The majority of the FAA’s funding will go towards runway improvement projects. Credit: EQRoy / Shutterstock.

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has revealed more than $2bn in grants for airports across the country as the government continues a major investment programme into the national aviation infrastructure. 

The FAA’s funding consists of $1.9bn across 519 grants under the Airport Improvement Programme (AIP) and $269m for 62 projects under the AIP’s Supplemental Discretionary Grants fund from FY 2023 to FY 2025. 

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Projects set to receive grants cover a range of issues, including airport safety, operational efficiency, noise reduction, and zero emissions projects such as the preparation for the use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the grants would make “airports safer and more efficient for the passengers who travel through them and for the airport and airline employees who work tirelessly behind the scenes”.

Some of the biggest grants included in the AIP funding round include $55m for the improvement of a runway a Tucson International in Arizona, $29m for the construction of zero-emission infrastructure at St Louis Lambert International in Missouri, and $42m for airport drainage and wildlife protection works at Deadhorse Airport in Alaska.

Projects included under the AIP’s supplemental grants involve a $18m grant to San Francisco Bay Oakland International in California for safety works, a $14.3m grant for apron light replacement at Kahului Airport in Hawaii, and a $1.3m grant for Houma-Terrebonne Airport in Louisiana to install SAF infrastructure. 

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In total, 581 grants have been approved through the AIP and its supplemental programme, covering hundreds of airports in 48 states, as well as US territories in Guam, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. 

The funding round is the largest in the AIP’s history and also the first to include grants for the development of technologies aiming to reduce, remove or mitigate the impact of harmful chemicals from per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) substances such as the fire suppressant aqueous film-forming foam.

AIP grants for projects focusing on the issue include $3.5m for the purchase and demonstration testing of three PFAS remediation technologies at San Luis Obispo County Airport in California and $1.2m for Nantucket Memorial Airport in Massachusetts to test hydrothermal alkaline treatment to treat PFAS contaminated water. 

The FAA’s announcement comes just shortly after it revealed another $636m in grants through the AIP last month, focusing on the modernisation of US airports.