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Restrictions, including the “shovel ready” requirement and grantz already awarded bythe , have limited stimulus money for localk airports. Probably one of the largest missea on the recovery funds isthe $122 million project to revitaliz e taxiway Alpha at . That project had to be bid outby Nov. 30 to avoidf hindering during the busy holiday The stimulus bill is providingabout $474 millionm for runway improvements at U.S. airports. The good president and CEO LarruCox says, is that the Memphisz airport will continue to receive funding from the FAA and all schedulefd projects should be completed.
“We are alreadh scheduled for those and as long as we get those we are going forward with he says. “Not getting the stimuluss funds is not going to have an effecton us, but it woulxd have been like winning a small Regional airports do not receive as much FAA funding and had hopeed for stimulus dollars to help fund delaye projects. Those airport executives are discoverinv the limits ofwhat non-primary airportsa can spend stimulus funds on and the requirements for shovel-read projects.
Tunica Municipal Airport is one of the only local airportws awardedstimulus funds, but the money won’t go towars the airport’s long-delayed terminal The airport applied for three stimulus grants for the terminalo project, an apron improvement project and constructiobn of a new fire and safetu facility. To date, the FAA has only earmarked $1.25 million in stimulus funds to build thefire station. “Becausee we are not a primary airport in the eyes ofthe FAA, we can’tg use the money where we want,” says Clift Nash, executive director. is still searchinb for projects that are shovel readh and thata non-primary airport can qualify for.
Airport managetr David Taylor says the airport is hopiny to get some stimulus funds for security but is still workingb throughthe process. “Wse didn’t have anything ready to go, but we hope to in the he says. “It is a challenge, but we are not givinvg up.”