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Communities Before Air Tourism Act
Sponsored By: Representative Menendez, Robert [D-NJ-8]
In Committee
Summary
Community well-being would become an explicit factor in decisions about commercial air tour operations over national parks. The bill would also expand the law to cover any community whose lands are, or may be, overflown, in addition to Indian tribes.
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- Residents and local communities: Their well‑being would be an explicit consideration when officials negotiate voluntary air tour agreements that affect national parks.
- Tribal communities: Tribes remain part of the statute’s protections, but the bill expressly extends consideration to non‑tribal communities whose lands are or may be overflown.
- Park managers and commercial air tour operators: Voluntary agreements and management decisions would need to take community well‑being and a broader set of affected communities into account under existing statutory authority.
- Federal administration: The change adjusts the factors the Secretary of Transportation must consider and does so without creating new funding, programs, or enforcement mechanisms.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
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Community well-being in air tours
If enacted, the bill would change what the Transportation Secretary must consider for commercial air tours over national parks. It would add the "well-being of communities" overflown by those aircraft as an explicit factor. It would also expand the phrase for affected communities to include any community whose lands are, or may be, overflown, alongside any Indian tribe. The bill would not create new funding, new programs, or new enforcement powers.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Menendez, Robert [D-NJ-8]
NJ • D
Cosponsors
Rep. Goldman, Daniel S. [D-NY-10]
NY • D
Sponsored 11/19/2025
Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-12]
NY • D
Sponsored 11/19/2025
Rep. Pou, Nellie [D-NJ-9]
NJ • D
Sponsored 11/19/2025
Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-1]
HI • D
Sponsored 11/19/2025
Rep. Pallone, Frank [D-NJ-6]
NJ • D
Sponsored 11/19/2025
Roll Call Votes
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