§44512 — Title 49 Transportation | U.S. Code

Summary

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration may give grants to colleges and nonprofit research groups to study and stop defects in aircraft parts, engines, propellers, and related items and to set up research centers for that work. The FAA must create a fair process for asking for, applying for, and reviewing proposals so grants go to projects that are relevant and have merit.

Title 49, §44512

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(a)The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may make grants to institutions of higher education and nonprofit research organizations—

(1)to conduct aviation research related to the development of technologies and methods to assess the risk of, and prevent, defects, failures, and malfunctions of products, parts, processes, and articles manufactured for use in aircraft, aircraft engines, propellers, and appliances that could result in a catastrophic failure of an aircraft; and

(2)to establish centers of excellence for continuing the research.

(b)The Administrator shall establish a solicitation, application, review, and evaluation process that ensures providing grants under this section for proposals having adequate merit and relevancy to the research described in subsection (a) of this section.

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 4451249 App.:1353(h).Aug. 23, 1958, Pub. L. 85–726, 72 Stat. 731, § 312(h); added Nov. 5, 1990, Pub. L. 101–508, § 9208(b), 104 Stat. 1388–376. In this section, the words “institutions of higher education” are substituted for “colleges, universities” for consistency in the revised title. In subsection (b), the words “providing grants” are substituted for “the funding” for consistency in the revised title.

§44512 Catastrophic failure prevention research grants

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Title 49, §44512

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