Congressman Denny Rehberg

April 19, 2005

BILLINGS, MT - Montana’s Congressman, Denny Rehberg (R-Montana), today announced more than $3.51 million in federal Airport Improvement Grants have been awarded to ten Montana airports. Rehberg is a member of the House Appropriations Committee.

“From runway rehabilitation and snow removal upgrades, each of these projects are important both to the economies of the local communities and to Montana,” Rehberg explained.The grants announced today, under the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Airport Improvement Program (AIP), include:

· $1,000,000 to rehabilitate runways and taxiway, and to install an automated weather observation system at Butte’s Bert Mooney Airport

· $469,560 to rehabilitate runways and taxiway, and acquire snow removal equipment at Frank Wiley Field, near Miles City

· $421,230 to rehabilitate the access road at Dillon Airport

· $367,351 to rehabilitate runways and taxiway, and acquire snow removal equipment at Wokal Field/Glasgow International Airport

· $307,800 to rehabilitate the runway and construct snow removal equipment building at Ravalli County Airport

· $296,937 to continue terminal building modifications, and rehabilitate the runway, apron, and taxiway at Havre City-County Airport

· $268,441 to rehabilitate the runway and make improvements to the snow removal equipment building at Lewistown Municipal Airport

· $123,500 to construct a snow removal equipment building at Shelby Airport

· $109,667 to rehabilitate the runway and construct a new fuel facility at White Sulphur Springs Airport

· $79,000 to update the master plan for Tillitt Field, near Forsyth, and

· $71,250 to construct a new fuel facility at Townsend Airport

“These grants are part of a larger, comprehensive effort to secure federal airport funding for a number of communities across Montana,” Rehberg said.