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Correction
In Notice of proposed special
conditions document [FR Doc. E6–5240
Filed 4–10–06; 8:45 am] and published
on April 11, 2006 (71 FR 18236), make
the following correction:
1. On page 18236, in the first column
in the Headings section, correct ‘‘Docket
No. NM317; Notice No. 25–05–12–SC’’
to read ‘‘Docket No. NM346; Notice No.
25–06–05–SC.’’
Issued in Renton, Washington on June 15,
2006.
Ali Bahrami,
Manager, Transport Airplane Directorate,
Aircraft Certification Service.
[FR Doc. E6–10675 Filed 7–6–06; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
14 CFR Parts 25, 121, and 129
[Docket No. FAA–2006–24281; Notice No.
06–04]
RIN 2120–AI05
Widespread Fatigue Damage
Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking
(NPRM); extension of comment period.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This action extends the
comment period for an NPRM that was
published on April 18, 2006. In that
document, the FAA proposed to require
that design approval holders establish
operational limits for transport category
airplanes in order to prevent
widespread fatigue damage in those
airplanes. This extension is a result of
requests from the Air Transport
Association of America, Inc. (ATA),
Airbus, Boeing Commercial Airplanes,
Cargo Airline Association (CAA),
National Air Carrier Association, Inc.
(NACA), and Lynden Air Cargo to
extend the comment period for the
proposal.
Comments must be received by
September 18, 2006.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments
identified by Docket Number FAA–
2006–24281 using any of the following
methods:
• DOT Docket Web site: Go to
https://dms.dot.gov and follow the
instructions for sending your comments
electronically.
• Government-wide rulemaking Web
site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov
and follow the instructions for sending
your comments electronically.
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• Mail: Docket Management Facility;
U.S. Department of Transportation, 400
Seventh Street, SW., Nassif Building,
Room PL–401, Washington, DC 20590–
001.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• Hand Delivery: Room PL–401 on
the plaza level of the Nassif Building,
400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington,
DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
For more information on the
rulemaking process, see the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this document.
Privacy: We will post all comments
we receive, without change, to https://
dms.dot.gov, including any personal
information you provide. For more
information, see the Privacy Act
discussion in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this document.
Docket: To read background
documents or comments received, go to
https://dms.dot.gov at any time or to
Room PL–401 on the plaza level of the
Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street,
SW., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m.
and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Walter Sippel, ANM–115, Airframe and
Cabin Safety, Federal Aviation
Administration, 1601 Lind Avenue,
SW., Renton, Washington 98055–4056,
telephone: (425–227–2116); facsimile
(425–227–1232), e-mail
walter.sippel@faa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Comments Invited
The FAA invites interested persons to
participate in this rulemaking by
submitting written comments, data, or
views. We also invite comments relating
to the economic, environmental, energy,
or federalism impacts that might result
from adopting the proposals in this
document. The most helpful comments
reference a specific portion of the
proposal, explain the reason for any
recommended change, and include
supporting data. We ask that you send
us two copies of written comments.
We will file in the docket all
comments we receive, as well as a
report summarizing each substantive
public contact with FAA personnel
concerning this proposed rulemaking.
The docket is available for public
inspection before and after the comment
closing date. If you wish to review the
docket in person, go to the address in
the ADDRESSES section of this preamble
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
You may also review the docket using
the Internet at the Web address in the
ADDRESSES section.
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Privacy Act: Using the search function
of our docket Web site, anyone can find
and read the comments received into
any of our dockets, including the name
of the individual sending the comment
(or signing the comment on behalf of an
association, business, labor union, etc.).
You may review DOT’s complete
Privacy Act Statement in the Federal
Register published on April 11, 2000
(65 FR 19477–78) or you may visit
https://dms.dot.gov.
Before acting on this proposal, we
will consider all comments we receive
by the closing date for comments. We
will consider comments filed late if it is
possible to do so without incurring
expense or delay. We may change this
proposal in light of the comments we
receive.
If you want the FAA to acknowledge
receipt of your comments on this
proposal, include with your comments
a pre-addressed, stamped postcard on
which the docket number appears. We
will stamp the date on the postcard and
mail it to you.
Availability of Rulemaking Documents
You can get an electronic copy using
the Internet by:
(1) Searching the Department of
Transportation’s electronic Docket
Management System (DMS) web page
(https://dms.dot.gov/search);
(2) Visiting the FAA’s Regulations and
Policies Web page at https://
www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/; or
(3) Accessing the Government
Printing Office’s Web page at https://
www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/.
