Grant County Port Dist 9

Grant County Port Dist 9, doing business as The Port Of Ephrata, is a county port authority and airport authority operating Ephrata Municipal Airport in Ephrata, Washington, that acts as a federal grant recipient for airport infrastructure rehabilitation and maintenance projects funded by the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration. The entity is a U.S. local government entity with no federal contract footprint; all federal work consists of project grants awarded directly to the port authority as recipient.

The Port Of Ephrata's federal grant work centers on runway, taxiway, and taxilane pavement rehabilitation and resurfacing at Ephrata Municipal Airport under two primary FAA grant programs: the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.116 and 20.106) and the Airport Infrastructure Grants program (CFDA 20.117). Recent work includes a $586,691.58 Airport Infrastructure Grants award dated July 28, 2026, to rehabilitate 400 feet of Runway 22 Connector Taxiway and 600 feet of Northeast Hangar Area Taxilane pavement, funded through July 27, 2030; a $666,290.53 Airport Improvement Program project grant dated August 12, 2025, to reseal and resurface 5,500 linear feet of Runway 3/21 and 7,500 linear feet of Taxiway A, running through August 11, 2029; a $372,265.56 Airport Improvement Program formula grant dated August 1, 2022, for the first phase of runway rehabilitation; and a taxiway reconstruction grant dated August 1, 2022, to reconstruct 275 feet of Taxiway A2. The port authority also received a coordinating $157,894.74 Airport Improvement Program grant on July 28, 2026, paired with the Infrastructure Grants award to fund the remaining eligible portion of the same taxiway and taxilane rehabilitation project.

All twenty awards in the source data are held by Grant County Port Dist 9 as a prime recipient, with no subrecipient activity. The entity's sole customer is the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Northwest Mountain Region, which issued all ten named FAA awards. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $10.5 million. Activity has been sparse and episodic — one award in 2020, three in 2021, three in 2022, one in 2025, and two in 2026 — with long intervals between grant cycles. The port authority's grant work is grounded in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act five-year, $14.5 billion airport infrastructure grant initiative, which pairs grants across multiple FAA programs to fund design and construction of complementary pavement projects at the same facility.