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Issued in Washington, DC, on August 1,
2008.
Susan J. M. Cabler,
Assistant Manager, Aircraft Engineering
Division, Aircraft Certification Service.
[FR Doc. E8–18133 Filed 8–7–08; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Approval of Noise Compatibility
Program for Fresno-Yosemite
International Airport, Fresno, CA
Federal Aviation
Administration, DOT
ACTION: Notice
AGENCY:
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SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) announces its
findings on the noise compatibility
program submitted by the City of
Fresno, California under the provisions
of 49 U.S.C. (the Aviation Safety and
Noise Abatement Act, hereinafter
referred to as ‘‘the Act’’) and 14 CFR
Part 150. These findings are made in
recognition of the description of Federal
and nonfederal responsibilities in
Senate Report No. 96–52 (1980). On July
6, 2005 (70 FR 50437–50438), the FAA
determined that the noise exposure
maps submitted by the city of Fresno
under Part 150 were in compliance with
applicable requirements. On July 28,
2008, the FAA approved the FresnoYosemite International Airport noise
compatibility program. All of the
recommendations of the program were
approved. No program elements relating
to new or revised flight procedures for
noise abatement were proposed by the
airport operator.
DATES: Effective Date: The effective date
of the FAA’s approval of the Fresno
Yosemite International Airport noise
compatibility program is July 28, 2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David B. Kessler, AICP, Regional
Environmental Protection Specialist,
Federal Aviation Administration,
Western Pacific Region, Mailing
address: P.O. Box 92007, Los Angeles,
CA 90009–2007. Street Address: 15000
Aviation Boulevard, Hawthorne,
California 90261. Telephone 310/725–
3615. Documents reflecting this FAA
action may be reviewed at this same
location.
This
notice announces that the FAA has
given its overall approval to the Noise
Compatibility Program for FresnoYosemite International Airport, effective
July 28, 2008.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Under section 47504 of the Act, an
airport operator who has previously
submitted a noise exposure map may
submit to the FAA a noise compatibility
program which sets forth the measures
taken or proposed by the airport
operator for the reduction of existing
non-compatible land uses and
prevention of additional non-compatible
land uses within the area covered by the
Noise Exposure Maps. The Act requires
such programs to be developed in
consultation with interested and
affected parties including local
communities, government agencies,
airport users, and FM personnel.
Each airport noise compatibility
program developed in accordance with
Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) Part
150 is a local program, not a Federal
program. The FAA does not substitute
its judgment for that of the airport
proprietor with respect to which
measures should be recommended for
action. The FAA’s approval or
disapproval of 14 CFR Part 150 program
recommendations is measured
according to the standards expressed in
Part 150 and the Act and is limited to
the following determinations:
a. The Noise Compatibility Program
was developed in accordance with the
provisions and procedures of FAR Part
150;
b. Program measures are reasonably
consistent with achieving the goals of
reducing existing non-compatible land
uses around the airport and preventing
the introduction of additional noncompatible land uses;
c. Program measures would not create
an undue burden on interstate or foreign
commerce, unjustly discriminate against
types or classes of aeronautical uses,
violate the terms of airport grant
agreements, or intrude into areas
preempted by the Federal Government;
and
d. Program measures relating to the
use of flight procedures can be
implemented within the period covered
by the program without derogating
safety, adversely affecting the efficient
use and management of the navigable
airspace and air traffic control systems,
or adversely affecting other powers and
responsibilities of the Administrator
prescribed by law.
Specific limitations with respect to
FAA’s approval of an airport noise
compatibility program are delineated in
FAR Part 150, section 150.5. Approval
is not a determination concerning the
acceptability of land uses under Federal,
state, or local law. Approval does not by
itself constitute an FAA implementing
action. A request for Federal action or
approval to implement specific noise
compatibility measures may be
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required, and an FAA decision on the
request may require an environmental
assessment of the proposed action.
Approval does not constitute a
commitment by the FAA to financially
assist in the implementation of the
program nor a determination that all
measures covered by the program are
eligible for grant-in-aid funding from the
FAA under the Airport and Airway
Improvement Act of 1982, as amended.