You can also get a copy by sending a
request to the Federal Aviation
Administration, Office of Rulemaking,
ARM–1, 800 Independence Avenue,
SW., Washington, DC 20591, or by
calling (202) 267–9680. Make sure to
identify the docket number, notice
number, or amendment number of this
rulemaking.
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Information
Do not file in the docket information
that you consider to be proprietary or
confidential business information. Send
or deliver this information directly to
the person identified in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this
document. You must mark the
information that you consider
proprietary or confidential. If you send
the information on a disk or CD–ROM,
mark the outside of the disk or CD–ROM
and identify electronically within the
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Under 14 CFR 11.35(b), when we are
aware of proprietary information filed
with a comment, we do not place it in
the docket. We hold it in a separate file
to which the public does not have
access, and place a note in the docket
that we have received it. If we receive
a request to examine or copy this
information, we treat it as any other
request under the Freedom of
Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552). We
process such a request under the DOT
procedures found in 49 CFR part 7.
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Background
On April 18, 2006, the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA)
published Notice No. 06–04,
Widespread Fatigue Damage (71 FR
19928). Comments on that document
were to be received by July 17, 2006.
Six petitioners, the Air Transport
Association of America, Inc. (ATA),
Airbus, the Cargo Airline Association
(CAA), Boeing Commercial Airplanes,
the National Air Carrier Association,
Inc. (NACA), and Lynden Air Cargo,
have requested that the FAA extend the
comment period for Notice No. 06–04.
Many of these petitioners said that
Notice No. 06–04 as well as other Aging
Aircraft proposals and related guidance
material present complex issues that
would take time to review together.
Lynden Air Cargo requested an
extension of 180 days, and all other
petitioners requested an extension of 90
days to fully evaluate this proposal and
send comments to the FAA.
The FAA concurs with the
petitioners’ requests for an extension of
the comment period on Notice No. 06–
04, but we believe that an extension of
90 days or more would be excessive. As
Notice No. 06–04 presents some
complex issues, the FAA initially
provided a 90-day comment period.
Although the FAA agrees that additional
time may facilitate industry’s
assessment of the combined impacts of
Notice 06–04 and other Aging Aircraft
proposals and related guidance material,
we must balance that need against the
need to proceed expeditiously with the
Widespread Fatigue Damage
rulemaking. We believe that an
additional 60 days would be adequate
for the petitioners to review and
comment on Notice No. 06–04. Absent
unusual circumstances, the FAA does
not anticipate any further extension of
the comment period for this rulemaking.
Extension of Comment Period
In accordance with § 11.47(c) of Title
14, Code of Federal Regulations, the
FAA has reviewed the petitions made
by ATA, Airbus, Boeing Commercial
Airplanes, CAA, NACA, and Lynden Air
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Cargo for extension of the comment
period to Notice No. 06–04. These
petitioners have shown substantial
interest in the proposed rule and have
provided good cause for the extension.
The FAA has determined that extension
of the comment period is consistent
with the public interest and that good
cause exists for taking this action.
Accordingly, the comment period for
Notice No. 06–04 is extended to
September 18, 2006.
Issued in Washington, DC, on June 29,
2006.
John M. Allen,
Acting Director, Flight Standards Service,
Aviation Safety.
Dorenda D. Baker,
Acting Director, Aircraft Certification Service,
Aviation Safety.
[FR Doc. E6–10597 Filed 7–6–06; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
14 CFR Parts 25, 121, and 129
[Docket No. FAA–2005–21693; Notice No.
05–11]
RIN 2120–AI32
Damage Tolerance Data for Repairs
and Alterations
Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking
(NPRM); extension of comment period.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This action extends the
comment period for an NPRM that was
published on April 21, 2006. In that
document, the FAA proposed
requirements for holders of design
approvals to make available to operators
damage tolerance data for repairs and
alterations to fatigue critical structure.
This extension is a result of requests
from the Air Transport Association of
America, Inc. (ATA), Airbus, Boeing
Commercial Airplanes, Cargo Airline
Association (CAA), and National Air
Carrier Association, Inc. (NACA) to
extend the comment period to the
proposal.
Comments must be received by
September 18, 2006.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments
identified by Docket Number FAA–
2005–21693 using any of the following
methods:
• DOT Docket Web site: Go to
https://dms.dot.gov and follow the
instructions for sending your comments
electronically.
