 of such Act is amended by redesignating subsections (d) and (e), and any references thereto, as subsections (e) and (0, respectively, and by inserting after subsection (c) the following new subsection: “(d) Small Airport Fund.— “(1) Establishment.—Seventy-five percent of the amounts which are not apportioned under this section as a result of subsection (b)(7) shall constitute a small airport fund to be distributed at the discretion of the Secretary. “(2) Set-aside for general aviation airports.—One-third of the amounts in the small airport fund established by this subsection and distributed by the Secretary under this subsection in a fiscal year shall be used for making grants to sponsors of public-use airports (other than commercial service airports) for any purpose for which funds are made available under section 505. “(3) Set-aside for nonhub airports.—Two-thirds of the amounts in the small airport fund established by this subsection and distributed by the Secretary under this subsection in a fiscal year shall be used for making grants to sponsors of104 STAT. 1388–363 commercial service airports each of which annually has less than 0.05 percent of the total annual enplanements in the United States for any purpose for which funds are made available under section 505. “(4) Treatment of airports participating in state block program.—An airport in a State which is participating in the State block grant program under section 534 shall be eligible to receive grants pursuant to this subsection to the same extent that the airport would be eligible to receive such grants if the State was not participating in such program.”. (c) Prohibition on Reduced Funding.—It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary should not reduce funding under the discretionary fund established under section 507(c) of the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 for small commercial service and genera] aviation airports as a result of additional funds made available to such airports under this section, including amendments made by this section.