Where federal funding is sought,
requests for project grants must be
submitted to the FAA Airports District
Office in Burlingame, California.
The City of Fresno submitted to the
FAA on April 20, 2005, the Noise
Exposure Maps, descriptions, and other
documentation produced during the
noise compatibility planning study
conducted from October 2002 through
June 2006. The Fresno-Yosemite
International Airport Noise Exposure
Maps were determined by FAA to be in
compliance with applicable
requirements on July 6, 2005. Notice of
this determination was published in the
Federal Register on August 26, 2005 (70
FR 50437–50438).
The Fresno-Yosemite International
Airport study contains a proposed noise
compatibility program comprised of
actions designed for phased
implementation by airport management
and adjacent jurisdictions from (2004 to
beyond the year 2009). It was requested
that the FAA evaluate and approve this
material as a Noise Compatibility
Program as described in 49 U.S.C.
§ 47504 of the Act. The City of Fresno
initially submitted its noise
compatibility program for the subject
airport to the FAA on May 26, 2006 (71
FR 33032–33033). In a letter received by
FAA on September 15, 2006, the City of
Fresno requested that FAA suspend its
review and processing of the noise
compatibility program in order to
modify the document. FAA terminated
its formal review of the City of Fresno’s
noise compatibility program effective
September 15, 2006 (71 FR 56582).
Subsequently, the City of Fresno
submitted their revised noise
compatibility program to FAA.
Therefore, the FAA has formally
received the noise compatibility
program for FAT, effective on April 18,
2008. The FAA began its review of the
program on April 18, 2008, and was
required by a provision of the Act to
approve or disapprove the program
within 180 days (other than the use of
new or modified flight procedures for
noise control). Failure to approve or
disapprove such program within the
180-day period shall be deemed to be an
approval of such program.
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The submitted program contained
twenty-five (25) proposed actions for
noise abatement, land use management
and program management on and off the
airport. The FAA completed its review
and determined that the procedural and
substantive requirements of the Act and
FAR Part 150 have been satisfied. The
overall program was approved, by the
Manager of the Airports Division,
Western-Pacific Region, effective July
28, 2008.
Outright approval was granted for the
two (2) noise abatement measures, all
fourteen (14) land use management
measures and nine (9) program
management measures. The approved
noise abatement measures included:
Maintain CANG Noise Abatement
Departure Track Procedures; and
Continued Use of Minimum Altitudes
Before Departure Turns Off Runways
29L and 29R.
Approved land use measures include:
Land Acquisition of Developed NonCompatible Property; Residential Sound
Insulation Program; Noise Sensitive
Public Building Sound Insulation
Program; Purchase of Avigation
Easements; Encourage Comprehensive
Planning for Compatible Land Uses and
Adoption of NEMs; Amend Zoning for
Compatible Use; Adopt Airport Noise
Overlay Zone; Amend Building Codes to
Meet Interior Noise Levels; Require
Avigation Easement with New
Construction; Support Real Property
Noise Disclosure; Transfer of
Development Rights; Purchase of
Development Rights; Purchase of Vacant
Land That May Be Developed Into
NonCompatible Use; Encourage the
Local Jurisdictions to Develop
Compatible Land Uses in the Airport
Environs.
Approved Program Management
measures include: Monitor Airport
Operations to Determine Need for NEM
and/or NCP Updates; Acquire a Flight
Tracking System and/or Noise and
Operations Monitoring System (NOMS);
Monitor Aircraft Engine Run-ups and
Complaints as a Trigger for a Future
Ground Run-up Enclosure (GRE)
Replacement Needs Analysis Study;
Establish Staff Position to Monitor and
Coordinate Implementation of the NCP
Measures; Increase Community
Outreach; Expand Airport Noise Section
on the FAT Website; Develop
Standardize Complaint Collection,
Response, and Recording Procedures;
Establish an Airport Noise Advisory
Committee; Develop and Distribute Pilot
Handouts.
