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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. Where Federal funding is sought,
requests for project grants must be
submitted to the FAA Airports District
Office in Orlando, FL.
The MAA submitted to the FAA on
September 9, 2016, the Noise Exposure
Maps, descriptions, and other
documentation produced during the
noise compatibility planning Study
conducted from October 2012 through
September 9, 2016. The MLB Noise
Exposure Maps were determined by
FAA to be in compliance with
applicable requirements on December 1,
2016. Notice of this determination was
published in the Federal Register on
December 12, 2016.
The MLB Study contains a proposed
Noise Compatibility Program comprised
of actions designed for phased
implementation by airport management
and adjacent jurisdictions from the
years 2016 to 2021. It was requested that
FAA evaluate and approve this material
as a Noise Compatibility Program as
described in Section 47504 of the Act.
The FAA began its review of the
Program on December 1, 2016, and was
required by a provisions 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.
The submitted program contained
seven (7) proposed actions for noise
mitigation on the airport. The FAA
completed its review and determined
that the procedural and substantive
requirements of the Act and 14 CFR part
150 have been satisfied. The overall
program, therefore, was approved by the
FAA effective April 25, 2017.
Outright approval was granted for the
five (5) specific program elements that
require FAA Action. No FAA Action is
required for the remaining two (2)
program elements which may be
implemented by the MAA outside of the
Part 150 Process. The FAA Approved
elements consist of: Element AM–1,
Noise Compatibility Program
Management: This element recommends
the MAA Airport Manager manage the
implementation of the Noise
Compatibility Program (NCP Section
12.1.1); Element AM–2, Community
Involvement: This element recommends
that the MAA continues accepting noise
complaints via phone and email and
that the MAA creates a Web page on
noise abatement that can be accessed
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from the main Airport Web page (NCP
Section 12.1.2); Element AM–3, Airport
Noise Abatement Signage: This element
recommends that the MAA purchases
and installs noise abatement reminder
signs at the ends of each runway to raise
pilot awareness of noise sensitive land
uses in proximity to the airport (NCP
Section 12.1.3); Element AM–4, Develop
a Jeppesen-style Insert on Noise
Abatement Programs at MLB: This
element recommends that the MAA
voluntarily work with MLB ATCT, flight
schools, and the FAA to publish
Jeppesen-style pilot handouts notifying
pilots of the noise abatement measures
in place at MLB for better pilot
awareness and compliance with the
NCP’s recommended noise abatement
measures (NCP Section 12.1.4); Element
AM–5, Noise Program Update: This
element recommends that MAA staff
should continue to routinely examine
operating characteristics of MAA to
determine if significant changes have
occurred that would require an update
to the most recent FAA approved Noise
Exposure Maps (NCP Section 12.1.5).
These determinations are set forth in
detail in a Record of Approval (ROA)
signed by the FAA on April 25, 2017.
The ROA, 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 office of the
Melbourne Airport Authority. The ROA
will also be available on-line at: https://
www.faa.gov/airports_airtraffic/
airports/environmental/airport_noise/
part_150/states/.
Issued in Orlando, FL, on May 8, 2017.
Rebecca R. Henry,
Acting Manager, Orlando Airports District
Office.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Noise Exposure Map Notice for
LaGuardia Airport, New York City, New
York
Federal Aviation
Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) announces its
determination that the noise exposure
maps submitted by the Port Authority of
New York and New Jersey for LaGuardia
Airport under the Aviation Safety and
Noise Abatement Act are in compliance
with applicable requirements.
SUMMARY:
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The effective date of the FAA’s
determination on the noise exposure
maps is May 5, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Eastern Region Airports Division (AEA–
600), Andrew Brooks, Environmental
Program Manager, Federal Aviation
Administration, AEA–600, 1 Aviation
Plaza, Jamaica, New York 11434,
Telephone: (718) 553–3330.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice announces that the FAA finds
that the noise exposure maps submitted
for LaGuardia Airport are in compliance
with applicable requirements of 14 CFR
part 150, effective January 13, 2004.
Under 49 U.S.C. Section 47503 of the
Aviation Safety and Noise Abatement
Act (hereinafter referred to as ‘‘the
Act’’), an airport operator may submit to
the FAA noise exposure maps which
meet applicable regulations and which
depict non-compatible land uses as of
the date of submission of such maps, a
description of projected aircraft
operations during a forecast period that
is at least five (5) years in the future, and
the ways in which such operations will
affect such maps. The Act requires such
maps to be developed in consultation
with interested and affected parties in
the local community, government
agencies, and persons using the airport.
An airport operator who has submitted
noise exposure maps that are found by
FAA to be in compliance with the
requirements of Federal Aviation
Regulations (FAR) part 150,
promulgated pursuant to the Act, may
submit a noise compatibility program
for FAA approval which sets forth the
measures the operator has taken or
proposes to take to reduce existing noncompatible uses and prevent the
introduction of additional noncompatible uses.
