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Federal Aviation Administration, DOT 

§ 152.403 

§ 152.403

Definitions. 

As used in this subpart— 

AADA 

means the Airport and Airway 

Development Act of 1970, as amended 
(49 U.S.C. 1701 

et seq.

). 

Affirmative action plan 

means a set of 

specific and result-oriented procedures 
to which a sponsor, planning agency, 
state, or the aviation related activity 
on an airport commits itself to achieve 
equal employment opportunity. 

Airport development 

means—(1) Any 

work involved in constructing, improv-
ing, or repairing a public airport or 
portion thereof, including the removal, 
lowering, relocation, and marking and 
lighting of airport hazards, and includ-
ing navigation aids used by aircraft 
landing at, or taking off from, a public 
airport, and including safety equip-
ment required by rule or regulation for 
certification of the airport under sec-
tion 612 of the Federal Aviation Act of 
1958, and security equipment required 
of the sponsor by the Secretary by rule 
or regulation for the safety and secu-
rity of persons and property on the air-
port, and including snow removal 
equipment, and including the purchase 
of noise suppressing equipment, the 
construction of physical barriers, and 
landscaping for the purpose of dimin-
ishing the effect of aircraft noise on 
any area adjacent to a public airport; 

(2) Any acquisition of land or of any 

interest therein, or of any easement 
through or other interest in airspace, 
including land for future airport devel-
opment, which is necessary to permit 
any such work or to remove or miti-
gate or prevent or limit the establish-
ment of, airport hazards; and 

(3) Any acquisition of land or of any 

interest therein necessary to insure 
that such land is used only for purposes 
which are compatible with the noise 
levels of the operation of a public air-
port. 

Aviation related activity 

means a com-

mercial enterprise—(1) Which is oper-
ated on the airport pursuant to an 
agreement with the grantee or airport 
operator or to a derivative subagree-
ment; 

(2) Which employs persons on the air-

port; and 

(3) Which—(i) Is related primarily to 

the aeronautical activities on the air-
port; 

(ii) Provides goods or services to the 

public which is attracted to the airport 
by aeronautical activities; 

(iii) Provides services or supplies to 

other aeronautical related or public 
service airport businesses or to the air-
port; or 

(iv) Performs construction work on 

the airport. 

Aviation workforce 

includes, with re-

spect to grantees, each person em-
ployed by the grantee on an airport or, 
for an aviation purpose, off the airport. 

Covered organization 

means a grantee, 

a subgrantee, or an aviation related ac-
tivity. 

Covered suborganization 

is a sub-

grantee or sub-aviation related activ-
ity, of a covered organization. 

Department 

means the United States 

Department of Transportation; 

Grant 

means Federal financial assist-

ance in the form of funds provided to a 
sponsor, planning agency, or state 
under this part; 

Grantee 

means the recipient of a 

grant. 

Minority 

means a person who is—(1) 

Black and not of Hispanic origin: A 
person having origins in any of the 
black racial groups of Africa; 

(2) Hispanic: A person of Mexican, 

Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South 
American or other Spanish culture or 
origin, regardless of race; 

(3) Asian or Pacific Islander: A per-

son having origins in any or the origi-
nal peoples of the Far East, Southeast 
Asia, the Indian subcontinent, or the 
Pacific Islands, including, but not lim-
ited to China, Japan, Korea, the Phil-
ippine Islands, and Samoa; or 

(4) American Indian or Alaskan Na-

tive: A person having origins in any of 
the original peoples of North America 
who maintains cultural identification 
through tribal affiliation or commu-
nity recognition. 

Planning agency 

means any planning 

agency designated by the Secretary 
which is authorized by the laws of the 
State or States (including the Com-
monwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin 
Islands, American Samoa, the Trust 
Territory of the Pacific Islands, and 
Guam) or political subdivisions con-
cerned to engage in areawide planning 
for the area in which assistance under 
this part is to be used; 

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