Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Airport Terminal and Tower Project Information
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
08/02/2022
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
08/31/2022
755
510
4,530
3,060
543,600
342,720
This is the renewal of a collection, original given emergency approval in February 2022, to solicit the data necessary to help the FAA evaluate and select airport terminal and tower projects for funding under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) (P.L. 117-58) , signed on November 15, 2021. The BIL provides $1,020,000,000 annually, for five years, to award competitive discretionary grants for airport terminal and tower development. Of this amount, about $1,000,000,000 annually is for the Airport Terminal Program (ATP), and $20,000,000 annually is for an Airport-owned Contract Tower Program (FCT). Airport owners and managers (sponsors) who elect to compete for funding and obtain benefits from the BIL Airport Terminal and Tower Programs will submit project information. The information collected is based on grant considerations outlined in the BIL and allows the FAA to evaluate and distribute BIL funds to address aging infrastructure at the nationâs airports. Some 3,075 airports are eligible to participate in the BIL Airport Terminal Program and about 170 for the Tower Program, though not all will have a project that fits the criteria outlined in the BIL.
PL:
Pub.L. 117 - 58 801
Name of Law: Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (also known as Bipartisan Infrastructure Law);
PL: Pub.L. 117 - 58 801 Name of Law: Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (also known as Bipartisan Infrastructure Law)
Based on the number of applicants who responded to the first round of funding for BIL grants, we have increased the number of expected annual applicants from 510 to 755. This has resulted in a corresponding increase in both the expected annual burden and annualized cost to airports. We also made small adjustments to the collection instrument (FAA Form 5100-144). These add short-response questions (current stage of project, date project costs were known, age of the tower), eliminate or consolidate other short-response questions, and expand character limits in open text fields. This latter change was made at the request of applicants who thought it would be less burdensome if they did not have to edit responses to fit the previous limits. As a while, we do not expect these adjustments to the instrument will impact the collection burden.
$483,200
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Janel Showalter 781 238-7617
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
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