The Kenai City Council enacted an ordinance authorizing a non-federal reimbursable agreement to provide project support for a Medium Intensity Approach Light System with runway alignment indicator lights and other impacts from the Kenai Municipal Airport Runway Rehabilitation Project. The light system and other facilities surrounding the project are owned and operated by the FAA.
Finance Director Terry Eubank tells the Kenai City Council:
“The FAA has a division that will actually do this engineering work. That group does not fund it, I guess, in the traditional aspect. They’re funded through project money, which we will be forward funding once this becomes an AIP eligible project and we move towards construction and get our grant. It will include reimbursement for this amount.”
Airport Manager Eland Conway writes that the FAA Air Traffic Organization is responsible for providing safe and efficient air navigation services including the FAA owned and operated navigational aids at the municipal airport.
Eubank adds:
“As part of any major change or alterations to a runway, they revisit the navigation aids, basically, that are associated with this and this is where the FAA has the expertise and will perform those services for us at a cost.”
Conway says that the FAA will provide preliminary planning activities, which may include, but aren’t limited to technical consultation, engineering, design review, site visits, feasibility assessments, project planning, scope definition, development of costs estimate(s), development of design packages, travel in support of the reimbursable agreement program management, and procurement of long lead items, if required. They also will provide any requirements and/or recommendations related to the FAA facilities impacted by the project.
The agreement requires advance payment of $74,722.33, before any FAA services are provided and any remaining balance at the end will be refunded. The costs are eligible for grant funding under the Airport Improvement Program at 93.75%.