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Authorize negotiation and execution of an agreement with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reimbursing CBP costs for additional or expanded services at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport necessary to accommodate increased international arrival flights, in the amount of $300,000 per year for five years for a total not to exceed amount of $1,500,000.
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Lead Department
Aviation.
Fiscal Note
Funding is available in the Fiscal Year 2018-2019 Capital and/or Operating Budget of the Aviation Department.
For More Information:
Patti Edwards, Chief Operating Officer, (512) 530-6366.
Council Committee, Boards and Commission Action:
December 4, 2018 - Recommended by the Airport Advisory Commission on a 7-0-0-4 vote, with Commissioner Members Watry, Walewski, Tegeler, V. Sepulveda, and Hendricks absent at this vote.
Additional Backup Information:
This agreement is between the City of Austin Department of Aviation (Aviation) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for Aviation’s reimbursement of CBP for costs related to providing additional or expanded services at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (Airport), if and when those services are needed. An anticipated increase in international flights at the Airport may necessitate CBP services in addition to the baseline services appropriated to the Airport. Federal law mandates reimbursement of these additional service costs. The services may be needed to support the new international gates that are currently being constructed at the Airport as part of the terminal 9 gate expansion project, international arrivals at the South Terminal and/or other additional international arrivals.
Although Aviation will reimburse CBP, it will recover most, if not all, of the additional costs expended from the international flight providers benefitted by the additional or expanded services.