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• - Limits the amount of AIP that can be spent on modifications of the airport terminal in order to accommodate bomb detection equipment. A separate • funding mechanism addresses the need for funding in this area. • - Requires a 30 -day notice before an airport can be closed. Administration • - Continues the procedural protections of AIR 21 (the previous funding legislation that expired in September 2003). These ensure that all the taxes and revenues coming into the aviation trust fund from passengers and pilots are fully spent and that the capital programs (airport improvements and air traffic control modernization) are fully funded. • - Funding for the Airport Improvement Program at the Administration's request ($3.4 billion) in the first year, ramping up by $200 million a.year in each subsequent year. • - Increase in the AIP entitlement for cargo airports from 3 percent to 3.5 percent. • Streamlined Review To Implement Environmental Requirements • - Airport project streamlining as passed by the House twice last year. FAA ensures that only the process is streamlined, not the environmental requirements of federal law. • - Streamlining for aviation safety and security projects. • - Permits AIP funds to be used to purchase or retrofit low emission vehicles at airports. • -Makes some projects that improve air quality eligible for AIP funding and gives airports emission credits for undertaking such projects. The FAA and EPA are developing program guidelines. • -FAA reform provisions clarifying the role of the FAA's Chief Operating Officer • - Establishes a small business ombudsman in FAA. Other Highlights • - Prohibits FAA from privatizing the air traffic control system. • -Makes the war risk insurance program permanent for international service and extends it to 2007 for domestic service. • - Authorizes $100 million to compensate general aviation entities hurt by security restrictions. • - Directs DOT to consider the recommendations made by the National Commission on the Travel Agent Industry. • - Streamlines PFC collections. • - Lowers the passenger AIP entitlement for large airports by 5 cents for every passenger over 3.5 million.