Transport i lotnictwo · 02/06/1997

Airport Improvement Program Grant Assurances; Proposed Modifications and Opportunity To Comment

The FAA proposes to modify the standard grant assurances required of a sponsor before receiving a grant under the Airport Improvement Program (AIP). Pursuant to applicable law, the Secretary of Transportation is required to provide notice in the Federal Register and an opportunity for the public to comment upon proposals to modify the assurances or to require any additional AIP assurances. These modifications are necessary for two reasons. First, much of Federal transportation law was repealed and reenacted without substantive change by enactment of the Codification of Certain U.S. Transportation Laws as Title 49, United States Code, Public Law 103- 272, 108 Stat. 745 (July 5, 1994). Aviation programs, including the AIP, are now found in Subtitle VII of Title 49, rather than the original statutes under which those programs were originally established. Consequently, statutory citations in the existing grant assurances are now obsolete and the modifications published here cite current law. Second, Public Law 103-272 was amended by enactment of the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 1996, Public Law 104-264 (October 9, 1996) (The 1996 Act), which made substantive c