United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1995-07-17 monographic deposited born digital 45 p. GA 1.13:RCED-95-225FS https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-RCED-95-225FS P0b002ee1803a104b f:rc95225f DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-RCED-95-225FS machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-RCED-95-225FS RCED-95-225FS Airports Air transportation operations Transportation safety Commercial aviation Federal aid for transportation Budget authority Set-asides Funds management Future budget projections Discretionary grants FAA Airport Improvement Program Airport and Airway Trust Fund FAA National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems FAA Airport Capital Improvement Plan FAA Passenger Facility Charge Program FAA State Block Grant Denver International Airport (CO) Military Airport Program Fact Sheet RCED Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) allocation of Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funds and airports' collection of passenger facility charges (PFC).<p/>GAO found that: (1) between 1982 and 1994, FAA allocated about $16 billion in AIP funds for improvements at 2,780 airports; (2) 216 of the 545 eligible airports have collected $1.4 billion in PFC for capital development projects; (3) Congress has reduced the AIP appropriation from $1.9 billion in 1992 to $1.45 billion in 1995; (4) FAA estimates that PFC collections could increase from $850 million to $1 billion annually if eligible airports begin to collect the fees; (5) commercial service airports received about 75 percent of AIP allocations from 1992 to 1994 and are the only airports eligible to collect PFC; (6) FAA directed 65 percent of all AIP funds to on land acquisition projects and projects focusing on pavements on runways, taxiways, and aprons from 1992 to 1994; and (7) airports plan to use about 47 percent of PFC revenues for projects to develop terminals and improve airport access and about 21 percent of these revenues for debt servicing costs. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-RCED-95-225FS/html/GAOREPORTS-RCED-95-225FS.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-RCED-95-225FS/pdf/GAOREPORTS-RCED-95-225FS.pdf GAO/RCED-95-225FS https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-RCED-95-225FS Fact Sheet GAO/RCED-95-225FS; Airport Improvement Program: Update of Allocation of Funds and Passenger Facility Charges, 1992-94; Airports Air transportation operations Transportation safety Commercial aviation Federal aid for transportation Budget authority Set-asides Funds management Future budget projections Discretionary grants FAA Airport Improvement Program Airport and Airway Trust Fund FAA National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems FAA Airport Capital Improvement Plan FAA Passenger Facility Charge Program FAA State Block Grant Denver International Airport (CO) Military Airport Program