Description
The Small Community Air Service Development Program provides financial assistance to small communities to help them enhance their air service. The program is designed to provide grants to communities that seek to provide assistance to a U.S. air carrier to subsidize service to and from an underserved airport, or to an underserved airport to obtain service to and from the airport. Eligible projects include revenue guarantees, marketing agreements, and other measures to improve air service. The program has up to $17 million available for FY 2021 grant awards, with individual grant sizes ranging from $20,000 to $1.6 million. The program is open to public entities, and applications must be submitted electronically via www.grants.gov. Some key points to consider:
• The program has a ten-year same project limitation, which means that a community or consortium may not receive a new grant to support the same project more than once in a ten-year period.
• The program has a concurrent grant limitation, which means that a community or consortium may have only one SCASDP grant at any time.
• The program requires a detailed application, including a description of the community's air service needs or deficiencies, a strategic plan for meeting those needs, and a detailed description of the funding necessary for implementation of the community's project.
• The program allows for confidential commercial information to be submitted on a confidential basis.