§47132. Pavement maintenance

(a) In General.-The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall issue guidelines to carry out a pavement maintenance pilot project to preserve and extend the useful life of runways, taxiways, and aprons at airports for which apportionments are made under section 47114(d). The guidelines shall provide that the Administrator may designate not more than 10 projects. The guidelines shall provide criteria for the Administrator to use in choosing the projects. At least 2 such projects must be in States without a primary airport that had 0.25 percent or more of the total boardings in the United States in the preceding calendar year. In designating a project, the Administrator shall take into consideration geographical, climatological, and soil diversity.

(b) Effective Date.-This section shall be effective beginning on the date of the enactment of this section and ending on September 30, 1999.

(Added Pub. L. 104–264, title I, §142(a), Oct. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 3221 .)

References in Text

The date of the enactment of this section, referred to in subsec. (b), is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 104–264, which was approved Oct. 9, 1996.

Effective Date

Except as otherwise specifically provided, section applicable only to fiscal years beginning after Sept. 30, 1996, and not to be construed as affecting funds made available for a fiscal year ending before Oct. 1, 1996, see section 3 of Pub. L. 104–264, set out as an Effective Date of 1996 Amendment note under section 106 of this title.