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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 · Sec. 825

Sec. 825. ORPHAN AVIATION EARMARKS

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## SEC. 825 ORPHAN AVIATION EARMARKS **[**[49 U.S.C. 106 note](/us/usc/t49/s106)**]** ###
(a)Earmark Defined In this section, the term “earmark” means a statutory provision or report language included primarily at the request of a Senator or a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner of the House of Representatives providing, authorizing, or recommending a specific amount of discretionary budget authority, credit authority, or other spending authority for a contract, loan, loan guarantee, grant, or other expenditure with or to an entity or a specific State, locality, or Congressional district, other than through a statutory or administrative formula-driven or competitive award process. ###
(b)Rescission If any earmark relating to the Federal Aviation Administration has more than 90 percent of applicable appropriated amounts remaining available for obligation at the end of the 9th fiscal year beginning after the fiscal year in which those amounts were appropriated, the unobligated portion of those amounts is rescinded effective at the end of that 9th fiscal year, except that the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may delay any such rescission if the Administrator determines that an obligation with respect to those amounts is likely to occur during the 12-month period beginning on the last day of that 9th fiscal year. ###
(c)Identification and Report ####
(1)Agency identification At the end of each fiscal year, the Administrator shall identify and report to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget every earmark related to the Administration and with respect to which there is an unobligated balance of appropriated amounts. ####
(2)Annual report Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Director shall submit to Congress and make available to the public on the Internet Web site of the Office a report that includes— #####
(A)a listing of each earmark related to the Administration and with respect to which there is an unobligated balance of appropriated amounts, which shall include the amount of the original earmark, the amount of the unobligated balance related to that earmark, and the date on which the funding expires, if applicable; #####
(B)the number of rescissions under subsection
(b)and the savings resulting from those rescissions for the previous fiscal year; and #####
(C)a listing of earmarks related to the Administration with amounts scheduled for rescission at the end of the current fiscal year.
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