[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: 14CFR151.86]



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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 C_Project Programming Standards

 

Sec. 151.86  Lighting and electrical work: General.



    (a) The installing of lighting facilities and related electrical 

work, as provided in Sec. 151.87, is eligible for inclusion in a 

project only if the Administrator determines, for the particular airport 

involved, that they are needed to ensure--

    (1) Its safe and efficient use by aircraft under Sec. 151.13; or

    (2) Its continued operation and adequate maintenance, and it has a 

large enough volume (actual or potential) of night operations.

    (b) Before the Administrator makes a grant offer to the sponsor of a 

proj ect that includes installing lighting facilities and related 

electrical work under paragraph (a) of this section, the sponsor must--

    (1) Provide in the project for removing, relocating, or adequately 

marking and lighting, each obstruction in the approach and turning 

zones, as provided in Sec. 151.91(a);

    (2) Acknowledge its awareness of the cost of operating and 

maintaining airport lighting; and

    (3) Agree to operate the airport lighting installed--

    (i) Throughout each night of the year; or

    (ii) According to a satisfactory plan of operation, submitted under 

paragraph (c) of this section.

    (c) The sponsor of a project that includes installing airport 

lighting and related electrical work, under paragraph (a) of this 

section, may--

    (1) Submit to the Administrator a proposed plan of operation of the 

airport lighting installed for periods less than throughout each night 

of the year;

    (2) Specify, in the proposed plan, the times when the airport 

lighting installed will be operated; and

    (3) Satisfy the Administrator that the proposed plan provides for 

safety in air commerce, and justifies the investment of Program funds.

    (d) Paragraph (b)(3) of this section also applies to each sponsor of 

a proj ect that includes installing airport lighting and related 

electrical work if that sponsor has not entered into a grant agreement 

for the project before September 5, 1968.

    (e) If it agrees to comply with paragraph (b)(3) of this section, 

the sponsor of a project that includes installing airport lighting 

facilities and related electrical work that has entered into a grant 

agreement for that project before September 5, 1968, may--

    (1) Surrender its air navigation certificate authorizing operation 

of a ``true light'' issued before that date; or

    (2) Terminate its application for authority to operate a ``true 

light'' made before that date.



(Secs. 307, 606, 72 Stat. 749, 779; 49 U.S.C. 1120, 1348, 1426)



[Amdt. 151-24, 33 FR 12545, Sept. 5, 1968]