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By the Commission. 

Dated: July 27, 2010. 

Elizabeth M. Murphy, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–18753 Filed 7–29–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8010–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of the Secretary of 

Transportation 

[DOT Docket No. DOT–OST–2010–0074] 

The Future of Aviation Advisory 

Committee (FAAC) Aviation Safety 

Subcommittee; Notice of Meeting 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Office of the Secretary 

of Transportation. 

ACTION: The Future of Aviation 

Advisory Committee (FAAC): Aviation 

Safety Subcommittee; Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Transportation (DOT), Office of the 

Secretary of Transportation, announces 

a meeting of the FAAC Aviation Safety 

Subcommittee, which will be held 

August 24, 2010, in Chicago, Illinois. 

This notice announces the date, time, 

and location of the meeting, which will 

be open to the public. The purpose of 

the FAAC is to provide advice and 

recommendations to the Secretary of 

Transportation to ensure the 

competitiveness of the U.S. aviation 

industry and its capability to manage 

effectively the evolving transportation 

needs, challenges, and opportunities of 

the global economy. The Aviation Safety 

Subcommittee will receive a briefing 

from Federal Aviation Administration 

(FAA) officials on the agency’s activities 

associated with the list of priority safety 

issues developed during the first 

meeting. The subcommittee will also 

develop a work plan for future meetings. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

August 24, 2010, at 1 p.m. Central 

Daylight Time. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

The Boeing Company, 100 North 

Riverside Plaza, Chicago, Illinois 60606. 

Public Access: The meeting is open to 

the public. (See below for registration 

instructions.) 

Public Comments: Persons wishing to 

offer written comments and suggestions 

concerning the activities of the advisory 

committee or subcommittee should file 

comments in the Public Docket (Docket 

Number DOT–OST–2010–0074 at 

www.regulations.gov) or alternatively 

through the FAAC@dot.gov e-mail 

address. If comments and suggestions 

are intended specifically for the 

Aviation Safety Subcommittee, the term 

‘‘Aviation Safety’’ should be listed in the 

subject line of the message. To ensure 

such comments can be considered by 

the subcommittee before its August 24, 

2010, meeting, public comments must 

be filed by close of business on Monday, 

August 16, 2010. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Under section 10(a)(2) of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 

2), we are giving notice of an FAAC 

Aviation Safety Subcommittee meeting 

taking place on August 24, 2010, at 1 

p.m. Central Daylight Time, at The 

Boeing Company, 100 North Riverside 

Plaza, Chicago, Illinois 60606. The 

subcommittee will— 

1. Receive a briefing from the FAA on 

existing safety activities associated with 

the list of priority safety issues 

developed during the previous meeting. 

2. Discuss any necessary revisions to 

the priority list. 

3. Develop a work plan for future 

meetings. 

Registration 

Because of space constraints and 

planning considerations, persons 

desiring to attend must pre-register 

through e-mail to FAAC@dot.gov. The 

term ‘‘Registration: Safety 

Subcommittee’’ must be listed in the 

subject line of the message, and 

admission will be limited to the first 25 

persons to pre-register and receive a 

confirmation of their pre-registration. 

No arrangements are being made for 

audio or video transmission, or for oral 

statements or questions from the public 

at the meeting. Minutes of the meeting 

will be posted on the FAAC Web site at 

http://www.dot.gov/FAAC. 

Request for Special Accommodation 

The DOT is committed to providing 

equal access to this meeting for all 

participants. If you need alternative 

formats or services because of a 

disability, please send a request to 

FAAC@dot.gov with the term ‘‘Special 

Accommodations’’ listed in the subject 

line of the message by close of business 

on August 13, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tony Fazio, Deputy Director, Office of 

Accident Investigation and Prevention, 

Federal Aviation Administration, 800 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC; telephone (202) 267– 

9612; Tony.Fazio@FAA.gov. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on July 27, 

2010. 

Pamela Hamilton-Powell, 

Designated Federal Official, Future of 

Aviation Advisory Committee. 

[FR Doc. 2010–18722 Filed 7–29–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

[Docket: DOT–OST–2010–0124] 

Office of the Secretary: Notice of Order 

Soliciting Community Proposals 

AGENCY: Department of Transportation. 

ACTION: Notice of Order Soliciting 

Community Proposals (Order 2010–7– 

16, Docket: DOT–OST–2010–0124). 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Transportation is soliciting proposals 

from communities or consortia of 

communities interested in receiving a 

grant under the Small Community Air 

Service Development Program. The full 

text of the Department’s order is 

attached to this document. There are 

two mandatory requirements for filing 

of applications, both of which must be 

completed for a community’s 

application to be deemed timely and 

considered by the Department. The first 

requirement is the submission of the 

community’s proposal, as described 

below; the second requirement is the 

filing of SF424 through http:// 

www.grants.gov. 

DATES: Grant Proposals as well as the 

SF424 should be submitted no later than 

August 27, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties can 

submit applications and the SF424 

electronically through http:// 

www.grants.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Aloha Ley, Office of Aviation Analysis, 

1200 New Jersey Ave., SE., W86–310, 

Washington, DC 20590, (202) 366–2347. 

Dated: July 23, 2010. 

Notice of Order Soliciting Community 

Proposals 

AGENCY: Department of Transportation, 

Office of the Secretary. 

ACTION: Notice of Order Soliciting 

Community Proposals (Order 2010–7– 

16). 

Overview 

By this order, the Department invites 

proposals from communities and/or 

consortia of communities interested in 

obtaining a federal grant under the 

Small Community Air Service 

Development Program (Small 

Community Program) to address air 


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1For detailed background on the Small 

Community Program, see our Web site at: http://

ostpxweb.dot.gov/aviation/X-50%20Role_files/

smallcommunity.htm. 2Program funding for this year may be affected 

by a provision that directs the Secretary to transfer 

funds from any program within or administered by 

the Office of the Secretary to the Essential Air 

Service program if that program does not have 

sufficient funds to meet its statutory obligations. In 

addition, a portion of the funds available for the 

Small Community Program are used by the 

Department for grants-management purposes. As of 

June, Congress appropriated $4,980,000 of the $6 

million in funding; however, the remaining 

$1,020,000 is expected to be appropriated in the 

next reauthorization bill. If funds are not authorized 

by the time selections are made, grant funds will 

remain at the $4,980,000 level. 

3The Department will be adding additional funds 

that can be reallocated from prior year recoveries. 

4See http://www07.grants.gov/applicants/app_

help_reso.jsp. 

5The hub classifications are based on the Federal 

Aviation Administration’s CY 1997 enplanement 

data. 

service and airfare problems in their 

communities. Proposals, including a 

completed ‘‘Summary Information’’ 

schedule as shown in Appendix B of 

this order, must be submitted in the 

above-referenced docket no later than 

5 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), on 

August 27, 2010. 

