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To amend title 49, United States Code, to exempt airports in economically depressed communities from matching grant obligations under the airport improvement program.

Introduced: December 8, 2003 Introduced by: Thompson, Mike Democratic · California See on congress.gov
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Dec 9, 2003
Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
Dec 8, 2003
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Dec 8, 2003
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Entitles economically depressed communities to 100 percent of costs for an airport project if the community has: (1) an unemployment rate 1 percent higher than the national average for the preceding 24 months; (2) a per capita income of 80 percent or less of the national average; or (3) a special need such as substantial population loss, underemployment, military base closures, major disasters or emergencies, extraordinary depletion of natural resources, closure or restructuring of industrial firms essential to the area economies, and destructive impacts of foreign trade.

What's happening now December 9, 2003

Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.

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