Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (Final EIS) and the ANILCA Section 810 Analysis of Impacts to Subsistence Resources for Proposed Improvement Activities at the Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport, Sitka, AK, 23929-23930 [E9-11764]
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vehicle manufacturers report wheelbase,
track width and footprint measurements
for each vehicle configuration in their
annual CAFE reports starting in model
year (MY) 2008 for light trucks and MY
2011 for passenger cars.
To validate manufacturer’s reported
vehicle wheelbase, track width and
footprint information, NHTSA issued a
TP indicating the methods that will be
used to physically measure these
corresponding dimensions.
Workshops: To enable interested
parties and NHTSA personnel to discuss
the questions concerning TP–216a and
TP–537, NHTSA believes that it would
be desirable to hold two technical
workshops and demonstrations on these
test procedures. The scope of these
workshops is strictly limited to issues
surrounding implementation of OVSC
Laboratory Test Procedure TP–216a and
TP–537. TP–216a and 537 are posted on
the NHTSA Web site at https://
www.dot.gov (under ‘‘Test Procedures’’
on the ‘‘Vehicles and Equipment’’ page).
Agenda for the workshops and
demonstrations: The workshops will be
held one or two days during the week
of June 22, 2009. The agenda includes
technical discussions about the
execution of the compliance tests, lunch
(to be paid for by each participant), and
physical test demonstrations. The
following is a preliminary agenda for
the workshops.
FMVSS No. 216a Workshop and
Demonstration
I. Check-In
II. Welcome and Introductory Remarks
III. FMVSS No. 216a Final Rule
Highlights
IV. OVSC Test Procedure TP–216a
Content
V. Discussion of Technical Issues With
Test Procedure
VI. Physical Demonstration of Roof
Crush Test
VII. Questions & Answers
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Part 537 Workshop and Demonstration
I. Check-In
II. Welcome and Introductory Remarks
III. CAFE Program Highlights
IV. OVSC Test Procedure TP–537
Content
V. Discussion of Technical Issues With
Test Procedure
VI. Physical Demonstration of Foot Print
Determination
VII. Questions & Answers
Submission of Agenda Items: Written
suggestions regarding test procedure
technical issues to be included in the
agenda(s) should be submitted to the
address below and must be received by
the agency on or before June 8, 2009.
You may submit comments identified
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by DOT DMS Docket Number NHTSA
2009–0068 by any of the following
methods:
• Web site: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments
on the DOT electronic docket site.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility;
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Ave., SE., West Building,
Room W12–140, Washington, DC
20590–0001.
• Hand Delivery: Room W12–140 on
the Ground Level of the West Building,
1200 New Jersey Ave., SE., Washington,
DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the Online
instructions for submitting comments.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the agency name and docket
number for this technical workshop
notice. Note that all comments received
will be posted without change to https://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read comments received, go to https://
www.regulations.gov at any time or to
Room W12–140 on the ground level of
the West Building, 1200 New Jersey
Ave., SE., Washington, DC, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
To Register for this Workshop: Each
person wishing to participate in one or
both of the workshops must register
with NHTSA by June 8, 2009. You can
register by contacting Mr. Rae Tyson (for
media representatives), Will Otero (for
Congressional members), Ms. Maritza
Marshall or Ms. Elena Sonsev (for all
other interested parties) on or before
June 8, 2009; contact information for
Mr. Rae Tyson, Mr. Otero, Ms. Marshall
and Ms. Sonsev is listed above. To
register, you must provide NHTSA with
the name, title, organizational affiliation
(if applicable), contact information
(mailing address, phone numbers (Voice
and fax), and email address), and
specify if available lunch will be
purchased. Food options on site are
limited. Participants may purchase
lunch in cash upon check-in each day.
Ms. Marshall or Ms. Sonsev will have
information about the lunch options and
associated costs at time of registration.
Due to space limitations, NHTSA may
have to limit the number of participants
per organization.
You will be contacted only if this
meeting is postponed or cancelled.
