PROVO — Construction of the Provo Municipal Airport control tower is right on schedule, the project's manager told the airport board Tuesday.

There's only one hitch: After the tower is completed, there might not be anyone to man it.

Personnel funding for the tower is in the Federal Aviation Administration's budget for the next fiscal year, but slow approval of the budget by Congress could mean the new tower stands

empty until the budget is officially in effect.

Construction crews are now working 10-hour days in an attempt to complete the control tower and get it certified before the end of this federal fiscal year on Sept. 30. That might make it possible to snatch some year-end surplus dollars to set up shop.

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If the tower is certified and secures some funding before Sept. 30, it could continue to function until Congress approves the new budget via a continuing resolution, a measure that enables current government-funded projects to continue operating as they had in the past fiscal year.

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