Marshall County Airport Authority

Marshall County Airport Authority, a West Virginia local-government-owned airport authority, receives federal grants for airport infrastructure improvements and pandemic-relief funding as the prime recipient of awards from the Federal Aviation Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The authority operates as a grant recipient (88% prime awards) rather than as a federal contractor, with no federal contract prime awardees and no seats on federal contracting vehicles.

Marshall County Airport Authority's award footprint is concentrated with the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration, which accounts for all fourteen of its prime grant awards. Nine awards flow through the FAA's Eastern Region, and five are recorded under the FAA parent organization; the Federal Emergency Management Agency holds the remaining two prime awards. All sixteen awards in the source span grant work only; the authority has received no federal contracts. The authority's grant work centers on airport infrastructure maintenance and capital projects at Moundsville, West Virginia. Representative prime grants include a $354,682 Project Grant awarded July 6, 2025, under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106) to reseal and resurface 4,000 square yards of main apron pavement, with completion targeted for July 5, 2029; a Project Grant awarded August 28, 2024, for airport drainage and erosion control (construction of a service road retaining wall and drainage channel) with completion set for August 27, 2028; and a formula grant awarded August 5, 2026, to reconstruct airfield drainage and erosion control, with Phase 1 design work running through August 4, 2030. An American Rescue Plan Act Project Grant awarded January 10, 2022, provided pandemic relief for operations, personnel, cleaning, sanitization, and debt service, with completion dated January 9, 2026. The authority also received two sub-grant awards from the Division of Emergency Management, awarded March 17, 2025 (grant management costs) and February 26, 2025 (repair of a runway slip due to disaster). Combined dollars obligated across all sixteen awards total $8.6 million. Activity has accelerated modestly in recent years — one award per year in 2021 and 2022, jumping to three awards in 2025 and one in 2026 — with only one award reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months.