; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (2) Facilitation of training An air carrier shall permit a pilot seeking to be deputized as a Federal flight deck officer or a Federal flight deck officer to take a reasonable amount of leave to participate in initial, recurrent, or requalification training, as applicable, for the program. Leave required under this paragraph may be provided without compensation. . (e) International harmonization Section 44921(f) is amended— (1) in paragraphs (1) and (3), by striking Under Secretary and inserting Administrator ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (4) Consistency with Federal air marshal program The Administrator shall harmonize, to the extent practicable and in a manner that does not jeopardize existing Federal air marshal agreements, the policies relating to the carriage of firearms on international flights by Federal flight deck officers with the policies of the Federal air marshal program for carrying firearms on such flights and carrying out the duties of a Federal flight deck officer, notwithstanding Annex 17 of the International Civil Aviation Organization. . (f) Physical standards Section 44921(d)(2) is amended— (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) as clauses (i), (ii), and (iii), respectively; (2) in clause (ii), as redesignated, by striking Under Secretary's and inserting Administrator's ; (3) by striking A pilot is and inserting the following: (A) In general A pilot is