Infrastructure bill includes $25 billion to make critical repairs and upgrades to America’s airports.
If proposal becomes law, Prescott Regional Airport-Ernest A. Love Field slated to receive an additional $5.1 million over next five years, in addition to new competitive grant programs.
WASHINGTON – Prescott Regional Airport-Ernest A. Love Field is slated to receive an additional $5,104,440 over the next five years to make repairs and upgrades, once the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act—historic legislation led by Arizona’s senior U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Chair of the Senate Aviation Safety, Operations, and Innovation Subcommittee—becomes law.
The sweeping legislation, co-led by Republican Senator Rob Portman (Ohio) and supported by President Joe Biden, resulted from bipartisan negotiations led by Sinema that would make the strongest investment in America’s critical infrastructure in more than a century without raising taxes on everyday Americans. Roads, bridges, public transit, broadband, power grids, water systems, and wildfire mitigation would all see historic investments under the plan—as would America’s airports.
“Airports form the backbone of the nation’s air transportation system, hosting airlines, air cargo, business aviation, flight training, wildland fire management, and emergency relief operations. Senator Sinema’s extraordinary bipartisan efforts to fund America’s critical infrastructure needs will provide immense benefits to airports in rural and urban communities. This remarkable level of infrastructure investment will help to ensure the continued safe and efficient operation of our nation’s airports for years to come,” said Prescott Regional Airport Director Robin Sobotta
“Prescott Regional Airport-Ernest A. Love Field serves as an economic engine for Prescott and Yavapai County, and these infrastructure investments will boost tourism, improve safety, fuel jobs, and expand economic opportunities for Arizonans,” said Sinema, Chair of the Senate Aviation Safety, Operations, and Innovation Subcommittee.
Under the Sinema-led Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, $25 billion would be set aside for upgrading America’s airports—including:
- $5 billion for terminal development and landside projects, which would be available through competitive grants
- $5 billion for upgrading air traffic control safety infrastructure, which would be available through competitive grants
- $15 billion for airport improvement projects—funding which would go directly to all of America’s airports and could be used for projects such as runways and taxiways, terminal development projects, noise, and multimodal transportation
Of the $15 billion for airport improvement projects, Arizona would be slated to receive more than $360 million for airport infrastructure over the next five years.
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