The FAA has completed its review of
the noise exposure maps and
accompanying documentation
submitted by the Port Authority of New
York and New Jersey. The
documentation that constitutes the
‘‘Noise Exposure Maps’’ (NEM) as
defined in Section 150.7 of part 150
includes a 2016 Base Year NEM, Figure
5–1, and a 2021 Future Year NEM,
Figure 5–2, located in Chapter 5 of the
NEM Report. Details of the NEM
contours are provided by Runway end
in Figures 5–3 through 5–6 of Chapter
5. The figures contained within Chapter
5 are scaled to fit within the report
context; however, the official, to scale,
2016 Base Year NEM and 2021 Future
Year NEM are both located in Appendix
M of the official NEM Report submittal.
The Noise Exposure Maps contain
current and forecast information
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including the depiction of the airport
and its boundaries, the runway
configurations, land uses such as single
and two-family residential; multi-family
residential; mixed residential and
commercial; commercial and office;
industrial and manufacturing;
transportation, parking and utilities;
unclassified; vacant land; open space,
cemetaries, and outdoor recreation;
places of worship; schools; historic
structures; and day care/assisted living
facilities and those areas within the Day
Night Average Sound Level (DNL) 65,
70 and 75 noise contours. Estimates for
the area within these contours for the
2016 Base Year and 2021 Future Year
are shown in Table 5–1 and Table 5–4
in Chapter 5 of the NEM Report
respectively. Estimates of the residential
population within the 2016 Base Year
and 2021 Future Year noise contours are
also shown in Table 5–1 and Table 5–
4 in Chapter 5 of the NEM Report
respectively. Figure 4–12, in Chapter 4,
displays the location of noise
monitoring sites. Flight tracks are found
in Figures 4–2 through 4–5 of Chapter
4 and detailed in Appedices E and M.
The type and frequency of aircraft
operations (including nighttime
operations) are found in Chapter 4,
Tables 4–1 and 4–2.
As discussed in Chapter 6 of the NEM
Report, the Port Authority of New York
and New Jersey provided the general
public the opportunity to review and
comment on the NEMs. This public
comment period opened on September
22, 2016 and closed on October 24,
2016. A public workshop for the Draft
NEMs was held on September 29, 2016.
All comments received during the
public comment period and throughout
the development of the NEMs, as well
as responses to these comments, are
contained in Appendix L of the NEM
Report.
Following the closure of the public
review period, on March 1, 2017, Delta
Air Lines announced that the airline
would cease McDonnell Douglass 88
aircraft operations at LGA, effective
March 2, 2017, using Airbus 320, Boeing
737, and McDonnell Douglass 90 aircraft
instead. The Port Authority of New York
and New Jersey reviewed the potential
effect of this change to the Future Year
2021 fleet mix on the Future Year 2021
NEM, as detailed in the Cover Letter of
the NEM submittal package. The Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey
determined that the change in fleet mix
will not result in substantial, new
noncompatible use nor would it
significantly reduce noise over existing
noncompatible uses contained within
the 2021 DNL 65 contour area. However,
due to anticipated changes to the limits
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of the Future Year 2021 DNL 65
contour, the Port Authority of New York
and New Jersey has committed to reflect
any changes to the Future Year 2021
NEM associated with the change to
Delta’s fleet mix in the forthcoming
Noise Compatibility Plan submittal as
well as inform the public regarding this
change via the project Web site at https://
panynjpart150.com/LGA_
homepage.asp. The FAA concurs with
this approach.
The FAA has determined that these
noise exposure maps and accompanying
documentation are in compliance with
applicable requirements. This
determination is effective on May 5,
2017.
FAA’s determination on an airport
operator’s noise exposure maps is
limited to a finding that the maps were
developed in accordance with the
procedures contained in Appendix A of
FAR part 150. Such determination does
not constitute approval of the
applicant’s data, information or plans,
or a commitment to approve a noise
compatibility program or to fund the
implementation of that program. If
questions arise concerning the precise
relationship of specific properties to
noise exposure contours depicted on a
noise exposure map submitted under
Section 47503 of the Act, it should be
noted that the FAA is not involved in
any way in determining the relative
locations of specific properties with
regard to the depicted noise contours, or
in interpreting the noise exposure maps
to resolve questions concerning, for
example, which properties should be
covered by the provisions of Section
47506 of the Act. These functions are
inseparable from the ultimate land use
control and planning responsibilities of
local government. These local
responsibilities are not changed in any
way under Part 150 or through FAA’s
review of noise exposure maps.
Therefore, the responsibility for the
detailed overlaying of noise exposure
contours onto the map depicting
properties on the surface rests
exclusively with the airport operator
that submitted those maps, or with
those public agencies and planning
agencies with which consultation is
required under Section 47503 of the
Act. The FAA has relied on the
certification by the airport operator,
under Section 150.21 of FAR part 150,
that the statutorily required consultation
has been accomplished.
