Press Release – FAA Invests $766M to Build Safer, More Sustainable Airports  

Build More Sustainable Airports:

• Great Falls International Airport, Great Falls, Mont.: $4.8 million to construct a deicing pad and facilities to keep deicing materials separate from storm water. The new infrastructure will improve operational efficiency by allowing aircraft deicing at a location away from the gate.


• Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, Louisville, Ky.: $10.6 million to install a geothermal system in the terminal building to improve the airport's energy efficiency. The airport will heat and cool the 400,000 square-foot terminal building with the new geothermal system, which will replace three existing boilers. The geothermal system will significantly reduce pollutants, such as ozone, carbon monoxide, and particulate matter associated with the burning of natural gas.