U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced\ntoday that the Trump Administration will award $335 million in airport safety\nand infrastructure grants through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to\n80 airports in 25 states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAirport infrastructure projects funded by this $335 million\nin federal funding will advance safety, improve travel, generate jobs and\nprovide other economic benefits for local communities,\u201d said U.S.\nTransportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A complete listing of grants<\/a> (PDF) and an interactive map<\/a> of airports receiving funding is available on the FAA website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The total includes $300 million from the Airport Improvement\nProgram (AIP) and $35 million in Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security\n(CARES) Act grants to equal a 100 percent federal share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThese 61 AIP grants will allow airports around the country\nto begin and complete projects that are vital to the safe and efficient\noperation of our nation\u2019s airports,\u201d said FAA Administrator Stephen M. Dickson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The grants will be used for a variety of critical\ninfrastructure and safety projects. The projects include purchasing aircraft\nrescue and firefighting equipment, constructing runways and taxiways, repairing\nrunways and taxiways, installing aircraft lighting and signage, conducting\nairport master plan studies, and installing airport perimeter fencing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since January 2017, the Trump Administration has delivered\n$14.5 billion to America\u2019s airports to improve infrastructure and safety. Additionally,\nthis year the Administration has delivered $10 billion in economic assistance\nto America\u2019s airports under the CARES Act to respond to the COVID-19 public\nhealth emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the Trump Administration will award $335 million in airport safety and infrastructure grants through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to 80 airports in 25 states. \u201cAirport infrastructure projects funded by this $335 million in federal funding will advance safety, improve travel, generate jobs and provide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16533","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=16533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16534,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16533\/revisions\/16534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}