Aviation

Colorado Wilderness Act of 2015

United States · United States Congress · 29 July 2015

Colorado Wilderness Act of 2015 Amends the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993 to add specified lands in Colorado managed by the Bureau of Land Management (proposed as the Powderhorn Wilderness Addition) of the Department of the Interior to the Powderhorn Wilderness. Designates specified lands in Colorado managed by the BLM or the U.S. Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Designates specified lands in Colorado administered by the BLM, Forest Service, and Bureau of Reclamation as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Incorporates such lands into the West Elk Wilderness. Allows Interior to continue authorizing competitive running events currently permitted in the Redcloud Peak Wilderness and Handies Peak Wilderness Areas. Authorizes the Colorado Army National Guard, through the High-Altitude Army National Guard Aviation Training Site, to conduct aerial navigation training maneuver exercises over the wilderness areas designated by this Act. Designates specified lands managed by the BLM as: (1) potential wilderness areas, and (2) as the Deep Creek Wilderness and the Pisgah Mountain Wilderness upon publication by Interior of a notice in the Federal Register that all nonconforming uses of such lands authorized by this Act for the conduct of such exercises and overflights of military helicopters in violation of the Wilderness Act have ceased. Provides for the securing, adjudication, and use of U.S. water rights for certain of the wilderness areas designated by this Act.

Flight School Security Act of 2015

United States · United States Congress · 29 July 2015

Flight School Security Act of 2015 Revises requirements with respect to the training of aliens and other individuals designated by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security in the operation of certain aircraft. Authorizes a flight instructor, pilot school, or aviation training center to provide training in the operation of an aircraft with a takeoff weight of more than 12,500 pounds to an individual who does not hold a valid Federal Aviation Administration airman's certification only if: (1) that individual has been checked against the terrorist watchlist by the TSA to determine if he or she poses a threat to aviation or national security or a threat of terrorism, and (2) the TSA determines that the individual does not pose a threat that warrants denial of access to such training.

Aviation Screening Contractor Reform and Accountability Act

United States · United States Congress · 29 July 2015

Aviation Screening Contractor Reform and Accountability Act This bill prohibits subsidiaries of foreign-owned companies from performing security screening at commercial airports and establishes additional requirements for private screening companies. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) must not: contract with private screening companies that are U.S. subsidiaries of foreign companies or have compromised covert security testing, permit the screening to be performed by a subcontractor, or provide funding to any company that provides screening services at an airport in excess of the required amount. Private screening companies must: provide the right of first refusal to federal or private sector employees who are performing screening at an airport when a contract is awarded; and report to the TSA regarding security breaches, retention rates of employees, adverse employment actions, and customer complaints. The TSA must use Government Accountability Office (GAO) guidance to compare the costs of overseeing private companies with using federal employees for screening, enhance monitoring of the performance of private screening companies, and require companies to train employees on handling sensitive information. Each airport must notify passengers if screening is conducted by a contractor and provide contact information for reporting complaints. The GAO must conduct annual covert testing of airports that use private screening companies. The TSA must establish a process for confidentially reporting deficiencies, waste, or vulnerabilities with respect to private screening services. The companies must not retaliate against individuals who report this information, refuse to engage in illegal activities, or testify during government proceedings.

Airplane KITS Act of 2015

United States · United States Congress · 29 July 2015

Airplane Kids In Transit Safety Act of 2015 or the Airplane KITS Act of 2015 This bill directs the Federal Aviation Administration to initiate a rulemaking to ensure that aircraft medical kits contain appropriate medication and equipment to meet the emergency medical needs of children, including an epinephrine auto-injector.

Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015

United States · United States Congress · 28 July 2015

Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015 Directs the Secretary of Transportation to reduce the amount apportioned for a surface transportation program, project, or activity for FY2015 by amounts apportioned or allocated under the Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014 and the Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2015 for the period from October 1, 2014, through July 31, 2015. Amends the Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014 to continue from October 1, 2014, through October 29, 2015, and authorizes appropriations through that period for, specified federal-aid highway programs under: the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) Technical Corrections Act of 2008, SAFETEA-LU, the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), the National Highway System Designation Act of 1995, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA), and other specified law. Subjects funding for FY2015, and for the period October 1, 2015, through October 29, 2015, for such programs to certain funding level restrictions. Amends MAP-21 to authorize appropriations out of the general fund of the Treasury for the Tribal High Priority Projects program for the same period. Prescribes an obligation ceiling of $40.256 billion for FY2015, including $3,189,683,060 for the period October 1, 2015, through October 29, 2015, for federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs. Authorizes appropriations from the HTF (other than the Mass Transit Account) for administrative expenses of the federal-aid highway program for the same period. Extends for the same period the authorization of appropriations for National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) safety programs, including: highway safety research and development, national priority safety programs, the National Driver Register, the High Visibility Enforcement Program, and NHTSA administrative expenses. Amends SAFETEA-LU to extend for the same period high-visibility traffic safety law enforcement campaigns under the High Visibility Enforcement Program. Sets aside a specified amount of the total apportionment to states for highway safety programs for a cooperative program to research and evaluate priority highway safety countermeasures for the same period. Extends for the same period the authorization of appropriations for Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) programs, including: motor carrier safety grants, FMCSA administrative expenses, commercial driver's license program improvement grants, border enforcement grants, performance and registration information system management grants, commercial vehicle information systems and networks deployment grants, safety data improvement grants, a set-aside for high priority activities that improve commercial motor vehicle safety and compliance with commercial motor vehicle safety regulations, a set-aside for new entrant motor carrier audit grants, FMCSA outreach and education, and the commercial motor vehicle operators grant program. Amends the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act to continue, for the same period, the authorized distribution of funds for coastal wetlands, recreational boating safety, projects under the Clean Vessel Act of 19921, boating infrastructure projects, and the National Outreach and Communications Program. Extends for the same period the apportionment of nonurbanized (rural) area formula grants for competitive grants and formula grants for public transportation on Indian reservations. Extends the apportionment of urbanized area formula grants for passenger ferry projects for the same period. Extends for the same period the authorization of appropriations from the HTF Mass Transit Account for: formula grants for public transportation, including allocations for specified projects; research, development demonstration, and deployment projects; the transit cooperative research program; technical assistance and standards development grants; human resources and training grants; capital investment grants; and administrative expenses. Allocates, for the same period, certain amounts to states and territories for formula bus and bus facilities grants. Authorizes appropriations for the same period for hazardous materials (hazmat) transportation safety projects. Authorizes the Secretary to make certain expenditures, including an amount for hazmat training grants, from the Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness Fund for the same period. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through October 30, 2015, the authority for expenditures from: (1) the Highway and Mass Transit Accounts of the Highway Trust Fund, (2) the Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund, and (3) the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund. Appropriates additional funds to the Highway and Mass Transit Accounts of the Highway Trust Fund. Requires tax information returns reporting mortgage interest received in a trade or business to include: (1) the outstanding principal on the mortgage, (2) the date of the origination of the mortgage, and (3) the address of the property which secures the mortgage. Requires that: (1) the value of the basis in any property acquired from a decedent be consistent with the basis as determined for estate tax purposes; and (2) executors of estates disclose to the Internal Revenue Service and to persons acquiring any interest in the decedent's estate information identifying the value of each interest received. Makes the six-year limitation on assessments of additional tax applicable to understatements of gross income due to an overstatement of unrecovered costs or other basis. Changes tax return due dates for partnerships, S corporations, and C corporations. Extends the automatic extension for corporate income tax returns from three to six months. Extends through 2025 the authority for transfers of excess pension assets of a defined benefit plan to a retiree health benefits account. Equalizes excise tax rates for liquefied petroleum gas, liquefied natural gas, and compressed natural gas. Revises aviation security service passenger fee requirements. Requires the deposit into the Treasury as offsetting receipts the following sums collected to pay the costs of providing civil aviation security services to airline passengers: $1.560 billion for FY2024, and $1.6 billion for FY2025. VA Budget and Choice Improvement Act Directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to develop a plan to consolidate all non-VA provider programs into a new, single Veterans Choice Program to furnish hospital care and medical services at non-VA facilities for veterans in the patient enrollment system. Requires the presidential budget for FY2017 and every ensuing fiscal year to include an appropriations account for non-VA provider programs. Grants the VA temporary authority, until the end of FY2015, to use certain transfers from the Veterans Choice Fund to pay for health care for eligible veterans at non-VA facilities, including pharmaceuticals for treatment of Hepatitis C. Modifies requirements of the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to: repeal the 60-day limit on follow-up care; repeal the August 1, 2012, enrollment limitation on the eligibility of veterans in the patient enrollment system; extend provider eligibility to any health care provider meeting VA criteria; and base the 40-mile distance requirement as on distance traveled from a VA medical facility, including one offering primary care for a veteran seeking primary care. Prohibits the use of funds by the VA to expand the dialysis pilot program, or to create any new dialysis capability provided by the VA in a facility that is not an initial facility under the dialysis pilot program, until an independent analysis of the dialysis pilot program is conducted for each such initial facility and 180 days have elapsed since the VA reports on the results. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: exclude individuals covered for medical care under TRICARE or the VA from the determination of whether an employer is an applicable large employer with respect to employee enrollment in minimum essential health care coverage under an eligible employer-sponsored plan, treat a veteran receiving hospital care or medical services for a service-connected disability as not disqualified from participating in or contributing to a tax-preferred health savings account.