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Issued: May 15, 2009.
Harry Thompson,
Acting Director, Office of Vehicle Safety
Compliance.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Notice of Availability of the Final
Environmental Impact Statement (Final
EIS) and the ANILCA Section 810
Analysis of Impacts to Subsistence
Resources for Proposed Improvement
Activities at the Sitka Rocky Gutierrez
Airport, Sitka, AK
AGENCY: Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), Department of
Transportation (DOT). The Bureau of
Land Management (BLM), U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers (USACE), and
National Marine Fisheries Services
(NMFS) are cooperating agencies, by
virtue of their jurisdictional authority
and/or resource management
responsibilities.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969 (NEPA, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and
Council on Environmental Quality
regulations (40 CFR part 1500–1508) the
Federal Aviation Administration is
issuing this notice to advise the public
that the Final ElS for Proposed
Improvement Activities at the Sitka
Rocky Gutierrez Airport (SIT) has been
prepared and is available for public
review. Written requests for copies of
the Final EIS can be submitted to the
individual listed in the section, FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Final EIS Availability and Review
Copies of the Final EIS may be viewed
during regular business hours at the
following locations:
1. Federal Aviation Administration,
Airports Division, 222 W. 7th Avenue
#14, Anchorage, AK 99513–7504. (907)
271–5454 or (907) 271–5438.
2. Kettleson Memorial Library, 320
Harbor Drive, Sitka, AK 99835. (907)
747–8708.
3. Alaska Department of
Transportation and Public Facilities,
6860 Glacier Highway, Juneau, AK
99811.
4. Downtown Juneau Public Library,
292 Marine Way, Juneau, AK 99801.
(907) 586–5249.
The Federal Aviation Administration,
Airports Division has a limited number
of CDs of the entire Final EIS and the
Executive Summary available for public
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distribution. Please contact the Federal
Aviation Administration at (907) 271–
5438 for a copy.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Sitka
Rocky Gutierrez Airport Master Plan
outlined development goals and projects
that are anticipated to be necessary over
the next 20 or more years at the Airport.
This Final EIS discusses the proposed
improvements recommended at the
Airport over the next five years, which
have the potential to result in significant
adverse environmental impacts. The
FAA and the State of Alaska Department
of Transportation and Public Facilities
(DOT & PF) propose the following
projects recommended over the next
five years at the Airport to meet the
identified needs. The major actions
assessed in this Final EIS include:
b Improvements to the Runway
Safety Area.
b Extension of the Parallel Taxiway.
b Relocation of the Airport Seaplane
Pullout.
b Installation of an Approach
Lighting System.
b Repairs and Improvements to the
Airport Seawall.
b Acquisition of Sufficient Property
Rights to Lands Needed for Existing and
Future Aviation and Airport Uses.
The proposed Airport improvements
would be completed during the 2010–
2015 time period and, depending on the
alternatives implemented, may result in
temporary or long-term impacts to the
coastal resources, marine environment
and wildlife (including species
protected under the Endangered Species
Act), water quality, wetlands, historical,
architectural, archaeological, and
cultural resources, terrestrial wildlife
and vegetation, and subsistence.
Section 810 of the Alaska National
Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA)
requires an evaluation on the effects of
alternatives presented in this Final EIS
on subsistence activities occurring on
public lands in the planning area. The
evaluation in the Final EIS indicates
that none of the alternatives
significantly restrict subsistence
activities.
If the transfer of title option is
selected for the acquisition of property
rights, the lands would change from
Federal to State ownership. This would
result in the loss of Federal subsistence
regulations applying on those lands and
the irreversible loss of opportunities for
a subsistence priority for rural residents
from loss of Federal public lands. A
long-term lease or easement would
preserve opportunities for a subsistence
priority for rural residents by retaining
Federal ownership of public lands.
