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HR 2477 107th Congress House

Large Capacity Airport Limitation Act

Official title: To amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit the expansion of the passenger or cargo capacity of any airport that is located in a county with a populatio… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit the expansion of the passenger or cargo capacity of any airport that is located in a county with a population of more than 9,000,000 and that has the capacity to serve 80,000,000 or more air passengers annually.

Introduced: July 11, 2001 Introduced by: Waters, Maxine Democratic · California See on congress.gov
Transportation and Public Works Airline passenger trafficAirportsEnvironmental ProtectionNoiseTransportation engineering
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Jul 12, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
Jul 11, 2001
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Jul 11, 2001
Introduced in House
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 Latest action July 12, 2001

Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Large Capacity Airport Limitation Act - Amends Federal aviation law to require the Secretary of Transportation, in order to mitigate the impact of noise on surrounding communities due to the effects of airport capacity expansion projects, to prohibit any construction project for the expansion of the passenger or cargo capacity of an airport that: (1) is located in a county with a population of more than nine million; and (2) has the capacity to serve 80 million or more air passengers annually.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2477: Large Capacity Airport Limitation Act. 107th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-2477/
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"H.R. 2477: Large Capacity Airport Limitation Act." 107th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-2477/.
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H.R. 2477, 107th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-2477/.
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