Airport Regulatory Relief Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6427 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6427

   To amend title 49, United States Code, to permit the use of State 
 highway standards for airfield pavement construction and improvement 
          under certain circumstances, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 4, 2025

    Mr. Begich (for himself, Mr. Case, Mr. Taylor, and Ms. Tokuda) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                   Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 49, United States Code, to permit the use of State 
 highway standards for airfield pavement construction and improvement 
          under certain circumstances, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Airport Regulatory Relief Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. USE OF STATE HIGHWAY STANDARDS.

    Section 47114(d)(4) of title 49, United States Code, is amended to 
read as follows:
            ``(4) Use of state highway specifications.--The Secretary 
        shall use the highway specifications of a State for airfield 
        pavement construction and improvement using funds made 
        available under this subsection or subsection (c)(1)(D) at 
        nonprimary airports serving aircraft that do not exceed 60,000 
        pounds gross weight if--
                    ``(A) such State provides notice to the Secretary 
                that nonprimary airports in the State intend to use 
                such highway specifications; and
                    ``(B) the Secretary determines that such 
                specifications will not negatively affect safety.''.
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