The Department of Transportation (DOT), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), announces the opportunity to apply for $20 million in FY 2023 Airport Infrastructure Grant funds for the FAA Contract Tower (FCT) Competitive Grant Program, made available under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021, herein referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL).
Donor Name: U.S. Department of Transportation
States: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/06/2022
Size of the Grant: $20,000,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The purpose of the FCT Competitive Grant Program is to make annual grants available to eligible airports for airport-owned airport traffic control tower (ATCT) projects that address the aging infrastructure of the nation’s airports.
Award Information
This NOFO announces up to $20,000,000, subject to availability of funds, for the Fiscal Year 2023 FCT Competitive Grant Program. The FCT Competitive Grant Program is a $100 million grant program, distributed as $20 million annually for five years (Fiscal Years 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026).
Eligible Applicants
Eligible applicants are those airport sponsors approved in the FAA’s contract tower program or contract tower cost share program as defined in 49 U.S.C. 47124, and normally eligible for Airport Improvement Program (AIP) discretionary grants as defined in 49 U.S.C. 47115. The eligible applicants include a public agency, private entity, state agency, Indian Tribe, or Pueblo owning a public-use National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) airport, the Secretary of the Interior for Midway Island airport, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau.
- County governments
- Special district governments
- City or township governments
- Others
- State governments
Project Eligibility
All projects funded from the FCT Competitive Grant Program must be:
- Airport-owned ATCT projects that sustain, construct, repair, improve, rehabilitate, modernize, replace, or relocate nonapproach control towers;
- Projects that acquire and install air traffic control, communications, and related equipment to be used in those towers; or
- Projects to construct a remote tower certified by the FAA, including acquisition and installation of air traffic control, communications, or related equipment.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