The FAA conducted a public hearing
on the Draft EIS October 2, 2008 and
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received comments on the Draft EIS
through October 14, 2008. The FAA has
reviewed and responded to the
comments received during the Draft EIS
comment period and made revisions to
the EIS as appropriate.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Patricia Sullivan. Environmental
Specialist, Federal Aviation
Administration, Alaskan Region,
Airports Division, 222 W. 7th Avenue
#14, Anchorage, AK 99513–7504. Ms.
Sullivan may be contacted during
business hours at (907) 271–5454
(phone) and (907) 271–2851 (facsimile).
Issued in Anchorage, Alaska on May 14,
2009.
Byron K. Huffman,
Mananger, Airports Division, Alaskan Region.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA–2009–0148]
Pipeline Safety: Potential Low and
Variable Yield and Tensile Strength
and Chemical Composition Properties
in High Strength Line Pipe
AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration
(PHMSA); DOT.
ACTION: Notice; Issuance of Advisory
Bulletin.
SUMMARY: PHMSA is issuing an advisory
bulletin to owners and operators of
natural gas pipeline and hazardous
liquid pipeline systems. This bulletin
advises pipeline system owners and
operators of the potential for high grade
line pipe installed on projects to exhibit
inconsistent chemical and mechanical
properties. Yield strength and tensile
strength properties that do not meet the
line pipe specification minimums have
been reported. This advisory bulletin
pertains to microalloyed high strength
line pipe grades, generally Grade X–70
and above. PHMSA recently reviewed
metallurgical testing results from several
recent projects indicating pipe joints
produced from plate or coil from the
same heat may exhibit variable chemical
and mechanical properties by as much
as 15% lower than the strength values
specified by the pipe manufacturer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Alan Mayberry by phone at (202) 366–
5124 or by e-mail at
alan.mayberry@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Background
The Federal pipeline safety
regulations in 49 CFR Parts 192 and 195
require operators of natural gas
transmission, distribution pipeline
systems, and hazardous liquids pipeline
systems to use pipe manufactured by a
listed specification in the design of
pipelines in accordance with §§ 192.7,
192.55(a), 192.105, and §§ 195.3,
195.106, and 195.112.
During pipeline construction in the
late-fall of 2008, several recently
installed natural gas transmission
pipeline systems experienced field
hydrostatic test failures or excessively
expanded pipe joints of large diameter,
microalloyed high grade line pipe.
Metallurgical, mechanical and chemical
composition tests of the line pipe in
these cases have shown pipe to have
yield strengths, tensile strengths and/or
chemical compositions that did not
meet the requirements of the American
Petroleum Institute, Specification for
Line Pipe—5L, (API 5L), 43rd edition
for the specified pipe grade. API 5L,
product specification level (PSL 2),
specifies material requirements in
Section 6 and inspection and testing
standards in Section 9. Even though the
pipe supplier provided the pipeline
owner or operator with documentation
that the pipe that was delivered to the
owner met these minimum standards,
substandard pipe properties were found
in some pipe joints. Specifically,
PHMSA was made aware that some of
the line pipe that was installed in these
projects had yield strengths that were
up to 15% below the listed API 5L
specification requirements for the
specific pipe grade.
Pipeline owners and operators should
closely review the manufacturing
procedure specifications for the
production and rolling of the steel plate
or coil that is to be used in the
production of new microalloyed high
strength line pipe to ensure that pipe
steel was properly rolled into steel plate
or coil prior to the pipe mill rolling
process. Pipeline owners and operators
should request detailed manufacturing
procedure specifications (MPS) from the
pipe manufacturer as a basis for
ensuring critical steel processing
parameters such as the detailed rolling
schedule, including, but not limited to
rolling temperature, heating temperature
and temperature uniformity, are
controlled throughout the steel rolling
process.
