[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 130 (Monday, July 8, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45168-45169]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-17001]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary

[Docket OST-2002-11590]


In the Matter of the Small Community Air Service Development 
Pilot Program, Under 49 U.S.C. 41743 et seq.; Order Setting Final 
Deadline for Applications

Issued by the Department of Transportation on the 1st day of July, 
2002.
SUMMARY: By this order, the Department sets a final deadline of July 
19, 2002, for the filing of all applications and supplements thereto 
under the Small Community Air Service Development Program.

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Background

    On April 5, 2000, the President signed the Wendell H. Ford Aviation 
Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century (AIR-21), Pub. L. 106-
181. Among other things, the statute established a new pilot program 
designed to help smaller communities enhance their air service. To fund 
the program, the statute authorized a funding level of $20.0 million 
for fiscal year 2001 and $27.5 million for each of fiscal years 2002 
and 2003; no funds were appropriated in fiscal year 2001 and only $20 
million in fiscal year 2002. We established April 22, 2002 as the 
deadline for the filing of applications seeking priority consideration. 
On June 26, 2002 (Order 2002-6-14), we announced the award of 40 grants 
totaling almost $20 million, subject to each applicant's executing a 
formal grant agreement with the Department. We also noted that it is 
possible that not all of the funds awarded in that Order may be 
expended, since we intend to include in each grant agreement success 
milestones that each grantee must meet to ensure continuation of 
funding. All applications received by April 22, 2002, and any received 
thereafter will be considered equally for any such unexpended funds.
    To provide administrative finality to the filing of applications, 
we will not accept any application, nor any supplement thereto, 
received after July 19, 2002. The only exception will be if 
Departmental staff requests additional information from an applicant to 
facilitate consideration of its application.
    Accordingly, the deadline for submitting applications in this 
Docket, or supplements to applications, is July 19, 2002.
    This order will be published in the Federal Register.

Read C. Van de Water,
Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs.

    An electronic version of this document is available on the World 
Wide Web at http://dms.dot.gov.

[FR Doc. 02-17001 Filed 7-5-02; 8:45 am]
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