DATES:
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• Government-wide rulemaking Web
site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov
and follow the instructions for sending
your comments electronically.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility;
U.S. Department of Transportation, 400
Seventh Street, SW., Nassif Building,
Room PL–401, Washington, DC 20590–
001.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• Hand Delivery: Room PL–401 on
the plaza level of the Nassif Building,
400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington,
DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
For more information on the
rulemaking process, see the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this document.
Privacy: We will post all comments
we receive, without change, to https://
dms.dot.gov, including any personal
information you provide. For more
information, see the Privacy Act
discussion in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this document.
Docket: To read background
documents or comments received, go to
https://dms.dot.gov at any time or to
Room PL–401 on the plaza level of the
Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street,
SW., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m.
and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Greg
Schneider, ANM–115, Airframe and
Cabin Safety, Federal Aviation
Administration, 1601 Lind Avenue,
SW., Renton, Washington 98055–4056,
telephone: (425–227–2116); facsimile
(425–227–1232), e-mail
greg.schneider@faa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Comments Invited
The FAA invites interested persons to
participate in this rulemaking by
submitting written comments, data, or
views. We also invite comments relating
to the economic, environmental, energy,
or federalism impacts that might result
from adopting the proposals in this
document. The most helpful comments
reference a specific portion of the
proposal, explain the reason for any
recommended change, and include
supporting data. We ask that you send
us two copies of written comments.
We will file in the docket all
comments we receive, as well as a
report summarizing each substantive
public contact with FAA personnel
concerning this proposed rulemaking.
The docket is available for public
inspection before and after the comment
closing date. If you wish to review the
docket in person, go to the address in
the ADDRESSES section of this preamble
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[Proposed Rules]
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[FR Doc No: E6-10597]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
14 CFR Parts 25, 121, and 129
[Docket No. FAA-2006-24281; Notice No. 06-04]
RIN 2120-AI05
Widespread Fatigue Damage
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM); extension of comment
period.
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SUMMARY: This action extends the comment period for an NPRM that was
published on April 18, 2006. In that document, the FAA proposed to
require that design approval holders establish operational limits for
transport category airplanes in order to prevent widespread fatigue
damage in those airplanes. This extension is a result of requests from
the Air Transport Association of America, Inc. (ATA), Airbus, Boeing
Commercial Airplanes, Cargo Airline Association (CAA), National Air
Carrier Association, Inc. (NACA), and Lynden Air Cargo to extend the
comment period for the proposal.
DATES: Comments must be received by September 18, 2006.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments identified by Docket Number FAA-2006-
24281 using any of the following methods:
DOT Docket Web site: Go to https://dms.dot.gov and follow
the instructions for sending your comments electronically.
Government-wide rulemaking Web site: Go to https://
www.regulations.gov and follow the instructions for sending your
comments electronically.
Mail: Docket Management Facility; U.S. Department of
Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Nassif Building, Room PL-401,
Washington, DC 20590-001.
Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
Hand Delivery: Room PL-401 on the plaza level of the
Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
For more information on the rulemaking process, see the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
Privacy: We will post all comments we receive, without change, to
https://dms.dot.gov, including any personal information you provide. For
more information, see the Privacy Act discussion in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this document.
Docket: To read background documents or comments received, go to
https://dms.dot.gov at any time or to Room PL-401 on the plaza level of
the Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Walter Sippel, ANM-115, Airframe and
Cabin Safety, Federal Aviation Administration, 1601 Lind Avenue, SW.,
Renton, Washington 98055-4056, telephone: (425-227-2116); facsimile
(425-227-1232), e-mail walter.sippel@faa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Comments Invited
The FAA invites interested persons to participate in this
rulemaking by submitting written comments, data, or views. We also
invite comments relating to the economic, environmental, energy, or
federalism impacts that might result from adopting the proposals in
this document. The most helpful comments reference a specific portion
of the proposal, explain the reason for any recommended change, and
include supporting data. We ask that you send us two copies of written
comments.
We will file in the docket all comments we receive, as well as a
report summarizing each substantive public contact with FAA personnel
concerning this proposed rulemaking. The docket is available for public
inspection before and after the comment closing date. If you wish to
review the docket in person, go to the address in the ADDRESSES section
of this preamble between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays. You may also review the docket using the
Internet at the Web address in the ADDRESSES section.