The Small Community Program was 

established under the Wendell H. Ford 

Aviation Investment and Reform Act for 

the 21st Century (AIR–21), Public Law 

106–181, and reauthorized under the 

Vision 100–Century of Aviation 

Reauthorization Act, Public Law 108– 

176 (Vision 100). The program is 

designed to provide financial assistance 

to small communities to help them 

enhance their air service. The 

Department provides this assistance in 

the form of financial grants that are 

disbursed on a reimbursable basis.1 The 

FY 2010 Federal Aviation 

Administration Extension Act 

(Pub. L. 111–69) extends the 

authorization of appropriations through 

FY 2010. The Department was 

appropriated $6 million to carry out the 

Small Community Program.2 However, 

the Department will make $7 million 

available for grant awards.3

The program is limited to a maximum 

of 40 grant awards, with a maximum of 

four grants per State, in each year the 

program is funded. There are no limits 

on the amounts of individual awards, 

and the amounts awarded will vary 

depending upon the features and merits 

of the proposals selected. Over the past 

nine years, the Department’s individual 

grants have ranged from $20,000 to 

nearly $1.6 million. Authorized grant 

projects may include activities that 

extend over a multi-year period under a 

single grant award; however, because 

there is a priority established by statue 

for communities and consortia that 

show that they can use the assistance 

‘‘in a timely fashion,’’ applicants are 

advised to consider that criterion in 

making their proposals. 

Applicants must first register with 

http://www.grants.gov before submitting 

an Application for Federal Domestic 

Assistance (SF424), a standard federal 

government grant application form, and 

must include their proposals as an 

attachment to the SF424. An application 

will not be deemed complete until and 

unless all required materials are filed by 

the August 27, 2010, deadline. 

Communities are reminded to register 

with Grants.gov early in the application 

period since the mandatory Grants.gov 

registration process can take up to three 

weeks to complete. Tutorials and other 

guidance for completing the required 

registration and application procedures 

are available at the ‘‘Applicant 

Resources’’ page of Grants.gov.4

Eligibility Information 

Who is eligible to apply for a grant? 

Basic criteria. Eligible applicants are 

those communities that (1) are served by 

an airport that was not larger than a 

small hub airport for calendar year 

1997,5 and (2) have insufficient air 

service or unreasonably high airfares. 

Communities that do not currently have 

commercial air service are also eligible, 

but they must have met or be able to 

meet in a reasonable period all 

necessary requirements of the Federal 

Aviation Administration for the type of 

service involved in their grant 

proposals. Communities served by 

medium and large hubs are not eligible 

to apply. 

Essential Air Service communities 

may apply. Small communities that 

meet the basic criteria and currently 

receive subsidized air service under the 

Essential Air Service (EAS) program are 

eligible to apply for funds under the 

Small Community Program. Indeed, a 

number of EAS-subsidized communities 

applied in past years and some have 

received grant awards. However, grant 

awards to EAS-subsidized communities 

are limited to marketing or promotion 

projects that support existing or newly 

subsidized air services. Grant funds will 

not be authorized for EAS-subsidized 

communities to support any new 

competing air service. Furthermore, no 

funds will be authorized to support 

additional flights by EAS carriers or 

changes to those carriers’ existing 

schedules. These restrictions are 

necessary to avoid conflicts with the 

EAS program. Additional consideration 

for communities/members of consortia 

that have previously received a grant. 

Communities or members of a consortia 

that were awarded grants in previous 

years and want to apply for a grant this 

year should be aware that (1) they are 

precluded from seeking new funds for 

projects for which they have already 

received an award under the Small 

Community Program and (2) they 

cannot accept a new grant while they 

are a party to an existing grant under the 

program, either as an individual 

community or as a member of a 

consortium. 

Grant must be for a new project. No 

community may participate in the 

program in support of the same project 

more than once. 49 U.S.C. 41743(c)(4). 

In assessing whether a previous 

grantee’s current proposal represents a 

new project, we would compare the 

goals and objectives of the earlier grant, 

including the key components of the 

means by which those goals and 

objectives were to be achieved, to the 

current proposal. For example, if a 

community received an earlier grant to 

support a revenue guarantee for service 

to a particular destination or direction, 

a new application for another revenue 

guarantee for the same service would be 

disqualified under § 41743(c), even if 

the revenue guarantee were structured 

differently or the type of carrier were 

different. However, we do not read 

§ 41743(c) to disqualify a new 

application for service to a new 

destination or direction using a revenue 

guarantee, or for general marketing of 

the airport and the various services it 

offers. We recognize that not all revenue 

guarantees, marketing agreements, 

equipment purchases, etc. are of the 

same nature, and that if a subsequent 

proposal incorporates different goals or 

significantly different components, it 

may be sufficiently different to 

constitute a new project under 

§ 41743(c). 

In its application, a community that is 

a previous grant recipient should 

compare and contrast its proposed 

project with its previously funded 

one(s) to demonstrate why its latest 

proposal represents a new project. 

Communities should also note that in 

each of the prior eight years of the 

program, interest in participation 

exceeded both the funds available and 

the number of communities that could 

take part in any one year. For this 

reason, the fact that a community has 

already received one or more grants will 

be a consideration when comparing its 

new proposal with those of other 

applicant communities. 

No concurrent grants are permitted. A 

community or member of a consortia 

may participate in the program a 

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6 49 U.S.C. 47107, 47133. 

7A travel ‘‘bank’’ involves the actual deposit of 

funds from participating parties (e.g., businesses, 

individuals) into a designated bank account for the 

purpose of purchasing air travel on the selected 

airline, with defined procedures for the subsequent 

use or withdrawal of those funds under an 

agreement with the airline. Often, however, what 

communities refer to as a travel ‘‘bank’’ in reality 

involves travel ‘‘pledges’’ from businesses in the 

community without any collection of funds or 

formal procedures for use of the funds. As with 

other types of in-kind contributions, the 

Department views travel banks and pledges 

included in grant proposals as an indicator of local 

community support. 

participation in a prior grant has 

terminated. 49 U.S.C. 41743(c)(4). 

Simply stated, a community can have 

only one Small Community Program 

grant at any time. If a grant applicant is 

applying for a subsequent grant and its 

current grant has not yet expired, it 

must notify the Department of its intent 

to terminate the current grant prior to 

entering into the new grant. In addition, 

for grant applicants that are members of 

a consortia grant, permission must be 

granted from both the grant sponsor and 

the Department to withdraw from the 

current grant prior to being eligible to 

receive a subsequent grant. 

Subsidies for a carrier to compete 

against an incumbent raise concerns. 

The Department is reluctant to subsidize 

one carrier but not others in a 

competitive market. For this reason, 

communities that propose to use the 

grant funds for service in a city-pair 

market that is already served by a carrier 

must explain in detail why the existing 

service is insufficient or unsatisfactory, 

or provide other compelling information 

to support such proposals. This 

information is necessary for the 

Department to consider the competitive 

implications of giving financial or other 

tangible incentives for one carrier that 

the other carrier is not receiving. 

