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Q-U01. How can an airport sponsor use IIJA AIG funds?

AIG funds under IIJA include AIG Allocated and FCT Competitive funds.
Allowable use of AIG funds are as follows:

  1. AIG Allocated. An airport sponsor may use these funds for airport-related projects defined under 49 U.S.C. 40117(a)(3). AIG Allocated funds cannot be used to pay for debt service. The FAA has used the guidance in the AIP Handbook as a component of PFC eligibility determination under section 40117.
  2. FCT Competitive. An airport sponsor may use these funds to sustain, construct, repair, improve, rehabilitate, modernize, replace, or relocate a non- approach FCT ATCT, and to acquire and install air traffic control, communications, and related equipment to be used in those ATCT. (For further information on ATCT construction see Table O-3 Other Building Project Requirement (Other than Terminal), Item h, in the AIP Handbook. For further information on FCT minimum equipment and facilities list and FAA FCT new start and replacement tower process, see FAA Order JO 7210.78 FAA Contract  Tower (FCT) New Start and Replacement Tower Process). A list of eligible equipment is found in Appendix A of Reauthorization Program Guidance Letter (R-PGL) 19-02: Planning and Project Eligibility. FCT Competitive funds can also be used to construct a remote tower certified by the FAA including acquisition and installation of air traffic control, communications, or related equipment. To date there is no FAA certified remote tower technology. FCT Competitive funds cannot be used to pay for debt service.