FY 2016 Appropriation
Funding History
Appropriation Overview

During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $537,400 from all sources for Administration. This is a 5.8 percent reduction from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources. The total includes $0 from the General/Education Funds, a reduction of 100 percent from revised Fiscal Year 2015 estimates.

The Administration function of the Division of Aeronautics is responsible for the Utah Continuous Airport System Plan, and coordination with both local airport sponsors and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Administration operates with the services of a director, aeronautical planner, pavement maintenance engineer and a support services coordinator. The Division owns a VOR/DME navigation station, one NDB navigation station and four AWOS weather stations. In addition, Administration publishes the Utah Aeronautical Chart with an airport directory, conducts joint planning conferences with airport sponsors, provides local schools and civic organizations with tours of the state hanger, and supports FAA safety seminars.

Intent Language

HB0003: Item 36

Under terms of Section 63J-1-603(3)(a) Utah Code Annotated, the Legislature intends that the one-time appropriation of $5,000,000 from the Aeronautics Restricted Account to Airport Construction in Item 22, Chapter 282, Laws of Utah 2014, not lapse at the end of FY 2015.


SB0002: Item 28

The Legislature intends that the Division of Aeronautics use funds from the Aeronautics Restricted Account to conduct an audit of the Utah Based Aircraft Database and Aircraft Registration program to evaluate the existing process for collecting aircraft data, accuracy of information, and to make recommendations for improvement.


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COBI contains unaudited data as presented to the Legislature by state agencies at the time of publication. For audited financial data see the State of Utah's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports.