Document ID: FAA-2016-6596-0054
Agency: faa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Passenger Facility Charge Program: Eligibility of Ground Access Projects Meeting Certain Criteria
Posted Date: 2021-08-31T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 166 (Tuesday, August 31, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48793-48794]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-18684]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

[Docket No: FAA-2016-6596]

Passenger Facility Charge (PFC) Program: Eligibility of Ground 
Access Projects Meeting Certain Criteria

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of availability of the Passenger Facility Charge (PFC) 
Update 75-21: Eligibility of on-airport rail access projects.

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SUMMARY: FAA is announcing the availability of PFC Update 75-21 that 
makes rail lines that do not exclusively serve the airport PFC 
eligible, and provides several methodologies for calculating the PFC-
eligible costs.

DATES: This PFC update on the use of PFC funding for on-airport, rail 
access projects was effective on January 12, 2021.

ADDRESSES: To access the PFC update, please use: https://www.faa.gov/airports/pfc/pfc_updates/.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dennis Walsh, Financial Analysis and 
Passenger Facility Charge Branch, APP-510, Federal Aviation 
Administration, 800 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20591, 
telephone (202) 267-9593; facsimile (202) 267-5302.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 123 of the FAA Reauthorization Act 
of 2018 (Pub. L. 115-254) required FAA to publish in the Federal 
Register a final policy amendment consistent with the notice published 
in the Federal Register on May 3, 2016 (81 FR 26611). On January 12, 
2021, FAA issued a final policy amendment on the eligibility of on-
airport rail access projects.
    This PFC update amends FAA policy previously published in 2004, 
Notice of Policy Regarding Eligibility of Airport Ground Access 
Transportation Projects for Funding Under the Passenger Facility Charge 
Program (69 FR 6366) (the 2004 Policy), to make rail lines that do not 
exclusively serve the airport PFC eligible, and provides several 
methodologies for calculating the PFC-eligible costs. The FAA will 
apply the 2004 Policy to all other ground access projects using PFC 
funds. FAA has posted PFC Update 75-21: Eligibility of on-airport rail 
access projects on the FAA Office of Airports website: https://www.faa.gov/airports/pfc/pfc_updates/.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on August 25, 2021.
Robert J. Craven,
Director of Airport Planning and Programming.
[FR Doc. 2021-18684 Filed 8-30-21; 8:45 am]
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