Subsidy proposals should reflect 

market analysis and a complementary 

marketing commitment. A thorough 

understanding of the target market is 

essential for the ultimate success of new 

or expanded air service. Likewise, the 

chances that such a service will become 

self-sustaining are enhanced when its 

implementation is supported by a welldesigned marketing campaign. For these 

reasons, communities requesting funds 

for a revenue guarantee/subsidy/ 

financial incentive are encouraged to 

include in their proposals an in-depth 

analysis evidencing close familiarity 

with their target markets. Such 

communities also are encouraged to 

designate in their proposals a portion of 

their requested funds for the 

development and implementation of a 

marketing plan in support of the service 

sought. 

A consortium is more than a 

collection of communities. The statute 

permits individual communities and 

consortia of communities to apply for 

grant awards under this program. In 

some instances in the past, several 

communities in a State have filed a 

single application as a ‘‘consortium,’’ but 

in effect the application was a collection 

of individual community requests 

involving different projects. We do not 

view this as a consortium. Rather, an 

application representing a consortium 

would be one that facilitates efforts of 

communities working together toward a 

joint grant project. For example, several 

communities surrounding an airport 

may apply together to improve air 

services at that airport, or surrounding 

airports may work together to provide 

regional air service. 

Multiple applications by a community 

will not be considered. The Department 

requests that communities file only one 

application for a grant. In the past, some 

communities have filed both individual 

applications and applications as part of 

a consortium. In many cases these 

applications have involved the same 

project at the same or different funding 

levels. We will not consider the standalone application if a community is also 

submitting a largely identical request as 

part of a consortium. To the extent that 

a community files separately and as part 

of a consortium for complementary 

projects—for example, one for a revenue 

guarantee and one for marketing—we 

will consider such proposals. However, 

communities should be aware that they 

can receive only one grant, either the 

stand-alone grant or as a member of a 

consortium, because no community can 

have concurrent grants. 

Cost Sharing and Local Contributions 

Are Important Factors 

The statute does not require 

communities to contribute toward a 

grant project, but those communities 

that contribute from local sources other 

than airport revenues are accorded 

priority consideration. One core 

objective of the Small Community 

Program is to promote community 

involvement in addressing air service/ 

air fare issues through public/private 

partnerships. As a financial stakeholder 

in the process, the community gains 

greater control over the type, quality, 

and success of the air service initiatives 

that will best meet its needs, and 

demonstrates a greater commitment 

towards achieving the stated goals. The 

Department has historically received 

many more applications than can be 

accommodated and nearly all of those 

applications have proposed a 

community financial contribution to the 

project. Thus, proposals that propose a 

community financial contribution will 

be given priority consideration. 

Types of contributions. Contributions 

should represent a new financial 

commitment or new financial resources 

devoted to attracting new or improved 

service, or addressing specific high-fare 

or other service issues, such as 

improving patronage of existing service 

at the airport. Contributions from 

already-existing programs or projects 

(e.g., designating a portion of an 

airport’s existing annual marketing 

budget to the project) are considered 

less favorably than contributions for 

new and innovative programs or 

projects. For those communities that 

propose to contribute to the grant 

project, that contribution can be in the 

following forms: 

Cash from non-airport revenues. A 

cash contribution can include funds 

from the State, the County or the local 

government, and/or from local 

businesses, or other private 

organizations in the community. 

Contributions that are comprised of 

intangible non-cash items, such as the 

‘‘value’’ of donated advertising, are 

considered ‘‘in-kind’’ contributions (see 

further discussion below). 

Cash from airport revenues. This 

includes contributions from funds 

generated by airport operations. Airport 

revenues may not be used for revenue 

guarantees to airlines.6 Community 

proposals that include local 

contributions based on airport revenues 

do not receive priority consideration for 

selection. 

In-kind contributions from the airport. 

This can include such items as waivers 

of landing fees, terminal rents, fuel fees, 

and/or vehicle parking fees. 

In-kind contributions from the 

community. This can include such 

items as donated advertising from media 

outlets, catering services for inaugural 

events, or in-kind trading, such as 

advertising in exchange for free air 

travel. Travel banks and travel 

commitments/pledges are considered to 

be in-kind contributions,7 as are 

reduced fares offered by airlines. 

Cash vs. in-kind contributions. Only 

local contributions made in cash are 

given priority consideration for 

selection. Contributions made in-kind or 

through other services may be valuable 

in helping to promote the objectives of 

the application, they are not afforded 

priority in the selection process. 

Financial commitments must be 

fulfilled. Applicant communities should 

note that, as part of the grant agreement 

between the Department and the 

community, the community has legally 

committed itself to fulfilling its 


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proposed financial contribution to the 

project and that its failure to meet this 

commitment could lead the Department 

to terminate the grant. Community 

participation in all aspects of the 

proposal, including the financial 

aspects, is critical to the success of the 

authorized project initiative. As with 

the grant awards in past years, receipt 

of the full federal contribution awarded 

will thus be linked to the community’s 

fulfillment of its financial contribution. 

Furthermore, communities cannot 

propose a certain level of cash 

contribution from non-airport sources, 

and subsequent to being awarded a 

grant, seek to substitute or replace that 

contribution with either ‘‘in-kind’’ 

contributions or contributions from 

airport revenues, or both. Given the 

statute’s priority for contributions from 

non-airport sources and the competitive 

nature of the selection process, a 

community’s grant award could be 

reduced or terminated altogether if it is 

unable to replace the committed funds 

from non-airport revenue sources. 

Reimbursements for Advance 

Payments: The Small Community 

Program is a reimbursable program 

therefore communities are required to 

make advance payments for funds 

expended in association with the project 

implementation under the program and 

then seek reimbursement. 

Reimbursement rates are calculated as a 

percentage of the total Federal funds 

requested divided by the Federal fund 

plus the local cash contribution (which 

is not refundable). Advance payments in 

forms other than cash (e.g. in-kind) are 

not reimbursable. If there is any 

question about whether a proposed 

payment would be considered as ‘‘inkind’’ or cash, the applicant should 

contact the Department before 

submitting its proposal. 

Application and Submission 

Information 

Filing Deadline and Procedures 

Grant applications are due by 5 p.m. 

EDT on August 27, 2010. As part of the 

submission process, an applicant must 

register as a grant applicant at http:// 

www.grants.gov and complete the 

Application for Federal Domestic 

Assistance form SF424. An applicant 

must also include its grant proposal, 

including a completed ‘‘Summary 

Information’’ schedule (see Appendix 

B), as an attachment to its SF424. In 

addition, the cover page of each 

application should contain the 

information specified under ‘‘Cover page 

contents,’’ below. Questions regarding 

the program should be directed to the 

Office of Aviation Analysis on (202) 

366–2347 or aloha.ley@dot.gov. 

SF424. Communities not previously 

registered are encouraged to register 

with Grants.gov early during the 

application period because the 

registration and SF424 application 

process required by http:// 

www.grants.gov can take up to three 

weeks to complete. A community may 

file its proposal anytime after the initial 

registration process has been completed 

on http://www.grants.gov as long as the 

entire application is filed by August 27, 

2010. Communities are encouraged to 

contact the Grants.gov help desk for any 

technical assistance in filing their 

applications. 

