Small Community Air Service Development Program

The summary for the Small Community Air Service Development 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 Office of Aviation Analysis, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.
Small Community Air Service Development Program: The Small Community Program was established under the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century (AIR-21), P.L. 106-181, as a three-year "pilot" program and was designed to provide financial assistance to small communities to help them enhance their air service. The Department provides this assistance in the form of financial grants that are disbursed on a reimbursable basis. The program was subsequently reauthorized for an additional five years, through fiscal year 2008, under the Vision 100-Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act, P.L. 108-176 (Vision 100), which also eliminated the "pilot" status of the program. On February 15, 2007, the President signed in to law the Revised Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007 (P.L. 110-005), which provides the Department with $10 million to administer the Small Community Program. The programs authorizing statute limits the Department to a maximum of 40 grant awards, with a maximum of four grants per state, in each year the program is funded. However, the law does not prescribe any limits on the amounts of individual awards, and the amounts awarded will vary depending upon the features and merits of the proposals selected. Over the past five years, the Departments individual grants have ranged from $20,000 to nearly $1.6 million. Awarded grant funds do not have to be expended in the year of award, nor do they need to be used within a one-year period. Authorized grant projects may include activities that extend over a multi-year period under a single grant award; however, grant funds are to be used in a timely manner. Generally speaking, grant awards have not exceeded a three-to-four-year period.
Federal Grant Title: Small Community Air Service Development Program
Federal Agency Name: Office of Aviation Analysis
Grant Categories: Transportation
Type of Opportunity: Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number: DOT-GRANTS-012007-001
Type of Funding: Grant
CFDA Numbers: 20.930
CFDA Descriptions: Payments for Small community Air Service Development
Current Application Deadline: No deadline provided
Original Application Deadline: Apr 27, 2007
Posted Date: Feb 26, 2007
Creation Date: Feb 26, 2007
Archive Date: May 27, 2007
Total Program Funding: $10,000,000
Maximum Federal Grant Award:
Minimum Federal Grant Award:
Expected Number of Awards: 40
Cost Sharing or Matching: No
Applicants Eligible for this Grant
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification) City or township governments County governments State governments Special district governments
Additional Information on Eligibility
Basic criteria. Eligible applicants are those communities that (1) are served by an airport that was not larger than a small hub airport for calendar year 1997 and (2) had insufficient air service or unreasonably high airfares. Communities that do not currently have commercial air service are also eligible, but they must have met or be able to meet in a reasonable period all necessary requirements of the Federal Aviation Administration for the type of service involved in their grant proposals. Communities served by medium and large hubs are not eligible to apply. EAS communities may apply. Small communities that meet the basic criteria and currently receive subsidized air service under the Essential Air Service (EAS) program are eligible to apply for funds under the Small Community Program. Indeed, a number of EAS-subsidized communities applied in past years and some have received grant awards. However, grant awards to EAS-subsidized communities are limited to (1) marketing or promotion projects that support existing or newly subsidized air services or (2) new air services, such as on-demand air taxi service. Furthermore, grants funds will not be authorized for EAS-subsidized communities to support either additional flights by EAS carriers or changes to those carriers existing schedules. Additional Consideration for Communities/Members of Consortia that have Previously Received a Grant. Communities or members of a consortia that were awarded grants in previous years and want to apply for a grant this year should be aware that (1) they are precluded from seeking funds for projects for which they have already received an award under the Small Community Program, and (2) they cannot accept a new grant while they are a party to an existing grant under the program, either as an individual community or as a member of a consortium. New projects are eligible. Previous grant recipients may submit grant proposals and seek funds for new projects in a different category. For example, although a community which had received a grant for a market study could not apply for a new grant for another market study, it could apply for funding for a revenue guarantee for new air service. Communities should note, however, that interest in this program could exceed both the funds available and the number of communities that can participate in any one year. For this reason, the fact that a community has already received one or more grants will be a consideration when comparing its new proposal with those of other applicant communities. No concurrent grants are permitted. A community or member of a consortia may participate in the program a subsequent time only after its participation in a prior grant has terminated. 49 U.S.C. 41743(c)(4). Simply stated, for a grant applicant to enter into a subsequent grant, its most recent grant must have expired or its participation in the grant otherwise terminated. If a grant applicant is applying for a subsequent grant and its current grant has not yet expired, it must notify the Department of its intent to terminate the current grant prior to entering into the new grant. In addition, for grant applicants that are members of a consortia grant, permission must be granted from both the grant sponsor and the Department to withdraw from the current grant prior to being eligible to receive a subsequent grant. City-pair subsidies for a carrier to compete against an incumbent raise concerns. Communities that propose to use the grant funds for service in a city-pair market that is already served by a carrier must explain in detail why the existing service is insufficient or unsatisfactory, or provide other compelling information to support such proposals. This information is necessary for the Department to consider the competitive implications of giving financial or other tangible incentives for one carrier that the oth
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Grant Announcement Contact
Brooke J. Chapman
Program Analyst
Phone 202-366-0577 [email protected] Department of Transportation
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