Joe Bates
US Transportation Secretary, Elaine Chao, announces that the Department will award $986 million in airport infrastructure grants to 354 airports in 44 states and Puerto Rico and Micronesia.
This is the fifth allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
Some of the grant awards include:
- Burlington International Airportin Vermont, $16 million – grant funds will be used to reconstruct Taxiway G.
- International Falls Airportin Minnesota, $15.9 million – the airport owner will use the grant to reconstruct Runway 13/31.
- Grant County International Airportin Washington, $10 million – the airport owner will reconstruct Runway 14L/32R.
- Kenai Municipal Airportin Alaska, $6.5 million – the grant will fund the construction of an aircraft rescue and firefighting training facility.
- Philadelphia International Airportin Pennsylvania, $13.4 million – funds will be used to reconstruct Taxiway K.
- St. Pete-Clearwater International Airportin Florida, $19.7 million – the airport will rehabilitate Runway 18/36.
