§44515. Advanced training facilities for maintenance technicians for air carrier aircraft
(a) General Authority.-The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may make grants to not more than 4 vocational technical educational institutions to acquire or construct facilities to be used for the advanced training of maintenance technicians for air carrier aircraft.
(b) Eligibility.-The Administrator may make a grant under this section to a vocational technical educational institution only if the institution has a training curriculum that prepares aircraft maintenance technicians who hold airframe and power plant certificates under subpart D of part 65 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, to maintain, without direct supervision, air carrier aircraft.
(c) Limitation.-A vocational technical educational institution may not receive more than a total of $5,000,000 in grants under this section.
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Pub. L. 103–272, §1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1184
.)
The words "vocational technical educational institution" are used throughout this section for consistency in this section.
Improved Training for Airframe and Powerplant Mechanics
Pub. L. 106–181, title V, §517, Apr. 5, 2000, 114 Stat. 145
, provided that: "The Administrator [of the Federal Aviation Administration] shall form a partnership with industry and labor to develop a model program to improve the curricula, teaching methods, and quality of instructors for training individuals that need certification as airframe and powerplant mechanics."
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 106, 48110 of this title.