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FAA determines the airport sponsor
meets the requirements set forth in Sec. 813 of Public Law 112-95.
As part of the annual audit required under the Single Audit Act of 1984, the
sponsor will direct that the audit will review, and the resulting audit report will
provide an opinion concerning, the use of airport revenue and taxes in paragraph
(a), and indicating whether funds paid or transferred to the owner or operator are
paid or transferred in a manner consistent with Title 49, United States Code and
any other applicable provision of law, including any regulation promulgated by
the Secretary or Administrator.
Any civil penalties or other sanctions will be imposed for violation of this
assurance in accordance with the provisions of Section 47107 of Title 49, United
States Code.
26. Reports and Inspections,
It will:
a.
submit to the Secretary such annual or special financial and operations reports as
the Secretary may reasonably request and make such reports available to the
public; make available to the public at reasonable times and places a report of the
airport budget in a format prescribed by the Secretary;
for airport development projects, make the airport and all airport records and
documents affecting the airport, including deeds, leases, operation and use
agreements, regulations and other instruments, available for inspection by any
duly authorized agent of the Secretary upon reasonable request;
for noise compatibility program projects, make records and documents relating to
the project and continued compliance with the terms, conditions, and assurances
of this grant agreement including deeds, leases, agreements, regulations, and other
instruments, available for inspection by any duly authorized agent of the Secretary
upon reasonable request; and
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d. ina format and time prescribed by the Secretary, provide to the Secretary and
make available to the public following each of its fiscal years, an annual report
listing in detail:
1) all amounts paid by the airport to any other unit of government and the
purposes for which each such payment was made; and
2) all services and property provided by the airport to other units of government
and the amount of compensation received for provision of each such service
and property.
27. Use by Government Aircraft.
28.
29,
It will make available all of the facilities of the airport developed with Federal
financial assistance and all those usable for landing and takeoff of aircraft to the
United States for use by Government aircraft in common with other aircraft at all
times without charge, except, if the use by Government aircraft is substantial, charge
may be made for a reasonable share, proportional to such use, for the cost of
operating and maintaining the facilities used. Unless otherwise determined by the
Secretary, or otherwise agreed to by the sponsor and the using agency, substantial use
of an airport by Government aircraft will be considered to exist when operations of
such aircraft are in excess of those which, in the opinion of the Secretary, would
unduly interfere with use of the landing areas by other authorized aircraft, or during
any calendar month that —
a. Five (5) or more Government aircraft are regularly based at the airport or on land
adjacent thereto; or
b. The total number of movements (counting each landing as a movement) of
Government aircraft is 300 or more, or the gross accumulative weight of
Government aircraft using the airport (the total movement of Government aircraft
multiplied by gross weights of such aircraft) is in excess of five million pounds.
Land for Federal Facilities.
It will furnish without cost to the Federal Government for use in connection with any
air traffic control or air navigation activities, or weather-reporting and communication
activities related to air traffic control, any areas of land or water, or estate therein, or
rights in buildings of the sponsor as the Secretary considers necessary or desirable for
construction, operation, and maintenance at Federal expense of space or facilities for
such purposes. Such areas or any portion thereof will be made available as provided
herein within four months after receipt of a written request from the Secretary.
Airport Layout Plan.
a. It will keep up to date at all times an airport layout plan of the airport showing
1) boundaries of the airport and all proposed additions thereto, together with the
boundaries of all offsite areas owned or controlled by the sponsor for airport
purposes and proposed additions thereto;
2) the location and nature of all existing and proposed airport facilities and
structures (such as runways, taxiways, aprons, terminal buildings, hangars and
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roads), including all proposed extensions and reductions of existing airport
facilities;
3) the location of all existing and proposed nonaviation areas and of all existing
improvements thereon; and
4) all proposed and existing access points used to taxi aircraft across the airport’s
property boundary. Such airport layout plans and each amendment, revision,
or modification thereof, shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary which
approval shall be evidenced by the signature of a duly authorized
representative of the Secretary on the face of the airport layout plan. The
sponsor will not make or permit any changes or alterations in the airport or
any of its facilities which are not in conformity with the airport layout plan as
approved by the Secretary and which might, in the opinion of the Secretary,
adversely affect the safety, utility or efficiency of the airport.
b. Ifa change or alteration in the airport or the facilities is made which the Secretary
determines adversely affects the safety, utility, or efficiency of any federally
owned, leased, or funded property on or off the airport and which is not in
conformity with the airport layout plan as approved by the Secretary, the owner or
operator will, if requested, by the Secretary (1) eliminate such adverse effect in a
manner approved by the Secretary; or (2) bear all costs of relocating such
property (or replacement thereof) to a site acceptable to the Secretary and all costs
of restoring such property (or replacement thereof) to the level of safety, utility,
efficiency, and cost of operation existing before the unapproved change in the
airport or its facilities except in the case of a relocation or replacement of an
existing airport facility due to a change in the Secretary’s design standards beyond
the control of the airport sponsor.
