Sec. 1215. Non-movement area surveillance pilot program
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Subchapter I of chapter 471 is amended by inserting after section 47142 the following: The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may carry out a pilot program to support non-Federal acquisition and installation of qualifying non-movement area surveillance surface display systems and sensors if— the Administrator determines that acquisition and installation of qualifying non-movement area surveillance surface display systems and sensors improve safety or capacity in the National Airspace System; and the non-movement area surveillance surface display systems and sensors are supplemental to existing movement area systems and sensors at the selected airports established under other programs administered by the Administrator.
For purposes of carrying out the pilot program, the Administrator may make a project grant out of funds apportioned under paragraph
(1)or paragraph
(2)of section 47114(c) to not more than 5 eligible sponsors to acquire and install qualifying non-movement area surveillance surface display systems and sensors. The Administrator may distribute not more than $2,000,000 per sponsor from the discretionary fund. The airports selected to participate in the pilot program shall have existing Federal Aviation Administration movement area systems and airlines that are participants in Federal Aviation Administration’s Airport Collaborative Decision Making process. In accordance with the authority under section 106, the Administrator may establish procurement procedures applicable to grants issued under this subsection. The procedures may permit the sponsor to carry out the project with vendors that have been accepted in the procurement procedure or using Federal Aviation Administration contracts. The procedures may provide for the direct reimbursement (including administrative costs) of the Administrator by the sponsor using grant funds under this subsection, for the ordering of system-related equipment and its installation, or for the direct ordering of system-related equipment and its installation by the sponsor, using such grant funds, from the suppliers with which the Administrator has contracted. The Administrator may establish data exchange processes to allow airport participation in the Federal Aviation Administration’s Airport Collaborative Decision Making process and fusion of the non-movement surveillance data with the Administration's movement area systems. In this section: The term non-movement area is the portion of the airfield surface that is not under the control of air traffic control. The term non-movement area surveillance surface display system and sensors is a non-Federal surveillance system that uses on-airport sensors that track vehicles or aircraft that are equipped with transponders in the non-movement area. The term qualifying non-movement area surveillance surface display system and sensors is a non-movement area surveillance surface display system that— provides the required transmit and receive data formats consistent with the National Airspace System architecture at the appropriate service delivery point; is on-airport; and is airport operated. . The table of contents of chapter 471 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 47142 the following: 47143. Non-movement area surveillance surface display systems pilot program. .