[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: 14CFR151.5]



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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. 151.5  General policies.



    (a) Airport layout plan. As used in this part, ``airport layout 

plan'' means the basic plan for the layout of an eligible airport that 

shows, as a minimum--

    (1) The present boundaries of the airport and of the offsite areas 

that the sponsor owns or controls for airport purposes, and of their 

proposed additions;

    (2) The location and nature of existing and proposed airport 

facilities (such as runways, taxiways, aprons, terminal buildings, 

hangars, and roads) and of their proposed modifications and extensions; 

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    (3) The location of existing and proposed non-aviation areas, and of 

their existing improvements.



All airport development under the Federal-aid Airport Program must be 

done in accordance with an approved airport layout plan. Each airport 

layout plan, and any change in it, is subject to FAA approval. The 

Administrator's signature on the face of an original airport layout 

plan, or of any change in it, indicates FAA approval. The FAA approves 

an airport layout plan only if the airport development is sound and 

meets applicable requirements.

    (b) Safe, useful, and usable unit. Except as provided in paragraph 

(d) of this section, each advance planning and engineering proposal or 

airport development project must provide for the planning or development 

of--

    (1) An airport or unit of an airport that is safe, useful, and 

usable; or

    (2) An additional facility that increases the safety, usefulness, or 

usability of an airport.

    (c) National defense needs. The needs of national defense are fully 

considered in administering the Federal-aid Airport Program. However, 

approval of an advance planning and engineering proposal or a project 

application is limited to planning or airport development necessary for 

civil aviation.

    (d) Stage development. In any case in which airport development can 

be accomplished more economically under stage construction, federal 

funds may be programmed in advance for the development over two or more 

years under two or more grant agreements. In such a case, the FAA makes 

a tentative allocation of funds for both the current and future fiscal 

years, rather than allocating the entire federal share in one fiscal 

year. A grant agreement is made only during the fiscal year in which 

funds are authorized to be obligated. Advance planning and engineering 

grants are not made under this paragraph.



[Amdt. 151-8, 30 FR 8039, June 23, 1965]