FY 2023 Notice of Funding Opportunity: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law FAA Contract Tower (FCT) Competitive Grant Program

The summary for the FY 2023 Notice of Funding Opportunity: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law FAA Contract Tower (FCT) Competitive Grant Program grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the DOT Federal Aviation Administration, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

FY 2023 Notice of Funding Opportunity: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law FAA Contract Tower (FCT) Competitive Grant Program: The Department of Transportation (DOT), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), announces the opportunity to apply for $20 million in FY 2023 Airport Infrastructure Grant funds for the FAA Contract Tower (FCT) Competitive Grant Program, made available under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA), Pub. L. 117-58, herein referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). The purpose of the FCT Competitive Grant Program is to make annual grants available to eligible airports for airport-owned airport traffic control tower (ATCT) projects that address the aging infrastructure of the nation's airports. The FAA will consider ATCT projects that sustain, construct, repair, improve, rehabilitate, modernize, replace, or relocate nonapproach control towers; acquire and install air traffic control, communications, and related equipment to be used in those towers; or construct a remote tower certified by the FAA including acquisition and installation of air traffic control, communications, or related equipment. In addition, FCT Competitive Grant Program grants will align with DOT's Strategic Framework FY2022-2026 at www.transportation.gov/administrations/office-policy/fy2022-2026-strategic-framework. The FY 2023 FCT Competitive Grant Program will be implemented consistent with law and in alignment with the priorities in Executive Order 14052, Implementation of the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act (86 FR 64355), which are to invest efficiently and equitably, promote the competitiveness of the U.S. economy, improve job opportunities by focusing on high labor standards, strengthen infrastructure resilience to all hazards, including climate change, and to effectively coordinate with State, local, Tribal, and territorial government partners. See NOFO for further details.

Federal Grant Title:	FY 2023 Notice of Funding Opportunity: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law FAA Contract Tower (FCT) Competitive Grant Program
Federal Agency Name:	DOT Federal Aviation Administration (DOT-FAA)
Grant Categories:	Transportation
Type of Opportunity:	Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number:	FAA-ARP-BIL-G-23-001
Type of Funding:	Grant
CFDA Numbers:	20.106
CFDA Descriptions:	Information not provided
Current Application Deadline:	December 6th, 2022
Original Application Deadline:	December 6th, 2022
Posted Date:	November 9th, 2022
Creation Date:	November 9th, 2022
Archive Date:	January 5th, 2023
Total Program Funding:	$20,000,000
Maximum Federal Grant Award:	$20,000,000
Minimum Federal Grant Award:	$25,000
Expected Number of Awards:
Cost Sharing or Matching:	No
Last Updated:	November 9th, 2022

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: State governments - County governments - City or township governments - Special district governments - Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification.)
Additional Information on Eligibility: See the link to the FY 2023 NOFO for eligibility information. For Airport Improvement Program purposes, which applies to the FCT grants, sponsors are broken down into the specific types shown in Table 2-1 of the AIP Handbook FAA Order 5100-38D, Change 1. Eligible applicant categories include: a public agency owning (or leasing from another government entity) a public-use airport, a private entity owning a public use airport, and an Indian tribe or pueblo owning or leasing a public-use airport. This is not an all-inclusive list. For additional eligibility categories and further details on each eligible applicant category, see AIP Handbook Table 2-1 in the following weblink: https://www.faa.gov/airports/aip/aip_handbook/media/AIP-Handbook-Order-5100-38D-Chg1.pdf. Per 49 USC § 47105(b)(2), a sponsor must be proposing a project for a public-use airport included in the current National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS). Further information on the NPIAS is available at https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/npias/
Link to Full Grant Announcement: FY 2023 Notice of Funding Opportunity: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law FAA Contract Tower (FCT) Competitive Grant Program
Grant Announcement Contact: Grant applicant communications for the FAA BIL grant program are handled by FAA ARP Regional Offices and Airport District Offices. Refer to the link below to locate the grantor contact information for your geographic location. Please contact your regional office or Airports District Office per this link: https://www.faa.gov/airports/regions/
The FAA website cited lists contacts by Regional Offices and Airports District Offices
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