Department of Homeland Security Border Security Metrics Act of 2015

United States · United States Congress · 27 July 2015

Department of Homeland Security Border Security Metrics Act of 2015 This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop and annually implement specified metrics to measure the effectiveness of: (1) security between ports of entry; (2) security at ports of entry; (3) security in the maritime environment; and (4) aviation assets and operations of the Office of Air and Marine of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, including in detecting and apprehending subjects and in seizing illicit drugs. Such metrics shall be informed by situational awareness, which is defined as knowledge and unified understanding of current unlawful cross-border activity. DHS shall: (1) make data related to apprehensions, inadmissible aliens, drug seizures, and other enforcement actions available to the public, academic research, and law enforcement communities in accordance with applicable privacy laws; (2) provide DHS's Office of Immigration Statistics with unfettered access to the data; (3) submit an annual report containing such metrics and the data and methodology used to develop such metrics to specified congressional committees and the Comptroller General; and (4) after submitting its final report, evaluate and update such metrics to ensure that they meet DHS's performance management needs and are suitable to measure the effectiveness of border security. The Comptroller General shall submit a biannual report that analyzes the suitability and statistical validity of the data and methodology contained in such DHS reports and that includes recommendations on: (1) the feasibility of other suitable metrics for measuring the effectiveness of border security, and (2) improvements that need to be made to the metrics being used to measure such effectiveness. After the end of each fiscal year through FY2025, DHS must submit a "State of the Border" report that includes: (1) trends for each metric under this Act for the last 10 years, and (2) selected analysis into related aspects of illegal flow rates.

REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL 2014 ANNUAL REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF REGULATION (EC) N° 300/2008 ON COMMON RULES IN THE FIELD OF CIVIL AVIATION SECURITY

European Union · European Commission · 23 July 2015

St Helena: Aviation

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 July 2015

To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the first commercial flights to St Helena will commence.

Protocol amending the Common Aviation Area Agreement between the European Union and its Member States and the Republic of Moldova, to take account of the accession to the European Union of the Republic of Croatia

European Union · EUR-Lex · 22 July 2015

Aviation: Noise

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 July 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking as part of his Department's current review of noise policy to ensure that (a) tranquillity and (b) densely populated areas are clearly defined in Civil Aviation Authority guidance.

Partners for Aviation Security Act

United States · United States Congress · 21 July 2015

Partners for Aviation Security Act The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) shall consult with the Aviation Security Advisory Committee regarding modifications to the prohibited item list before issuing a determination about them. The prohibited item list is a list of items passengers are prohibited from carrying as accessible property or on their persons through passenger screening checkpoints at airports, into sterile airport areas, and on board passenger aircraft. The TSA shall report to the Transportation Security Oversight Board of the Department of Homeland Security general information on how often the Board has met, its current composition, and what activities it has undertaken, consistent with its duties. The TSA may include in the report recommendations for changes to Board requirements. Committee member term requirements are revised to allow an expiring member's term to continue until a successor member begins serving on the Committee.

Aviation: Safety

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 July 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what procedures are in place to ensure aircraft maintenance crews are (a) fit to work and (b) not overtired.

Aviation: Pregnancy

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 July 2015

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what published scientific data there are regarding the risks to the unborn child of inhaling heated pyrolysed synthetic jet engine fumes.

848. Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the position regarding the proposal to build an aviation fuel pipeline connecting Dublin Port to Dublin Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30308/15]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 July 2015

848. Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the position regarding the proposal to build an aviation fuel pipeline connecting Dublin Port to Dublin Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30308/15]

Airport Access Control Security Improvement Act of 2015

United States · United States Congress · 16 July 2015

Airport Access Control Security Improvement Act of 2015 This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to establish a risk-based, intelligence-driven model for the screening of airport employees based on level of employment-related access to Secure Identification Display Areas, Airport Operations Areas, or secure areas at U.S. airports. TSA shall review certain federal disqualifying criminal offenses to determine adequacy for an individual to have continued access to Secure Identification Display Areas of airports. TSA shall review the auditing procedures for all airport-issued identification media. TSA shall: establish a program to allow airport badging offices to use "E-Verify" to determine eligibility to work in the United States of all applicants seeking access to secure areas of airports, establish a process to transmit applicants' biometric fingerprint data to the Office of Biometric Identity Management's Automated Biometrics Identification System for vetting, assess credential application data received by DHS to ensure it is complete and matches data submitted by airport operators. TSA shall establish a nationwide program for the anonymous reporting of violations of airport security. TSA shall: establish a national database of employees who have had either their airport or aircraft operator-issued badge revoked for cause, and determine the appropriate mechanisms for airports and airlines to submit such data and access the database. The Aviation Security Advisory Committee and Aviation Security Advisory Committee Working Group shall update and review airport access controls. TSA shall conduct a cost and feasibility study of a significant number of Category I, II, and X airports that ensures that all employee entry and exit points that lead to airport secured areas comprise the following: a secure door that uses card and pin entry or biometric technology, surveillance video recording capable of storing video data for at least 30 days, and certain advanced screening technologies (including at least one of the following: magnetometer [walk through or hand-held], explosives detection canines or explosives trace detection swabbing, advanced imaging technology, or X-ray bag screening technology).

Gebreken medische certificaten luchtvaart

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 16 July 2015

Gebreken medische certificaten luchtvaart

Aviation: Northern Ireland

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 July 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Transport about the implications of the Davies Report on the UK's airport strategy for Northern Ireland; and if she will make a statement.

36. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation whether he has conducted any research or investigation into employment practices in the aviation sector given the particular importance of staff welfare in an employment which has critical functions in terms of the safety of passengers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28415/15]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 July 2015

36. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation whether he has conducted any research or investigation into employment practices in the aviation sector given the particular importance of staff welfare in an employment which has critical functions in terms of the safety of passengers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28415/15]

