The Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriation Act (CRRSAA) includes almost $2 billion in funds to be awarded to eligible U.S. airports to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency.  To distribute these funds, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) established the Airport Coronavirus Response Grant Program (ACRGP).  FAA determined the ACRGP funding for General Aviation Airports based on a formula for each classification of airport category (National, Regional, Local, and Basic).  Addison is a National category general aviation (GA) airport and as such has been allocated an ACRGP Grant in the amount of $57,000. The ACRGP Grant has no matching funds requirement, the grant amount is 100% federally funded.

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) requested the federal funds on behalf of all eligible Texas GA airports. The next step for TxDOT was to get approval authority on the state level to administer the funds to eligible GA Airports in Texas. This approval was granted at the April meeting of the Texas Transportation Commission.

TxDOT will provide a TxDOT-specific request form (application) for ACRGP grant funding and will notify eligible airports when the form is available online.  TxDOT has been authorized to issue grants by the approval of the Texas Transportation Commission.