United States HR 5111: NOTIFIED Act

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116TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION H. R. 5111
To require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to notify
the public of proposed new Performance Based Navigation Implementa-
tion Process flight procedures, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Ms. SPEIER (for herself, Mr. CASE, Ms. NORTON, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. PA-
NETTA, Mr. QUIGLEY, Mr. ROUDA, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. SUOZZI,
Mr. RASKIN, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. SMITH of Washington, and Mr. NEGUSE)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure
A BILL
To require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Admin-
istration to notify the public of proposed new Perform-
ance Based Navigation Implementation Process flight
procedures, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Notify Officials To 4
Inform Fully and Impel Educated Decisions Act’’ or the 5
‘‘NOTIFIED Act’’. 6
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SEC. 2. FAA OUTREACH TO COMMUNITY AND ELECTED OF-1
FICIALS WHEN PROPOSING NEW OR MODI-2
FIED FLIGHT PROCEDURES. 3
(a) IN GENERAL.—In order to avoid having to subse-4
quently modify products and services developed as a part 5
of the NextGen Performance Based Navigation (PBN) 6
Implementation Process—FAA Order JO7100.41A, the 7
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration 8
shall comply with the requirements of this section. 9
(b) NOTIFICATION TO OFFICIALS.—The Adminis-10
trator shall notify the public of any proposed new PBN 11
flight procedure or flight procedure change affecting air-12
space at altitudes below 18,000 feet. This notification 13
shall be made not later than 30 days after the date of 14
the entry of the procedure into the FAA Performance 15
Based Navigation IFP Gateway to the elected governing 16
body of each of the cities and counties within 5 miles of 17
such a proposed new or modified flight procedure, to any 18
Member of Congress whose district is within 5 miles of 19
such a proposed new or modified flight procedure, and to 20
any Aviation Roundtable whose jurisdictional area is with-21
in 5 miles of such a proposed new or modified flight proce-22
dure. 23
(c) NOTIFICATION CONTENTS.—Notification shall be 24
made with sufficient specificity for an official to determine 25
if such new or modified flight procedure being processed 26
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is likely to affect constituents of such official and shall 1
include— 2
(1) name of flight procedure; 3
(2) name of the proponent of the flight proce-4
dure; 5
(3) whether the flight procedure is a new or 6
modified procedure and, if modified, the changes 7
being proposed; 8
(4) name of existing procedure if the procedure 9
substantially replaces an existing procedure; 10
(5) approximate flight path including latitude 11
and longitude of the proposed procedure overlaid on 12
a satellite map such as Google Earth or similar; 13
(6) approximate altitudes of proposed flight 14
path; and 15
(7) contact person to provide additional infor-16
mation. 17
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following defi-18
nitions apply: 19
(1) AVIATION ROUNDTABLE.—The term ‘‘Avia-20
tion Roundtable’’ means an organization designed to 21
address community concerns over a sustained period 22
of time regarding aircraft operations often associ-23
ated with a nearby airport. 24
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(2) FAA ORDER JO7100.41A.—The term ‘‘FAA 1
Order JO7100.41A’’ means FAA Order 2
JO7100.41A and any other successor versions of 3
such Order. 4
(3) FLIGHT PROCEDURE.—The term ‘‘flight 5
procedure’’ means a preplanned Instrument Flight 6
Rules (IFR) procedure published for pilot use, in 7
graphic or textual format, that provides obstruction 8
clearance from the terminal area to the en route 9
structure (departure) or from the en route structure 10
to the terminal area (arrival). 11
(4) IFP.—The term ‘‘IFP’’ means instrument 12
flight procedure. 13
(5) INSTRUMENT FLIGHT PROCEDURES GATE-14
WAY.—The term ‘‘Instrument Flight Procedures 15
Gateway’’ means a centralized instrument flight pro-16
cedures data portal providing, among others, current 17
IFPs under Development or Amendments with Ten-18
tative Publication Date and Status. 19
(6) ELECTED GOVERNING BODY.—The term 20
‘‘elected governing body’’ means a municipal body 21
having legislative and administrative powers, such as 22
passing ordinances and appropriating funds, such as 23
a City Council, Town Council, County Bo