Transportation Research Board
Home Contact Us Directory E-NewsletterFollow UsRSS RSS
The National Academies

ACRP 11-01 [Active]

Legal Aspects of Airport Programs

  Project Data
Staff Responsibility: Marci A. Greenberger AAE
Research Agency: Transportation Research Board
Effective Date: 1/31/2006

The nation's airports need to have access to a program that can provide authoritatively researched, specific, limited-scope studies of legal issues and problems having national significance and application to their business. A program meeting the need for dealing with legal problems arising from highway programs was inaugurated in 1969 under the National Cooperative Highway Research Program. It has been maintained with continuation funding since that time with strong support and approval from the constituency it serves. Similarly, a transit legal research program was implemented in 1992 under the Transit Cooperative Research Program and has been continually funded since its inception. Such a legal research program would be beneficial to the Airport Cooperative Research Program.

The objective of this project is to provide legal research on topics of interest to the airport legal community based on periodic solicitations of potential topics. The project would produce an ACRP Legal Research Digest series of reports on legal issues associated with airport-related law. Each document would be intended to provide airport attorneys with authoritative, well-researched, specific information that is limited in scope. The studies would focus on legal issues and problems having national significance to the airport industry. Each year, numerous attorneys nationwide are involved in airport-related work; yet, there is no centralized collection of information on which they can depend. The ACRP Legal Research Digest series will provide airport-related legal research on a wide variety of legal topics.

Legal Research Digests published to date:

LRD No. 1         Compilation of Airport Law Resources (February 2008)

LRD No. 2         Theory and Law of Airport Revenue Diversion (June 2008)

LRD No. 3         Survey of Laws and Regulations of Airport Commercial Ground Transportation (July 2008)

LRD No. 4         Compilation of Digest-Parts 13 and 16 Determinations and Related Documents (November 2008)

LRD No. 5         Responsibility for Implementation and Enforcement of Airport Land-Use Zoning Restrictions (April 2009)

LRD No. 6         The Impact of Airline Bankruptcies on Airports (June 2009)

LRD No. 7         Airport Governance and Ownership (August 2009)

LRD No. 8         The Right to Self-Fuel (December 2009)

LRD No. 9         Case Studies on Community Challenges to Airport Development (July 2010)

LRD No.10       Analysis of Federal Laws, Regulations and Case Law Regarding Airport Proprietary Rights ( August 2010)

LRD No. 11       Survey of Minimum Standards: Commercial Aeronautical Activities at Airports (February 2011)

LRD No. 12       Fair Disclosure of Airport Impacts in Real Estate Transfers (November 2011) 

LRD No. 13       An Index and Digest of Decisions:  Compilation of Airport Law Resources (March 2012)

LRD No. 14       Achieving Airport-Compatible Land Uses and Minimizing Hazardous Obstructions in Navigable Airspace (April 2012)

LRD No. 15       Compilation of State Airport Authorizing Legislation (August 2012)

LRD No. 16       Procurement of Airport Development and Planning Contracts (September 2012)

LRD No. 17       State and Federal Regulations That May Affect Initiatives to Reduce Ariports' GHG Emissions (November 2012)

LRD No. 18       Buy America Requirements for Federally Funded Airports (February 2013

LRD No. 19       Legal Issues Related to Developing Safety Management Systems and Safety Risk Management at U.S. Airports (January 2013)

LRD No. 20       Airport Responsibility for Wildlife Management (Expected Summer 2013)

Research in progress:

Topic 4-01         Airport Liability for Wildlife Management  

Topic 4-03       Analysis of State Laws, Rules, Regulations, and Permits Related to National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) and State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES)

Topic 4-05        Compilation of DOT and FAA Airport Legal Determinations and Opinion Letters, through December 2011

Topic 4-06         Legal Requirements for Purpose and Need

Topic 5-01         The First Amendment and Airport Activities

Topic 5-04         Airport Grant Assurances:  General Requirements and Economic Nondiscrimination

Under development:

Topic 5-02         Sovereign Immunity and Applicability to Airports

Topic 5-03         The Fourth Amendment and Airports

 

11-01/Topic 01-01 Compilation of Digest-Parts 13 and 16 Determinations and Related Documents

11-01/Topic 01-02 Theory and Law of Airport Revenue Diversion

11-01/Topic 01-03 Compilation/List of Airport Law Resources

11-01/Topic 01-04 Survey of Airport Laws and Regulation of Commercial Ground Transportation

11-01/Topic 01-05 Responsibilities for Implementation and Enforcement of Airport Land-Use Zoning Restrictions

11-01/Topic 01-06 Who is the Owner or Operator for Purposes of the Right to Self-fuel?

11-01/Topic 01-07 The Impact of Airlines Bankruptcies on Airports

11-01/Topic 01-08 The Law and Regulations of Airport Ownership

11-01/Topic 01-09 Survey of the Elements of Disparity Studies for Airport Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Programs.

11-01/Topic 02-01 Obstructions Affecting Navigatable Airspace
This topic was merged with Topic 2-02 and became Topic 2-05

11-01/Topic 02-02 Use and Success of Avigation Easements and Other Tools for Airport Compatible Land Use and Development of Model Language
This topic was merged with Topic 2-01 and became Topic 2-05.

11-01/Topic 02-03 Case Studies on Community Challenges to Airport Development

11-01/Topic 02-04 Analysis of Federal Laws, Regulations and Case Law Regarding Airport Proprietary Rights

11-01/Topic 02-05 Practices to Achieve Airport Compatible Land Uses and Minimize Obstructions in Navigable Airspace

11-01/Topic 03-01 Fair Disclosure of Airport Impacts in Real Estate Transfers

11-01/Topic 03-02 Compilation of State Aviation Authorizing Legislation

11-01/Topic 03-03 Survey of Minimum Standards Commercial Aeronautical Activities at Airports

11-01/Topic 03-04 Airport Rates and Charges: Law and Policy

11-01/Topic 03-05 State and Federal Regulations That May Affect Initiatives to Reduce Airports' GHG Emissions

11-01/Topic 03-06 An Index and Digest of Decisions in LRD 1

11-01/Topic 04-01 Airport Liability for Wildlife Management

11-01/Topic 04-02 Legal Issues Related to Developing SMS and SMRD Documents Which May be Available to the Public

11-01/Topic 04-03 Analysis of Federal Laws, Regulations, Case Law, and Survey of Existing Airport NPDES Permits Regarding Tenant-Operator Responsibilities Under NPDES and Storm Water Management BMPs Under Owner/Airport's Operating Permits

11-01/Topic 04-04 Buy America Requirements for Federally Funded Airports

11-01/Topic 04-05 Compilation of DOT and FAA Airport Legal Determinations and Opinion Letters, through December 2011

11-01/Topic 04-06 The Role of the Airport Sponsor in Airport Planning and Environmental Reviews of Proposed Development Projects Under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and State Mini-NEPA Laws

11-01/Topic 04-07 Procurement of Airport Development and Planning Contracts

11-01/Topic 05-01 Regulations Affecting the Exercise of First Amendment Activities at Airports

11-01/Topic 05-04 A Guide for Compliance with Grant Agreement Obligations to Provide Reasonable Access to an AIP-Funded Public Use General Aviation Airport

To create a link to this page, use this URL: http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=126

Transportation Research Board. 500 Fifth St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Copyright © 2013. National Academy of Sciences. All Rights Reserved.