These determinations are set forth, in
detail, in the Record of Approval signed
by the Manager of the Airports Division,
Western-Pacific Region, on July 28,
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2008. The Record of Approval, as well
as other evaluation materials and the
documents comprising the submittal,
are available for review at the FAA
office listed above and at the
administrative offices of the City of
Fresno. The Record of Approval will be
available on-line at: https://www.faa.gov/
airports_airtraffic/airports/
environmental/airport_noise/ part_150/
states/.
Issued in Hawthorne, California on July 29,
2008.
Mark A. McClardy
Manager, Airports Division, Western-Pacific
Region, AWP–600
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Notice of Passenger Facility Charge
(PFC) Approvals and Disapprovals.
Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Monthly Notice of PFC
Approvals and Disapprovals. In July
2008, there were three applications
approved. This notice also includes
information on two applications,
approved in June 2008, inadvertently
left off the June 2008 notice.
Additionally, 20 approved amendments
to previously approved applications are
listed.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The FAA publishes a monthly
notice, as appropriate, of PFC approvals
and disapprovals under the provisions
of the Aviation Safety and Capacity
Expansion Act of 1990 (Title IX of the
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of
1990) (Pub. L. 101–508) and Part 158 of
the Federal Aviation Regulations (14
CFR Part 158). This notice is published
pursuant to paragraph d of § 158.29.
PFC Applications Approved
Public Agency: San Diego County
Regional Airport Authority, San Diego,
California.
Application Number: 08–05–C–00–
SAN. APPLICATION TYPE: Impose and
use a PFC.
PFC Level: $4.50.
Total PFC Revenue Approved in This
Decision: $26,301,763.
Earliest Charge Effective Date: April 1,
2009.
Estimated Charge Expiration Date:
October 1, 2009.
Class of Air Carriers Not Required to
Collect PFC’s: Non-scheduled/ondemand air carriers filing FAA Form
1800–31.
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Determination: Approved. Based on
information contained in the public
agency’s application, the FAA has
determined that the proposed class
accounts for less than 1 percent of the
total annual enplanements at San Diego
International Airport.
Brief Description of Projects Approved
for Collection and Use at a $4.50 PFC
Level: Security checkpoint
improvements. Airfield improvements.
Replace aircraft rescue and firefighting
vehicle. Noise mitigation.
Brief Description of Projects Approved
for Collection and Use at A $3.00 PFC
Level: Terminal area 12 kv electrical
upgrade, phase I. Upgrade passenger
information and paging systems. Part
150 study update. Conduct terminal
planning study.
Decision Date: June 27, 2008.
For Further Information Contact:
Darlene Williams, Los Angeles Airports
District Office, (310) 725–3625.
Public Agency: City of Savannah and
Savannah Airport Commission,
Savannah, Georgia.
Application Number: 08–07–C–00–
SAV.
Application Type: Impose and use a
PFC. PFC LEVEL: $4.50.
Total PFC Revenue Approved in This
Decision: $2,558,778.
Earliest Charge Effective Date: March
1, 2013.
Estimated Charge Expiration Date:
November 1, 2013.
Class of Air Carriers Not Required to
Collect PFC’s: Air taxi/commercial
operators filing FAA Form 1800–31.00–
31.
Determination: Approved. Based on
information contained in the public
agency’s application, the FAA has
determined that the proposed class
accounts for less than 1 percent of the
total annual enplanements at Savannah/
Hilton Head International Airport.
Brief Description of Projects Approved
for Collection and Use:
Rehabilitation—runway shoulders.
PFC implementation and
administration.
Construct taxiway—southwest quadrant.
Taxiway B extension.
Runway 18/36 extension.
Airport master plan.
Cool air system to nine jet bridges.
Taxiway C–2.
Airport layout plan update.
Bio Scrypt 15 boarding bridge doors.
Update main communication 800 Mhz
system to digital.
Brief Description of Project Partially
Approved for Collection and Use:
Navigational aids.
Determination: Partially approved.
