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The largest award this spherical went to Tucson International Airport.
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In its most up-to-date spherical of airport infrastructure grant awards, the Federal Aviation Administration is providing over $2.1 billion for hundreds of runway, taxiway and different initiatives spherical the country. A paunchy listing of the grants will seemingly be viewed right here.
The grant awards, which the FAA announced on Sept. 6, advise the fifth spherical of the FAA’s Airport Improvement Program grants (AIP). These grants must now not funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
A highlight of the most up-to-date award spherical is that it includes the FAA’s first AIP grant to test technologies to minimize, mitigate and take away contaminants chanced on in firefighting chemical substances such aqueous movie forming foam, which includes per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), so-called “incessantly chemical substances” which were chanced on to be depraved to human successfully being.
Of the whole, $1.9 billion is from the AIP and may perchance well perhaps level-headed drag for 519 grants in forty eight states, Guam, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
The different $269 million is for supplemental discretionary grants, which is in a position to fund 62 initiatives at 56 U.S. airports.
5 Largest Awards
The largest award in this spherical is $55.1 million to Tucson International Airport to shift or reconfigure Runway 11/29.
Ranking second with $43 million is Deadhorse Airport in Alaska, to originate drainage and erosion alter points as successfully as to install wildlife perimeter fencing.
Chicago O’Hare International ranks No. 3, with a total of $39-million in grants to lengthen and lengthen a taxiway.
Ranked fourth with $37.3 million, is California’s Monterey Regional Airport, to originate a terminal and apron, rehabilitate a runway and manufacture an airplane rescue and firefighting automobile.
Mountainous Junction Regional Airport in Colorado receives $32.6 million for grading and drainage work to shift a runway.
The three airports receiving a combined $5.4 million for testing PFAS remediation are San Luis Obispo County in California, Nantucket Memorial in Massachusetts and Pellston Regional in Michigan.
Shannetta R.Griffin, FAA partner administrator for airports, stated in a assertion, “This funding helps guarantee traveler safety, reduces the environmental impacts on communities and builds extra resilient airports nationally.”
Some airports are using funds from the grants for initiatives related to sustainability, including St. Louis/Lambert International, Muskegon County in Michigan and Salt Lake Metropolis International and Citadel Wayne International in Indiana.
Tom Ichniowski has been writing concerning the federal authorities as ENR’s Washington Bureau Chief since the George H.W. Bush administration, and he has covered at the least 5 principal toll road funds. A identified expert on authorities policy on infrastructure and legislation, Tom is also a Baltimore native and Orioles fan who grew up rooting for Brooks and Frank Robinson. He’s a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia’s graduate college of journalism, where he once gentle “unrelentless” in a headline.
