{"id":28589,"date":"2024-05-06T20:32:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T20:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=28589"},"modified":"2024-05-06T20:32:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T20:32:28","slug":"governor-polis-colorado-aeronautical-board-announce-second-round-of-state-airport-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/colorado\/governor-polis-colorado-aeronautical-board-announce-second-round-of-state-airport-funding\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Governor Polis, Colorado Aeronautical Board Announce Second Round of State Airport Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Photo above – An aerial view of the Yampa Valley Regional Airport (HDN) in Hayden, Colorado. HDN was awarded a total of $527,777 in state funding to support federally funded projects to rehabilitate Taxiway A, construct a runway blast pad, and design for a future terminal expansion. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, the Colorado Aeronautical Board (CAB) approved a\nsecond round of 2024 Colorado Discretionary Aviation Grant (CDAG) funding\ntotaling $4.7 million. This funding was approved unanimously and will be\nutilized as a match for federally funded airport projects across Colorado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cColorado\u2019s local airports are gateways to the incredible\ncommunities around our state and important economic drivers. These grants will\nprovide additional resources to help improve these airports, improve safety,\nand create more connections to Colorado airports,\u201d said Governor Jared Polis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Colorado Airport System consists of 76 public-use\nairports that support over 345,661 jobs, provide $16.2 billion in annual\npayroll and $48.6 billion in total annual business revenue\/output for the State\nof Colorado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the Federal AIP funding, the Infrastructure\nInvestment and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL),\nhas provided an additional influx of Federal funding into Colorado\u2019s system of\nairports. BIL allocations provide an additional $27M ($86M with DEN included)\nof funding statewide per year from 2022 through 2026. These BIL allocations\nrequire the same matching component as the AIP funding. Subsequently, the\nDivision has planned to provide half the local matching requirement to ensure\nairports are able to accept these additional federal funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Combining requests for both the AIP and BIL programs, 29\nairports were awarded $3,787,467 in 2024 State matching funds leveraging over\n$92 million in Federal funding. A combined total of over $119 million in state,\nlocal, and federal funding was allocated to fund 2024 AIP and BIL projects. The\nfollowing table is a breakdown of the AIP and BIL programs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn addition to providing state funding that raises the bar\nfor the Colorado aviation system in terms of safety, efficiency, and viability,\nour Division is committed to proactively helping our airports transition to\nunleaded aviation fuels as they are approved and become available,\u201d said\nAeronautics Division Director David Ulane. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the 2024 Federal match grants approved by the\nCAB, a $900,000 state and local grant was awarded to the Grand Junction\nRegional Airport (GJT) for the acquisition of a new Aircraft Rescue Fire\nFighting (ARFF) Vehicle.  With the\naddition of the GJT grant, the second-round of 2024 discretionary aviation\ngrants approved by the CAB totaled $4.7 million in state funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second round of CDAG funding follows CAB\u2019s approval in\nJanuary of nearly $11.3 million supporting state and locally funded airport\nimprovement projects. In total, the 2024 CDAG program includes 65 grants\nawarded to 39 airports totaling $16 million in state funding. Combining all\n2024 state, local, and federal funding, a grand total of $135 million in\nfunding will support critical airport improvement projects focused on achieving\ngoals set by the 2020 Colorado Aviation System Plan to enhance safety,\nefficiency, and economic sustainability at airports all across the State of\nColorado. The following table is a breakdown of the 2024 CDAG Program grand\ntotals *excluding Federal funding for Denver International Airport (DEN):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Yampa Valley Regional Airport (HDN) was awarded a total\nof $527,777 in state funding to support federally funded projects to\nrehabilitate Taxiway A, construct a runway blast pad, and design for a future\nterminal expansion. Along with just over $1 million in funding from HDN, this\ngrant will leverage $13.8 million in federal AIP and BIL funding. \u201cRoutt County\nand the HDN Team are very appreciative of the continued partnership and support\nprovided by the Colorado Aeronautics Board and Colorado Division of\nAeronautics. We look forward to executing these important projects to maintain\nand improve our world-class airport,\u201d said Yampa Valley Regional Airport\nDirector Kevin Booth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In support of the CAB\u2019s and Division\u2019s commitment to\nassisting Colorado\u2019s public-use airports transition to unleaded aviation fuel,\nRocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (BJC) was awarded a $35,000 state matching\ngrant for the installation of a Federally funded unleaded aviation fuel tank.\nThis complements an August 2023 Division surplus equipment grant for BJC, which\nprovided $40,000 to the airport for the purchase of a pre-owned fuel truck that\nwill be dedicated to dispense unleaded aviation fuel. These projects pave the\nway for future state funding to help airports transition to unleaded aviation\nfuel as industry makes progress towards a 100-octane unleaded fuel that can be\nsafely used in all piston-powered general aviation aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colorado legislation was created in 1991 to develop and\nmaintain the Colorado Aviation System through taxes collected on aviation fuel\nsold within the state. There are no general funds used to meet the needs of the\nColorado Aviation System. The Colorado Aviation System is funded solely through\nthe taxes collected by those using the aviation system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c2\u00a0More information can be found at Colorado-Aeronautics.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo above – An aerial view of the Yampa Valley Regional Airport (HDN) in Hayden, Colorado. HDN was awarded a total of $527,777 in state funding to support federally funded projects to rehabilitate Taxiway A, construct a runway blast pad, and design for a future terminal expansion. Last month, the Colorado Aeronautical Board (CAB) approved […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28590,"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-28589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colorado"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yampa-Valley-Regional.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28589","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=28589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28591,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28589\/revisions\/28591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}