LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Three Arkansas airports will be receiving federal funding for major infrastructure projects as part of a new effort announced Thursday.
The $30.275 million will fund terminal improvements at the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, the Texarkana Regional Airport and the Northwest Arkansas National Airport in Bentonville.
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This funding is part of the 2022 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Airport Terminal Program, which will deliver a total of $5 billion in total designed to improve domestic airports by 2026.
Clinton National’s $8 million in funding will be used for the second of a four-phase construction of a new 70,000-square-foot central utility plant. In this phase, drainage will be completed as will utility relocation and the replacement of two switchboards.
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Shane Carter, director of public affairs and governmental relations for the airport, said the funding is updating 52-year-old infrastructure.