{"id":21717,"date":"2022-04-18T00:03:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T00:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=21717"},"modified":"2022-04-18T00:04:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T00:04:32","slug":"application-process-opens-to-modernize-small-town-regional-air-traffic-towers-using-bipartisan-infrastructure-law-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/district-of-columbia\/application-process-opens-to-modernize-small-town-regional-air-traffic-towers-using-bipartisan-infrastructure-law-funds\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Application Process Opens to Modernize Small Town, Regional Air Traffic Towers Using Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration has opened the application process for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/bil\/airport-infrastructure\/fct\">Bipartisan Infrastructure Law<\/a> funding to modernize air traffic control towers at many small town and municipal airports. The FAA will fund projects that sustain, construct, repair, improve, modernize, replace or relocate airport-owned towers and install communications equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cResidents of smaller and rural communities rely on aviation\nto get where they need to go. This funding will help ensure that air traffic is\nsafe and reliable in communities across America,\u201d said U.S. Transportation\nSecretary Pete Buttigieg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The FAA Contract Tower Competitive Grant program provides\n$20 million annually for five years within the newly established Airport\nInfrastructure Grant program. Grants awarded under this program are at a 100\npercent federal participation. No airport match is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are currently around 156 airports with air traffic\ncontrol contract towers eligible for this funding. These towers are staffed by\nemployees of private companies rather than by FAA employees. The FAA pays for\nthe services on a contract basis. The FAA\u2019s Contract Tower Program began in\n1982 to allow the agency to contract out the operation of certain low-activity\ntowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis funding will allow airport sponsors to build or repair\ntheir facilities to meet safety standards and be environmentally friendly and\nsustainable,\u201d said FAA Associate Administrator of Airports Shannetta Griffin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Airports are encouraged to submit eligible projects as soon\nas possible but must do so by May 16, 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President\u2019s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, also known as\nthe Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, is the Biden-Harris\nAdministration\u2019s plan for building a better America with a $1.2 trillion\ninvestment in our nation\u2019s infrastructure and competitiveness. It will rebuild\nAmerica\u2019s roads, bridges and rails, upgrade and expand public transit,\nmodernize the nation\u2019s ports and airports, improve safety, tackle the climate\ncrisis, advance environmental justice and invest in communities that have too\noften been left behind. It will drive the creation of good-paying union jobs\nand grow the economy sustainably and equitably so that everyone gets ahead for\ndecades to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Aviation Administration has opened the application process for Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to modernize air traffic control towers at many small town and municipal airports. The FAA will fund projects that sustain, construct, repair, improve, modernize, replace or relocate airport-owned towers and install communications equipment. \u201cResidents of smaller and rural communities rely on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district-of-columbia","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Contract-towers.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21717","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=21717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21721,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21717\/revisions\/21721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}