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§ 157.3
in writing, a participating State shall
not delegate or relinquish, either ex-
pressly or by implication, any State
authority, rights, or power that would
interfere with the State’s ability to
comply with the terms of a State block
grant agreement.
§ 156.7 Enforcement of State block
grant agreements and other related
grant assurances.
The Administrator may take any ac-
tion, pursuant to the authority of the
Airport and Airway Improvement Act
of 1982, as amended, to enforce the
terms of a State block grant agreement
including any terms imposed upon sub-
sequent recipients of State block
agreement funds.
PART 157—NOTICE OF CONSTRUC-
TION, ALTERATION, ACTIVATION,
AND DEACTIVATION OF AIR-
PORTS
Sec.
157.1
Applicability.
157.2
Definition of terms.
157.3
Projects requiring notice.
157.5
Notice of intent.
157.7
FAA determinations.
157.9
Notice of completion.
A
UTHORITY
: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40103, 40113,
44502.
S
OURCE
: Docket No. 25708, 56 FR 33996, July
24, 1991, unless otherwise noted.
§ 157.1 Applicability.
This part applies to persons pro-
posing to construct, alter, activate, or
deactivate a civil or joint-use (civil/
military) airport or to alter the status
or use of such an airport. Requirements
for persons to notify the Administrator
concerning certain airport activities
are prescribed in this part. This part
does not apply to projects involving:
(a) An airport subject to conditions
of a Federal agreement that requires
an approved current airport layout
plan to be on file with the Federal
Aviation Administration; or
(b) An airport at which flight oper-
ations will be conducted under visual
flight rules (VFR) and which is used or
intended to be used for a period of less
than 30 consecutive days with no more
than 10 operations per day.
(c) The intermittent use of a site
that is not an established airport,
which is used or intended to be used for
less than one year and at which flight
operations will be conducted only
under VFR. For the purposes of this
part,
intermittent use of a site
means:
(1) The site is used or is intended to
be used for no more than 3 days in any
one week; and
(2) No more than 10 operations will be
conducted in any one day at that site.
§ 157.2 Definition of terms.
For the purpose of this part:
Airport
means any airport, heliport,
helistop, vertiport, gliderport, seaplane
base, ultralight flightpark, manned
balloon launching facility, or other air-
craft landing or takeoff area.
Heliport
means any landing or takeoff
area intended for use by helicopters or
other rotary wing type aircraft capable
of vertical takeoff and landing profiles.
Private use
means available for use by
the owner only or by the owner and
other persons authorized by the owner.
Private use of public lands
means that
the landing and takeoff area of the pro-
posed airport is publicly owned and the
proponent is a non-government entity,
regardless of whether that landing and
takeoff area is on land or on water and
whether the controlling entity be local,
State, or Federal Government.
Public use
means available for use by
the general public without a require-
ment for prior approval of the owner or
operator.
Traffic pattern
means the traffic flow
that is prescribed for aircraft landing
or taking off from an airport, including
departure and arrival procedures uti-
lized within a 5-mile radius of the air-
port for ingress, egress, and noise
abatement.
§ 157.3 Projects requiring notice.
Each person who intends to do any of
the following shall notify the Adminis-
trator in the manner prescribed in
§ 157.5:
(a) Construct or otherwise establish a
new airport or activate an airport.
(b) Construct, realign, alter, or acti-
vate any runway or other aircraft land-
ing or takeoff area of an airport.
(c) Deactivate, discontinue using, or
abandon an airport or any landing or