Privacy Act: Using the search function of our docket Web site,
anyone can find and read the comments received into any of our dockets,
including the name of the individual sending the comment (or signing
the comment on behalf of an association, business, labor union, etc.).
You may review DOT's complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal
Register published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477-78) or you may visit
https://dms.dot.gov.
Before acting on this proposal, we will consider all comments we
receive by the closing date for comments. We will consider comments
filed late if it is possible to do so without incurring expense or
delay. We may change this proposal in light of the comments we receive.
If you want the FAA to acknowledge receipt of your comments on this
proposal, include with your comments a pre-addressed, stamped postcard
on which the docket number appears. We will stamp the date on the
postcard and mail it to you.
Availability of Rulemaking Documents
You can get an electronic copy using the Internet by:
(1) Searching the Department of Transportation's electronic Docket
Management System (DMS) web page (https://dms.dot.gov/search);
(2) Visiting the FAA's Regulations and Policies Web page at https://
www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/; or
(3) Accessing the Government Printing Office's Web page at https://
www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/.
You can also get a copy by sending a request to the Federal
Aviation Administration, Office of Rulemaking, ARM-1, 800 Independence
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591, or by calling (202) 267-9680. Make
sure to identify the docket number, notice number, or amendment number
of this rulemaking.
Proprietary or Confidential Business Information
Do not file in the docket information that you consider to be
proprietary or confidential business information. Send or deliver this
information directly to the person identified in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document. You must mark the
information that you consider proprietary or confidential. If you send
the information on a disk or CD-ROM, mark the outside of the disk or
CD-ROM and identify electronically within the disk or CD-ROM the
specific information that is proprietary or confidential.
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Under 14 CFR 11.35(b), when we are aware of proprietary information
filed with a comment, we do not place it in the docket. We hold it in a
separate file to which the public does not have access, and place a
note in the docket that we have received it. If we receive a request to
examine or copy this information, we treat it as any other request
under the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552). We process such a
request under the DOT procedures found in 49 CFR part 7.
Background
On April 18, 2006, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
published Notice No. 06-04, Widespread Fatigue Damage (71 FR 19928).
Comments on that document were to be received by July 17, 2006.
Six petitioners, the Air Transport Association of America, Inc.
(ATA), Airbus, the Cargo Airline Association (CAA), Boeing Commercial
Airplanes, the National Air Carrier Association, Inc. (NACA), and
Lynden Air Cargo, have requested that the FAA extend the comment period
for Notice No. 06-04. Many of these petitioners said that Notice No.
06-04 as well as other Aging Aircraft proposals and related guidance
material present complex issues that would take time to review
together.
Lynden Air Cargo requested an extension of 180 days, and all other
petitioners requested an extension of 90 days to fully evaluate this
proposal and send comments to the FAA.
The FAA concurs with the petitioners' requests for an extension of
the comment period on Notice No. 06-04, but we believe that an
extension of 90 days or more would be excessive. As Notice No. 06-04
presents some complex issues, the FAA initially provided a 90-day
comment period. Although the FAA agrees that additional time may
facilitate industry's assessment of the combined impacts of Notice 06-
04 and other Aging Aircraft proposals and related guidance material, we
must balance that need against the need to proceed expeditiously with
the Widespread Fatigue Damage rulemaking. We believe that an additional
60 days would be adequate for the petitioners to review and comment on
Notice No. 06-04. Absent unusual circumstances, the FAA does not
anticipate any further extension of the comment period for this
rulemaking.
Extension of Comment Period
In accordance with Sec. 11.47(c) of Title 14, Code of Federal
Regulations, the FAA has reviewed the petitions made by ATA, Airbus,
Boeing Commercial Airplanes, CAA, NACA, and Lynden Air Cargo for
extension of the comment period to Notice No. 06-04. These petitioners
have shown substantial interest in the proposed rule and have provided
good cause for the extension. The FAA has determined that extension of
the comment period is consistent with the public interest and that good
cause exists for taking this action.
Accordingly, the comment period for Notice No. 06-04 is extended to
September 18, 2006.
Issued in Washington, DC, on June 29, 2006.
John M. Allen,
Acting Director, Flight Standards Service, Aviation Safety.
Dorenda D. Baker,
Acting Director, Aircraft Certification Service, Aviation Safety.
[FR Doc. E6-10597 Filed 7-6-06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910-13-P