Volume 67 · 141
Public Law 83–105
To amend the Federal Airport Act in order to provide for an extension for a limited period of the program for the repair and rehabilitation of public airports damaged by Federal agencies, and for other purposes.
Approved July 8, 1953
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Federal Airport Act in order to provide for an extension for a limited period of the program for the repair and rehabilitation of public airports damaged by Federal agencies, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate, and House of Representative, of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 17 of the Federal Airport Act, as amended, is hereby amended as follows:
By deleting the last sentence, of subsection (c) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “Appropriations made pursuant to this subsection shall remain available until expended.”
By amending subsection (d) to read as follows:
“(d) “time limitations on filing of requests
No request for reimbursement of the cost of rehabilitation or repair of a public airport submitted pursuant to this section shall be considered by the Secretary unless such request Was submitted to him within six months after the occurrence of the damage upon which the request is based, or, in the case of a request relating to damage occurring while the airport was under the control and management of the United States, within six months after the transfer of such control and man-agement of the airport to the public agency involved; except that the Secretary may not consider any request submitted to him after March 31, 1954.”
By adding thereto a new subsection (e) as follows:
“(e) “time limitations on making of certifications
No certification pursuant to this section with respect to a request submitted to the Secretary after the date of enactment of this subsection (except a supplemental certification of the amount by which the actual cost of accomplished rehabilitation or repair exceeds the amount of a prior certification which was based on the estimated cost of such rehabilitation or repair) shall be made to the Congress after a date one year from the expiration of the period prescribed by law for the submittal of such request.”
Sec. 2.
There is hereby repealed the proviso contained in the Appropriation
Repeal of time limitation.
to the Department of Commerce, Civil Aeronautics Administration, headed “Claims, Federal Airport Act” in chapter III of the Third Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1951 (Public Law 45, Eighty-second Congress), reading as follows: “Provided, That no request for
reimbursement of the cost of rehabilitation or repair of a public airport filed under section 17 of the Federal Airport Act shall be considered
by the Secretary unless filed prior to July 1, 1951, and the Secretary shall make no certification to Congress after July 1, 1952, of the actual or estimated cost of such rehabilitation or repair.”
Sec. 3.
Notwithstanding the proviso of the Third Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1951, cited in section 2 and the provisions of subsection (d) of section 17 of the Federal Airport Act, the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to consider, pursuant to the said section 17, any request for reimbursement of the cost of rehabilitation or repair of a public airport, which is submitted to him within six months following the effective date of this Act, if such request would have met the time requirements of the said subsection (d) had it been filed on some date subsequent to June 30, 1951, and prior to the effective date of this Act.
Sec. 4.
Notwithstanding any provision of existing law to the contrary,
Appropriations available.
all appropriations heretofore made to the Department of commerce, pursuant to certifications made by that Department to the Congress under section 17 of the Federal Airport Act, for reimbursement
of public agencies for the cost of rehabilitating or repairing public airports damaged by Federal agencies, shall remain available until expended.
Approved July 8, 1953.