The FAA will award $66.2 million from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to airports in 23 states and Puerto Rico in 2024.
Among the 66 projects that will be funded in the coming year, approximately $3.2 million will be used to rehabilitate airport terminals, including:
- $133,770 at Yakima Air Terminal/McAllister Field in Yakima, Washington
- $1,797,035 at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport in Amarillo, Texas
- $1,278,900 at Great Falls International Airport in Great Falls, Montana
Approximately $1 million will be used to purchase snow removal equipment, including:
- $924,790 at Lewiston/Nez Perce County in Idaho
- $145,497 at Myers Field in Canby, Minnesota
Approximately $1.8 million will be used to rehabilitate towers, including:
- $1,610,100 at Rafael Hernandez in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
- $190,294 at Joplin Regional in Missouri
$69,866 will be used to purchase aircraft fire and rescue equipment, including:
- $30,000 at Liberal Mid-America Regional Airport in Kansas
- $39,866 at McNary Field in Salem, Oregon
A full list of all grants is available on the FAA website.
Excellent news, airport always need support for maintenance and improvements
“Grant” is just another word for taxes. How much more would have been available if left at the airport where the tax collected, not sent first to The Swamp, then back to state authorities who eventually choose between whom they consider winners and losers – with all kinds of shadowy middle-men involved, pulling strings to their favor? Privatize everything and we’d be far better off.
When earning my MBA I learned about the big problem of what we now call “privatization.” It is due in large part to a principle called “suboptimization” where the benefits of a facility or infrastructure intended to serve the public interest get sidetracked into suboptimizing its operation for the financial benefit of the new so called owners. This is just as bad if not worse when private interests are in charge rather than when representatives of the public are responsible.
Frankly, so called privatization is simply another scheme for corporate scale grifters ripping off publicly owned properties for private benefit.
Yes there are often inefficiencies and graft in our political mechanisms which need stronger oversight and protections to prevent such abuse. But open public processes are more likely to result in needed corrections than the kind of abuses that happen continuously in the board rooms and offices of private corporations.
Not sure about that!