Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 25 - Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission
Chapter 15 - OAC Airport Construction Program
Section 25:15-1-2 - Definitions

The following words or terms, when used in this Chapter, shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Administrative official" means an official of the airport sponsor who is authorized to legally bind the airport sponsor.

"Airport Construction Program" means a list of airport construction projects approved by the Commission for implementation within a five-year programming horizon showing a description of the project, the cost of each phase of the project, when the project is expected to occur, and the sources of funding.

"Airport Development Worksheet" means a listing of the capital projects needed at an airport over a twenty-year planning horizon together with the estimated cost, construction type, objective code, and airport component for each project. Projects identified for a particular airport must be consistent with the service level, functional classification, design standard, and airport reference code identified for the airport in the Oklahoma Airport System Plan. An airport development worksheet is developed and maintained for each system plan airport that is not part of the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) cooperatively by the airport sponsor and the Commission staff.

"Airport layout plan/drawing" means the basic plan for the layout of an airport that shows, at a minimum, the present boundaries of the airport, the areas that the airport sponsor owns or controls for airport purposes, and any proposed areas that will be acquired by the airport sponsor in the future. It will include the location and nature of existing and proposed airport facilities such as runways, taxiways, aprons, terminal buildings, hangars, roads, and other vital airport infrastructure items. Also, it will provide the location of existing and proposed uses of property under control by the airport sponsor. The full airport layout plan-set is a combination of many pages of documents, including items such as instrument approach path details, terminal area maps, property maps, and the page that is identified as the airport layout drawing. Not every airport will have a full plan-set and may only have an airport layout drawing which will detail most of the above information on a single page drawing.

"Airport Sponsor" or "Municipality" is used interchangeably throughout this chapter. Either term means any incorporated city, village, or town of this state, any public institution of higher education, and any county or political subdivision or district of this state, or any public trust thereof, which is, or may be, authorized by law to acquire, establish, construct, maintain, improve, and operate airports, airstrips, and aeronautical facilities. To be eligible for the state grant program, the airport sponsor must be one of the governmental entities referenced in the preceding sentence and included in the Oklahoma Airport System Plan. Nothing herein precludes two or more of these entities from acting jointly as an airport sponsor. In the event a public trust is the airport sponsor, the beneficiary of that public trust must also be a record owner of the airport property.

"Airport Sponsor Matching Share" means any funds provided by the airport, municipality or public trust, or any other source of funding that is not FAA.

"Commission" means the Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission, the state agency responsible for administering airport grant programs for the State of Oklahoma and the Federal Aviation Administration.

"Emergency" means a condition that could not have been foreseen and which affects the safety of the airport sufficiently that the airport or runway may need to be closed if the situation is not remedied.

"FAA" means the Federal Aviation Administration, a unit of the U.S. Department of Transportation.

"Letter of Interest" means a letter expressing the desire of an airport sponsor to have one or more projects included in the Airport Construction Program.

"Non- Primary Entitlement (NPE) funds" are FAA Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funds set aside for general aviation airports listed in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. These airports can each receive up to $150,000 per year based on the FAA assessment of needs over a 5 year period.

"Notification Letter" means correspondence prepared by the Commission staff informing an airport sponsor that one or more of their projects have advanced to the current year of the Airport Construction Program. The letter sets forth the terms the Commission imposes on airport sponsors participating in the state grant program, describes the project, authorizes the airport sponsor to begin engineering work for the project and directs the sponsor to prepare a grant application once project bids have been received.

"Oklahoma Airport System Plan" means the plan, adopted by the Commission, which identifies the airports included in the State's airport system and identifies the service level, functional classification, design standard, and airport reference code for each system airport.

"Project Sketch" shown in color the area and location of proposed construction or rehabilitation work for the accompanying construction grant application.

Added at 14 Ok Reg 2844, eff 7-11-97; Amended at 21 Ok Reg 2959, eff 7-25-04; Amended at 23 Ok Reg 3159, eff 4-3-06 (emergency); Amended at 23 Ok Reg 3205, eff 9-11-06; Amended at 29 Ok Reg 451, eff 5-11-12