Description
The Small Community Air Service Development Program provides financial assistance to small communities to enhance their air service. The program is designed to help communities address air service and airfare issues. Eligible projects include subsidizing service to and from underserved airports, obtaining service to and from underserved airports, and implementing measures to improve air service. The program is authorized to receive appropriations under 49 U.S.C. § 41743(e)(2).
• The program provides grants that are disbursed on a reimbursable basis.
• Eligible applicants include public entities, such as communities and consortia of communities.
• Ineligible projects include those that provide direct benefits to air carriers, such as purchasing aircraft or establishing a new air carrier.
• 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 Department may consider waivers of the ten-year same project limitation under certain circumstances.