Grant Assurance 11 – Pavement Preventive Maintenance
Grant Assurance 11 requires airports to implement a Pavement Preventive Maintenance program. This is designed to ensure the pavement’s useful life is within the expectations … Read More
Grant Assurance 10 – Metropolitan Planning Organization
Grant Assurance 10 – Metropolitan Planning Organization has a couple of criteria for applicability. First, it must be for a federally funded project that involves … Read More
Grant Assurance 9 – Public Hearings
For Grant Assurance 9 – Public Hearings, if the project involves a new airport, a new runway, or a runway extension, a public hearing is … Read More
Grant Assurance 8 – Consultation With Users
Prior to beginning a federally funded project, the airport operator must consult with affected users. The manner in which the consultation occurs is up to … Read More
Grant Assurance 7 – Consideration of Local Interest
Grant Assurance 7 simply requires that airports take the local communities’ interest in a project into consideration. To do so, they should coordinate with the … Read More
Grant Assurance 6 – Consistency with Local Plans
Grant Assurance 6 requires airports to ensure consistency with plans for development around the airport. [1]https://www.faa.gov/airports/aip/grant_assurances/media/airport-sponsor-assurances-aip-2020.pdf The project is reasonably consistent with plans (existing at … Read More
Revenue Diversion
Generally speaking, revenue generated by the airport, must stay with the airport. The basis of the US civil aviation system is founded upon the principle … Read More
Airport Lease Agreements
Leases are contracts between parties to provide access to land, property, or a service from one party to another for a specified time period and … Read More
Grant Assurance 4 – Good Title
Grant Assurance 4 – Good Title is a requirement that the airport sponsor holds the title to the airport where the federally funded project will … Read More
Grant Assurance 3 – Sponsor Fund Availability
See Grant Assurances for the broad overview of the obligations on airports who receive federal funding. Grant Assurance 3 – Sponsor Fund Availability addresses the … Read More
