M. AVIATION, SPACE, AND INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION CONTENTS Page 1. Aviation Security. a. Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (Public Law 85-726) (partial text) 531 531 542 c. International Security and Development Act of 1985-International 554 d. President's Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism (Execu- 554 2. International Cooperation in Scientific Research.. 556 a. National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (Public Law 556 b. National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (Public Law 85-568) 557 c. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, 559 d. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, 565 568 f. Cooperative East-West Ventures in Space (Public Law 98-562) i. National Space Council (Executive Order 12675).. 3. Arctic Research 569 570 572 574 577 a. Arctic Research and Policy Act of 1984 (title I of Public Law 98-373). 577 586 1. Aviation Security a. Federal Aviation Act of 1958, as amended Partial text of Public Law 85-726 [S. 3380], 72 Stat. 737, approved August 23, 1958; as amended by Public Law 93-366 [Antihijacking Act of 1974; S. 39], 88 Stat. 409, approved August 5, 1974; Public Law 99-83 [International Security and Development Act of 1985; S. 960], 99 Stat. 190, approved August 5, 1985; and by Public Law 101-604 [Aviation Security Improvement Act of 1990; H.R. 5732], 104 Stat. 3066, approved November 16, 1990 AN ACT To continue the Civil Aeronautics Board as an agency of the United States, to create a Federal Aviation Agency, to provide for the regulation and promotion of civil aviation in such as manner as to best foster its development and safety, and to provide for the safe and efficient use of the airspace by both civil and military aircraft, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That This Act, divided into titles and sections according to the following table of contents, may be cited as the "Federal Aviation Act of 1958": TITLE I-GENERAL PROVISIONS DEFINITIONS Sec. 101. (38) The term "special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States" includes (a) civil aircraft of the United States; (b) aircraft of the national defense forces of the United States; (c) any other aircraft within the United States; (d) any other aircraft outside the United States (i) that has its next scheduled destination or last point of departure in the United States, if that aircraft next actually lands in the United States; (ii) having “an offense", as defined in the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft,2 committed abroad, if that aircraft lands in the United States with the alleged still aboard; or (iii) regarding which an offense as defined in subsection (d) or (e) or article I, section I of the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation (Montreal, September 23, 1971) is committed if 149 U.S.C. app. 1301. 222 UST 1641; TIAS 7192. For text, see Legislation on Foreign Relations Through 1988, vol. V, sec. M. the aircraft lands in the United States with an alleged offender still on board; and (e) other aircraft leased without crew to a lessee who has his principal place of business in the United States, or if none, who has his permanent residence in the United States; while that aircraft is in flight, which is from the moment when all external doors are closed following embarkation until the moment when one such door is opened for disembarkation or in the case of a forced landing, until the competent authorities take over the responsibility for the aircraft and for the persons and property aboard. TITLE III-ORGANIZATION OF ADMINISTRATION; POWERS AND DUTIES OF ADMINISTRATION SEC. 316.3 AIR TRANSPORTATION SECURITY. * * * (k) 4 FOREIGN AIR CARRIER SECURITY PROGRAMS. (1) CONTINUATION OF EXISTING APPROVAL REQUIREMENT.—The Administrator shall continue in effect the requirement of section 129.25 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, that foreign air carriers must adopt and use a security program approved by the Administrator. (2) LEVEL OF PROTECTION.-The Administrator may approve a security program of a foreign air carrier under the requirement referred to in paragraph (1) only if the Administrator finds that the security program provides passengers of the foreign air carrier with a similar level of protection as such passengers would receive under the security programs of air carriers serving the same airports. The Administrator shall require foreign air carriers to employ procedures equivalent to those required of air carriers serving the same airport if the Administrator determines that such procedures are necessary to afford a similar level of protection as is afforded passengers of the air carriers serving the same airport. (3) REVIEW OF EXISTING PROGRAMS.-Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this subsection, the Administrator shall take such action as may be necessary to ensure that a security program of a foreign air carrier approved by the Administrator before such date of enactment meets the requirement of paragraph (2). (4) ANNUAL REPORT.-The Administrator shall submit to Congress as part of the annual report required by section 315(a) an assessment of the steps being taken, and the progress being made, in ensuring that foreign air carrier security programs for airports outside the United States (A) at which the Administrator determines that a Foreign Security Liaison Officer is necessary for air transportation security, and |