[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 3]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 14CFR151.13]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

CHAPTER I--FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

                               (CONTINUED)

 

PART 151_FEDERAL AID TO AIRPORTS--Table of Contents

 

                     Subpart A_General Requirements

 

Sec. 151.13  Federal-aid Airport Program: Policy affecting landing 

aid requirements.



    (a) Landing aid requirements. No project for developing or improving 

an airport may be approved for the Program unless it provides for 

acquiring or installing such of the following landing aids as the 

Administrator determines are needed for the safe and efficient use of 

the airport by aircraft, considering the category of the airport and the 

type and volume of traffic using it:

    (1) Land needed for installing approach lighting systems (ALS).

    (2) In-runway lighting.

    (3) High intensity runway lighting.

    (4) Runway distance markers.



For the purposes of this section ``approach lighting system (ALS)'' is a 

standard configuration of aeronautical ground lights in the approach 

area to a runway or channel to assist a pilot in making an approach to 

the runway or channel.

    (b) Specific landing aid requirements. The landing aids set forth in 

paragraphs (a) (1) through (4) of this section are required for the safe 

and efficient use of airports by aircraft in the following cases:

    (1) Lands for installing approach lighting systems are required as 

part of a project if the installing of the components of the system on 

the airport is in an approved FAA budget, unless the sponsor has already 

acquired the land necessary for the system or is otherwise undertaking 

to acquire that land. If the sponsor is otherwise undertaking to acquire 

the land, the grant agreement for the proj ect must obligate the sponsor 

to complete the acquisition



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within a time limit prescribed by the Administrator. The Administrator 

immediately notifies a sponsor when a budget is approved providing for 

installing an approach lighting system at the airport concerned.

    (2) In-runway lighting is required as part of a project:

    (i) If the project includes:

    (a) Construction of a new runway designated by the FAA as an 

instrument landing runway for which the installation of an IFR precision 

approach system including ALS and ILS, has been programmed by the FAA 

with funds then available therefor;

    (b) An extension of 3,000 feet or more (usable for landing purposes) 

of the approach end of a designated instrument landing runway equipped, 

or programed by the FAA, with funds then available therefor, to be 

equipped, with an IFR precision approach system including ALS and ILS;

    (c) Reconstruction of a designated instrument landing runway 

equipped, or programed by the FAA, with funds then available therefor, 

to be equipped with an IFR precision approach system including ALS and 

ILS, if the reconstruction requires the closing of the runway; or

    (d) Any other airport development on an airport whose designated 

instrument landing runway is equipped, or programed by the FAA, with 

funds then available therefor, to be equipped with an IFR precision 

approach system including ALS and ILS; and

    (ii) Only if a study of the airport shows that in-runway lighting is 

required for the safe and efficient use of the airport by aircraft, 

after the Administrator considers the following:

    (a) The type and volume of flight activity;

    (b) Other existing or planned navigational aids;

    (c) Airport environmental factors such as local weather conditions 

and adjacent geographic profiles;

    (d) Approach and departure paths;

    (e) Effect on landing and takeoff minima; and

    (f) In the case of projects under paragraph (b)(2)(i)(d) of this 

section, whether installing in-runway lighting requires closing the 

runway for so long a time that the adverse effect on safety of its 

closing would outweigh the contribution to safety that would be gained 

by the in-runway lights or whether it would unduly interfere with the 

efficiency of aircraft operations.

    (3) High intensity runway edge lighting on the designated instrument 

landing runway is required as a part of a project whenever that runway 

is equipped or programmed for the installation of an ILS and high 

intensity runway edge lights are not then installed on the runway or 

included in another project. A project for extending a runway that has 

high intensity runway edge lights on the existing runway requires, as a 

part of the project, the extension of the high intensity runway edge 

lights.

    (4) Runway distance markers whose design standards have been 

approved and published by the FAA are required as a part of a project on 

a case-by-case basis if, after reviewing the pertinent facts and 

circumstances of the case, the Administrator determines that they are 

needed for the safe and efficient use of the airport by aircraft.



[Doc. No. 1329, 27 FR 12350, Dec. 13, 1962, as amended by Amdt. 151-3, 

28 FR 12613, Nov. 27, 1963; Amdt. 151-33, 34 FR 9708, June 21, 1969]