The Grants.gov ‘‘Applicant Resources’’ 

page (http://www07.grants.gov/ 

applicants/app_help_reso.jsp) provides 

instructions and guidance on 

completing the registration and 

application processes. Further, grant 

proposals must be submitted as an 

attachment to the SF424. An application 

will NOT be deemed complete and will 

be ineligible for a grant award unless the 

SF424 and the attached proposal 

(including the completed ‘‘Summary 

Information’’ schedule) have been 

submitted through Grants.gov by the 

5 PM EDT, August 27, 2010, deadline. 

Cover page contents. The cover page 

for all applications should bear the title 

‘‘Proposal Under the Small Community 

Air Service Development Program, 

Docket DOT–OST–2010–0124’’ and 

should include: 

(1) The name of the community or 

consortium of communities applying for 

the grant; 

(2) The legal sponsor and its Dun and 

Bradstreet (D&B) Data Universal 

Numbering System (DUNS) number, 

including + 4; and 

(3) The 2-digit Congressional district 

code applicable to the sponsoring 

organization and, if a consortium, to 

each participating community. 

Confidential treatment of information. 

Applicants will be able to provide 

certain information relevant to their 

proposals on a confidential basis. Under 

the Department’s Freedom of 

Information Act regulations (49 CFR 

7.17), such information is limited to 

commercial or financial information 

that, if disclosed, would either likely 

cause substantial harm to the 

competitive position of a business or 

enterprise or make it more difficult for 

the Federal Government to obtain 

similar information in the future. 

Applicants seeking confidential 

treatment of a portion of their 

applications must segregate the 

confidential material in a sealed 

envelope marked ‘‘Confidential 

Submission of X (the applicant) in 

Docket DOT–OST–2010–0124,’’ and 

include with that material a request in 

the form of a motion seeking 

confidential treatment of the material 

under 14 § CFR 302.12 (Rule 12) of the 

Department’s regulations. The applicant 

should submit an original and two 

copies of its motion and an original and 

two copies of the confidential material 

in the sealed envelope. The confidential 

material should not be included with 

the original of the applicant’s proposal 

that is submitted via http:// 

www.grants.gov. The applicant’s 

original submission, however, should 

indicate clearly where the confidential 

material would have been inserted. If an 

applicant invokes Rule 12, the 

confidential portion of its filing will be 

treated as confidential pending a final 

determination. All confidential material 

must be received by August 27, 2010, 

and delivered to the Office of Aviation 

Analysis, 8th Floor, Room W86–310, 

1200 New Jersey Ave., SE., Washington, 

DC 20590. 

Types of Projects and Application 

Content 

The statute is very general about the 

types of projects that can be authorized 

so that communities are provided 

flexibility in addressing their particular 

air service and airfare issues. Because 

circumstances may differ among 

communities, applicants have some 

latitude in identifying their own 

objectives and developing strategies for 

accomplishing them. 

One objective of the Small 

Community Program is to help 

communities secure enhancements that 

will be responsive to their air 

transportation/air fare needs on a longterm basis after the financial support of 

the grant has ended. There are many 

ways that a community might enhance 

its current air service or attract new 

service, such as: 

• Promoting awareness among 

residents of locally available service; 

• Attracting a new carrier through 

revenue guarantees or operating cost 

offsets; 

• Attracting new forms of service, 

such as on-demand air taxi service; 

• Offering an incumbent carrier 

financial or other incentives to lower its 

fares, increase its frequencies, add new 

routes, or deploy more suitable aircraft, 

including upgrading its equipment from 

turboprops to regional jets; 

• Combining traffic support from 

surrounding communities with 

regionalized service through one airport; 

or 

• Providing local ground 

transportation service to improve access 


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8These examples are illustrative only and are not 

meant as a list of projects favored by the 

Department. Interested communities can view 

actual proposals submitted in prior years. Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and, under ‘‘Search,’’ 

enter one of the following depending on the desired 

filing year: DOT–OST–2002–11590, DOT–OST– 

2003–15065, DOT–OST–2004–17343, DOT–OST– 

2005–20127, DOT–OST–2006–23671; DOT–OST– 

2007–27370 and DOT–OST–2008–0100, DOT– 

OST–2009–0149 for proposals filed in 2002, 2003, 

2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, 

respectively. 

9The projected timetable will be an integral part 

of the grant agreements between the selected 

communities and the Department. Therefore, there 

is no advantage to a community in proposing an 

aggressive timetable that cannot be met, and there 

may be disadvantages if the community finds that 

it cannot meet its timetable or if its timeline is 

deemed unrealistic. Communities should carefully 

consider all factors affecting implementation of 

their projects and develop realistic timeframes for 

achieving those objectives. 

to air service to the community and the 

surrounding area.8

Communities are encouraged to be 

innovative and to consider a wide range 

of initiatives and air transportation 

services in developing their proposals, 

such as intermodal or regional 

solutions. At the same time, proposals 

must not be general, vague, or 

unsupported. The more highly defined 

and focused the proposal, the more 

competitive it will be, particularly in 

light of the priority consideration 

afforded by the statute to those 

applicants that can use the funds in a 

timely manner. 49 U.S.C. 41743(c)(5)(E). 

There is no set format that must be 

used in submitting grant proposals. At 

a minimum, however, a proposal must 

provide the following information: 

• A description of the community’s 

existing air service, including the 

carrier(s) providing service, service 

frequency, nonstop destinations offered, 

fares, and equipment types. 

• A synopsis of the community’s 

historical service, including 

destinations, traffic levels, service 

providers, and any extenuating factors 

that might have affected traffic in the 

past or that can be expected to influence 

service needs in the near to intermediate 

term. 

• A description of the community’s 

air service development efforts over the 

past five years and the results of those 

efforts. Many communities have been 

active on an on-going basis for many 

years in air service development efforts, 

while others are just beginning. To the 

extent that a community has previously 

engaged in other air service initiatives, 

including through public/private 

partnerships, it should describe those 

efforts and their results in its grant 

proposal. The description should 

include marketing and promotional 

efforts of airport services as well as 

efforts to recruit additional or improved 

air service and airfare initiatives. 

• A description of the community’s 

air service needs or deficiencies. A 

community should submit any 

information about (1) major origin/ 

destination markets that are not now 

served or are not served adequately, and 

(2) fare levels that the community 

deems relevant to consideration of its 

grant request, including market analyses 

or studies demonstrating an 

understanding of local air service needs. 

• A strategic plan for meeting those 

needs under the Small Community 

Program, including the community’s 

specific project goal(s) and detailed plan 

for attaining such goal(s). Plans should: 

✓ Clearly identify the target audience of 

each component of the proposed 

transportation initiative, including all 

advertising and promotional efforts. 

