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• • Highlights of Vision 100 — "Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act" Aviation Safety • - Funding for safety and security of aircraft operations in the Gulf of Mexico • -$20 million for wake vortex advisory system. • - Creates an office and task force to develop the next generation air traffic control system. • • - Authorizes hiring of controllers to replace those who will retire. • -Noise Provisions increase the noise set -aside from 34% of the AIP discretionary account to 35 %. Broadens the set -aside to include funding of land use compatibility grants to state and local governments. • - Directs FAA to study the concept of establishing a national program to require disclosure of airport noise impacts to potential homebuyers. • - Requires airport noise exposure maps to be updated when contours shrink as well as when they expand. (Oakland updates its contour map every 3 months and submits it to the county and state for review.) • - Establishes an FAA Center of Excellence (COE) on Noise and Emissions Research. $8 million of the recommended $20 million annual funding has been allocated. A team from MIT heads the COE, and Airport staff will follow its progress and seek participation, if possible. • - Requires DOT and NASA to study ways to reduce aircraft noise and emissions and to increase fuel efficiency. Funding for this study is $500,000, and Oakland will follow its progress and seek participation, if possible. • - Requires FAA to issue Stage 4 noise certification standards by April 2005, consistent with those adopted by the International Civil Aviation Organization. Benefit To Local Communities • - Continuation of and additional funding for the underserved airports small • community pilot program. • - Revises the essential air service program so that (1) airports close to hubs would have to pay a 10% local share (phased in over 4 years) and (2) allow small communities to apply to DOT for a block grant to manage and pay for their own transportation system in lieu of having the airline serving their community subsidized directly by DOT. This will give communities more flexibility. • Benefits For All Airports • - Requires airlines to place passenger facility charge (PFC) collections in a segregated account so that airports can recover them if the airline goes bankrupt. • - Funding for the contract tower cost - sharing program. • - Prohibits FAA from requiring an airport to shorten its runway to comply with FAA's requirement on safety- overrun areas. • - Preserves the $1 million minimum AIP entitlement for airports that have dropped below 10,000 annual passengers.