FAA Information Related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). The Recovery Act specifically includes $1.3 billion for projects and programs administered by FAA. These programs will protect and promote jobs through construction projects at airports and investments in FAA's air traffic control infrastructure.

• Overview of the Recovery Act
• Implementing the Recovery Act
• FAA Plans and Reports
• Major Communications
• Learn more about our programs that issue grants, contracts or loans under the Recovery Act

Grant Recipients – Frequently Asked Questions about Recipient Reporting: Section 1201(c) of the ARRA.

FAA Programs that Issue Grants, Contracts, or Loans Under the Recovery Act

Facilities & Equipment (F&E) finances major capital investments related to modernizing and improving air traffic control and airway facilities, equipment, and systems. More »

Grants-in-Aid for Airports (Economic Recovery) funds the planning and development of a safe and efficient national airport system to satisfy the needs of the aviation interests of the United States. More »

Steps in the Recovery Act Airports Grants Process

There are several steps in the ARRA airports grants process. It usually takes 90 to 120 days to complete these steps. To help readers of this website understand the terminology the FAA uses to describe these steps, we are providing this glossary.

• Programmed: means we decided, but did not announce, our intent to fund a project
• Released: means we told the public and grantees of our intent to fund a project so that the grantees can solicit bids for the project
• Reserved: means we accepted the grantee's bid results and offered a grant to the grantee
• Obligated: means the grantee completed and returned the grant offer to us and we guaranteed money for the project; construction begins

While we have millions of dollars to put under grant, we must conduct the interim steps described above before we can obligate funds. Obligations will start showing up in substantial amounts by mid-May and we will have over $550M obligated by June 17. We intend to have the balance obligated by September 30, 2009.

Other milestones we intend to meet: All of our grant funds will be obligated by February 16, 2010. All of the projects we are funding will have construction completed by February 16, 2011.