{"id":325950,"date":"2020-07-06T06:06:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=325950"},"modified":"2020-07-06T06:06:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T20:06:09","slug":"nearly-800m-awarded-to-347-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nearly-800m-awarded-to-347-airports\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly $800M awarded to 347 airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C\u2014The U.S. Secretary of Transportation will award nearly $800 million in airport safety and infrastructure grants through the\u00a0Federal Aviation Administration to 46 states, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Marshall Islands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis nearly $800 million federal investment in airport infrastructure will strengthen safety, improve travel, generate jobs and provide many economic benefits for local communities,\u201d said U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0complete listing of grants and\u00a0an interactive map of airports receiving funding\u00a0is available on the FAA website.<\/p>\n<p>The total includes $689 million from the\u00a0Airport Improvement Program and $104.4 million in\u00a0Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act\u00a0grants to equal a 100 percent federal share. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C\u2014The U.S. Secretary of Transportation will award nearly $800 million in airport safety and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":325935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}