✓ Set forth a realistic timetable for 

implementation of the grant project 

including a timeline chart. Because 

the statute includes timely use of the 

grant funds as a priority 

consideration, a community must 

have a well-developed project plan 

and a detailed timetable for 

implementing that plan. In 

establishing the timetable, however, 

the community should be realistic 

about its ability to meet its project 

deadlines.9

✓ For proposals involving new or 

improved service, explain how the 

service will become self-sufficient. 

Under the statute, a community 

cannot seek grant funding in 

subsequent years in support of the 

same project. Moreover, in developing 

a proposal, it is important that a 

community seriously consider the 

scale of its proposed project and the 

timetable for achieving the stated 

goals. To the extent that a proposed 

project is dependent upon or relevant 

to the completion of other federally 

funded capital improvement projects, 

the community should provide a 

description of, and the construction 

time-line for, those projects, keeping 

in mind the statutory requirement to 

use Small Community Program 

funding in a timely manner. 

✓ Fully and clearly outline the goals 

and objectives sought to be achieved; 

e.g., ‘‘to broaden the awareness by 

residents in the Tri-County area of the 

various services provided by 

passenger carriers at the Tri-County 

airport,’’ or ‘‘to obtain new and 

affordable service to a hub airport in 

a direction where there is no such 

service.’’ When an application is 

selected, these goals and objectives 

will be incorporated into the grant 

agreement and define its basic project 

scope. Once an agreement is signed, if 

circumstances change and an 

amendment is sought to allow for 

different activities or a different 

approach, the Department will look to 

whether the change being sought is 

consistent with those fundamental 

project goals and objectives. Proposed 

changes that would alter those 

fundamental goals and objectives 

cannot be authorized, because doing 

so would undermine the competitive 

nature of the selection process. 

Applicants are also encouraged to 

include in their proposals alternative 

or back-up strategies for achieving 

their desired goals and objectives. By 

incorporating such information into 

the grant agreement, desired changes 

may be accommodated. 

✓ If the applicant received a Small 

Community Program grant in the past, 

explain how its proposed project 

differs from its earlier one by 

comparing and contrasting project 

goals, objectives and methods of 

achieving them. 

• A description of any public-private 

partnership that will participate in the 

project. Full community involvement is 

a key aspect of the Small Community 

Program. The statute gives a priority to 

those communities that already have 

established, or will establish, a publicprivate partnership to facilitate air 

service to the public. The proposal 

should fully describe the public-private 

partnership that will participate in the 

community’s proposal and how the 

partnership will actively participate in 

the implementation of the proposed 

project. In addition, applicants should 

identify each member of the 

partnership, the role that each will play, 

and the specific responsibilities of each 

member in project implementation. If 

the application does not include 

specific information on the partnership 

participation in the project, the 

Department will not be able to evaluate 

how well a community has met this 

consideration, and the applicant will 

not be deemed to have met this priority 

consideration in the Department’s 

evaluation of the community’s proposal. 

• A detailed description of the 

funding necessary for implementation of 

the community’s project, including the 

federal and non-federal contributions. 

Proposals should clearly identify the 

level of federal funding sought. They 

should also clearly identify the 

community’s cash contributions to the 

proposed project, ‘‘in-kind’’ 

contributions from the airport, and ‘‘inkind’’ contributions from the 

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10Project implementation costs are reimbursable 

from grant funds only for services or property 

delivered during the grant term. 

11The community has the responsibility to 

ensure that the recipient of any funding has the 

legal authority under State and local laws to carry 

out all aspects of the grant. 

12 49 U.S.C. 41743(c)(5). 

airport revenues should be identified 

separately from cash contributions from 

other community sources. Similarly, 

cash contributions from the State and/ 

or local government should be 

separately identified and described. 

Applicant communities should be 

aware that, if awarded a grant, the 

Department will not reimburse the 

community for pre-award expenses such 

as the cost of preparing the grant 

application or for any expenses incurred 

prior to the community executing a 

grant agreement with the Department. In 

addition, ten percent of the grant funds 

will be withheld until the Department 

receives the final report of the grant 

project. See ‘‘Award Administration 

Information,’’ below. 

• An explanation of how the 

community will ensure that its own 

funding contribution is spent in the 

manner proposed. 

• Descriptions of how the community 

will monitor the progress of the grant 

project and the identity of critical 

milestones to be met during the life of 

the grant, including the need to modify 

or discontinue funding if identified 

milestones cannot be achieved. This is 

an important component of the 

community’s proposal and serves to 

demonstrate the thoroughness of the 

community’s planning of the proposed 

grant project. 

• A description of how the 

community plans to continue with the 

project if it is not self-sustaining after 

the grant award expires. A particular 

goal of the Small Community Program is 

to provide long-term, self-sustaining 

improvements to air service at small 

communities. A community cannot seek 

further grant funding in support of the 

same project. 49 U.S.C. 41743(c)(4). It is 

possible that new or improved service at 

a community will be well on its way to 

becoming self-sustaining, but not have 

reached that goal before the grant 

expires. Similarly, it is possible that 

extensive marketing and promotional 

efforts may be in process, but not have 

been completed at the end of the grant 

period and will require continued 

support.10 Therefore, in developing its 

proposal, the community should 

carefully consider and describe in detail 

its plans for providing continued 

financial support for the project after the 

grant funding is no longer available. 

This aspect of the application reflects on 

the community’s commitment to the 

grant project and is an important 

component to the Department’s 

consideration of the community’s 

proposal for selection for a grant award. 

• Designation of a legal sponsor 

responsible for administering the 

program. The legal sponsor of the grant 

project must be a government entity. If 

the applicant is a public-private 

partnership, a public government 

member of the organization must be 

identified as the community’s sponsor 

to receive program reimbursements. In 

this regard, communities can designate 

only a single government entity as the 

legal sponsor, even if applying as a 

consortium that consists of two or more 

local government entities. Private 

organizations cannot be designated as 

the legal sponsor of a grant under the 

Small Community Program.11

Air Service Development Zone 

Designation 

The statute authorizing the Small 

Community program also provides that 

the Department will designate one of the 

grant recipients in the program as an Air 

Service Development Zone (ASDZ). A 

current grant recipient—with its grant 

award period extending into FY2011— 

remains active as the ASDZ designee. 

As a result, at this time the Department 

is not soliciting applications for 

selection as an ASDZ designee. 

Application Review Information 

The Department will carefully review 

each proposal, and the staff may contact 

applicants if clarification is needed. The 

grant awards will be made as quickly as 

possible so that communities awarded 

grants can complete the grant agreement 

process and proceed to implement their 

plans. Pending unforeseen 

circumstances, the grant selection 

process should be completed by 

December 2010. Given the competitive 

nature of the grant process, the 

Department will not meet with grant 

applicants with respect to their grant 

proposals. The Department’s selection 

of communities for grant awards will be 

based on the communities’ written 

submissions. 

