DECLARATION OF POLICY.

SEC. 102. DECLARATION OF POLICY. (a) Comprehensive Air Space Plan.— Section 502(a)(4) is amended— (1) by inserting “, a vertical visual guidance system,” after “precision approach system”; and (2) by inserting “distance-to-go signs for each primary and secondary runway, a surface movement radar system at each category III airport, a taxiway lighting and sign system,” after “vertical guidance on all runways,”. (b) Cargo Hub Airports.— Section 502(a) is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraphs (7), (8), and (9) as paragraphs (8), (9), and (10), respectively; and (2) by inserting after paragraph (6) the following new paragraph: “(7) cargo hub airports play a critical role in the movement of commerce through the airport and airway system and appropriate provisions should be made to facilitate the development and enhancement of such airports;”. (c) Increasing Airport Capacity; Nonaviation Use of Airspace; Limitation on Artificial Restrictions on Airport Capacity.— Section 502(a) is amended— (1) by striking out “and” at the end of paragraph (9), as redesignated by subsection (b); (2) by striking out the period at the end of paragraph (10), as so redesignated, and by inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon; and 101 STAT. 1488 (3) by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraphs: “(11) airport construction and improvement projects which increase the capacity of facilities to accommodate passenger and cargo traffic, thereby increasing safety and efficiency and reducing delays, should be undertaken to the maximum feasible extent; “(12) it is in the national interest to ensure that nonaviation usage of navigable airspace be accommodated but not allowed to decrease the safety and capacity of the airspace and airport system; and “(13) artificial restrictions on airport capacity are not in the public interest and should not be imposed to alleviate air traffic delays unless other reasonably available and less burdensome alternatives have first been attempted.’’. (d) Sense of Congress.— It is the sense of Congress that any regulation under which the Administrator limits the number of instrument flight rule takeoffs and landings of aircraft at certain airports should be phased out and eliminated at the earliest practicable date the Administrator finds that such phaseout or elimination is consistent with aviation safety.