The Nevada Aviation Association (NvAA) and its membership\nencouraged Nevada\u2019s 82nd legislature to appropriate $2 Million for the Nevada\nFund for Aviation (Fund). Assemblyman\nBert Gurr, representing parts of Elko, Eureka, Lincoln, Nye, and White Pine\nCounties introduced legislation appropriating money for the Fund. The Fund helps rural counties meet local\nmatch requirements for Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grants awarded by the\nFederal Aviation Administration. AIP grants are awarded to airports to maintain\nand improve airport facilities and infrastructure. The $2 Million in\nappropriated funds will leverage over $32 Million in FAA AIP grants for local\nairport projects with funding available July 1, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The legislation also amended existing law regarding the Air\nService Development Commission (ASDC). Changes include moving the ASDC from the\nDepartment of Tourism to the Governor’s Office of Economic Development\n(GOED). ASDC members are appointed by\nthe Governor and include representatives from the Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority,\na representative from a county with a population of 700,000 or more (currently\nClark County), Nevada Association of Counties (NACO), the Nevada League of\nCities, Nevada Resort Association, Nevada Aviation Association (NvAA), and a\nrepresentative from a county with a population of less than 100,000. ASDC will\ndevelop a strategic plan for connecting the three economic hubs of the state\n(Elko, Reno, and Las Vegas) and opportunities to expand commercial air service\nto support communities and industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Nevada Aviation Association (NvAA) and its membership encouraged Nevada\u2019s 82nd legislature to appropriate $2 Million for the Nevada Fund for Aviation (Fund). Assemblyman Bert Gurr, representing parts of Elko, Eureka, Lincoln, Nye, and White Pine Counties introduced legislation appropriating money for the Fund. The Fund helps rural counties meet local match requirements for Airport […]<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neveda"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26067","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=26067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26068,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26067\/revisions\/26068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}