Fly United States - Flag Air Carrier Act

Fly United States-Flag Air Carrier Act - Provides that whenever any executive department or other agency or instrumentality of the United States shall procure, contract for, or otherwise obtain for its own account or in furtherance of the purposes or pursuant to the terms of any contract, agreement, or other special arrangement made or entered into under which payment is made from funds appropriated, owned, controlled, granted, or conditionally granted or utilized by or otherwise established for the account of the United States, or shall furnish to or for the account of any foreign nation, or any international agency, or other organization, of whatever nationality, without provisions for reimbursement, any transportation of persons (and their personal effects) or property by air between a place in the United States and a place outside thereof or between two places both of which are outside the United States, the appropriate agency or agencies shall take such steps as may be necessary to assure that such transportation is provided by air carriers holding certificates under the Federal Aviation Act to the extent authorized by such certificates or by regulations or exemptions of the Civil Aeronautics Board and to the extent service by such carriers is available. Directs the Comptroller General of the United States to disallow any expenditure from appropriated funds for payment for such personnel or cargo transportation on an air carrier not holding a certificate under such Act in the absence of satisfactory proof of the necessity thereof.

Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in Senate" stage on October 3, 1974. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.

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