{"id":1010,"date":"2012-08-27T03:16:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T03:16:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-08-27T03:16:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T03:16:04","slug":"washington-state-announces-nearly-1m-grants-23-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/washington\/washington-state-announces-nearly-1m-grants-23-airports\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Washington State Announces Nearly $1M in Grants for 23 Airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Takeoffs and landings will be smoother and safer thanks in part to nearly $1 million in state grants recently awarded to 23 Washington airports.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>The grants will fund 29 different airport projects, 86 percent of which will improve pavement. The Washington State Department of Transportation places a priority on maintaining airport pavements to preserve facilities and improve aviation safety.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Every year, WSDOT&rsquo;s aviation division awards grants through its Airport Aid Grant Program. This is the second round of grants issued during the 2011-2013 biennium.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>State grants, combined with local matching contributions, enabled WSDOT&rsquo;s aviation division to leverage about $32 million in federal grants for federally-funded airports. Of the state&rsquo;s 137 public-use airports, 66 are eligible for federal funds. The remaining 71 rely solely on state and local funds.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a strength of our grant program that we are able to use a relatively small amount of state dollars to leverage millions in federal funds,&rdquo; said Tristan Atkins, WSDOT aviation director. &ldquo;It allows us to make a bigger impact with limited resources.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Thirty-nine airports competed for grants during this round, requesting a total of about $4 million. WSDOT is typically able to fund about $1 million in Airport Aid Grants every year. The grant program is funded by a user fee of 11 cents per gallon of aviation fuel, along with aircraft registration fees.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>WSDOT plans to call for applications for the first round of 2013-2015 biennium grants in March and April 2013. Awards for that round should be announced by July 2013.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Learn more about the 2012 Airport Aid Grant awards.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>http:\/\/www.wsdot.wa.gov\/aviation\/Grants\/airportgrants2012.htm<\/div>\n<div class=\"field_attachment\">\n<div><b>Attachment:<\/b><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"\/\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takeoffs and landings will be smoother and safer thanks in part to nearly $1 million in state grants recently awarded to 23 Washington airports.&nbsp; The grants will fund 29 different airport projects, 86 percent of which will improve pavement. The Washington State Department of Transportation places a priority on maintaining airport pavements to preserve facilities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-washington"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}