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Airports pressing for grants and tower replacements; FAA names apportionment timeline and NEPA streamlining steps
Summary
Committee members pressed FAA on grant timing, tower replacement prioritization and NEPA streamlining. FAA said AIP apportionment is complete, discretionary and IIJA awards are moving and described formula and environmental-review actions to accelerate airport development.
Members of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure asked FAA officials about delays in grant disbursements, aging air traffic control towers and environmental review timelines for airport projects.
Mr. Heibeck (FAA airports office) told the committee the $4 billion increase in the Airport Improvement Program required an apportionment before grants could be issued; that apportionment had just been completed and grants were being programmed. He confirmed an announced IIJA allocation of $790…
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