30. Civil Rights.
It will promptly take any measures necessary to ensure that no person in the United
States shall, on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, age, or
disability be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be otherwise
subjected to discrimination in any activity conducted with, or benefiting from, funds
received from this grant.
a. Using the definitions of activity, facility and program as found and defined in §§
21.23 (b) and 21.23 (e) of 49 CFR § 21, the sponsor will facilitate all programs,
operate all facilities, or conduct all programs in compliance with all non-
discrimination requirements imposed by, or pursuant to these assurances.
b. Applicability
1) Programs and Activities. If the sponsor has received a grant (or other federal
assistance) for any of the sponsor’s program or activities, these requirements
extend to all of the sponsor’s programs and activities.
2) Facilities. Where it receives a grant or other federal financial assistance to
construct, expand, renovate, remodel, alter or acquire a facility, or part of a
facility, the assurance extends to the entire facility and facilities operated in
connection therewith.
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3) Real Property. Where the sponsor receives a grant or other Federal financial
assistance in the form of, or for the acquisition of real property or an interest
in real property, the assurance will extend to rights to space on, over, or under
such property.
Duration.
The sponsor agrees that it is obligated to this assurance for the period during
which Federal financial assistance is extended to the program, except where the
Federal financial assistance is to provide, or is in the form of, personal property,
or real property, or interest therein, or structures or improvements thereon, in
which case the assurance obligates the sponsor, or any transferee for the longer of
the following periods:
1) So long as the airport is used as an airport, or for another purpose involving
the provision of similar services or benefits; or
2) So long as the sponsor retains ownership or possession of the property.
Required Solicitation Language. It will include the following notification in all
solicitations for bids, Requests For Proposals for work, or material under this
grant agreement and in all proposals for agreements, including airport
concessions, regardless of funding source:
“The (Name of Sponsor), in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 252, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000d to 2000d-4) and the
Regulations, hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively ensure that any
contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business
enterprises and airport concession disadvantaged business enterprises will be
afforded full and fair opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and
will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin
in consideration for an award.”
Required Contract Provisions.
1) It will insert the non-discrimination contract clauses requiring compliance
with the acts and regulations relative to non-discrimination in Federally-
assisted programs of the DOT, and incorporating the acts and regulations into
the contracts by reference in every contract or agreement subject to the non-
discrimination in Federally-assisted programs of the DOT acts and
regulations,
2) It will include a list of the pertinent non-discrimination authorities in every
contract that is subject to the non-discrimination acts and regulations.
3) It will insert non-discrimination contract clauses as a covenant running with
the land, in any deed from the United States effecting or recording a transfer
of real property, structures, use, or improvements thereon or interest therein to
a sponsor,
4) It will insert non-discrimination contract clauses prohibiting discrimination on
the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, age, or handicap as a
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covenant running with the land, in any future deeds, leases, license, permits,
or similar instruments entered into by the sponsor with other parties:
a) For the subsequent transfer of real property acquired or improved under
the applicable activity, project, or program; and
b) For the construction or use of, or access to, space on, over, or under real
property acquired or improved under the applicable activity, project, or
program.
f. It will provide for such methods of administration for the program as are found by
the Secretary to give reasonable guarantee that it, other recipients, sub-recipients,
sub-grantees, contractors, subcontractors, consultants, transferees, successors in
interest, and other participants of Federal financial assistance under such program
will comply with all requirements imposed or pursuant to the acts, the regulations,
and this assurance.
It agrees that the United States has a right to seek judicial enforcement with
regard to any matter arising under the acts, the regulations, and this assurance.
31. Disposal of Land.
a. For land purchased under a grant for airport noise compatibility purposes,
including land serving as a noise buffer, it will dispose of the land, when the land
is no longer needed for such
