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B-192888 1 (1978-11-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgne0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ha 0- E a 11 -- JI 3 L;f\ P I L , L . L 2 r jiEI cAl. VWAS'HINGTON, D.C. 2054a FILE: B-192888 DATE: November 17, 1978 MATTER DIGEST: OF: Federal Aviation Administratiin: Application of Statutory Allocation Formulas to 1979 Appropria- tions for Airport Pcvelopment Grants Federal Aviation Administration (FA.) has annual obligational authority to make grants in amounts set under Airport and Airway Development Act (AADA). Funds are to be distributed :ccarding to statutory allocation formula. 1979 appropriation act in effect increases total 1979 obligational authority from $575 million, set by AADA, to $629.14 million and increases amount for general aviation Ctscro- tionary grants from $!5.6 million, derivcd from allocation formul9, to $35.99 million. GAO agrees with FAA proposal ant to subject increase for general aviation discretionary grants to alloca- tion formula. Result will be most cinsistent with congressional intent and will prevent -'.n- consistencies resulting from application of formula. This Is in reply to a letter from the Administrator, Federal AviaLion Administration (FAA), concerning possible conflicts between the orovisions of sections 302 and 303 of Put. L. No. 95-335 (92 Stat. 435), the Department of Transportation and elated Agencies Appropriation Act, 1979, and the formulas for apportionment of air- port development grant funds under sections 14 and 15 of the Airport and Airway Dcvclopment Act (AADA), 49 U.S.C. H5 1714, 1715, as amended. (The authority cf the Secretary of Transportation under these statutes has been delegated to FAA, and further references will be to FAA or to the Administrator.) ror fiscal year 1979, 49 U.S.C. 9 1714(a)(3, authorizes the Administrator to make grants for development: of air carrier airports of nc less than $495 million. 49 U.S.C. 5 1714(a)(4) aurhorives him to make grants for devielopment of general aviation airports of not less than $80 million. Section 1715(a)(3) of title 49 s. - forth an apportionment formula for grants authorized under 5'1714(a)(3). Of the $495 million minimum obJigation level for FY 1979, $330 .'illion must be allocated - 1 - LI .--- I I I

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