Facility for Runway Operations and Safe Transportation Act
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Introduced 2025-05-15
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Transportation and Public Works
What it does
Facility for Runway Operations and Safe Transportation Act or the FROST Act This bill allows airport sponsors to use funds from Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grants for storage facilities for aircraft deicing equipment and fluids. Under current law, airports may use AIP funds for structures and equipment that are used to deice aircraft, but not for the associated storage facilities.
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1Short title
This section gives the Act a short title: the Facility for Runway Operations and Safe Transportation Act, which may also be called the FROST Act.
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Facility for Runway Operations and Safe Transportation Act or the FROST Act .
2Deicing equipment protection
This section would amend 49 U.S.C. 47102 in two places: it would strike the phrase 'and storage facilities for the equipment and fluids' from paragraph (3)(B)(v), and it would insert the phrase 'storage facilities for aircraft deicing equipment and fluids,' after the word 'sponsor,' in paragraph (24). The bill's own title says the overall aim is to include aircraft deicing storage facilities in the definition of airport development, but the current wording of paragraphs (3)(B)(v) and (24) of section 47102 is not in the provided bill text, so the exact resulting wording of those definitions cannot be stated without that base statutory text.
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2. Deicing equipment protection Section 47102 of title 49, United States Code, is amended— (1) in paragraph (3)(B)(v) by striking and storage facilities for the equipment and fluids ; and (2) in paragraph (24) by inserting storage facilities for aircraft deicing equipment and fluids, after sponsor, .
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Where it is
Introduced · 2025-05-15
In the House.
Passed the House · 2025-09-08
Senate floor vote · next
Official documents
Full bill textread it on this site, version rfs (Referred in Senate), as published by GovInfo
officialCongressional Budget Office cost estimatewhat it would cost, by the nonpartisan CBO
officialThe on-site text is shown verbatim from the GovInfo publication, captured 2026-07-23. The same version at GovInfo.
The numbers
29%
of bills that passed one chamber became law in the 118th Congress, 2023 to 2024 (n=939)
4
sponsors, out of 218 needed to pass
Who is lobbying on this
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVESvia AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES
4 filingsDAIRY FARMERS OF AMERICA INCvia DAIRY FARMERS OF AMERICA, INC.
3 filingsFrom 7 filings in federal lobbying disclosures (LDA), via lda.gov, naming this bill (2025 to 2026). Filings are self-reported by lobbying firms and show who is paid to influence this bill. They do not say which side, or whether it worked.
Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record. Last action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (2025-09-09).