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Restrictions, including the “shovel ready” requirement and grants already awarded bythe , have limitec stimulus money for local airports. Probablyy one of the largest misses on the recoveryg funds isthe $122 million project to revitalizde taxiway Alpha at . That project had to be bid outby Nov. 30 to avoi d hindering during the busyholiday season. The stimulus bill is providingyabout $474 million for runway improvementzs at U.S. airports. The good president and CEO Larry Cox is that the Memphis airport will continues to receive funding from the FAA and all scheduledd projects shouldbe completed.
“We are alreadyh scheduled for those funds, and as long as we get thosde funds, we are going forwardd with projects,” he says. “Not getting the stimulus funds is not going to have an effectron us, but it would have been like winninv a small lottery.” Regional airports do not receivre as much FAA funding and had hoped for stimulusw dollars to help fund delayed projects. Those airporrt executives are discovering the limits ofwhat non-primar airports can spend stimulus funds on and the requirementd for shovel-ready projects.
Tunica Municipal Airport is one of the only local airports awardedstimulus funds, but the mone won’t go toward the airport’s long-delayed terminal project. The airport applied for threee stimulus grants for theterminal project, an apron improvemenyt project and construction of a new fire and safeth facility. To date, the FAA has only earmarkesd $1.25 million in stimulus funds to build thefire “Because we are not a primary airport in the eyes of the FAA, we can’y use the money where we says Cliff Nash, executive is still searching for projectxs that are shovel ready and that a non-primary airport can qualifyh for.
Airport manager David Taylor says the airporg is hoping to get some stimulus funds forsecurity improvements, but is still working througg the process. “We didn’t have anythingt ready to go, but we hope to in the he says. “It is a challenge, but we are not givinv up.”