ACE: Planning and Environmental Module 1 - Introduction to Planning and Facility Planning Flashcards
(106 cards)
Define
Airport Sponsor or Airport Operator
1-7 ¶ 2
The owner of the airport, often a public entity such as a city, county, or airport authority, usually responsible for the day-to-day oepration of airport facility.
Define
Airport Execuitive
1-7 ¶ 2
Term applied across all airport staff with decision making-authority.
Any senior airport staff executing environmental/ planning tasks
Define
Federally Obligated
1-7 ¶ 2
Term that refers to airports that have recieved federal funds to undertake projects at an airport that is apart of the NPIAS.
List - 5 reasons
Why do airports want to have a plan for the future?
1-7 ¶ 4
- Bridges the gap from where we are to where we want to go
- Establishes a goal
- Provides an outline and starting point for allocating resources
- Ensures everyone is on the same page
- Simplifies decision making
Describe
What is NEPA and how did it come about?
1-7 ¶ 4
Passed by Congress, it ensures environmental concerns are included in airport planning decision making.
NEPA - National Environmental Policy Act
Describe
When must an environmental review and FAA approval take place? What is the overall goal of an enviromental review?
1-7 ¶ 4
Prior to the design and construction of a federally funded airport project.
Its goal is to assess and mitigate any impacts proposed projects can have on the surrounding environment.
Define
How does the FAA define airport planning?
1-7 ¶ 5
As a systematic process that creates guidelines for efficient airport development.
Describe
What is the key objective of airport planning according to the FAA?
1-7 ¶ 5
Using resources effectively in a way that meets the demand for aviation services in a “finacially feasiable manner”
List - 5 elements
Planning is a public process involving a variety of elements:
1-7 ¶ 6
- Identify the future demand of the aviation and airport system
- Identify the future needs of the airport
- Identify noise abatment issues in the surrounding areas
- Identify and accomodate changes to the NAS
- Identify those improvements required to construct or expand to meet airport needs
NAS - National Airspace System
List - 3 reasons
Why should airports not have a reactionary approach to planning? What type of approach should they have instead?
1-8 ¶ 2
Airports should adopt a CALCULATED approach
A reactionary approach is…
1. Not well thought out
2. May not meet community needs
3. May result in unintended financial consequences
Define
Publicly Owned, Public Use Airport
1-8 ¶ 4
Owned by a public body (city, county, authority) and is open for public use
Define
Privately Owned, Public-Use Airport
1-8 ¶ 4
Owned by a private entity (individual, corporation) but is open to the public for use
Define
Privately Owned, Private-Use Airport
1-8 ¶ 4
airport is owned by a private entity and is not open for public use
Define
Joint-Use Airport
1-8 ¶ 5
Owned by the Department of Defense and both military and civilian aircraft use the field.
There are 21 military installations that are classified as this type
Define
Shared-Use Airport
1-8 ¶ 5
U.S. government owned airport that is co-located with a military airport.
Memory cue: Civilian airport is nice because we share
Describe
What are grant assurances?
1-8 ¶ 7
Obligations airport sponsors agree to when they accept federal funding. Designed to protect FAA investment and public interst in aviation.
It is important to keep an up-to-date copy of grant assurances as they change with time
Describe
Grant Assurance #6
Consistency with Local Plans
1-8 ¶ 8
Requires that a planning project is reasonably consistent with plans of public agencies that are authorized by the state in which the project is located to plan for the development of the surrounding airport.
Describe
Grant Assurance # 10
Metropolitan Planning Organization
1-8 ¶ 9
Requires if a project involves the location of an aiport, runway, or extension at a medium - large hub airport, the sponsor has made available to and provided upon request to the metropolitan planning organization in the area in which the airport is located, if any, a copy of any airport master plan in which the project is described or depicted.
A master plan must be made public and accessible
Describe
Grant Assurance #18
Planning Projects
1-8 ¶ 10
In carrying out planning projects an airport must:
1. Execute the project in accordance with the approved program narrative contained in the project application or modifications similarly approved
2. Furnish the Secretary with periodic reports as required pertaining to the planing project and planning work activites
3. Include all published materials prepared in connection to this planning project
4. Make material available for examiniation by the public and no material is subject to copyright
5. Secretary has unrestricted authority to publish, disclose, and distribute this material
6. Gives Secretary the right to disapprove sponsor’s employment of specific consultants and their subtractors as well as to disapprove the proposed scope and cost of professional services.
7. Gives the Secretary the right to disapprove sponsor’s employees to do all or part of the work
8. The Secretary’s approval of this project does not ensure or imply they will approve any pending or future application for a federal airport grant.
DOT Secretary
Describe
Grant Assurance #21
Compatible Land Use
1-9 ¶ 2
Airport Sponsor will take appropriate action, to a reasonable extent, including the adoption of zoning laws, to restrict the use of land adjacent or in the immediate vicinity of the airport to activities and purposes compatible with normal airport operations
Make sure the land around your airport is zoned correctly.
Describe
Grant Assurance #25
Airport Revenues
1-9 ¶ 3
All revenues generated by the airport and any local taxes on aviation fuel established after Dec 30, 1987, will be expended by it for the capital or operating costs of the airport and any other local facilities that are owned and operated by the airport and are directly related to actual air transportation of passengers or property or for noise mitigation on (or off) the airport.
Describe
Grant Assurance #29
Airport Layout Plan
1-9 ¶ 4
Requires that the airport sponsor keep the ALP updated at all times.
Describe
Who does the FAA provide grants to?
1-9 ¶ 5
Eligible state and local airport sponsors through the AIP
Provide funding for eligible airport improvements that classify as an improvement in safety, capacity and delay reduction, security, and environmental sustainability, contribute to addressing the most pressing needs of the NAS.
AIP - Airport Improvement Plan
NAS - National Airspace System
What year did Congress authorize the FAA to use State Block Grants to provide AIP funds to small airports?
1-9 ¶ 6
1987