U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao announced the Federal Aviation Administration will award $527.8 million in airport infrastructure grants to 584 airports across the United States as part of the FAA’s Airport Improvement Program (AIP).
“The Airport Improvement Program helps to maintain our aviation infrastructure and supports safety, capacity, security and environmental improvements,” said Secretary Chao.
The airport grant program funds various types of airport infrastructure projects, including runways, taxiways, and airport signage, lighting, and marking which helps to create thousands of jobs.
“Investing in our airport infrastructure ensures the safe and efficient operation of our air transportation system,” said FAA Administrator Michael P. Huerta. “This funding program helps us maintain, renovate, and build airport infrastructure at airports.”
Airports are entitled to a certain amount of AIP funding each year, based on passenger volume. If their capital project needs exceed their available entitlement funds, then the FAA can supplement their entitlements with discretionary funding. At this time, FAA is providing discretionary funding to 38 airports based on their high-priority project needs.
Those receiving discretionary grants are listed:
Ainsworth Regional Airport in Ainsworth, NE, $683,000
Asheville Regional Airport in Asheville, NC, $18.2 million
Bay Minette Municipal Airport in Bay Minette AL, $1.2 million
Boise Air Terminal/Gowen Field in Boise, ID – $350,000
Bozeman Yellowstone International in Bozeman, MT, $1.9 million
Brookings Regional Airport in Brookings, SC, $1.2 million
Chicago O’Hare International in Chicago, IL, $60 million
Chippewa Valley Regional Airport in Eau Claire, WI, $491,511
Columbia Metropolitan Airport in Columbia, SC, $8 million
Dallas Love Field in Dallas, Texas, $7.9 million
Dane County Regional-Truax Field in Madison, WI, $4 million
Denver International in Denver, CO, $12.4 million
Devils Lake Regional in Devils Lake, ND, $2.5 million
Dillingham Airport in Dillingham, AK, $14 million
Fairfield County in Winnsboro, SC, $709,586
Flagstaff Pulliam Airport in Flagstaff, AZ, $7.8 million
Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale FL, $20 million
Gary/Chicago International in Gary, IN, $4.9 million
Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport in Gulfport, MS, $3.4 million
Haines Airport in Haines, AK, $11.4 million
Huntsville International-Carl T. Jones Field in Huntsville, AL, $5.5 million
Indianapolis International in Indianapolis, IN, $2.8 million
Key West International in Key West, FL, $4.1 million
Metropolitan Oakland International in Oakland, CA, $7 million
Michigan State Block Grants program, in Lansing, MI, $2 million
Millard Airport in Omaha, NE, $450,000
Mobile Regional Airport in Mobile, AL, $3.4 million
Ocala International-Jim Taylor Field in Ocala, FL, $999,081
Ohio State University in Columbus, OH, $730,508
Palmer Municipal in Palmer, AK, $9.1 million
Pellston Regional Airport of Emmet in Pellston, MI, $3.7 million
Pryor Field Regional Airport in Decatur, AL, $783,644
Pullman/Moscow Regional Airport in Pullman/Moscow, WA, $16 million
Reno/Stead Airport in Reno, NV, $2.6 million
Salt Lake City International in Salt Lake City, UT, $7.3 million
Theodore Francis Green State in Providence, RI, $5.1 million
Weedon Field in Eufaula, Al, $1 million
Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport in Westfield-Springfield, MA, $2.4 million
The FAA will issue AIP grants to the airports over the next several weeks in time to take advantage of the spring and summer construction season. The grants will ensure the projects at these airports are either under construction or completed prior to the onset of the winter season, which comes early in late fall in some parts of the country.
