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1/31/79 AC 150/5900-1B • 4 • (3) Continuous Airport System Planning Process. The maintenance and updating of system plans to reflect changing conditions and needs are achievable through the Continuous Airport System Planning Process (CASPP). This process includes surveillance, coordination and service activities, periodic plan reevaluation, special studies as required, and interim and formal plan updates. Normally a CASPP is designed to update the system plan on a three to five-year cycle. Additional information on this is contained in AC 150/5050-5. b. Airport Master Plans. An airport master plan presents the planner's conception of the short, intermediate, and long-range development of a specific airport. It presents the research and logic from which the plan evolved and displays the plan in a graphic and written report. Master plans are applied to the modernization and expansion of existing airports and to site selection and planning for new airports. It is desirable that airport master plans be developed within the framework of metropolitan or regional plans or state airport system plans. Guidance for the preparation of airport master plans is contained in AC 150/5070-6, Airport Master Plans. To be eligible for a planning grant, a master planning project must be for an airport or location which is included in the current NASP for the first five-year period. In unusual circumstances, such as the selection of a site for a new airport, a master planning project for an airport or location included in the NASP for the second five-year period may be allowed. G. SPONSOR ELIGIBILITY. Eligible planning grant sponsors include planning agencies for airport system plans and public agencies for airport master plans. Definitions relating to planning grant sponsors include: a. Planning Agency. This is an agency designated by the FAA Administrator which is authorized by the laws of the state or states (including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and Guam) or political subdivisions concerned to engage in areawide planning for the areas in which the grant assistance is to be used. b. Public Agency. This is a state, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and Guam or any agency of them; a municipality or other political subdivisions; or a tax -supported organization; or an Indian tribe or pueblo. A public agency which sponsors an airport master plan should be legally capable to implement the airport development which is proposed as the result of the planning study. c. Cosponsors. If two or more agencies desire to coapply for a planning grant, only one of the agencies needs to be an eligible sponsor. If the cosponsors are willing to jointly assume the obligations of the grant agreement, they should submit a single application executed by all of the cosponsors. If the cosponsors do not desire to jointly assume the obligations, only the eligible sponsor has to sign the application, but a copy of the executed agreement between all parties should be submitted Chap 1 Par 3 3