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Members press FAA on grant backlogs, PFAS cleanup funding and contract towers for busy regional airports
Summary
Lawmakers sought updates on FAA grant processing delays, use of categorical exclusions to speed airport projects, PFAS remediation funding for airports and consideration of Pinal Airpark for a contract tower under reauthorization provisions.
Several members used the appropriations hearing to press the FAA about grant review times, airport project approvals, PFAS remediation funding and the contract tower program for busy multiuse airports.
Why it matters: Airport construction and maintenance depend on timely FAA approvals and grant disbursements; unresolved PFAS liabilities and slow approvals can delay projects and increase local costs.
Representative Rushlow asked whether FAA could set response deadlines for project approvals; the administrator said reauthorization sets a 45-day deadline for certain actions…
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