The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced more than $332 million for 171 grants across 32 states to modernize airports through the Airport Infrastructure Grants (AIG) program. In total, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law included $25 billion over five years for airport and air traffic control infrastructure improvements.
The AIG funds can be used for airport planning, development, sustainability, terminal expansions, baggage system upgrades, runway safety enhancements, and noise compatibility projects. The largest grants in the latest tranche of awards went to Salt Lake City International Airport ($93.3 million for taxiway construction) and to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport ($83.4 for taxiway construction).
“We are using funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to make historic investments in our nation’s airports to address a backlog of needs and accommodate growing air travel demand,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “These investments – some already completed and many more still underway – ensure the traveling public will have safer and more accessible and efficient airports for decades to come.”
Today’s funding is from one of three aviation grant programs created by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. To date, nearly $12 billion of the $15 billion total of AIG funding has been made available to airports across all 50 states.