Mechanical property and chemical
composition tests should be conducted
throughout the steel making, steel
rolling and pipe manufacturing process
to ensure uniformity of chemical and
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[FR Doc No: E9-11764]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact
Statement (Final EIS) and the ANILCA Section 810 Analysis of Impacts to
Subsistence Resources for Proposed Improvement Activities at the Sitka
Rocky Gutierrez Airport, Sitka, AK
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Department of
Transportation (DOT). The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers (USACE), and National Marine Fisheries Services
(NMFS) are cooperating agencies, by virtue of their jurisdictional
authority and/or resource management responsibilities.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of
1969 (NEPA, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and Council on Environmental
Quality regulations (40 CFR part 1500-1508) the Federal Aviation
Administration is issuing this notice to advise the public that the
Final ElS for Proposed Improvement Activities at the Sitka Rocky
Gutierrez Airport (SIT) has been prepared and is available for public
review. Written requests for copies of the Final EIS can be submitted
to the individual listed in the section, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
Final EIS Availability and Review
Copies of the Final EIS may be viewed during regular business hours
at the following locations:
1. Federal Aviation Administration, Airports Division, 222 W. 7th
Avenue 14, Anchorage, AK 99513-7504. (907) 271-5454 or (907)
271-5438.
2. Kettleson Memorial Library, 320 Harbor Drive, Sitka, AK 99835.
(907) 747-8708.
3. Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, 6860
Glacier Highway, Juneau, AK 99811.
4. Downtown Juneau Public Library, 292 Marine Way, Juneau, AK
99801. (907) 586-5249.
The Federal Aviation Administration, Airports Division has a
limited number of CDs of the entire Final EIS and the Executive Summary
available for public
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distribution. Please contact the Federal Aviation Administration at
(907) 271-5438 for a copy.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport Master
Plan outlined development goals and projects that are anticipated to be
necessary over the next 20 or more years at the Airport. This Final EIS
discusses the proposed improvements recommended at the Airport over the
next five years, which have the potential to result in significant
adverse environmental impacts. The FAA and the State of Alaska
Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT & PF) propose
the following projects recommended over the next five years at the
Airport to meet the identified needs. The major actions assessed in
this Final EIS include:
[ballot] Improvements to the Runway Safety Area.
[ballot] Extension of the Parallel Taxiway.
[ballot] Relocation of the Airport Seaplane Pullout.
[ballot] Installation of an Approach Lighting System.
[ballot] Repairs and Improvements to the Airport Seawall.
[ballot] Acquisition of Sufficient Property Rights to Lands Needed
for Existing and Future Aviation and Airport Uses.
The proposed Airport improvements would be completed during the
2010-2015 time period and, depending on the alternatives implemented,
may result in temporary or long-term impacts to the coastal resources,
marine environment and wildlife (including species protected under the
Endangered Species Act), water quality, wetlands, historical,
architectural, archaeological, and cultural resources, terrestrial
wildlife and vegetation, and subsistence.
Section 810 of the Alaska National Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA)
requires an evaluation on the effects of alternatives presented in this
Final EIS on subsistence activities occurring on public lands in the
planning area. The evaluation in the Final EIS indicates that none of
the alternatives significantly restrict subsistence activities.
If the transfer of title option is selected for the acquisition of
property rights, the lands would change from Federal to State
ownership. This would result in the loss of Federal subsistence
regulations applying on those lands and the irreversible loss of
opportunities for a subsistence priority for rural residents from loss
of Federal public lands. A long-term lease or easement would preserve
opportunities for a subsistence priority for rural residents by
retaining Federal ownership of public lands.
The FAA conducted a public hearing on the Draft EIS October 2, 2008
and received comments on the Draft EIS through October 14, 2008. The
FAA has reviewed and responded to the comments received during the
Draft EIS comment period and made revisions to the EIS as appropriate.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia Sullivan. Environmental
Specialist, Federal Aviation Administration, Alaskan Region, Airports
Division, 222 W. 7th Avenue 14, Anchorage, AK 99513-7504. Ms.
Sullivan may be contacted during business hours at (907) 271-5454
(phone) and (907) 271-2851 (facsimile).
Issued in Anchorage, Alaska on May 14, 2009.
Byron K. Huffman,
Mananger, Airports Division, Alaskan Region.
[FR Doc. E9-11764 Filed 5-20-09; 8:45 am]
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