
[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 38 (Wednesday, February 26, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10867-10868]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-04223]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

[Docket No: FAA-2011-0786]


Deadline for Notification of Intent To Use the Airport 
Improvement Program (AIP) Primary, Cargo, and Nonprimary Entitlement 
Funds for Fiscal Year 2014.

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces May 1, 
2014, as the deadline for each airport sponsor to notify the FAA 
whether or not it will use its fiscal year 2014 entitlement funds 
available under Section 47114 of Title 49, United States Code, to 
accomplish Airport Improvement Program (AIP)-eligible

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projects that the sponsor previously identified through the Airports 
Capital Improvement Plan (ACIP) process during the preceding year.
    The sponsor's notification must address all entitlement funds 
apportioned for fiscal year 2014, as well as any entitlement funds not 
obligated from prior years. After Friday, July 11, 2014, the FAA will 
carry over all remaining entitlement funds, and the funds will not be 
available again until at least the beginning of fiscal year 2015. This 
notification requirement does not apply to non-primary airports covered 
by the block-grant program.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Frank J. San Martin, Manager, 
Airports Financial Assistance Division, APP-500, on (202) 267-3831.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title 49 of the United States Code, section 
47105(f), 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 its 
apportioned funds, also called entitlement funds. Therefore, the FAA is 
hereby notifying sponsors about steps required to ensure that the FAA 
has sufficient time to carryover and convert remaining entitlement 
funds, due to processes required under federal laws. 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. Sponsors intending to apply for any of 
their available entitlement funds, including those unused from prior 
years, shall submit by 12:00 p.m. prevailing local time on Thursday, 
May 1, 2014, a written indication to the designated Airports District 
Office (or Regional Office in regions without Airports District 
Offices) their intent to submit a grant application no later than close 
of business Friday, July 11, 2014, to use their fiscal year 2014 
entitlement funds available under Title 49 of the United States Code, 
section 47114. This notice must address all entitlement funds 
apportioned for fiscal year 2014 including those entitlement funds not 
obligated from prior years. By Friday, June 13, 2014, airport sponsors 
that have not yet submitted a final application to the FAA, should 
notify the FAA of any issues with meeting the final application 
deadline of July 11, 2014. Absent notification from the sponsor by the 
May 1st deadline and/or subsequent notification by the June 13th 
deadline of any issues with meeting the application deadline, the FAA 
will proceed after Friday, July 11, 2014 to take action to carry over 
all remaining entitlement funds without further notice. The funds will 
not be available again until at least the beginning of fiscal year 
2015.
    This notice is promulgated to expedite and facilitate the grant-
making process.
    The AIP grant program is operating under the requirements of Public 
Law No. 112-91, the ``FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012,'' 
enacted on February 14, 2012, which authorizes the FAA through 
September 30, 2015 and the ``Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014'' 
which appropriates FY 2014 funds for the AIP.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on February 20, 2014.
Elliott Black,
Deputy Director, Office of Airport Planning and Programming.
[FR Doc. 2014-04223 Filed 2-25-14; 8:45 am]
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