{"id":21120,"date":"2022-02-27T19:19:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T19:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=21120"},"modified":"2022-02-27T19:21:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T19:21:42","slug":"colorado-aeronautical-board-approves-5-5-million-in-airport-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/colorado\/colorado-aeronautical-board-approves-5-5-million-in-airport-funding\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Aeronautical Board Approves $5.5 Million in Airport Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Colorado Aeronautical Board (CAB) approved the FY2022\nstate and locally funded discretionary aviation grants for Colorado airports\nduring a February 1, 2022, CAB meeting. The unanimous decision authorized the\ndistribution of $5.5 million in state aviation fuel tax revenues through grants\nto 12 Colorado public-use airports under the Colorado Discretionary Aviation\nGrant (CDAG) Program administered by the Colorado Department of Transportation\n(CDOT) Division of Aeronautics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Mineral County Memorial Airport (C24) located in Creede, Colorado was awarded a $3 million discretionary aviation grant for the rehabilitation of its runway. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The grants ranged in size from $25,000 to $3 million. This\nyear\u2019s grant awards were categorized into six different project types including\npavement maintenance and rehabilitation projects, a fuel farm installation,\nemergency access enhancements, and planning\/design services. Over 60% of this\nyear\u2019s discretionary aviation grant awards were allocated for two runway\nrehabilitation projects at Steamboat Springs Municipal Airport (SBS) and\nCreede-Mineral County Memorial Airport (C24). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A comprehensive listing of each individual airport grant award can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Colorado Division of Aeronautics is committed to\nsupporting Colorado\u2019s multi-modal transportation system by assisting Colorado\u2019s\nairports through the funding of critical projects. This program allows us to\ncontinue to advance a safe, efficient, and effective statewide aviation\nsystem,\u201d said Aeronautics Division Director David Ulane. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Colorado Aeronautical Board (CAB) is pleased to approve\nthese critical airport grants that continue to raise the bar of our state\u2019s\nairport infrastructure and emergency access,\u201d said CAB Chairman Kenneth Maenpa.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Colorado Aeronautical Board (CAB) is scheduled to meet\non April 13, 2022, for the 2022 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) matching\ngrant hearings. This second round of discretionary aviation grants will be\nallocated to support a number of federally funded airport projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Colorado Aeronautical Board (CAB) approved the FY2022 state and locally funded discretionary aviation grants for Colorado airports during a February 1, 2022, CAB meeting. The unanimous decision authorized the distribution of $5.5 million in state aviation fuel tax revenues through grants to 12 Colorado public-use airports under the Colorado Discretionary Aviation Grant (CDAG) Program […]<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colorado"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21120","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=21120"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21126,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21120\/revisions\/21126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}