Federal Aviation Administration's Airport Capital Improvement Program Development Process

The Airport Capital Improvement Program (ACIP) serves as the primary tool for project planning and formulation by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The FAA relies on the ACIP to serve as the basis for the distribution of Aviation Trust Funds under the Airport Improvement Program (AIP) through grants made to airport sponsors. The FAA’s ACIP provides the means to systematically identify, prioritize, and assign funds for airport development. The FAA ACIP process is found in law, regulations, FAA Orders, FAA Advisory Circulars, and regional policy and guidance. The guidance provides, in detail, what is required for airport sponsors to obtain federal financial assistance for an AIP eligible project. It became apparent to the Central Region Airports Division that airport sponsors were having trouble understanding the ACIP process by the lack of uniformity, incomplete information, and uncompleted steps found in the financial aid requests. How can the FAA Central Region provide information about the ACIP process to airport sponsors, consultants and stakeholders in a format that is easy to understand? Previous outreach efforts by the FAA to airport sponsors included workshops, seminars, guidebooks, annual letters, and individual explanations of the ACIP process. The FAA must continually educate sponsors and stakeholders through various means about the ACIP process. A new ACIP Data Sheet and a Capital Planning Practices Brochure would provide information in a format that is easy to understand and deliver

Federal Pell Grant Eligibility and Receipt: Explaining Nonreceipt and Changes to EFC Using National and Institutional Data

In examining national data on Federal Pell Grant eligibility in the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS), we were puzzled to discover that many students who appear to have eligible Expected Family Contributions (EFCs) do not receive the award. We use institutional data from a large public university to understand and enumerate changes from initial Free Application for Student Financial Aid (FAFSA) EFC to final Pell Grant EFC and explore why EFC changes occur. We determine that the nonreceipt of Pell Grant observed in NPSAS is likely due to NPSAS not reporting final Pell Grant EFCs. We examine how the verification process results in changes to EFC and describe how nearly half of students who experienced a change in EFC during the award year were not asked to verify. We also observe that selection for Quality Assurance verification and EFC changes varied based on students’ demographics characteristics. The paper concludes with discussion of improving the verification process

Psoralen-Deoxyribonucleic Acid Photoreaction. Characterization of the Monoaddition Products from 8-Methoxypsoralen and 4,5', 8-Trimethylpsoralent

ABSTRACT: The isolation and structural characterization are described of the major monoaddition products formed in the photoreaction of two naturally occurring psoralens, 8-methoxypsoralen and 4,5',8-trimethylpsoralen, with high molecular weight, double-stranded DNA. Hydrolysis of the psoralenmodified DNA and subsequent chromatography resulted in the isolation of four modified nucleosides from each psoralen. Structural characterization was accomplished by mass spectrometry and 'H N M R analysis. The major products, accounting for 44-52% of the covalently bound psoralen, are two diastereomeric thymidine adducts formed by cycloaddition between the 5,6 double bond of the pyrimidine and the 4',5' (furan) double bond of the psoralen. A minor product, less than 2% of the covalently bound psoralen, is a furan-side E o r a l e n s or furocoumarins are a class of compounds found in a wide variety of plants and'fungi and have been used since ancient times as dermal photosensitizing agents for the treatment of various skin pigmentation disorder

Relatio III

Thesis (B.A.)--University of Illinois, 1917.Typescript.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 32)