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From the Prime Minister's Web Site (http://www.pm.gc.ca/)

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Backgrounder

August 10, 2010
Cranbrook, British Columbia

AIRPORT CAPITAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

The Airports Capital Assistance Program (ACAP) is an example of the Government of Canada directing infrastructure resources to where they are most needed and can best enhance safety. Under ACAP, airports may apply for funding towards capital projects related to safety. To be eligible, an airport must have year-round regularly scheduled passenger service with a minimum of 1,000 passengers each year over the most recent three consecutive years, meet airport certification requirements and not be owned or operated by the federal government.

Since its inception, ACAP has been renewed twice and expired on March 31, 2010. The program has been continued effective July 2010 and will be financed at an average of $38 million per year.

Since the program started (1995), including today's announcements, ACAP announcements total over $535M for 651 projects at 170 airports. Over 99 per cent of these projects were airside safety-related projects such as runways, taxiways, visual aids, etc., and heavy airside mobile equipment such as fire trucks and snow plows.

IMPROVEMENTS AT THE CRANBROOK AIRPORT

The Government of Canada is providing $5,636,941 in support of essential safety and infrastructure upgrades at the Cranbrook Airport. These improvements include the replacement of a wet/dry chemical spreader and a decelerometer (winter friction testing advice) and the rehabilitation of runways and taxiways.

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