REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS IN ALASKA AND WEATHER OBSERVATION SERVICES.

SEC. 515. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS IN ALASKA AND WEATHER OBSERVATION SERVICES. (a) Transfer of Site in Lake Minchumina, Alaska.— The Administrator shall convey to the Iditarod Area School District the Federal Aviation Administration building number 106 and a reasonable amount of land to make use of the property, at Lake Minchumina, Alaska, for the purpose of providing educational facilities, under the terms set forth in Agreement No. DTFA04–93–J–82007, between the Federal Aviation Administration and the Iditarod Area School District, and such other terms as are mutually agreed on between the Administrator and the Iditarod Area School District. (b) Transfer of Site in Fort Yukon, Alaska.— The Administrator shall convey to the city of Fort Yukon, Alaska, the buildings of the Federal Aviation Administration and land in Fort Yukon, Alaska (described as that portion of Lot 4, U.S. Survey 7161, within section 8, T.20 N., R.12E., Fairbanks Meridian consisting of 7.14 acres, and containing the health clinic and staff housing for the aforementioned clinic) for the purpose of providing health services, under terms that are mutually agreed on between the Administrator and the city of Fort Yukon. (c) Weather Observation Services.— Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall designate airports, as described in this section, and provide human observers at such airports to offer real time weather information to pilots by direct radio contact. Airports to be designated shall be located in a State that averaged, during the period 1989–1993, 3 or more accidents per year involving serious or fatal injury to crew or passengers on regularly scheduled flights operating single-engine aircraft under visual flight rules, and shall be designated as follows:108 STAT. 1599 (1) Not to exceed 5 airports where terrain and conditions do not lend themselves to IFR operations supported solely by automated weather observing systems. (2) Not to exceed 1 airport where an automated surface observing system is scheduled to be accepted on September 1, 1994, with such weather services to be provided until such time as the Administrator determines that the automated surface observing system is fully operational. (3) Not to exceed 8 airports (where such weather observation services shall be on a cost-reimbursable basis) that are minor hub stations or strategic visual flight rules alternate airports at times when an observer is needed to supplement the automated weather observing system or immediately replace it in the event of failure.