One component of the proposed project,
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Approval of Noise Compatibility Program for Fresno-Yosemite
International Airport, Fresno, CA
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, DOT
ACTION: Notice
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SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces its
findings on the noise compatibility program submitted by the City of
Fresno, California under the provisions of 49 U.S.C. (the Aviation
Safety and Noise Abatement Act, hereinafter referred to as ``the Act'')
and 14 CFR Part 150. These findings are made in recognition of the
description of Federal and nonfederal responsibilities in Senate Report
No. 96-52 (1980). On July 6, 2005 (70 FR 50437-50438), the FAA
determined that the noise exposure maps submitted by the city of Fresno
under Part 150 were in compliance with applicable requirements. On July
28, 2008, the FAA approved the Fresno-Yosemite International Airport
noise compatibility program. All of the recommendations of the program
were approved. No program elements relating to new or revised flight
procedures for noise abatement were proposed by the airport operator.
DATES: Effective Date: The effective date of the FAA's approval of the
Fresno Yosemite International Airport noise compatibility program is
July 28, 2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David B. Kessler, AICP, Regional
Environmental Protection Specialist, Federal Aviation Administration,
Western Pacific Region, Mailing address: P.O. Box 92007, Los Angeles,
CA 90009-2007. Street Address: 15000 Aviation Boulevard, Hawthorne,
California 90261. Telephone 310/725-3615. Documents reflecting this FAA
action may be reviewed at this same location.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice announces that the FAA has given
its overall approval to the Noise Compatibility Program for Fresno-
Yosemite International Airport, effective July 28, 2008.
Under section 47504 of the Act, an airport operator who has
previously submitted a noise exposure map may submit to the FAA a noise
compatibility program which sets forth the measures taken or proposed
by the airport operator for the reduction of existing non-compatible
land uses and prevention of additional non-compatible land uses within
the area covered by the Noise Exposure Maps. The Act requires such
programs to be developed in consultation with interested and affected
parties including local communities, government agencies, airport
users, and FM personnel.
Each airport noise compatibility program developed in accordance
with Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) Part 150 is a local program,
not a Federal program. The FAA does not substitute its judgment for
that of the airport proprietor with respect to which measures should be
recommended for action. The FAA's approval or disapproval of 14 CFR
Part 150 program recommendations is measured according to the standards
expressed in Part 150 and the Act and is limited to the following
determinations:
a. The Noise Compatibility Program was developed in accordance with
the provisions and procedures of FAR Part 150;
b. Program measures are reasonably consistent with achieving the
goals of reducing existing non-compatible land uses around the airport
and preventing the introduction of additional non-compatible land uses;
c. Program measures would not create an undue burden on interstate
or foreign commerce, unjustly discriminate against types or classes of
aeronautical uses, violate the terms of airport grant agreements, or
intrude into areas preempted by the Federal Government; and
d. Program measures relating to the use of flight procedures can be
implemented within the period covered by the program without derogating
safety, adversely affecting the efficient use and management of the
navigable airspace and air traffic control systems, or adversely
affecting other powers and responsibilities of the Administrator
prescribed by law.
Specific limitations with respect to FAA's approval of an airport
noise compatibility program are delineated in FAR Part 150, section
150.5. Approval is not a determination concerning the acceptability of
land uses under Federal, state, or local law. Approval does not by
itself constitute an FAA implementing action. A request for Federal
action or approval to implement specific noise compatibility measures
may be required, and an FAA decision on the request may require an
environmental assessment of the proposed action. Approval does not
constitute a commitment by the FAA to financially assist in the
implementation of the program nor a determination that all measures
covered by the program are eligible for grant-in-aid funding from the
FAA under the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982, as amended.
Where federal funding is sought, requests for project grants must be
submitted to the FAA Airports District Office in Burlingame,
California.
The City of Fresno submitted to the FAA on April 20, 2005, the
Noise Exposure Maps, descriptions, and other documentation produced
during the noise compatibility planning study conducted from October
2002 through June 2006. The Fresno-Yosemite International Airport Noise
Exposure Maps were determined by FAA to be in compliance with
applicable requirements on July 6, 2005. Notice of this determination
was published in the Federal Register on August 26, 2005 (70 FR 50437-
50438).
