Title 49 › Subtitle SUBTITLE VII— - AVIATION PROGRAMS › Part PART B— - AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT AND NOISE › Chapter CHAPTER 471— - AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT › § 47105
A project grant can be applied for by the airport’s sponsor. A State can apply as the only sponsor for projects or planning that help one or more airports in that State if every airport sponsor agrees in writing, the Secretary of Transportation agrees it makes sense, and there is an agreement that the State will follow the grant conditions and promises. Before starting an airport project, the sponsor must talk with the airport users who will be affected. A public agency still must follow its State’s laws. An application must explain the project, be for a public-use airport listed in the national plan, meet the Secretary’s standards for things like site, layout, paving, lighting, and safe approaches, and use the form and information the Secretary requires. A State may have its own approved standards for nonprimary public-use airports instead of the Secretary’s standards, and the Secretary or State can update those standards. If a State asks for help making pavement standards, the Secretary must give technical help within 30 days and keep helping until the standards are approved, saying what local conditions and materials are acceptable. The Secretary can require sponsors to certify they will follow the rules and can withdraw that acceptance. After January 1, 1995, pavement replacement or reconstruction grants are allowed only if the airport has an effective pavement maintenance-management program; the Secretary may ask for condition reports. Sponsors who get money apportioned under section 47114(c) must tell the Secretary which fiscal year they plan to submit their grant application, following the Secretary’s timing and information rules.
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49 U.S.C. § 47105
Title 49 — Transportation
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Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73