Priority factors considered. The law 

directs the Department to give priority 

consideration to those communities or 

consortia where:12

• Air fares are higher than the 

national average air fares for all 

communities; 

• The community or consortium will 

provide a portion of the cost of the 

activity from local sources other than 

airport revenue sources; 

• The community or consortium has 

established or will establish a publicprivate partnership to facilitate air 

carrier service to the public; 

• The assistance will provide material 

benefits to a broad segment of the 

traveling public, including business, 

educational institutions, and other 

enterprises, whose access to the national 

air transportation system is limited; and 

• The assistance will be used in a 

timely manner. 

Additional factors considered. 

Applications will be evaluated against 

the priority considerations listed above. 

Our experience has been that more 

applications are received than can be 

funded under the Small Community 

Program. Consequently, consistent with 

the criteria stated above, the selection 

process will take into consideration 

such additional factors as: 

• The geographic location of each 

applicant, including the community’s 

proximity to larger centers of air service 

and low-fare service alternatives; 

• The proposed federal grant amount 

requested compared with the local share 

offered; 

• Whether the applicant community 

has previously received a grant award 

under this program and, if so, whether 

its application includes an explanation 

of how the community’s proposed 

project differs from its previously 

funded project; 

• The community’s demonstrated 

commitment to and participation in the 

proposed grant project; 

• The relative size of each applicant 

community; 

• The community’s existing level of 

air service and whether that service has 

been increasing or decreasing; 

• Whether the community’s proposal, 

if successfully implemented, could 

serve as a working model for other 

communities; 

• Current demographic indicators for 

the community, such as population, 

income and business activity; 

• The grant amount requested 

compared with total funds available for 

all communities; 

• Whether the community has a 

realistic plan to use the funds in a 

timely manner; 

• The uniqueness of an applicant’s 

claimed problems and whether the 

proposed project addresses those 

problems; 

• The extent to which the applicant’s 

proposed solution(s) to solving the 

problem(s) is new or innovative; and 

• Whether the community’s 

proximity to an existing grant recipient 

could impact its proposal. 

Full community participation is a key 

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the statute’s focus on local contributions 

and active participation in the project. 

Therefore, applications that demonstrate 

broad community support will be more 

attractive. For example, communities 

providing proportionately higher levels 

of cash contributions from other than 

airport revenues will have more 

attractive proposals. Communities that 

provide multiple levels of contributions 

(state, local, airport, cash and in-kind 

contributions) also will have more 

attractive proposals. Similarly, 

communities that demonstrate 

participation in the development and 

execution of the proposed air service 

project will enhance the attractiveness 

of their proposals. In this regard, the 

Department welcomes letters of intent 

from airlines on behalf of community 

proposals that are specifically intended 

to enlist new or expanded air carrier 

presence. Such letters will be accorded 

greater weight when authorized by 

airline planning departments. 

Proposals that offer innovative 

solutions to the transportation issues 

facing the community will be more 

attractive. Small communities have 

faced many problems retaining and 

improving their air services and in 

coping with air fares that are higher 

than typical for larger communities. 

Therefore, proposals that offer new, 

creative approaches to addressing these 

problems, to the extent that they are 

reasonable, will have their 

attractiveness enhanced. Proposals that 

provide a well-defined plan, a 

reasonable timetable for use of the grant 

funds, and a plan for continuation and/ 

or monitoring of the project after the 

grant expires also will have greater 

attractiveness. 

Award Administration Information 

The Department will announce its 

grant selections in a selection order, 

which will be served on each grant 

recipient, all other applicants, and all 

parties served with this solicitation 

order. The selection order will also be 

posted in the Docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov and on the 

Department’s webpage. 

Grant agreement. Communities 

awarded grants are required to execute 

a grant agreement with the Department 

before they begin to spend funds under 

the grant award. Grant funds will be 

provided on a reimbursable basis only, 

with reimbursements made only for 

expenses incurred and billed during the 

period that the grant agreement is in 

effect and at the appropriate percentage 

rate, which is determined by: (SCASDP 

Grant Amount) ÷ (SCASDP Grant 

Amount + Local Cash Contribution + 

State Cash Contribution, if applicable). 

Applicants should not assume they have 

received a grant, nor should they 

obligate or spend local funds prior to 

receiving and fully executing a grant 

agreement with the Department. 

Expenditures made prior to the 

execution of a grant agreement, 

including costs associated with 

preparation of the grant application, 

will not be reimbursed. Moreover, there 

are numerous assurances that grant 

recipients must sign and honor when 

federal funds are awarded. All 

communities receiving a grant under the 

Small Community Program will be 

required to accept the responsibilities of 

these assurances and to execute the 

assurances when they execute their 

grant agreements. Copies of the 

applicable assurances are available for 

review on the Department’s webpage at 

http://ostpxweb.dot.gov/aviation/X50%20Role_files/smallcommunity.htm 

(click on ‘‘SCASDP Grant Assurances’’). 

Grantee reports. The grant agreement 

between the Department and each 

selected community will require the 

submission of quarterly reports on the 

progress the community has made 

during the previous quarter in 

implementing its grant project. In 

addition, the grant agreement will 

require the submission, on a quarterly or 

other time-specific basis, of other 

materials relevant to the grant project, 

such as copies of advertising and 

promotional material and copies of 

contracts with consultants and service 

providers. In addition, each community 

will be required to submit a final report 

on its project to the Department, and 10 

percent of the grant funds will not be 

reimbursed to the community until such 

final report is received. 

Cost reimbursement. Communities 

will be permitted to seek reimbursement 

of project implementation costs on a 

regular basis. The frequency of such 

requests will be at the community’s 

discretion. In this regard, the 

Department will provide the grant 

recipient communities with details and 

procedures for securing reimbursements 

electronically. 

Grant amendments. A grantee may 

wish to amend its agreement with the 

Department in the event of a change in 

circumstances after the date the 

agreement is executed. Typically, 

amendments involve an extension to the 

time period for completing the grant or 

a change in the types of activities 

authorized for reimbursement under the 

goals and objectives (‘‘project scope’’) of 

the grant agreement. Grantees are 

cautioned, however, that the 

Department cannot authorize 

amendments that are incompatible with 

the scope of the agreement. For 

example, a grant awarded solely for the 

purpose of developing an airport 

marketing plan cannot be amended to 

permit subsidization of an air carrier’s 

startup costs, or a grant awarded solely 

for the purpose of attracting low-fare 

service cannot be amended to permit it 

to attract service from a legacy carrier, 

since the latter, in each example, was 

never contemplated by the original 

agreement. 

Grantees are also advised that the 

Department will not extend the 

expiration date of an agreement simply 

to allow more time for a community to 

solicit air carriers for new air service. 

Many grants have been awarded for the 

purpose of subsidizing new or 

additional air service for a small 

community, with the goal of that service 

becoming self-sustaining by the end of 

the subsidy period. In virtually all cases, 

the community seeking the grant funds 

received expressions of interest from 

one or more air carriers. In some 

instances, these expressions of interest 

failed to materialize and the community 

was left without any immediate 

prospects, at which time it asked for a 

grant extension to allow more time to 

pursue other carriers. Because the 

Department is charged by law to 

consider timely use of funds when 

selecting grant recipients, the 

Department will grant an extension only 

when the community can provide strong 

evidence of a firm commitment on the 

part of an air carrier to deliver the 

desired service. 