The Fresno-Yosemite International Airport study contains a proposed
noise compatibility program comprised of actions designed for phased
implementation by airport management and adjacent jurisdictions from
(2004 to beyond the year 2009). It was requested that the FAA evaluate
and approve this material as a Noise Compatibility Program as described
in 49 U.S.C. Sec. 47504 of the Act. The City of Fresno initially
submitted its noise compatibility program for the subject airport to
the FAA on May 26, 2006 (71 FR 33032-33033). In a letter received by
FAA on September 15, 2006, the City of Fresno requested that FAA
suspend its review and processing of the noise compatibility program in
order to modify the document. FAA terminated its formal review of the
City of Fresno's noise compatibility program effective September 15,
2006 (71 FR 56582). Subsequently, the City of Fresno submitted their
revised noise compatibility program to FAA. Therefore, the FAA has
formally received the noise compatibility program for FAT, effective on
April 18, 2008. The FAA began its review of the program on April 18,
2008, and was required by a provision of the Act to approve or
disapprove the program within 180 days (other than the use of new or
modified flight procedures for noise control). Failure to approve or
disapprove such program within the 180-day period shall be deemed to be
an approval of such program.
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The submitted program contained twenty-five (25) proposed actions
for noise abatement, land use management and program management on and
off the airport. The FAA completed its review and determined that the
procedural and substantive requirements of the Act and FAR Part 150
have been satisfied. The overall program was approved, by the Manager
of the Airports Division, Western-Pacific Region, effective July 28,
2008.
Outright approval was granted for the two (2) noise abatement
measures, all fourteen (14) land use management measures and nine (9)
program management measures. The approved noise abatement measures
included: Maintain CANG Noise Abatement Departure Track Procedures; and
Continued Use of Minimum Altitudes Before Departure Turns Off Runways
29L and 29R.
Approved land use measures include: Land Acquisition of Developed
Non-Compatible Property; Residential Sound Insulation Program; Noise
Sensitive Public Building Sound Insulation Program; Purchase of
Avigation Easements; Encourage Comprehensive Planning for Compatible
Land Uses and Adoption of NEMs; Amend Zoning for Compatible Use; Adopt
Airport Noise Overlay Zone; Amend Building Codes to Meet Interior Noise
Levels; Require Avigation Easement with New Construction; Support Real
Property Noise Disclosure; Transfer of Development Rights; Purchase of
Development Rights; Purchase of Vacant Land That May Be Developed Into
NonCompatible Use; Encourage the Local Jurisdictions to Develop
Compatible Land Uses in the Airport Environs.
Approved Program Management measures include: Monitor Airport
Operations to Determine Need for NEM and/or NCP Updates; Acquire a
Flight Tracking System and/or Noise and Operations Monitoring System
(NOMS); Monitor Aircraft Engine Run-ups and Complaints as a Trigger for
a Future Ground Run-up Enclosure (GRE) Replacement Needs Analysis
Study; Establish Staff Position to Monitor and Coordinate
Implementation of the NCP Measures; Increase Community Outreach; Expand
Airport Noise Section on the FAT Website; Develop Standardize Complaint
Collection, Response, and Recording Procedures; Establish an Airport
Noise Advisory Committee; Develop and Distribute Pilot Handouts.
These determinations are set forth, in detail, in the Record of
Approval signed by the Manager of the Airports Division, Western-
Pacific Region, on July 28, 2008. The Record of Approval, as well as
other evaluation materials and the documents comprising the submittal,
are available for review at the FAA office listed above and at the
administrative offices of the City of Fresno. The Record of Approval
will be available on-line at: https://www.faa.gov/airports_airtraffic/
airports/environmental/airport_noise/part_150/states/.
Issued in Hawthorne, California on July 29, 2008.
Mark A. McClardy
Manager, Airports Division, Western-Pacific Region, AWP-600
[FR Doc. E8-18086 Filed 8-7-08; 8:45 am]
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