§47135 — Title 49 Transportation | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of Transportation can approve up to 30 applications each fiscal year from airport sponsors at airports that are not large hub airports to use federal airport grants for innovative financing tied to an airport development project. The grants must be used to learn about the benefits and problems of these financing methods, lower the project’s total cost, or speed up project delivery without cutting safety or harming the environment. These financing methods cannot create a direct or indirect U.S. Government guarantee of any airport debt. They include paying interest; commercial bond insurance and other credit support for airport bonds; flexible non‑Federal matching rules; using funds apportioned under section 47114 to pay principal and interest for terminal development costs incurred before the date of the enactment of this section; and any other techniques the Secretary finds consistent with these goals.

Title 49, §47135

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(a)(1)The Secretary of Transportation may approve an application by an airport sponsor to use grants received under this subchapter for innovative financing techniques related to an airport development project that is located at an airport that is not a large hub airport.

(2)The Secretary may approve not more than 30 applications described under paragraph (1) in a fiscal year.

(b)The purpose of grants made under this section shall be to—

(1)provide information on the benefits and difficulties of using innovative financing techniques for airport development projects;

(2)lower the total cost of an airport development project; or

(3)expedite the delivery or completion of an airport development project without reducing safety or causing environmental harm.

(c)(1)In no case shall the implementation of an innovative financing technique under this section be used in a manner giving rise to a direct or indirect guarantee of any airport debt instrument by the United States Government.

(2)In this section, innovative financing techniques are limited to—

(A)payment of interest;

(B)commercial bond insurance and other credit enhancement associated with airport bonds for eligible airport development;

(C)flexible non-Federal matching requirements;

(D)use of funds apportioned under section 47114 for the payment of principal and interest of terminal development for costs incurred before the date of the enactment of this section; and

(E)any other techniques that the Secretary determines are consistent with the purposes of this section.

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The date of the enactment of this section, referred to in subsec. (c)(2)(D), is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 106–181, which was approved Apr. 5, 2000.

Amendments

2024—Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 118–63, § 721(1), added subsecs. (a) and (b) and struck out former subsecs. (a) and (b) which read as follows: “(a) In General.—The Secretary of Transportation may approve, after the date of enactment of the Vision 100—Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act, applications for not more than 20 airport development projects for which grants received under this subchapter may be used for innovative financing techniques. Such projects shall be located at airports that each year have less than .25 percent of the total number of passenger boardings each year at all commercial service airports in the most recent calendar year for which data is available. “(b) Purpose.—The purpose of grants made under this section shall be to provide information on the benefits and difficulties of using innovative financing techniques for airport development projects.” Subsec. (c)(2)(E). Pub. L. 118–63, § 721(2), added subpar. (E). 2003—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 108–176 inserted “, after the date of enactment of the Vision 100—Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act,” after “approve” in first sentence.

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of 2003 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 108–176 applicable only to fiscal years beginning after Sept. 30, 2003, except as otherwise specifically provided, see section 3 of Pub. L. 108–176, set out as a note under section 106 of this title.

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Section applicable only to fiscal years beginning after Sept. 30, 1999, see section 3 of Pub. L. 106–181, set out as an

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of 2000

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note under section 106 of this title.

§47135 Innovative Financing Techniques

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