{"id":19618,"date":"2021-10-05T14:55:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T14:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=19618"},"modified":"2021-10-05T14:55:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T14:55:18","slug":"faa-invests-479-1m-in-safety-sustainable-infrastructure-at-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/uncategorized\/faa-invests-479-1m-in-safety-sustainable-infrastructure-at-airports\/%20","title":{"rendered":"FAA Invests $479.1M in Safety, Sustainable Infrastructure at Airports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. Department of Transportation\u2019s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded more than $479 million in airport infrastructure grants to 123 projects at airports across all 50 states, American Samoa and Puerto Rico. View an <a href=\"https:\/\/explore.dot.gov\/t\/FAA\/views\/AIPSupplementalFundingSeptember2021_16334388654900\/AIPImprovementProgramSupplemental?:iid=1&amp;:isGuestRedirectFromVizportal=y&amp;:embed=y\">interactive map<\/a> with all the awards.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese grants will help strengthen our country\u2019s airports\nand the communities they serve by making investments that create jobs and\nincrease safety, sustainability and accessibility.\u201d U.S. Transportation\nSecretary Pete Buttigieg said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s grants include: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Increasing accessibility<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Watertown International Airport, Watertown,\nN.Y.: $2.2 million to install an upgraded Approach Lighting System. Watertown\nInternational Airport recently completed a runway extension. This new Approach\nLighting System will improve safety and enhance access to the Watertown area,\nespecially in winter and for air carriers operating at this Essential Air\nService airport. <\/li><li>Harlem Airport, Harlem, Mont.: $2.1 million to\nrehabilitate its runway, taxiway, and apron pavement surfaces, and to\nrehabilitate its runway edge lighting system. The primary use of the Harlem\nAirport is to provide air ambulance service and to transport medical personnel\nfor the Fort Belknap Hospital, which serves the Fort Belknap Indian\nReservation. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Increasing sustainability and resilience<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>General Edward Lawrence Logan International\nAirport, Boston, Mass.: $4 million to acquire electric charging stations for\nground-servicing equipment. Boston Logan International Airport is located in an\nEnvironmental Protection Agency-designated nonattainment and maintenance area.\nThis Voluntary Airport Low-Emission project will reduce sources of airport\nground emissions, improve airport air quality, and reduce the use of\nconventional fuels. <\/li><li>Warren \u201cBud\u201d Woods Palmer Municipal Airport,\nPalmer, Alaska: $520,833 to improve airfield drainage and erosion control\nsystems.<\/li><li>New Orleans Lakefront Airport, New Orleans, La.:\n$543,056 to protect the airfield from floods due to high water level events of\nLake Pontchartrain.<\/li><li>Fairfield County Airport, Winnsboro, S.C.: $2.7\nto use water infiltration to reduce airport runoff and help avoid shutting down\nrunways during heavy rains.<\/li><li>Denver International Airport, Denver, Colo.:\n$16.4 million towards the construction of a new 5,000 foot taxiway. Once open,\nthis taxiway will reduce aircraft taxiing times from Runway 17L\/35R to the\nterminal area, thereby decreasing aircraft emissions and improving airport air\nquality. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Create Jobs <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Stennis International Airport, Bay St. Louis,\nMiss.: Approximately $3.1 million to expand an apron to meet growing demand for\naircraft parking and to support third party investment in hangar development.\nThese new facilities will accommodate aircraft maintenance activity. These new\nfacilities will support critical jobs on both the airfield and at the Stennis\nSpace Center.<\/li><li>Sarasota Bradenton International Airport,\nSarasota, Fla.: Approximately $3.7 million to add five new gates and apron\nloading areas to the existing terminal. This expansion will accommodate\nexisting demand, which was driven by four new airlines and 42 new routes.\nAccommodating the growing air traffic to the Sarasota\/Bradenton area helps\nsustain job growth from new air service at the airport, as well as jobs in the community.\n<\/li><li>Ontario International Airport, Ontario, Calif.:\n$15.2 million to reconstruct 832,000 square feet of taxiways and their\nconnectors. The project will allow for a safer and more efficient flow of\naircraft traffic on the airfield. This large project will result in jobs during\nconstruction and accommodate permanent job growth at this growing airport that\nis experiencing increased demand for passenger and cargo service.<\/li><li>Chicago Rockford International Airport,\nRockford, Ill.: Approximately $3 million to construct a taxiway. This airport\nhas become the 19th busiest cargo destination in the United States, and this\nproject continues the economic growth in the area by supporting increased cargo\nprocessing capacity. This project supports hundreds of new permanent jobs at\nthe cargo companies operating on the airport. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Infrastructure Investment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Buffalo Niagara International Airport, Buffalo,\nN.Y.: $13.3 million for a runway reconstruction project. This grant is one\nphase of a project that includes reconstruction of the full runway length,\nrunway intersection, blast pads, and taxiways, all of which have been rapidly\ndeteriorating. Reconstruction projects typically add up to 20 years of useful\nlife to pavement.<\/li><li>Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keahole,\nKailua-Kona, Hawaii: $2.2 million to remove and replace 15,000 feet of airfield\nperimeter fence. Because of the airport\u2019s close proximity to the ocean, the\nexisting metal fence is corroded and poses a security vulnerability to the\nairfield. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s funding is in addition to the more than $3.1 billion\nin Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grants awarded during fiscal year 2021 and\nincludes American Rescue Plan Act funding to cover the usual local-match\nrequirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/airports\/aip\/aip_supplemental_appropriation\/media\/FY2021-AIP-Supplemental-Funding-by-State.pdf\">complete listing of grants<\/a> (PDF) and AIP <a href=\"https:\/\/explore.dot.gov\/t\/FAA\/views\/AIPSupplementalFundingSeptember2021_16334388654900\/AIPImprovementProgramSupplemental?:iid=1&amp;:isGuestRedirectFromVizportal=y&amp;:embed=y\">Grants Data by State<\/a> is on the FAA website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Transportation\u2019s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded more than $479 million in airport infrastructure grants to 123 projects at airports across all 50 states, American Samoa and Puerto Rico. View an interactive map with all the awards.\u00c2\u00a0 \u201cThese grants will help strengthen our country\u2019s airports and the communities they serve by making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed-2021-10-05T104713.491.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19618","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=19618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19620,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19618\/revisions\/19620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}