Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 25 - Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission › Chapter 15 - OAC Airport Construction Program › Section 25:15-1-2 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
The following words or terms, when used in this Chapter, shall
				have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates
				otherwise:
"Administrative official"
means an official of the
				airport sponsor who is authorized to legally bind the airport sponsor.
"Airport Construction Program"
means a list of
				airport construction projects approved by the Commission for implementation
				within a five-year programming horizon showing a description of the project,
				the cost of each phase of the project, when the project is expected to occur,
				and the sources of funding.
"Airport Development Worksheet"
means a listing of
				the capital projects needed at an airport over a twenty-year planning horizon
				together with the estimated cost, construction type, objective code, and
				airport component for each project. Projects identified for a particular
				airport must be consistent with the service level, functional classification,
				design standard, and airport reference code identified for the airport in the
				Oklahoma Airport System Plan. An airport development worksheet is developed and
				maintained for each system plan airport that is not part of the National Plan
				of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) cooperatively by the airport sponsor and
				the Commission staff.
"Airport layout plan/drawing"
means the basic plan
				for the layout of an airport that shows, at a minimum, the present boundaries
				of the airport, the areas that the airport sponsor owns or controls for airport
				purposes, and any proposed areas that will be acquired by the airport sponsor
				in the future. It will include the location and nature of existing and proposed
				airport facilities such as runways, taxiways, aprons, terminal buildings,
				hangars, roads, and other vital airport infrastructure items. Also, it will
				provide the location of existing and proposed uses of property under control by
				the airport sponsor. The full airport layout plan-set is a combination of many
				pages of documents, including items such as instrument approach path details,
				terminal area maps, property maps, and the page that is identified as the
				airport layout drawing. Not every airport will have a full plan-set and may
				only have an airport layout drawing which will detail most of the above
				information on a single page drawing.
"Airport Sponsor"
or
"Municipality"
is used interchangeably throughout this chapter. Either term means any
				incorporated city, village, or town of this state, any public institution of
				higher education, and any county or political subdivision or district of this
				state, or any public trust thereof, which is, or may be, authorized by law to
				acquire, establish, construct, maintain, improve, and operate airports,
				airstrips, and aeronautical facilities. To be eligible for the state grant
				program, the airport sponsor must be one of the governmental entities
				referenced in the preceding sentence and included in the Oklahoma Airport
				System Plan. Nothing herein precludes two or more of these entities from acting
				jointly as an airport sponsor. In the event a public trust is the airport
				sponsor, the beneficiary of that public trust must also be a record owner of
				the airport property.
"Airport Sponsor Matching Share"
means any funds
				provided by the airport, municipality or public trust, or any other source of
				funding that is not FAA.
"Commission"
means the Oklahoma Aeronautics
				Commission, the state agency responsible for administering airport grant
				programs for the State of Oklahoma and the Federal Aviation Administration.
"Emergency"
means a condition that could not have
				been foreseen and which affects the safety of the airport sufficiently that the
				airport or runway may need to be closed if the situation is not remedied.
"FAA"
means the Federal Aviation Administration, a
				unit of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
"Letter of Interest"
means a letter expressing the
				desire of an airport sponsor to have one or more projects included in the
				Airport Construction Program.
"Non- Primary Entitlement (NPE) funds"
are FAA
				Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funds set aside for general aviation airports
				listed in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. These airports can
				each receive up to $150,000 per year based on the FAA assessment of needs over
				a 5 year period.
"Notification Letter"
means correspondence
				prepared by the Commission staff informing an airport sponsor that one or more
				of their projects have advanced to the current year of the Airport Construction
				Program. The letter sets forth the terms the Commission imposes on airport
				sponsors participating in the state grant program, describes the project,
				authorizes the airport sponsor to begin engineering work for the project and
				directs the sponsor to prepare a grant application once project bids have been
				received.
"Oklahoma Airport System Plan"
means the plan,
				adopted by the Commission, which identifies the airports included in the
				State's airport system and identifies the service level, functional
				classification, design standard, and airport reference code for each system
				airport.
"Project Sketch"
shown in color the area and
				location of proposed construction or rehabilitation work for the accompanying
				construction grant application.
Added at 14 Ok Reg 2844,
				eff 7-11-97; Amended at 21 Ok Reg 2959, eff 7-25-04; Amended at 23 Ok Reg 3159,
				eff 4-3-06 (emergency); Amended at 23 Ok Reg 3205, eff 9-11-06; Amended at 29
				Ok Reg 451, eff 5-11-12