[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 31 (Thursday, February 18, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10070-10071]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-03202]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

[Docket No: FAA-2021-0111]


Deadline for Notification of Intent To Use the Airport 
Improvement Program (AIP) Primary, Cargo, and Nonprimary Entitlement 
Funds Available to Date for Fiscal Year 2021

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This action announces March 15, 2021, as the deadline for each 
airport sponsor to notify the FAA if it will use its Fiscal Year (FY) 
2021 entitlement funds (referred to as apportionments in 49 U.S.C. 
47114) 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 3, 2021, as the deadline for an airport 
sponsor to submit a final grant application to use FY 2021 entitlement 
funds.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David F. 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 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 AIP through September 30, 2023, 
and Public Law 116-260, the ``Transportation, Housing and Urban 
Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2021,'' which 
appropriates FY 2021 funds for the AIP through September 30, 2021. In 
accordance with legislation enacted as of the date of this notice, the 
AIP has approximately $2.3 billion of entitlement funds available 
through September 30, 2021.
    This notice applies only to those airports that have entitlement 
funds apportioned to them, except those nonprimary airports located in 
designated Block Grant States.
    An airport sponsor intending to apply for any of its available 
entitlement funds, including those unused but still available in 
accordance with 49 U.S.C. 47117 from prior years, must notify the FAA 
of its intent to submit a grant application by 12 p.m. prevailing local 
time on Monday, March 15, 2021.
    This notice must be in writing and address all entitlement funds 
available to date for FY 2021, 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 3, 2021. The final grant 
application funding requests should be based on bids, not estimates. 
The FAA will carryover the remainder of available entitlement funds 
after the above date as prescribed under 49 U.S.C. 47117. These funds 
will not be available again to the airport sponsor until the

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beginning of FY 2022. 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, 2021, 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 2021 grant-making process.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2021.
Robert John Craven,
Director, Office of Airport Planning and Programming.
[FR Doc. 2021-03202 Filed 2-17-21; 8:45 am]
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