[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 73 (Friday, April 15, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22363-22364]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-08766]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

[Docket No: FAA-2011-0786]


Deadline for Notification of Intent To Use the Airport 
Improvement Program (AIP) Primary, Cargo, and Nonprimary Entitlement 
Funds Available to Date for Fiscal Year 2016

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces May 2, 
2016, as the deadline for each airport sponsor to notify the FAA 
whether or not it will use its fiscal year 2016 entitlement funds 
available under Section 47114 of Title 49, United States Code, to 
accomplish Airport Improvement Program (AIP) eligible projects that the 
airport sponsor previously identified through the Airports Capital 
Improvement Plan (ACIP) process during the preceding year.
    The airport sponsor's notification must address all entitlement 
funds available to date for fiscal year 2016, as well as any 
entitlement funds not obligated from prior years. After Friday, July 1, 
2016, the FAA will carry-over the remainder of currently available 
entitlement funds, and these funds will not be available again until at 
least the beginning of fiscal year 2017. Currently, the AIP has 79 
percent of the entitlements available through July 15, 2016. If 
congressional action is taken on future extensions which provide for 
additional current year and protected entitlements (the remaining 21 
percent), the FAA will then work with airport sponsors to adjust 
accordingly. This notification requirement does not apply to non-
primary airports covered by the block-grant program.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Frank J. San Martin, Manager, 
Airports Financial Assistance Division, APP-500, on (202) 267-3831.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title 49 of the United States Code, section 
47105(f), provides that the sponsor of each airport to which 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 apply 
for its apportioned funds, also called 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, due to processes required under federal 
laws. This notice applies only to those airports that have had 
entitlement funds apportioned to them, except those nonprimary airports 
located in designated block-grant States. Airport sponsors intending to 
apply for any of their available entitlement funds, including those 
unused from prior years, shall make their intent known by 12:00 p.m. 
prevailing local time on Monday, May 2, 2016, consistent with prior 
practice. A written indication must be provided to the designated 
Airports District Office (or Regional Office in regions without 
Airports District Offices) stating their intent to submit a grant 
application no later than close of business Friday, June 17, 2016 and 
to use their fiscal year 2016 entitlement funds available under Title 
49 of the United States Code, section 47114. This notice must address 
all entitlement funds available to date for fiscal year 2016 including 
those entitlement funds not obligated from prior years. By Friday, June 
17, 2016, airport sponsors that have not yet submitted a final 
application to the FAA, must notify the FAA of any issues meeting the 
final application deadline of Friday, July 1, 2016. Absent notification 
from the airport sponsor by the May 2 deadline and/or subsequent 
notification by the June 17 deadline of any issues meeting the 
application deadline, the FAA will proceed after Friday, July 1, 2016 
to take action to carry-over the remainder of available entitlement 
funds without further notice. These funds will not be available

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again until at least the beginning of fiscal year 2017. This notice is 
being issued later than usual in the fiscal year due to the timing of 
multiple extensions of the FAA's authorizing legislation. These dates 
are subject to possible adjustment based on any future extensions to 
the FAA's authorizing legislation which currently expires July 15, 
2016.
    This notice is promulgated to expedite and facilitate the grant-
making process.
    The AIP grant program is operating under the requirements of Public 
Law 114-55, the ``Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2015,'' enacted 
on September 30, 2015 and subsequently amended on March 30, 2016, which 
authorizes the FAA through July 15, 2016 and the ``Consolidated 
Appropriations Act, 2016'' which appropriates FY 2016 funds for the 
AIP.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on April 7, 2016.
Elliott Black,
Director, Office of Airport Planning and Programming.
[FR Doc. 2016-08766 Filed 4-14-16; 8:45 am]
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