New Mexico Register / Volume XXXIV, Issue 20 / October 24, 2023

This is an amendment to 18.11.10 NMAC, Section 8, effective 10/24/2023.

18.11.10.8 ELIGIBILITY FOR ASSISTANCE: Applicants shall meet the following minimum criteria to be eligible for a grant:

A. the municipality or county shall have a minimum population of 20,000 persons residing within a 50 mile radius of the airport unless the municipality or county has existing scheduled air service;

B. the aircraft to be used to service proposed new air routes served by the rural air service enhancement grant program shall have a passenger capacity of not more than [30] 100 persons;

C. the route or routes to be served by the program shall be a new air route or routes that were not served at the time the grant was made; and

D. the selected air carrier must be licensed by the state.

[18.11.10.8 NMAC - N, 10/26/2021; A, 2/14/2023; A, 10/24/2023]