Even if the Grand Junction Regional Airport Authority had not erred in its initial grant application to the Federal Aviation Administration in 2011 for a $5 million fence around most of its facility, the federal agency would have approved helping to pay for the project anyway. And because of that, the FAA and the U.S. Department of Justice said they believed there was no conspiracy or fraud going on at the airport, and only reached a settlement agreement with the authority after one error was discovered during a two-year investigation that wasn’t part of the initial complaint.