Document ID: FAA-2011-0786-0003
Agency: faa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Airport Improvement Program; Deadline for Notification of Intent to Use Entitlement Funds: Primary, Cargo, and Nonprimary Entitlement Funds; Fiscal Year 2013
Posted Date: 2013-04-03T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 64 (Wednesday, April 3, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 20167]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-07714]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

[Docket No: FAA-2011-0786]

Deadline for Notification of Intent To Use the Airport 
Improvement Program (AIP) Primary, Cargo, and Nonprimary Entitlement 
Funds for Fiscal Year 2013

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces May 1, 
2013, as the deadline for each airport sponsor to notify the FAA 
whether or not it will use its fiscal year 2013 entitlement funds 
available under Section 47105(f) of Title 49, United States Code, to 
accomplish Airport Improvement Program (AIP)-eligible projects that the 
sponsor previously identified through the Airports Capital Improvement 
Plan (ACIP) process during the preceding year.
    The sponsor's notification must address all entitlement funds 
apportioned for fiscal year 2013, as well as any funds unused from 
prior years. After Friday, July 26, 2013, the FAA will carry over all 
remaining entitlement funds, and the funds will not be available again 
until at least the beginning of fiscal year 2014. This notification 
requirement does not apply to non-primary airports covered by the 
block-grant program.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Frank J. San Martin, Manager, 
Airports Financial Assistance Division, APP-500, on (202) 267-3831.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title 49 of the United States Code, section 
47105(f), provides that the sponsor of each airport to which funds are 
apportioned shall notify the Secretary by such time and in a form as 
prescribed by the Secretary, of the sponsor's intent to apply for its 
apportioned funds, also called entitlement funds. Therefore, the FAA is 
hereby notifying sponsors about steps required to ensure that the FAA 
has sufficient time to carry over and convert remaining entitlement 
funds, due to processes required under federal laws. This notice 
applies only to those airports that have had entitlement funds 
apportioned to them, except those nonprimary airports located in 
designated Block Grant States. Sponsors intending to apply for any of 
their available entitlement funds, including those unused from prior 
years, shall submit by 12:00 p.m. prevailing local time on Wednesday, 
May 1, 2013, a written indication to the designated Airports District 
Office (or Regional Office in regions without Airports District 
Offices) their intent to submit a grant application no later than close 
of business Friday, July 26, 2013, to use their fiscal year 2013 
entitlement funds available under Title 49 of the United States Code, 
section 47105(f). This notice must address all entitlement funds 
apportioned for fiscal year 2013 including those unused from prior 
years. By Friday, June 28, 2013, airport sponsors that have not yet 
submitted a final application to the FAA, should notify the FAA of any 
issues with meeting the final application deadline of July 26, 2013. 
Absent notification by the May 1st deadline and/or subsequent 
notification of any issues by the June 28th deadline, the FAA will 
proceed after Friday, July 26, 2013 to take action to carry over all 
remaining entitlement funds without further notice, and the funds will 
not be available again until at least the beginning of fiscal year 
2014.
    This notice is promulgated to expedite and prioritize the grant-
making process.
    The AIP grant program is operating under the requirements of Public 
Law 112--91, the ``FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012,'' enacted 
on February 14, 2012, which authorizes the FAA through September 30, 
2015 and the ``Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 
2013'' which appropriates FY 2013 funds for the AIP.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on March 28, 2013.
Elliott Black,
Deputy Director, Office of Airport Planning and Programming.
[FR Doc. 2013-07714 Filed 4-2-13; 8:45 am]
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