3-5. Multiple Impacts. If a major Federal action having effects on the environment of the United States or the global commons requires preparation of an environmental impact statement, and if the action also has effects on the environment of a foreign nation, an environmental impact statement need not be prepared with respect to the effects on the environment of the foreign nation. M. AVIATION, SPACE, AND INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION CONTENTS 1. Antihijacking Measures. a. Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (Public Law 85-726) (partial text) Page 461 461 469 c. President's Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism (Execu- 472 2. International Cooperation in Scientific Research.. 474 a. National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (Public Law 474 b. National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (Public Law 85-568) 475 c. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, 477 d. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act 480 e. Cooperative East-West Ventures in Space (Public Law 98–562). 3. Arctic Research a. Arctic Research and Policy Act of 1984 (title I of Public Law 98-373). 481 482 482 490 1. Antihijacking Measures 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; and by Public Law 99-83 [International Security and Development Act of 1985; S. 960], 99 Stat. 190, approved August 5, 1985 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": * Sec. 101. TITLE I-GENERAL PROVISIONS DEFINITIONS (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 the aircraft lands in the United States with an alleged offender still on board; and 149 U.S.C. App. 1301. 222 UST 1641; TIAS 7192. For text, see Legislation on Foreign Relations Through 1988, vol. V, sec. M. (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. (i)(1) Whoever commits or attempts to commit aircraft piracy, as herein defined, shall be punished (A) by imprisonment for not less than 20 years; or (B) notwithstanding the provisions of section 3559(b) of Title 18, if the death of another person results from the commission or attempted commission of the offense, by death or by imprisonment for life. * AIRCRAFT PIRACY OUTSIDE SPECIAL AIRCRAFT JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES (n)(1) Whoever aboard an aircraft in flight outside the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States commits "an offense", as defined in the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft,2 and is afterward found in the United States shall be punished (A) by imprisonment for not less than 20 years; or (B) if the death of another person results from the commission or attempted commission of the offense, by death or by imprisonment for life. (2) A person commits "an offense", as defined in the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft when, while aboard an aircraft in flight, he (A) unlawfully, by force or threat thereof, or by any other form of intimidation, seizes, or exercises control of that aircraft, or attempts to perform any such act; or (B) is an accomplice of a person who performs or attempts to perform any such act. (3) This subsection shall only be applicable if the place of takeoff or the place of actual landing of the aircraft on board which the 349 U.S.C. App. 1472. |