FY 2025 Notice of Funding Opportunity: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) FAA Contract Tower (FCT) Competitive Grant Program
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- FAA-ARP-BIL-G-24-003
- Agency
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Department of Transportation
- Applications due
- Award size
- $25,000 to $20,000,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Category
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- Transportation
- Eligible applicants
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- Other
- City/Township Governments
- State Governments
- County Governments
- Special District Governments
- Full announcement
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Department of Transportation (DOT), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is offering a $20 million grant opportunity in FY 2025 for the FCT (FAA Contract Tower) Competitive Grant Program. The purpose of this program is to provide funding for airport-owned air traffic control tower (ATCT) projects that address the aging infrastructure at the nation's airports. Eligible activities include sustaining, constructing, repairing, improving, rehabilitating, modernizing, replacing, or relocating non-approach control towers, as well as acquiring and installing related air traffic control, communications, and equipment. The grants will align with the DOT's strategic framework and the priorities outlined in Executive Order 14052. Applications are due by September 18, 2024.
The grant awards under this program can range from hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of dollars, with project periods often spanning 4 years to allow for design, construction, and closeout phases. The grants are available to eligible applicants, including other, city/township, state, county, and special district governments. The projects will be performed at various airports across the United States, both large international and smaller regional/municipal facilities.
Synopsis
The Department of Transportation (DOT), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces the opportunity to apply for $20 million in FY 2025 Airport Infrastructure Grant funds for the FCT competitive grant program, made available under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA), Pub. L. 117-58, herein referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). 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. The FAA will consider ATCT projects that sustain, construct, repair, improve, rehabilitate, modernize, replace, or relocate non-approach control towers; or acquire and install air traffic control, communications, and related equipment to be used in those towers; or construct a remote tower certified by the FAA including acquisition and installation of air traffic control, communications, or related equipment.
In addition, FT grants will align with DOT's Strategic Framework FY2022-2026 at https://www.transportation.gov/administrations/office-policy/fy2022-2026-strategic-framework. The FY 2025 FCT will be implemented consistent with law and in alignment with the priorities in Executive Order 14052, Implementation of the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act (86 FR 64355), which are to invest efficiently and equitably; promote the competitiveness of the U.S. economy; improve job opportunities by focusing on high labor standards; strengthen infrastructure resilience to all hazards including climate change; and to effectively coordinate with State, local, Tribal, and territorial government partners.
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