Sec. 2112. Repair stations located outside United States
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Section 44733 of title 49, United States Code, is amended— by redesignating subsection
(f)as subsection (g); by inserting after subsection
(e)the following: Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of the FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 2016, the Administrator shall take measures to ensure that the safety assessment system established under subsection (a)— places particular consideration on inspections of part 145 repair stations located outside the United States that conduct scheduled heavy maintenance work on part 121 air carrier aircraft; and accounts for the frequency and seriousness of any corrective actions that part 121 air carriers must implement to aircraft following such work at such repair stations. The Administrator shall take the measures required under paragraph (1)— in accordance with United States obligations under applicable international agreements; and in a manner consistent with the applicable laws of the country in which a repair station is located. The Administrator may access and review such information or data in the possession of a part 121 air carrier as the Administrator may require in carrying out paragraph (1)(B). ; and in subsection
(g)(as so redesignated)— by redesignating paragraphs
(1)and
(2)as paragraphs
(2)and (3), respectively; and by inserting before paragraph
(2)(as so redesignated) the following: The term heavy maintenance work means a C-check, a D-check, or equivalent maintenance operation with respect to the airframe of a transport-category aircraft. . The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall ensure that— not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, a notice of proposed rulemaking required pursuant to section 44733(d)(2) is published in the Federal Register; and not later than 1 year after the date on which the notice of proposed rulemaking is published in the Federal Register, the rulemaking is finalized. Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall ensure that each employee of a repair station certificated under part 145 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, who performs a safety-sensitive function on an air carrier aircraft has undergone a pre-employment background investigation sufficient to determine whether the individual presents a threat to aviation safety, in a manner that is— determined acceptable by the Administrator; consistent with the applicable laws of the country in which the repair station is located; and consistent with the United States obligations under international agreements.