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if Marcos Regional Airport <br />Minimum Standards <br />WINUSTAN <br />1.1 Introduction <br />The City of San Marcos, as Owner of the San Marcos Airport, establishes these Minimum <br />Standards for persons who are or wish to become Commercial Operators, or anyone who leases <br />land,, andjor who makes use of Airport property, These Minimum Standards consider the <br />significant role of the Airport In aviation, facilities that currently exist at the Airport, services being <br />offered at the Airport, and the future development planned fur the Airport. These Minimum <br />Standards serve the folsowing purpose-,; <br />1, Ensure that all commercial operators, tenants, and the City of Son Marcos are not <br />exposed to illegal, unsafe, or irresponsible practices. <br />2. Serve the public Interest and discourage substandard business practices and <br />construction, thereby protecting both the established aeronautical activity and the San <br />Marcos Airport customers. <br />1.2 Purpose* <br />In accordance with the Airport and Airway Improvement Act at 1982 and the Airport <br />ImprovementPrDgram ¢AIP)sportsor assurances, the owner or operator ofthe Airport (the Airport <br />Sponsor) that has been developed or Improved with federal grant assistance Of conveyances of <br />Federal property assistance is required to operate the. Nirportforthe use and benefit oftfie public <br />and to make it available for all types, kinds, and Classes of aeronautixal activily. <br />These federal obligations Involve several distinct requirements, Most Important is that the <br />Airport and its facilities must be available for public use as an Airport. The terms imposed an <br />those who use the Airport and Its services; must be reasonable and applied without unjust <br />discrimination, whether by the Airport Sponsor or by a contractor or licensee who has been <br />granted a right by the Airport sponsor to offer services or commodities normally required to serve <br />aeronautical users of the Airport, <br />Federal law requires that recipients of federal grants sign a grant agreernent or covenant in a <br />conveyance ofproperty that sets out the obligations that an Airport Sponsor assumes in exchange <br />for federal assistance. The FAA's policy recommending minimum standards stems from the <br />Airport Sponsor's grant assurances and similar property conveyance obligations to rnake the <br />Airport available for public use on reasonable conditions and without unjust discrimination, <br />