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CBP Airport Technical Design Standard

Finding 12: Customize Small Airport Facilities

General Aviation Facilities (GAF) are most often located at small, low volume airports in the United States. Typically, CBP can process up to 20 passengers per hour. The space requirements are therefore much less than commercial airports. It is noted that not all size requirements for GAF will apply to small airports. However, many small airports fall below the "small" category of 200 passengers per hour and operate more like a GAF. Although the building requirements differ from commercial airport to GAF, there are benefits to considering a consolidated facility to house both General and Commercial Aviation.

Airport Applicability

- Low passenger volume - Small airports and General Aviation Facilities - All passenger types

References

ATDS (2012) - Section 2.7.4 states that the FIS must accommodate all arriving passengers and queues at peak times - Section 3.1 introduces the airport size specification - Section 8.0 defines General Aviation - Section 3.3 introduces the airport size specifications for GAF ATDS (2016 - 90% Draft) - Preface states that standards for General Aviation are not included in the 2016 version and are published separately. - Section 2.7 states that the FIS size is determined by passengers arriving at peak hours plus the size of arriving aircraft - Section 5.3 outlines the space matrix and calculations required for the FIS - Code ATD-01-03 in Chapter 5

FINDINGS

CBP Airport Technical Design Standard

Finding 12: Customize Small

Airport Facilities

General Aviation Facilities (GAF) are located at small low volume airports in the U.S. Typically CBP can process up to 20 passengers per hour. The space requirements are therefore much less than commercial airports. It is noted that not all size requirement for GAF will apply to small airports. However, many small airports fall below the “small” category of 200 passengers per hour and operate much more like a GAF. Although the building requirements differ from commercial airport to GAF, there are benefits of considering a consolidated facility to house both General and Commercial Aviation.

Consolidation of Commercial and General Aviation CBP requirements. A “FIS-lite” for small markets may be explored further given that there are numerous example of small airports that are dealing with the issue of deciding how to justify building and maintaining two separate CBP facilities with a number of overlapping requirements.

Use of technology to save space – Deploy MPC, APC, or Global Entry to alleviate space requirements in the FIS- lite. Similar to Finding 11, there are likely space savings associated with smaller facilities that could allow for a reduced baseline space requirement.

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