This advisory circular (AC) provides guidance to airport owners and operators (sponsors) for Airport Improvement Program (AIP)-assisted projects to develop their land acquisition and relocation assistance procedures in conformance to the Uniform Relocation Act and its implementing regulations.

This advisory circular (AC) provides basic information pertaining to the FAA's recommendations on commercial minimum standards and related policies. Although minimum standards are optional, the FAA highly recommends their use and implementation as a means to minimize the potential for violations of federal obligations at federally obligated airports.

ACRP Research Report 184 is the executive summary of ACRP Web-Only Document 44: Understanding FAA Grant Assurance Obligations, Volume 1: Guidebook, and explains each of the 39 grant assurances. The summary includes a matrix that outlines major aspects of the program such as duration and applicability, and provides a list of related assurances. The matrix includes links to specific volumes of the web-only document that discuss each grant assurance in greater detail. Volume 2: Technical Appendices contains supplemental information, Volume 3: Research Report discusses the research effort, and Volume 4: Summary of AIP Grant Assurance Requirements includes a PowerPoint presentation for sharing content with airport manager, planners, and operators.

ACRP Synthesis 17 explores practices that airport sponsors and FAA planners and environmental specialists have used to integrate airport planning efforts and the FAA's environmental review processes.

ACRP Web-Only Document 44, Volume 1, provides a comprehensive summary of all the requirements included in the 39 Grant Assurances applicable to airport sponsors, who are owners or operators of the airport that execute the grant agreements. The web-only document describes the requirements, identifies the actions that are required and those that are prohibited, identifies exceptions, describes the duration and applicability of the requirements, and discusses the potential consequences of non-compliance.

ACRP Web-Only Document 44 provides supplemental information for individuals desiring a more in-depth understanding of the requirements. It may be useful when airport management, staff, or airport users are confronted with a particular issue or a set of circumstances that is not fully addressed in ACRP Research Report 184. The web-only document contains six appendices providing supplemental information on the Grant Assurance requirements, as well as resources and references.

ACRP Web-Only Document 44, Volume 3, summarizes the research efforts and results of the research conducted to develop a guidebook on FAA grant assurance requirements.

ACRP Web-Only Document 44, Volume 4, is a model PowerPoint presentation for sharing content with airport managers, planners, and operators.

This advisory circular (AC) provides guidance for airport sponsors in the selection and engagement of architectural, engineering, and planning consultants. It also discusses services that normally would be included in an airport grant project, types of contracts for these services, contract format and provisions, and guidelines for determining the reasonableness of consultant fees.

ACRP Report 16, second edition, is designed to help airport practitioners, owners, operators, managers, and policymakers of small airports, who may have varying degrees of experience and backgrounds, to fulfill their responsibilities in such areas as financial management, oversight of contracts and leases, safety and security, noise impacts, community relations, compliance with federal and state obligations, facility maintenance, and capital improvements. The first edition has been edited and reformatted for currency, relevance, and usability and updated with additional information and new subject areas (e.g., unmanned aircraft systems, geographic information systems, digital notices to airmen, social media, and federal and state obligations). Also, hyperlinks to many of the documents and resources mentioned in this report, such as ACRP publications, industry sources, and sample checklists, have been collected into ACRP WebResource 6: Resources for Managing Small Airports.

Advisory Circular (AC) 150/5100-14E, Architectural, Engineering (A/E), and Planning Consultant Services for Airport Grant Projects, requires sponsors to perform a cost analysis for every A/E contract for which reimbursement is expected under the Airport Improvement Program (AIP). This standard operating procedure (SOP) establishes uniform procedures for the FAA Office of Airports (ARP) for receiving, evaluating, and accepting the consultant fee analysis for development projects funded with Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grants.

ACRP Legal Research Digest 20: Airport Responsibility for Wildlife Management compiles the laws and regulations pertaining to wildlife hazard management and discusses mitigation techniques applicable to airport operators.

ACRP Legal Research Digest 14: Achieving Airport-Compatible Land Uses and Minimizing Hazardous Obstructions in Navigable Airspace discusses airport-compatible land-use requirements, the legal issues related to achieving airport-compatible land use, and the legal issues particular to eliminating hazardous obstructions to airspace.

ACRP Legal Research Digest 18: Buy America Requirements for Federally Funded Airports discusses the legislative history pertaining to Buy America, the applicable federal regulations, and how it has been applied at airports. The report provides information on airport construction and equipment purchase and helps to ensure compliance with FAA regulations.

ACRP Legal Research Digest 23: A Guide for Compliance with Grant Agreement Obligations to Provide Reasonable Access to an AIP-Funded Public Use General Aviation Airport describes the assurances made by airport sponsors that receive grants from FAA, and how these assurances limit the sponsor from unreasonably restricting access for aeronautical activity at general aviation airports.

ACRP Report 90 identifies and quantifies the cumulative costs of complying with regulatory and other federal requirements at small hub and non-hub airports. The report is intended to provide airport operators and others with an understanding of the cumulative effects of federal requirements. The research analyzed aviation transportation, environmental, security, and occupational safety and health requirements from initial implementation through ongoing maintenance and their estimated associated costs for 2000-2010. The report identifies funding sources (if any) associated with the federal requirements and reviews the actual uses of these sources by small hub and non-hub airports to cover the cost of regulatory compliance.

ACRP Synthesis 13 explores assessment techniques that can be used by airports in performing benefit-cost analysis for hard-to-quantify benefits from projects needing more than $5 million in Airport Improvement Program discretionary funding.

This advisory circular (AC) acquaints public airport sponsors and other interested parties with the Federal Surplus Personal Property Program for Public Airports. It contains the procedures for applying for screener credentials and to request authorized surplus personal property through the GSAXcess system administered by the General Services Administration (GSA) for the disposition of federal surplus personal property.

The purpose of this compliance guidance letter is twofold. First, to meet the requirements set forth in Section 813(e) of the Act, which requires the FAA to promulgate regulations to carry out this section no later than 90 days from the date of enactment. Accordingly, the FAA published the Notification of Modification of Airport Improvement Program grant assurances April 13, 2012, which modified Grant Assurance 25, Airport Revenues, to reflect this new statutory provision. Second, to provide guidance to FAA personnel, block grant state personnel (where applicable), and airport sponsors regarding the agency's methodology for implementing the provisions of Section 813.