Sec. 40003. Air traffic control improvements
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For the purpose of the acquisition, construction, sustainment, and improvement of facilities and equipment necessary to improve or maintain aviation safety, in addition to amounts otherwise made available, there is appropriated to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration for fiscal year 2025, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to remain available until September 30, 2029— $4,750,000,000 for telecommunications infrastructure modernization and systems upgrades; $3,000,000,000 for radar systems replacement; $500,000,000 for runway safety technologies, runway lighting systems, airport surface surveillance technologies, and to carry out section 347 of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024; $300,000,000 for Enterprise Information Display Systems; $80,000,000 to acquire and install not less than 50 Automated Weather Observing Systems, to acquire and install not less than 60 Visual Weather Observing Systems, to acquire and install not less than 64 weather camera sites, and to acquire and install weather stations; $40,000,000 to carry out section 44745 of title 49, United States Code, (except for activities described in paragraph (5)); $1,900,000,000 for necessary actions to construct a new air route traffic control center (in this subsection referred to as ARTCC ): , That not more than 2 percent of such amount is used for planning or administrative purposes:
Provided , That at least 3 existing ARTCCs are divested and integrated into the newly constructed ARTCC; Provided further $100,000,000 to conduct an ARTCC Realignment and Consolidation Effort under which at least 10 existing ARTCCs are closed or consolidated to facilitate recapitalization of ARTCC facilities owned and operated by the Federal Aviation Administration; $1,000,000,000 to support recapitalization and consolidation of terminal radar approach control facilities (in this subsection referred to as TRACONs ), the analysis and identification of TRACONs for divestment, consolidation, or integration, planning, site selection, facility acquisition, and transition activities and other appropriate activities for carrying out such divestment, consolidation, or integration, and the establishment of brand new TRACONs; $350,000,000 for unstaffed infrastructure sustainment and replacement; $50,000,000 to carry out section 961 of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024; $300,000,000 to carry out section 619 of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024; $50,000,000 to carry out section 621 of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 and to deploy remote tower technology at untowered airports; and $100,000,000 for air traffic controller advanced training technologies.
Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, and every 90 days thereafter, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall submit to Congress a report that describes any expenditures under this section.