GROW AMERICA Act

United States · United States Congress · 15 July 2015

Generating Renewal, Opportunity, and Work with Accelerated Mobility, Efficiency, and Rebuilding of Infrastructure and Communities throughout America Act or the GROW AMERICA Act Prescribes requirements for environmental reviews with respect to state and federal agency engagement, obstruction of navigation, historic sites, categorical exclusion of multimodal projects from environmental review, and creation in the Department of Transportation (DOT) of an Interagency Infrastructure Permitting Improvement Center. Directs DOT to establish a multimodal freight incentive grant program and a National Freight Infrastructure Program. Redesignates the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways as the National Highway System and the National Freight Network. Requires the federal long-range transportation plan to include a transportation system resilience assessment. Prescribes criteria for high performing metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) representing urbanized areas with populations of over 200,000. Removes the congestion management process from the transportation planning process for MPOs. Directs DOT to establish a pilot program for up to 10 MPOs to improve multimodal connectivity and increase connections for disadvantaged Americans and neighborhoods with limited transportation options. Revises requirements with respect to congestion mitigation and air quality improvement, including electric vehicle charging stations and commercial motor vehicle anti-idling facilities in rest areas along the Interstate System. Establishes in DOT: a discretionary TIGER Infrastructure Grant Program for various transportation projects; and a discretionary FAST Grant Program to reform the way surface transportation investments and decisions are made, implemented, and funded to achieve national transportation outcomes. Revises requirements for the funding of railroad rehabilitation and improvement financing, the state infrastructure bank program, toll roads, bridges, tunnels, and ferries. Establishes within DOT the position of Assistant Secretary for Innovative Finance. Reauthorizes the federal-aid highway and related programs through FY2021, including revised obligation limitation and apportionment requirements. Directs DOT to: establish a nationally significant federal lands and tribal projects program to fund construction, reconstruction, or rehabilitation of nationally significant federal lands and tribal transportation projects; carry out a broadband infrastructure deployment initiative; create a program to make critical and immediate improvements to infrastructure and highway safety; set-aside specified funds for states for highway safety data improvement activities on public roads; and create and maintain data sets and data analysis tools to assist MPOs, states, and the DOT in carrying out performance management analyses. Federal Public Transportation Act of 2015 Revises fixed guideway capital investment grants requirements. Authorizes grants to state and local governments for very small starts projects. Revises requirements for formula grants for enhanced mobility and for rural areas, workforce development programs, and the public transportation safety program. Requires recipients of transportation assistance to meet certain standards for hiring locally. Reauthorizes specified public transportation assistance programs through FY2021. Authorizes DOT to make competitive grants to state and local governmental entities for bus rapid transit projects. Authorizes appropriations for specified highway safety programs through FY2021, and revises related requirements. Revises criteria for state graduated driver licensing incentive grants. Adds a 24-7 sobriety program to criteria for state repeat offender and open container laws. Authorizes specified amounts of grant funds to states for distracted driving enforcement. Authorizes appropriations for specified motor vehicle safety programs through FY2021, and increases penalties for safety violations. Revises certain reporting requirements for tire manufacturers. Requires DOT to conduct a pilot grant program to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness for a state process for informing consumers of open motor vehicle recalls at the time of motor vehicle registration. Revises specified requirements for commercial motor vehicle and commercial driver safety. Requires disqualification to operate a commercial motor vehicle for anyone who fails to pay an assessed civil penalty for a motor vehicle safety violation. Revises certain medical and registration requirements for commercial motor vehicle operators. Revises requirements for the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program. Directs DOT to administer a High Priority Program, an innovative technology deployment grant program, and a Commercial Motor Vehicle Operators Grant Program. Authorizes DOT to establish: a motor carrier safety facility working capital fund, and a financial assistance program for commercial driver's license program implementation. Directs DOT to maintain for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration a motor carrier safety advisory committee. Revises requirements for the Unified Carrier Registration System plan. Repeals the authorization for self-insurance by motor carriers. Prescribes notice requirements relating to decisions that electronic logging devices fail to comply with standards. Authorizes DOT to issue regulations: governing contractors that exercise control over motor carrier operations; and requiring motor vehicle employers to track and compensate employees for on-duty, not-driving time. Authorizes DOT, with respect to unsafe conditions or practices in the transportation of hazardous materials (hazmat transportation), to order necessary: operational controls, restrictions, and prohibitions without prior notice or an opportunity for a hearing; and removal, remediation, or disposal of hazardous materials causing unreasonable risk of death, personal injury, or significant harm to the property or the environment. Authorizes DOT to collect reasonable fees for the administration of the special permits and approvals for deposit into a Hazardous Materials Approvals and Permits Fund. Revises requirements for planning and training grants under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986. Reauthorizes the program for regulating hazmat transportation through FY2021. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through FY2023 specified highway-related taxes as well as requirements for expenditures from the Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund. Replaces the Highway Trust Fund with a Transportation Trust Fund, and authorizes appropriations to it through FY2021. Directs DOT to establish and support a National Cooperative Freight Transportation Research Program and a Priority Multimodal Research Program. Revises the competitive selection process for the university transportation centers consortia program. Requires the Director of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) to create data sets and data analysis tools for intermodal transportation data. Establishes in the BTS a National Transportation Library. Authorizes the BTS Director to establish a Port Performance Statistics Program to provide nationally consistent measures of performance of the nation's maritime ports. Revises requirements for the intelligent transportation system (ITS) program. Includes as an ITS program goal the development and deployment of automated vehicles in all modes of surface transportation. Prescribes requirements for the use of funds to develop ITS infrastructure, equipment, and systems. Rail for America Act Directs DOT to facilitate by financial assistance the establishment of a National High-Performance Rail System of integrated passenger and freight rail services, including a Current Passenger Rail Service Program and a Rail Service Improvement Program. Authorizes appropriations through FY2021 for the System and for the planning, development, construction, and implementation of rail corridors and related infrastructure improvements. Requires Amtrak to submit to the Secretary draft 5-year business line plans and draft 5-year capital asset plans. Authorizes DOT to establish Regional Rail Development Authorities, including a Regional Committee, to facilitate the development of multi-state high-performance rail services, and to coordinate these investments with other rail, transit, highway, and aviation system services. Prescribes requirements for the standardization of passenger equipment and level-entry boarding platforms. Directs DOT to: evaluate the shared-use of right-of-way by passenger and freight rail systems and the operational, institutional, and legal structures that would best support improvements to both of these systems; and conduct a nationwide disparity and availability study to establish the availability and utilization of small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals in publicly funded railroad projects. Requires DOT to complete a National Rail Development Plan meeting certain criteria, and facilitate development of Regional Rail Development Plans. Authorizes DOT to prescribe regulations or issue orders to require host railroads for joint operations that occur within a small geographic area to develop unified rules governing all operations within that area. Revises or prescribes requirements relating to positive train control, hours of service, maximum employee duty hours, safety appliances, locomotive inspections, noise emission standards, and damaged track inspection equipment. Authorizes federal agency heads to construct, install, operate, and maintain electric charging infrastructure for official agency vehicles. Stop Corporate Expatriation and Invest in America's Infrastructure Act of 2015 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise rules for the taxation of inverted corporations (i.e., U.S. corporations that acquire foreign companies to reincorporate in a foreign jurisdiction with income tax rates lower than the United States) to provide that a foreign corporation that acquires the properties of a U.S. corporation or partnership after May 8, 2014, shall be treated as an inverted corporation and thus subject to U.S. taxation if, after such acquisition: it holds more than 50% of the stock of the new entity (expanded affiliated group), or the management or control of the new entity occurs primarily within the United States and the new entity has significant domestic business activities.

