49 U.S.C. § 47534 — Prohibition on operating certain aircraft weighing 75,000 pounds or less not complying with stage 3 noise levels

(a) Prohibition — After December 31, 2015, you can't fly a civil jet that weighs 75,000 pounds or less to or from a U.S. airport, unless the Secretary of Transportation finds it meets "stage 3" noise levels. This applies to jets with a regular airworthiness certificate (not an experimental one). (b) Aircraft Operations Outside 48 Contiguous States — This rule doesn't apply to planes that only fly outside the 48 contiguous states. (c) Temporary Operations — The Secretary can give a special flight authorization letting a plane that would otherwise be banned fly temporarily to or from an airport in the contiguous U.S., for these reasons: (1) selling, leasing, or using it outside the 48 states; (2) scrapping it; (3) modifying it to meet stage 3 levels; (4) doing scheduled heavy maintenance or major modifications at a maintenance facility in the 48 states; (5) delivering it to a lessee or returning it to a lessor; (6) preparing, parking, or storing it in anticipation of doing one of reasons (1) through (5); (7) transporting people or goods to help with an emergency; or (8) diverting to another airport in the 48 states for weather, mechanical, fuel, air traffic control, or other safety reasons while doing one of reasons (1) through (7). (d) Regulations — The Secretary may write whatever rules or guidance are needed to carry out this section. (e) Statutory Construction — (1) AIP grant assurances: Breaking subsection (a) doesn't count as violating section 47107's grant assurance rules or its regulations. (2) Pending applications: Nothing in this section changes, cancels, or affects decisions the FAA has made or will make on part 161 noise applications that were already pending when this section became law.