MONTROSE, Colo. (KREX) — Colorado Sens. Hickenlooper and Bennet have acquired over $20 million to improve Colorado airports.
Montrose Regional Airport, known as the Runway to Recreation, is one of the airports selected to receive the funds.
The funds, totaling $3,368,181, are from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Director of Aviation for Montrose Regional Lloyd Arnold talks about the process to acquire the funding and the work that will take place.
"We go through the design process, then after the design process we apply for the grant. The amount of funding that was released by the federal government is the available funding. We have not yet applied for that, we are in the process of applying for that. These funds will be used to reconstruct Charlie and Delta taxiway, where the large commercial aircraft cross runway 1331 to the commercial ramp."
Montrose Regional has seen record numbers so far for 2025 seeing 267,000 people leave the airport with the same amount entering the airport.