PASSENGER CABIN AIR QUALITY.

SEC. 725. PASSENGER CABIN AIR QUALITY. (a) Study of Air Quality in Passenger Cabins in Commercial Aircraft.— (1) In general.—Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall arrange for and provide necessary data to the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a 12-month, independent study of air quality in passenger cabins of aircraft used in air transportation and foreign air transportation, including the collection of new data, in coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration, to identify contaminants in the aircraft air and develop recommendations for means of reducing such contaminants. (2) Alternative air supply.—The study should examine whether contaminants would be reduced by the replacement of engine and auxiliary power unit bleed air with an alternative supply of air for the aircraft passengers and crew. (3) Scope.—The study shall include an assessment and quantitative analysis of each of the following: (A) Contaminants of concern, as determined by the National Academy of Sciences. (B) The systems of air supply on aircraft, including the identification of means by which contaminants may enter such systems. (C) The toxicological and health effects of the contaminants of concern, their byproducts, and the products of their degradation. (D) Any contaminant used in the maintenance, operation, or treatment of aircraft, if a passenger or a member of the air crew may be directly exposed to the contaminant. (E) Actual measurements of the contaminants of concern in the air of passenger cabins during actual flights 114 STAT. 167 in air transportation or foreign air transportation, along with comparisons of such measurements to actual measurements taken in public buildings. (4) Provision of Current Data.—The Administrator shall collect all data of the Federal Aviation Administration that is relevant to the study and make the data available to the National Academy of Sciences in order to complete the study. (b) Collection of Aircraft Air Quality Data.— (1) In general.—The Administrator may consider the feasibility of using the flight data recording system on aircraft to monitor and record appropriate data related to air inflow quality, including measurements of the exposure of persons aboard the aircraft to contaminants during normal aircraft operation and during incidents involving air quality problems. (2) Passenger cabins.—The Administrator may also consider the feasibility of using the flight data recording system to monitor and record data related to the air quality in passengers cabins of aircraft.