DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

Docket No:  FAA-2006-23639

Deadline for Notification of Intent to use the Airport Improvement
Program (AIP) Sponsor, Cargo, and Nonprimary Entitlement Funds for
Fiscal Year 20036.

AGENCY:  Federal Aviation Administration, DOT

ACTION:  Notice.

SUMMARY:  The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces May 1,
2006, as the deadline for each airport sponsor to notify the FAA that it
will use its fiscal year 2006 entitlement funds to accomplish projects
identified in the Airports Capital Improvement Plan that was formulated
in the spring of 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Mr. Barry Molar, Manager, Airports
Financial Assistance Division, Office of Airport Planning and
Programming, 

APP-500, on (202) 267-3831.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

	Section 47105(f) of Title 49, United States Code, provides that the
sponsor of each airport to which funds are apportioned shall notify the
Secretary by such time and in a form as prescribed by the Secretary, of
the sponsor’s intent to apply for the funds apportioned to it
(entitlements).  This notice applies only to those airports that have
had entitlement funds apportioned to them, except those nonprimary
airports located in designated Block Grant States.  Notification of the
sponsor’s intent to apply during fiscal year 2006 for any of its
available entitlement funds including those unused from prior years,
shall be in the form of inclusion of projects for fiscal year 2006 in
the Airports Capital Improvement Plan.

	This notice is promulgated to expedite and prioritize grants in the
final quarter of the fiscal year.  Absent an acceptable application by
May 1, 2006, FAA will defer an airport’s entitlement funds until the
next fiscal year.  Pursuant to the authority and limitations in section
47117(f), FAA will issue discretionary grants in an aggregate amount not
to exceed the aggregate amount of deferred entitlement funds.  Airport
sponsors may request unused entitlements after September 30, 2006.

Issued in Washington, DC on                .

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Barry L. Molar

Manager, Airports Financial Assistance Division

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