To avoid misunderstandings, grantees 

contemplating amendments to their 

agreements are urged to discuss their 

situations with the Small Community 

Program staff before requesting a formal 

amendment. 

This order is issued under authority 

delegated in 49 CFR 1.56a(f). 

Accordingly, 

1. Community proposals for funding 

under the Small Community Air Service 

Development Program should be 

submitted via http://www.grants.gov as 

an attachment to the SF424 no later than 

August 27, 2010; and 

2. This order will be published in the 

Federal Register and also will be served 

on the Conference of Mayors, the 

National League of Cities, the National 

Governors Association, the National 

Association of State Aviation Officials 

(NASAO), County Executives of 

America, the American Association of 

Airport Executives (AAAE), and the 

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America (ACI), and posted on http:// 

www.grants.gov. 

Susan L. Kurland, 

Assistant Secretary for Aviation and 

International Affairs. 

An electronic version of this document is 

available on the World Wide Web at 

http://www.regulations.gov. 

Appendix A—Small Community Air 

Service Development Program 

United States Code Annotated 

Title 49. Transportation 

Subtitle VII. Aviation Programs 

Part A. Air Commerce and Safety 

Subpart II. Economic Regulation 

Chapter 417. Operations of Carriers 

Subchapter II. Small Community Air 

Service 

➠§ 41743. Airports not receiving 

sufficient service 

(a) Small community air service 

development program.—The Secretary 

of Transportation shall establish a 

program that meets the requirements of 

this section for improving air carrier 

service to airports not receiving 

sufficient air carrier service. 

(b) Application required.—In order to 

participate in the program established 

under subsection (a), a community or 

consortium of communities shall submit 

an application to the Secretary in such 

form, at such time, and containing such 

information as the Secretary may 

require, including— 

(1) An assessment of the need of the 

community or consortium for access, or 

improved access, to the national air 

transportation system; and 

(2) an analysis of the application of 

the criteria in subsection (c) to that 

community or consortium. 

(c) Criteria for participation.—In 

selecting communities, or consortia of 

communities, for participation in the 

program established under subsection 

(a), the Secretary shall apply the 

following criteria: 

(1) Size.—For calendar year 1997, the 

airport serving the community or 

consortium was not larger than a small 

hub airport, and— 

(A) had insufficient air carrier service; 

or 

(B) had unreasonably high air fares. 

(2) Characteristics.—The airport 

presents characteristics, such as 

geographic diversity or unique 

circumstances, that will demonstrate the 

need for, and feasibility of, the program 

established under subsection (a). 

(3) State limit.—Not more than 4 

communities or consortia of 

communities, or a combination thereof, 

from the same State may be selected to 

participate in the program in any fiscal 

year. 

(4) Overall limit.—No more than 40 

communities or consortia of 

communities, or a combination thereof, 

may be selected to participate in the 

program in each year for which funds 

are appropriated for the program. 

No community, consortia of 

communities, nor combination thereof 

may participate in the program in 

support of the same project more than 

once, but any community, consortia of 

communities, or combination thereof 

may apply, subsequent to such 

participation, to participate in the 

program in support of a different 

project. 

(5) Priorities.—The Secretary shall 

give priority to communities or 

consortia of communities where— 

(A) Air fares are higher than the 

average air fares for all communities; 

(B) the community or consortium will 

provide a portion of the cost of the 

activity to be assisted under the program 

from local sources other than airport 

revenues; 

(C) the community or consortium has 

established, or will establish, a publicprivate partnership to facilitate air 

carrier service to the public; 

(D) the assistance will provide 

material benefits to a broad segment of 

the traveling public, including business, 

educational institutions, and other 

enterprises, whose access to the national 

air transportation system is limited; and 

(E) the assistance will be used in a 

timely fashion. 

(d) Types of assistance.—The 

Secretary may use amounts made 

available under this section— 

(1) To provide assistance to an air 

carrier to subsidize service to and from 

an underserved airport for a period not 

to exceed 3 years; 

(2) To provide assistance to an 

underserved airport to obtain service to 

and from the underserved airport; and 

(3) To provide assistance to an 

underserved airport to implement such 

other measures as the Secretary, in 

consultation with such airport, 

considers appropriate to improve air 

service both in terms of the cost of such 

service to consumers and the 

availability of such service, including 

improving air service through marketing 

and promotion of air service and 

enhanced utilization of airport facilities. 

(e) Authority to make agreements.— 

(1) In general.—The Secretary may 

make agreements to provide assistance 

under this section. 

(2) Authorization of appropriations.— 

There is authorized to be appropriated 

to the Secretary $20,000,000 for fiscal 

year 2001, $27,500,000 for each of fiscal 

years 2002 and 2003, and $35,000,000 

for each of fiscal years 2004 through 

2008 to carry out this section. Such 

sums shall remain available until 

expended. 

(f) Additional action.—Under the 

program established under subsection 

(a), the Secretary shall work with air 

carriers providing service to 

participating communities and major air 

carriers (as defined in section 

41716(a)(2)) serving large hub airports to 

facilitate joint-fare arrangements 

consistent with normal industry 

practice. 

(g) Designation of responsible 

official.—The Secretary shall designate 

an employee of the Department of 

Transportation— 

(1) To function as a facilitator 

between small communities and air 

carriers; 

(2) To carry out this section; 

(3) To ensure that the Bureau of 

Transportation Statistics collects data 

on passenger information to assess the 

service needs of small communities; 

(4) To work with and coordinate 

efforts with other Federal, State, and 

local agencies to increase the viability of 

service to small communities and the 

creation of aviation development zones; 

and 

(5) To provide policy 

recommendations to the Secretary and 

Congress that will ensure that small 

communities have access to quality, 

affordable air transportation services. 

(h) Air Service Development Zone.— 

The Secretary shall designate an airport 

in the program as an Air Service 

Development Zone and work with the 

community or consortium on means to 

attract business to the area surrounding 

the airport, to develop land use options 

for the area, and provide data, working 

with the Department of Commerce and 

other agencies. 

Appendix B—Small Community Air 

Service Development Program 

Docket DOT–OST–2010–0124 

Summary Information 

All applicants must submit this 

information with their proposal, along 

with a completed form SF424 on 

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A. Applicant Information: (Check All That Apply) 

b Not a Consortium b Interstate Consortium b Intrastate Consortium 

b Community now receives EAS subsidy 

b Community (or Consortium member) previously received a Small Community Grant 

If previous recipient: Date of grant: llllllllllll 

Expiration date of grant:llllllllllll 

B. Public/Private Partnerships: (List Organization names) 

Public Private 

1. 1. 

2. 2. 

3. 3. 

4. 4. 