Aviation

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 July 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his policy is on (a) deregulation, (b) liberalisation and (c) other reform of the global airline industry.

Aviation

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 July 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions his Department had with representatives from the International Civil Aviation Organisation on a multilateral agreement to reform global airline regulation; and what the outcome of those

Aviation

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 July 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions his Department has had with representatives from other UN member states on a multilateral agreement to reform global airline regulation; and what the outcome of those discussions was.

944. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is co-operating with the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government in engaging with the process that is under way at the International Civil Aviation Organisation, ICAO. to establish a global market-based mechanism for international aviation; the way Ireland is ensuring the ICAO mechanism will have environmental integrity equal to that of the European Union emissions trading scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29043/15]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 July 2015

944. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is co-operating with the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government in engaging with the process that is under way at the International Civil Aviation Organisation, ICAO. to establish a global market-based mechanism for international aviation; the way Ireland is ensuring the ICAO mechanism will have environmental integrity equal to that of the European Union emissions trading scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29043/15]

919. Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will support the deferred Irish airlines (general employees) superannuation scheme pensioners before the Aer Lingus extraordinary general meeting on 16 July 2015. [28486/15]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 July 2015

919. Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will support the deferred Irish airlines (general employees) superannuation scheme pensioners before the Aer Lingus extraordinary general meeting on 16 July 2015. [28486/15]

102. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider engaging with Irish airlines to ensure persons are encouraged to check the expiry date of their passport as part of their online booking of a flight; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28222/15]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 July 2015

102. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider engaging with Irish airlines to ensure persons are encouraged to check the expiry date of their passport as part of their online booking of a flight; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28222/15]

Aviation: South East

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 July 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to promote direct flights to international destinations from airports outside London and the South East.

Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2015, Part II

United States · United States Congress · 13 July 2015

Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2015, Part II Directs the Secretary of Transportation to reduce the amount apportioned for a surface transportation program, project, or activity for FY2015 by amounts apportioned or allocated under the Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014 and the Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2015 for the period from October 1, 2014, through July 31, 2015. Amends the Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014 to continue from October 1, 2014, through December 18, 2015, and authorizes appropriations through that period for, specified federal-aid highway programs under: the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) Technical Corrections Act of 2008, SAFETEA-LU, the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), the National Highway System Designation Act of 1995, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA), and other specified law. Subjects funding for FY2015, and for the period October 1, 2015, through December 18, 2015, for such programs to certain funding level restrictions. Amends MAP-21 to authorize appropriations out of the general fund of the Treasury for the Tribal High Priority Projects program for the same period. Prescribes an obligation ceiling of $40.256 billion for FY2015, including $8,689,136,612 for the period October 1, 2015, through December 18, 2015, for federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs. Authorizes appropriations from the HTF (other than the Mass Transit Account) for administrative expenses of the federal-aid highway program for the same period. Extends for the same period the authorization of appropriations for National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) safety programs, including: highway safety research and development, national priority safety programs, the National Driver Register, the High Visibility Enforcement Program, and NHTSA administrative expenses. Amends SAFETEA-LU to extend for the same period high-visibility traffic safety law enforcement campaigns under the High Visibility Enforcement Program. Sets aside a specified amount of the total apportionment to states for highway safety programs for a cooperative program to research and evaluate priority highway safety countermeasures for the same period. Extends for the same period the authorization of appropriations for Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) programs, including: motor carrier safety grants, FMCSA administrative expenses, commercial driver's license program improvement grants, border enforcement grants, performance and registration information system management grants, commercial vehicle information systems and networks deployment grants, safety data improvement grants, a set-aside for high priority activities that improve commercial motor vehicle safety and compliance with commercial motor vehicle safety regulations, a set-aside for new entrant motor carrier audit grants, FMCSA outreach and education, and the commercial motor vehicle operators grant program. Amends the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act to continue, for the same period, the authorized distribution of funds for coastal wetlands, recreational boating safety, projects under the Clean Vessel Act of 19921, boating infrastructure projects, and the National Outreach and Communications Program. Extends for the same period the apportionment of nonurbanized (rural) area formula grants for competitive grants and formula grants for public transportation on Indian reservations. Extends the apportionment of urbanized area formula grants for passenger ferry projects for the same period. Extends for the same period the authorization of appropriations from the HTF Mass Transit Account for: formula grants for public transportation, including allocations for specified projects; research, development demonstration, and deployment projects; the transit cooperative research program; technical assistance and standards development grants; human resources and training grants; capital investment grants; and administrative expenses. Allocates, for the same period, certain amounts to states and territories for formula bus and bus facilities grants. Authorizes appropriations for the same period for hazardous materials (hazmat) transportation safety projects. Authorizes the Secretary to make certain expenditures, including an amount for hazmat training grants, from the Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness Fund for the same period. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through December 19, 2015, the authority for expenditures from: (1) the Highway and Mass Transit Accounts of the Highway Trust Fund, (2) the Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund, and (3) the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund. Appropriates additional funds to the Highway and Mass Transit Accounts of the Highway Trust Fund. Requires tax information returns reporting mortgage interest received in a trade or business to include: (1) the outstanding principal on the mortgage, (2) the date of the origination of the mortgage, and (3) the address of the property which secures the mortgage. Requires that: (1) the value of the basis in any property acquired from a decedent be consistent with the basis as determined for estate tax purposes; and (2) executors of estates disclose to the Internal Revenue Service and to persons acquiring any interest in the decedent's estate information identifying the value of each interest received. Makes the six-year limitation on assessments of additional tax applicable to understatements of gross income due to an overstatement of unrecovered costs or other basis. Changes tax return due dates for partnerships, S corporations, and C corporations. Extends the automatic extension for corporate income tax returns from three to six months. Extends through 2025 the authority for transfers of excess pension assets of a defined benefit plan to a retiree health benefits account. Equalizes excise tax rates for liquefied petroleum gas, liquefied natural gas, and compressed natural gas. Revises aviation security service passenger fee requirements. Requires the deposit into the Treasury as offsetting receipts the following sums collected to pay the costs of providing civil aviation security services to airline passengers: $1.560 billion for FY2024, and $1.6 billion for FY2025.

Hubschrauberstützpunkt Vomp

Austria · National Council · 9 July 2015

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Carmen Schimanek, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Landesverteidigung und Sport betreffend Hubschrauberstützpunkt Vomp <i>(Tirol)</i>

Anflugverfahren am Flughafen Wien: Curved Approach

Austria · National Council · 9 July 2015

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Georg Willi, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Anflugverfahren am Flughafen Wien: Curved Approach <i>(gekurvter Anflug)</i>

Hackerangriff behindert Flugverkehr von Airline LOT

Austria · National Council · 8 July 2015

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Walter Rauch, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Hackerangriff behindert Flugverkehr von Airline LOT

"Roadmap"-Luftfahrt

Austria · National Council · 8 July 2015

Mündliche Anfrage des Abgeordneten Dipl.-Ing. Gerhard Deimek (FPÖ) an den Bundesminister für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie Alois Stöger, diplômé betreffend "Roadmap"-Luftfahrt <br><br>Wie ist der aktuelle Stand bei der Road Map Luftfahrt im Vergleich zur ursprünglichen Planung?

Aviation

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 July 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse was of the recent Airports Commission report into aircraft capacity.

Aviation: Noise

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 July 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will bring forward proposals to introduce World Health Organisation guideline noise levels in order to safeguard the health of (a) children, (b) the elderly, (c) people with cardiovascular and mental heal

Aviation: Cybersecurity

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 July 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with the Civil Aviation Authority on steps to ensure that passengers are not able to use electronic equipment to tamper with aircraft controls in flight.

578. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current position facing deferred members of the Irish Airlines (General Employees) Superannuation Scheme in terms of their future pension benefits; the steps that will be taken to assist the deferred members to protect their pension benefits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27236/15]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 July 2015

578. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current position facing deferred members of the Irish Airlines (General Employees) Superannuation Scheme in terms of their future pension benefits; the steps that will be taken to assist the deferred members to protect their pension benefits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27236/15]

129. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 23 June 2015, if he will make provision for the recovery of the 2.53% stamp duty pension levy to members of the Irish airlines (general employees) superannuation scheme through the taxation system (details supplied). [27194/15]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 July 2015

129. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 23 June 2015, if he will make provision for the recovery of the 2.53% stamp duty pension levy to members of the Irish airlines (general employees) superannuation scheme through the taxation system (details supplied). [27194/15]

Inbreng ten behoeve van de EU Luchtvaart Strategie gericht op een concurrerende Europese luchtvaart

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 7 July 2015

Inbreng ten behoeve van de EU Luchtvaart Strategie gericht op een concurrerende Europese luchtvaart

Netwerkverkenning luchtvaart

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 7 July 2015

Netwerkverkenning luchtvaart

Schließung des Hubschrauberstützpunktes Annabichl

Austria · National Council · 6 July 2015

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Erwin Angerer, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Landesverteidigung und Sport betreffend Schließung des Hubschrauberstützpunktes Annabichl

Wijzigingswet Wet luchtvaart, enz. (diverse wijzigingen m.b.t. luchtvaart)

Netherlands · Dutch statute book · 3 July 2015

Eerstverantwoordelijke: Infrastructuur en Milieu · Rechtsgebied: Vervoersrecht · Geldig vanaf 2010-07-07

Wijzigingswet Wet luchtvaart (Experimenten Schiphol)

Netherlands · Dutch statute book · 3 July 2015

Eerstverantwoordelijke: Infrastructuur en Milieu · Rechtsgebied: Vervoersrecht · Geldig vanaf 2006-12-13

Wijzigingswet Wet luchtvaart (vervoer van gevaarlijke stoffen en van dieren)

Netherlands · Dutch statute book · 3 July 2015

Eerstverantwoordelijke: Infrastructuur en Milieu · Rechtsgebied: Vervoersrecht · Geldig vanaf 2008-09-24

Aviation

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 July 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to Start-up aid for airports: applications received, published by his Department on 27 March 2015, for what reason he has not yet published a short-list of routes that have successfully met the c

Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1088 of 3 July 2015 amending Regulation (EU) No 1321/2014 as regards alleviations for maintenance procedures for general aviation aircraft

European Union · EUR-Lex · 3 July 2015

Wijzigingswet Wet luchtvaart, enz. (beperkingengebied buitenlandse luchthaven)

Netherlands · Dutch statute book · 2 July 2015

Eerstverantwoordelijke: Infrastructuur en Milieu · Rechtsgebied: Vervoersrecht · Geldig vanaf 2013-01-01

Aanpassingswet Wet luchtvaart (implementatie richtlijn nr. 2009/12/EG (luchthavengelden)(PbEG L 70))

Netherlands · Dutch statute book · 2 July 2015

Eerstverantwoordelijke: Infrastructuur en Milieu · Rechtsgebied: Vervoersrecht · Geldig vanaf 2011-05-25

Wijzigingswet Wet milieubeheer, enz. (implementatie richtlijn nr. 2008/101/EG (handel in emissierechten luchtvaart))

Netherlands · Dutch statute book · 2 July 2015

Eerstverantwoordelijke: Infrastructuur en Milieu · Rechtsgebied: Ruimtelijke ordening en milieu, Milieurecht · Geldig vanaf 2010-02-24

Wijzigingswet Wet luchtvaart (communautaire vergunning luchtverkeersleiders)

Netherlands · Dutch statute book · 2 July 2015

Eerstverantwoordelijke: Infrastructuur en Milieu · Rechtsgebied: Vervoersrecht · Geldig vanaf 2010-07-07

Wijzigingswet Wet luchtvaart (exploitatie Schiphol)

Netherlands · Dutch statute book · 2 July 2015

Eerstverantwoordelijke: Infrastructuur en Milieu · Rechtsgebied: Vervoersrecht · Geldig vanaf 2006-07-19

Wijzigingswet Wet luchtvaart (geluidscertificaat en geluidsverklaring)

Netherlands · Dutch statute book · 2 July 2015

Eerstverantwoordelijke: Infrastructuur en Milieu · Rechtsgebied: Vervoersrecht · Geldig vanaf 2008-07-19