project sponsorship

project sponsorship Sec. 10. (a) Section 18 of the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970 (49 U.S.C. 1718) is amended by inserting “(a) Sponsorship.—” immediately before “As a condition precedent”, by striking out “section.” at the end of such section and inserting in lieu thereof “subsection.”, and by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: “(b) Consultation.—In making a decision to undertake any project under this title, any sponsor of an air carrier airport shall consult with air carriers using the airport at which such airport development project is proposed and any sponsor of a general aviation airport shall consult with fixed-base operators using the airport at which such airport development project is proposed.”. (b) Paragraph (8) of subsection (a) of section 18 of the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970 (as redesignated by subsection (a) of this section) is amended by striking out the semicolon and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “, except, that no part of the Federal share of an airport development project for which a grant is made under this title, or under the Federal Airport Act (49 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.) shall be included in the rate base in establishing fees, rates, and charges for users of that airport;”. (c) Paragraph (1) of section 18(a) of the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970 (as redesignated by subsection (a) of this section) is amended by striking out the semicolon and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “, including the requirement that (A) each air carrier, authorized to engage directly in air transportation pursuant to section 401 or 402 of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, using such airport shall be subject to nondiscriminatory and substantially comparable rates, fees, rentals, and other charges and nondiscriminatory and substantially comparable rules, regulations, and conditions as are applicable to all such air carriers which make similar use of such airport and which utilize similar facilities, subject to reasonable classifications such as tenants or nontenants, and combined passenger and cargo flights or all cargo flights, and such classification or status 90 STAT. 879us tenant shall not be unreasonably withheld by any airport provided an air carrier assumes obligations substantially similar to those already imposed on tenant air carriers, and (B) each fixed-based operator using a general aviation airport shall be subject to the same rates, fees, rentals, and other charges as are uniformly applicable to all other fixed-based operator’s making the same or similar uses of such airport utilizing the same or similar facilities;”. (d) The amendment made to section 18(a) (1) (A) of the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970 (as amended by subsection (c) of this section) shall not require the reformation of any lease or other contract entered into by an airport before the date of enactment of this Act. The amendment made to section 18(a) (1) (B) of the Airport, and Airway Development Act of 1970 (as amended by subsection (c) of this section) shall not require the reformation of any lease or other contract entered into by an airport before July 1, 1975.