Safe, Efficient Use and Preservation of the Navigable Airspace; Correction, 2802 [2011-863]

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[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 11 (Tuesday, January 18, 2011)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 2802]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-863]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

14 CFR Part 77

[Docket No. FAA-2006-25002; Amendment No. 77-13-A]
RIN 2120-AH31


Safe, Efficient Use and Preservation of the Navigable Airspace; 
Correction

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Final rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: The FAA is correcting the regulation addressing the effective 
date of FAA determinations issued under 14 CFR part 77. The FAA amended 
this regulation by final rule published on July 21, 2010. The purpose 
of the final rule was to update the regulations governing objects that 
may affect the navigable airspace, to incorporate case law and 
legislative action, and to simplify the rule language. In one section 
of the regulations, we inadvertently state that the effective date of 
all determinations is 40 days from the date of issuance. However, only 
FAA determinations subject to the discretionary review process are 
effective 40 days from the date of issuance. All other FAA 
determinations are effective upon issuance. This document corrects that 
error.

DATES: Effective January 18, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ellen Crum, Air Traffic Organization, 
Airspace, Regulations and ATC Procedures Group, 800 Independence Ave., 
SW., Washington, DC 20591. (202) 267-8783; e-mail: ellen.crum@faa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On July 21, 2010 (75 FR 42296), we published a final rule that 
updated the FAA's notice and obstruction standards requirements in 
Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) part 77. These 
regulations had not been updated in many years, and we found it 
necessary to update them to incorporate case law and legislative 
action, and to simplify the rule language.
    In the preamble discussion for the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 
the FAA proposed and subsequently adopted in the final rule that a 
Determination of Hazard or a Determination of No Hazard will become 
effective 40 days from the date of issuance, unless a petition for 
discretionary review is filed and received by the FAA within 30 days 
from the date of issuance. (See 71 FR 34028, 34037 and 75 FR 42296, 
respectively, published on June 13, 2006 and July 21, 2010.) 
Consequently, Sec.  77.33(a), as adopted in the final rule, states ``A 
determination issued under this subpart is effective 40 days after the 
date of issuance, unless a petition for discretionary review is 
received by the FAA * * *''
    As written, this requirement incorrectly applies to all FAA 
determinations. The FAA's intent was to prevent a determination from 
becoming effective in the event that a petition for discretionary 
review was filed for a particular aeronautical study. Section 77.33(a) 
should have provided two effective dates. For determinations that are 
not subject to discretionary review, the effective date continues to be 
the date of issuance, which is consistent with the current rule. For 
determinations that are subject to the discretionary review process, 
these determinations will become effective 40 days from the date of 
issuance, unless a petition for discretionary review has been filed. 
Therefore, we find that paragraph (a) of this section must be corrected 
to provide the above two effective dates.
    Accordingly, in the final rule, FR Doc. 2010-17767, published on 
July 21, 2010 (75 FR 42296), make the following corrections:


Sec.  77.33  [Corrected]

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1. On page 42307, in the second column, in Sec.  77.33, the text of 
paragraph (a) is corrected to read as follows:


Sec.  77.33  Effective period of determinations.

    (a) The effective date of a determination not subject to 
discretionary review under 77.37(b) is the date of issuance. The 
effective date of all other determinations for a proposed or 
existing structure is 40 days from the date of issuance, provided a 
valid petition for review has not been received by the FAA. If a 
valid petition for review is filed, the determination will not 
become final, pending disposition of the petition.
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    Issued in Washington, DC on January 12, 2011.
Pamela Hamilton-Powell,
Director, Office of Rulemaking.
[FR Doc. 2011-863 Filed 1-14-11; 8:45 am]
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