[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 242 (Tuesday, December 21, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72304-72305]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-27533]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

[Docket No. FAA-2021-1159]


Deadline for Notification of Intent To Use the Airport 
Improvement Program (AIP) Primary, Cargo, and Nonprimary Entitlement 
Funds Available to Date for Fiscal Year 2022.

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Federal Register notice.

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SUMMARY: This action announces February 15, 2022, as the deadline for 
each airport sponsor to notify the FAA if it will use its Fiscal Year 
(FY) 2022 entitlement funds 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 April 11, 2022, as the deadline 
for an airport sponsor to submit a final grant application, based on 
bids, for grants that will be funded with FY 2022 entitlements funds 
only.

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 authorized by Public Law 115-254, the 
``FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018,'' enacted on October 5, 2018, which 
permits the FAA to make grants for planning and airport development and 
airport noise compatibility under the AIP through September 30, 2023. 
The funds allocated to the FAA to fund the AIP grant program are 
appropriated by an annual Appropriations Act. Funding for the FY 2022 
AIP will be contingent upon the amounts appropriated by Congress and 
any requirements included in an annual Appropriations Act, once 
enacted. Apportioned funds will be subject to allocation formulas 
prescribed by 49 U.S.C. 47114 and any other applicable legislative 
text.
    This notice applies only to sponsors of airports that have 
entitlement funds

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appropriated for FY 2022 to use on eligible and justified projects. 
State aviation agencies participating in the FAA's State Block Grant 
Program, as prescribed by 49 U.S.C. 47128, are responsible for 
notifying the FAA which covered nonprimary airports in their programs 
will be using their entitlement funds for eligible and justified 
projects.
    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 Tuesday, February 15, 2022.
    This notice must be in writing and stipulate the total amount the 
sponsor intends to use for eligible and justified projects during FY 
2022, including those entitlement funds not obligated from prior years 
that remain available in accordance with 49 U.S.C. 47117 (also known as 
protected carryover). These notifications are critical to ensure 
efficient planning and administration of the AIP. The final grant 
application deadline for entitlement funds only is Monday, April 11, 
2022. The final grant application funding requests should be based on 
bids, not estimates. As prescribed under 49 U.S.C. 47117, the FAA will 
carryover the remainder of available entitlement funds after June 1, 
2022. These funds will not be available again to the airport sponsor 
until the beginning of FY 2023. Dates are subject to possible 
adjustment based on future legislation. As of the publication of this 
notice, past appropriations for the FAA expired on September 30, 2021, 
and the FAA is currently under a Continuing Resolution (CR) until 
February 18, 2022. However, FAA authorizing legislation expires on 
September 30, 2023 and the FAA will continue its planning process 
during the current and any future CR.
    The FAA has determined these deadlines will expedite and facilitate 
the FY 2022 grant-making process.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on December 15, 2021.
Robert John Craven,
Director, Office of Airport Planning and Programming.
[FR Doc. 2021-27533 Filed 12-20-21; 8:45 am]
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