5. 5. 

C. Project Proposal: (check all that apply) 

b Marketing b Upgrade Aircraft b New Route 

b Personnel b Increase Frequency b Low Fare Service 

b Travel Bank b Service Restoration b Subsidy 

b Surface Transportation b Regional Service b Other (specify) 

b Revenue Guarantee b Launch New Carrier b llllllll 

b Start Up Cost Offset b First Service b llllllll 

b Study b Secure Additional Carrier b llllllll 

D. Existing Landing Aids at Local Airport: 

b Full ILS b Outer/Middle Marker b Published Instrument Approach 

b Localizer b Other (specify) 

E. Project Cost: 

1. Federal amount requested: llllllllllllllllllll 

2. State cash financial contribution: llllllllllllllllllll 

3. Local cash financial contribution. 

3a. Airport cash funds: llllllllllllllllllll 

3b. Non-airport cash funds: llllllllllllllllllll 

3c. Total local cash funds (3a. + 3b.): llllllllllllllllllll 

4. TOTAL CASH FUNDING (1. + 2. + 3c.): llllllllllllllllllll 

5. Local funds contributed from already-existing programs or 

projects included in line 3c. amount: 

llllllllllllllllllll 

6. Local funds contributed from new commitments or new resources included in line 3c. amount: llllllllllllllllllll 

7. Airport In-Kind contribution: llllllllllllllllllll 

(amount & description) 

8. Other In-Kind contribution: llllllllllllllllllll 

(amount & description) 

9. TOTAL IN-KIND CONTRIBUTION (7. + 8.): llllllllllllllllllll 

10. TOTAL PROJECT COST (4. + 9.): llllllllllllllllllll 

F. Enplanements: 

2000 lllllllllllllllll 2004lllllllllllllllll 2008lllllllllllllllll 

2001lllllllllllllllll 2005lllllllllllllllll 2009lllllllllllllllll 

2002lllllllllllllllll 2006lllllllllllllllll 

2003lllllllllllllllll 2007lllllllllllllllll 

G. Is This Application Subject To Review by State Under Executive Order 12372 Process? 

b a. This application was made available to the State under the Executive Order 12372 Process for review on (date) llllll 

b b. Program is subject to E.O. 12372, but has not been selected by the State for review. 

b c. Program is not covered by E.O. 12372. 

H. Is the Applicant Delinquent on Any Federal Debt? (If ‘‘Yes’’, Provide Explanation) 

b No b Yes (explain) llllllllllllllllllll 


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[FR Doc. 2010–18731 Filed 7–29–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–62–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Requests for Comments; 

Clearance of Renewed Approval of 

Information Collection(s): Verification 

of Authenticity of Foreign License, 

Rating and Medical Certification 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA 

invites public comments about our 

intention to request the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval to renew an information 

collection. The information being 

collected is used to properly identify 

airmen to allow the agency to verify 

their foreign license being used to 

qualify for a U.S. certificate. The 

respondents are holders of foreign 

licenses wishing to obtain a U.S. 

certificate. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

submitted by September 28, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carla Scott on (202) 267–9895, or by email at: Carla.Scott@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 2120–0724. 

Title: Verification of Authenticity of 

Foreign License, Rating and Medical 

Certification. 

Form Numbers: FAA form 8060–71. 

Type of Review: Renewal of a 

currently-approved information 

collection. 

Background: The information 

collected is used to properly identify 

airmen to allow the agency to verify 

their foreign license being used to 

qualify for a U.S. certificate. The 

respondents are holders of foreign 

licenses wishing to obtain a U.S. 

certificate. Per the General Aviation 

Operations Inspector’s Handbook, Order 

8700.1, a person who is applying for a 

U.S. pilot certificate/rating on the basis 

of a foreign-pilot license must apply for 

verification of that pilot license at least 

90 days before arriving at the designated 

FAA FSDO where the applicant intends 

to receive the U.S. pilot certificate. 

Affected Public: An estimated 5,400 

respondents. 

Frequency: The information is 

collected on occasion. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: Approximately 10 minutes 

per response. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: An 

estimated 900 hours annually. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to the FAA 

at the following address: Ms. Carla 

Scott, Room 712, Federal Aviation 

Administration, IT Enterprises Business 

Services Division, AES–200, 800 

Independence Ave., SW., Washington, 

DC 20591. 

PUBLIC COMMENTS INVITED: You are asked 

to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for FAA’s 

performance; (b) the accuracy of the 

estimated burden; (c) ways for FAA to 

enhance the quality, utility and clarity 

of the information collection; and (d) 

ways that the burden could be 

minimized without reducing the quality 

of the collected information. The agency 

will summarize and/or include your 

comments in the request for OMB’s 

clearance of this information collection. 

Issued in Washington, DC on July 26, 2010. 

Carla Scott, 

FAA Information Collection Clearance 

Officer, IT Enterprises Business Services 

Division, AES–200. 

[FR Doc. 2010–18783 Filed 7–29–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Requests for Comments; 

Clearance of Renewed Approval of 

Information Collection(s): Flight 

Standards Customer Satisfaction 

Survey 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA 

invites public comments about our 

intention to request the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval to renew an information 

collection. The Federal Register Notice 

with a 60-day comment period soliciting 

comments on the following collection of 

information was published on May 11, 

2010, vol. 75, no. 90, page 26318. The 

FAA has initiated customer service 

surveys throughout the agency, 

requiring that every element have 

contact with their customers to assure 

that their needs are being met and that 

service is improved. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

submitted by August 30, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carla Scott on (202) 267–9895, or by email at: Carla.Scott@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB 

Control Number: 2120–0568. 

Title: Flight Standards Customer 

Satisfaction Survey. 

Form Numbers: There are no FAA 

forms associated with this collection. 

Type of Review: Renewal of a 

currently-approved information 

collection. 

Background: The FAA has initiated 

customer service surveys throughout the 

agency, requiring that every element 

have contact with their customers to 

assure that their needs are being met 

and that service is improved. Survey 

data collected from Flight Standards 

customers are analyzed by Flight 

Standards Service, Organizational 

Resources and Program Management 

Division, and the General Aviation, 

Commercial and Maintenance Divisions. 

Affected Public: An estimated 5,000 

respondents. 

Frequency: The information is 

collected on occasion. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: Approximately 10 minutes 

per response. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: An 

estimated 542 hours annually. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments on 

the proposed information collection to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget. Comments should be addressed 

to the attention of the Desk Officer, 

Department of Transportation/FAA, and 

sent via electronic mail to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov, or faxed 

to (202) 395–6974, or mailed to the 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, Docket Library, Room 10102, 

725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20503. 

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for FAA’s 

performance; (b) the accuracy of the 

estimated burden; (c) ways for FAA to 

enhance the quality, utility and clarity 

of the information collection; and (d) 

ways that the burden could be 

minimized without reducing the quality 

of the collected information. The agency 

will summarize and/or include your 

comments in the request for OMB’s 

clearance of this information collection. 


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