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Saipan airport upgrades get federal funding
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Posted on Jun 24 2015
The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded five grants totaling $3.87 million to the Commonwealth Ports Authority most of which will go to improvement efforts for the Francisco C. Ada International Airport on Saipan.
Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (Ind-MP), in his weekly e-newsletter, said four of the grants will for the airport improvement project.
The first grant of $1.06 million will fund the seventh and final phase of construction for a regional Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting Training Facility.
The second grant worth $1 million will fund the construction phase for rehabilitation of 725 feet of the existing Taxiway B and 550 feet of the existing Taxiway H needed to maintain structural integrity of the pavement.
The third grant of $700,000 will be used for the acquisition of a replacement Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting vehicle, and the fourth grant of $697,110 will fund the final phase of the improvement to the terminal building that are needed to improve passenger safety.
According to Sablan’s newsletter, the fifth grant, worth $420,000 will fund an update to the existing airport master plan study to show current and future needs of the Tinian International Airport.Early this month, three grants totaling $1.4 million were also awarded to the CPA.
One award of $420,000 will fund an update to the existing airport master plan to show current and future needs of the Benjamin Taisacan Manglona International Airport on Rota. Two awards of $360,000 each will be used to acquire power sweepers to remove debris from the Rota and Tinian airfields.
