Essential Air Service Preservation Act of 2005

Essential Air Service Preservation Act of 2005 - Amends Federal transportation law to repeal the mandate for the Essential Air Service local participation program (a pilot program under which up to ten designated essential air service communities located near hub airports shall assume ten percent of their essential air service subsidy costs for a four-year period).

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 217 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 217

 To amend title 49, United States Code, to preserve the essential air 
                            service program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 31, 2005

   Mr. Bingaman (for himself, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, Ms. 
 Collins, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. 
    Schumer, Mr. Leahy, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Pryor, Mr. Levin, and Mr. 
   Specter) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 49, United States Code, to preserve the essential air 
                            service program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Essential Air Service Preservation 
Act of 2005''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF EAS LOCAL PARTICIPATION PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--Subchapter II of chapter 417 of title 49, United 
States Code, is amended by striking section 41747, and such title shall 
be applied as if such section 41747 had not been enacted.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The chapter analysis at the beginning of 
such chapter is amended by striking the item relating to section 41747.
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