[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 18 (Tuesday, January 28, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5065-5066]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-01435]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

[Docket No: FAA-2020-0047]


Deadline for Notification of Intent To Use the Airport 
Improvement Program Primary, Cargo, and Nonprimary Entitlement Funds 
Available to Date for Fiscal Year 2020

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This action announces April 1, 2020, as the deadline for each 
airport sponsor to notify the FAA if it will use its Fiscal Year (FY) 
2020 entitlement funds (also referred to as apportioned funds) to 
accomplish Airport Improvement Program (AIP) eligible projects. Each 
sponsor has previously identified to the FAA such projects through the 
Airports Capital Improvement Plan process. This action further 
announces May 18, 2020, as the deadline for an airport sponsor to 
submit a final grant application to use FY 2020 entitlement funds.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dave Cushing, Manager, Airports 
Financial Assistance Division, APP-500, at (202) 267-8827.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title 49 U.S.C. 47105(f) provides that the 
sponsor of an airport for which entitlement funds are apportioned shall 
notify the Secretary, by such time and in a form as prescribed by the 
Secretary, of the airport sponsor's intent to submit a grant 
application for its available

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entitlement funds. Therefore, the FAA is hereby notifying such airport 
sponsors of the steps required to ensure that the FAA has sufficient 
time to carry over and convert remaining entitlement funds.
    The AIP grant program is operating under the requirements of Public 
Law 115-254, the ``FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018,'' enacted on 
October 5, 2018, which authorizes the FAA through September 30, 2023, 
and Public Law 116-94, the ``Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 
2020,'' which appropriates FY 2020 funds for the AIP through September 
30, 2020. In accordance with legislation enacted as of the date of this 
notice, the AIP has approximately $2.4 billion of entitlement funds 
available through September 30, 2020.
    This notice applies only to those airports that have entitlement 
funds apportioned to them, except those nonprimary airports located in 
designated Block Grant States.
    Under 49 U.S.C. 47114(d)(3)(C), an airport listed as having an 
unclassified status under the most recent National Plan of Integrated 
Airport Systems, shall accrue entitlement funds in FY 2020. The amount 
apportioned will only be available to the airport during the same 
fiscal year and may not be transferred to another airport.
    An airport sponsor intending to apply for any of its available 
entitlement funds, including those unused from prior years, must notify 
the FAA of its intent to submit a grant application by 12:00 p.m. 
prevailing local time on Wednesday, April 1, 2020.
    This notice must be in writing and address all entitlement funds 
available to date for FY 2020, including those entitlement funds not 
obligated from prior years. These notifications are critical to ensure 
efficient planning and administration of the AIP. The final grant 
application deadline is Monday, May 18, 2020. The final grant 
application funding requests are to be based on bids, not estimates.
    An airport sponsor must provide its notification and grant 
applications to its designated FAA Airports District Office (or 
Regional Office in regions without Airports District Offices). Absent 
notification of the intent to submit a grant application, or submission 
of a grant application by the relevant deadlines noted above, the FAA 
will carry over the remainder of available entitlement funds on Monday, 
June 1, 2020. These funds will not be available again until at least 
the beginning of FY 2021. Dates are subject to possible adjustment 
based on future legislation. As of the publication of this notice, 
appropriations for the FAA expire on September 30, 2020, and 
authorization legislation for the FAA expires on September 30, 2023.
    The FAA has determined this process and deadline will expedite and 
facilitate the FY 2020 grant-making process.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2020.
Robert John Craven,
Director, Office of Airport Planning and Programming.
[FR Doc. 2020-01435 Filed 1-27-20; 8:45 am]
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