Sec. 546. FAA Civil Aviation Registry upgrade
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Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall complete covered upgrades of the Administration’s Civil Aviation Registry (in this section referred to as the Registry ). In this section, the term covered upgrades means— the digitization of nondigital Registry information, including paper documents, microfilm images, and photographs, from an analog or nondigital format to a digital format; the digitalization of Registry manual and paper-based processes, business operations, and functions by leveraging digital technologies and a broader use of digitized data; the implementation of systems allowing a member of the public to submit any information or form to the Registry and conduct any transaction with the Registry by electronic or other remote means; and allowing more efficient, broader, and remote access to the Registry.
The requirements of subsection
(a)shall apply to the entire Civil Aviation Registry, including the Aircraft Registration Branch and the Airmen Certification Branch. Chapter 453 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: Not later 3 years after the date of enactment of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 , the Administrator shall impose and collect a surcharge on a Civil Aviation Registry transaction that— is conducted in person at the Civil Aviation Registry; could be conducted, as determined by the Administrator, with the same or greater level of efficiency by electronic or other remote means; and is not related to research or other non-commercial activities. A surcharge imposed and collected under subsection
(a)shall not exceed twice the maximum fee the Administrator is authorized to charge for the registration of an aircraft, not used to provide air transportation, after the transfer of ownership under section 45302(b)(2). Monies collected from a surcharge imposed under subsection
(a)shall be treated as monies collected under section 45302 and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in section 45302(d). . Not later than 1 year after date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter until the covered upgrades required under subsection
(a)are complete, the Administrator shall submit a report to the appropriate committees of Congress describing— the schedule for the covered upgrades to the Registry; the office responsible for the implementation of the such covered upgrades; the metrics being used to measure progress in implementing the covered upgrades; and the status of the covered upgrades as of the date of the report.