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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 238 (Wednesday, December 11, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 99960-99961]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-29036]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

[Docket No: FAA-2025-2674]

Deadline for Notification of Intent To Use the Airport 
Improvement Program (AIP) Primary, Cargo, Nonprimary Entitlement Funds, 
and Discretionary Funds Available to Date for Fiscal Year 2025

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT

ACTION: Federal Register Notice.

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SUMMARY: This action announces April 1, 2025, as the deadline for each 
airport sponsor to notify the FAA if it will use its Fiscal Year (FY) 
2025 entitlement funds (referred to as apportionments) to accomplish 
Airport Improvement Program (AIP) eligible projects. Each sponsor has 
previously identified to the FAA such projects through the Airports 
Capital Improvement Plan (ACIP) process. This action also announces 
April 28, 2025, as the deadline for an airport sponsor to submit a 
final grant application, based on bids, for grants that will be funded 
with FY 2025 entitlement 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 118-63, the 
``Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act, 2024,'' enacted 
on May 16, 2024, which permits the FAA to make grants for planning and 
airport development and airport noise compatibility under the AIP 
through September 30, 2028. As of this notice, the funds allocated to 
the FAA to fund the AIP grant program are appropriated through December 
20, 2024, by Public Law 118-83, the ``Continuing Appropriations and 
Extensions Act, 2025,'' enacted on September 26, 2024. 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 appropriated for FY 2025 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 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 12:00 p.m. prevailing 
local time on April 1, 2025.
    This notice must be in writing and stipulate the total amount the 
sponsor intends to use for eligible and justified projects during FY 
2025, 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

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efficient planning and administration of the AIP. Absent the 
notification of intent to submit a grant application by the above-
mentioned deadline, the FAA will carry over the available entitlement 
funds on May 16, 2025. These funds will not be available again to the 
airport sponsor until the beginning of FY 2026.
    The final grant application deadline for entitlement funds only is 
Monday, April 28, 2025. The final grant application funding requests 
should be based on bids, not estimates. Dates are subject to possible 
adjustment based on future legislation. As of the publication of this 
notice, the appropriations and the authorization legislation for the 
FAA expire on December 20, 2024, and September 30, 2028, respectively.
    Sponsors wishing to be considered for AIP discretionary funding 
throughout FY 2025 should submit applications as soon as possible to 
FAA Regional or Airport District Offices. The FAA considers all 
applications submitted if they meet all existing laws, Federal 
regulations, and FAA policy.
    The FAA considers applications on a rolling basis. The final 
deadline to submit grant applications competing for discretionary 
funding, in addition to entitlement funding, is June 16, 2025, by 11:59 
p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. Under 49 U.S.C. 47115, the FAA considers 
projects that are the most appropriate to carry out the statute at any 
time prior to September 30, 2025.
    The FAA has determined these deadlines will expedite and facilitate 
the FY 2025 grant-making process.

    Issued in Washington, DC on December 5, 2024.
David F. Cushing,
Manager, Airports Financial Assistance Division.
[FR Doc. 2024-29036 Filed 12-10-24; 8:45 am]
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