Budget constraints at the national level will hinder efforts of the Commonwealth Ports Authority to implement upcoming projects, according to executive director Edward Deleon Guerrero yesterday.<\/p>\n
He disclosed that the Federal Aviation Administration has notified them of a possible holdup in some projects, including the building of an ARFF Center on Tinian, which was supposed to be funded and constructed this fiscal year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were informed by FAA that some of our projects may probably be moved back to one fiscal year like the Tinian ARFF which was now moved back to 2013 instead of this year,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
The expansion of the Saipan International Airport\u2019s ARFF Center, which is ongoing, will continue, he said. A notice to proceed has already been issued for the construction of a mock plane, he added.<\/p>\n
He also described as \u201con target\u201d the ongoing rehabilitation of Saipan International Airport\u2019s runway in February. The project\u2019s original completion deadline was October 2011 but this got pushed back after the discovery of last-minute problems. The project costs about $19 million, all funded by FAA.<\/p>\n
According to Deleon Guerrero, CPA submitted to FAA a five-year \u201cwish list\u201d of projects it wants to build on Saipan, Tinian, and Rota airports. To date, CPA has yet to know how much it will get from FAA\u2019s airport improvement project program this fiscal year, he added.<\/p>\n
During last year\u2019s Micronesian Chief Executives Summit on island, it was learned that FAA gave away over $955 million or nearly $1 billion in airport improvement project funds to Pacific Islands\u2019 airports in the last 10 years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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