Copies of the full noise exposure map
documentation and of the FAA’s
evaluation of the maps are available for
examination at the following locations:
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Federal Aviation Administration,
Eastern Region, Airports Division,
AEA–600, 1 Aviation Plaza, Jamaica,
New York 11434
Federal Aviation Administration, New
York Airports District Office, 1
Aviation Plaza, Jamaica, New York
11434
The Port Authority of New York and
New Jersey, Aviation Department, 4
World Trade Center, 150 Greenwich
Street, 18th Floor, New York, New
York 10007
Issued in Jamaica, NY, on May 9, 2017.
Steven M. Urlass,
Director, Airports Division, Eastern Region.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
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RTCA Program Management
Committee Meeting
Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), U.S. Department
of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: RTCA PMC RTCA Program
Management Committee Meeting.
AGENCY:
The FAA is issuing this notice
to advise the public of a meeting of
RTCA Program Management Committee
Meeting.
DATES: The meeting will be held May
31, 2017 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at:
RTCA Headquarters, 1150 18th Street
NW., Suite 910, Washington, DC 20036.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Karan Hofmann at khofmann@rtca.org
or 202–330–0680, or The RTCA
Secretariat, 1150 18th Street NW., Suite
910, Washington, DC 20036, or by
telephone at (202) 833–9339, fax at (202)
833–9434, or Web site at https://
www.rtca.org.
SUMMARY:
Pursuant
to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–
463, 5 U.S.C., App.), notice is hereby
given for a meeting of the RTCA
Program Management Committee
Meeting. The agenda will include the
following:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Wednesday, May 31, 2017 8:30 a.m.–
12:30 p.m.
1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Review/Approve
A. Meeting Summary December 15,
2016
B. Administrative Special Committee
TOR Revisions
3. Publication Consideration/Approval
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Noise Exposure Map Notice for LaGuardia Airport, New York City,
New York
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces its
determination that the noise exposure maps submitted by the Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey for LaGuardia Airport under the
Aviation Safety and Noise Abatement Act are in compliance with
applicable requirements.
DATES: The effective date of the FAA's determination on the noise
exposure maps is May 5, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eastern Region Airports Division (AEA-
600), Andrew Brooks, Environmental Program Manager, Federal Aviation
Administration, AEA-600, 1 Aviation Plaza, Jamaica, New York 11434,
Telephone: (718) 553-3330.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice announces that the FAA finds
that the noise exposure maps submitted for LaGuardia Airport are in
compliance with applicable requirements of 14 CFR part 150, effective
January 13, 2004. Under 49 U.S.C. Section 47503 of the Aviation Safety
and Noise Abatement Act (hereinafter referred to as ``the Act''), an
airport operator may submit to the FAA noise exposure maps which meet
applicable regulations and which depict non-compatible land uses as of
the date of submission of such maps, a description of projected
aircraft operations during a forecast period that is at least five (5)
years in the future, and the ways in which such operations will affect
such maps. The Act requires such maps to be developed in consultation
with interested and affected parties in the local community, government
agencies, and persons using the airport. An airport operator who has
submitted noise exposure maps that are found by FAA to be in compliance
with the requirements of Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) part 150,
promulgated pursuant to the Act, may submit a noise compatibility
program for FAA approval which sets forth the measures the operator has
taken or proposes to take to reduce existing non-compatible uses and
prevent the introduction of additional non-compatible uses.
The FAA has completed its review of the noise exposure maps and
accompanying documentation submitted by the Port Authority of New York
and New Jersey. The documentation that constitutes the ``Noise Exposure
Maps'' (NEM) as defined in Section 150.7 of part 150 includes a 2016
Base Year NEM, Figure 5-1, and a 2021 Future Year NEM, Figure 5-2,
located in Chapter 5 of the NEM Report. Details of the NEM contours are
provided by Runway end in Figures 5-3 through 5-6 of Chapter 5. The
figures contained within Chapter 5 are scaled to fit within the report
context; however, the official, to scale, 2016 Base Year NEM and 2021
Future Year NEM are both located in Appendix M of the official NEM
Report submittal. The Noise Exposure Maps contain current and forecast
information
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including the depiction of the airport and its boundaries, the runway
configurations, land uses such as single and two-family residential;
multi-family residential; mixed residential and commercial; commercial
and office; industrial and manufacturing; transportation, parking and
utilities; unclassified; vacant land; open space, cemetaries, and
outdoor recreation; places of worship; schools; historic structures;
and day care/assisted living facilities and those areas within the Day
Night Average Sound Level (DNL) 65, 70 and 75 noise contours. Estimates
for the area within these contours for the 2016 Base Year and 2021
Future Year are shown in Table 5-1 and Table 5-4 in Chapter 5 of the
NEM Report respectively. Estimates of the residential population within
the 2016 Base Year and 2021 Future Year noise contours are also shown
in Table 5-1 and Table 5-4 in Chapter 5 of the NEM Report respectively.
Figure 4-12, in Chapter 4, displays the location of noise monitoring
sites. Flight tracks are found in Figures 4-2 through 4-5 of Chapter 4
and detailed in Appedices E and M. The type and frequency of aircraft
operations (including nighttime operations) are found in Chapter 4,
Tables 4-1 and 4-2.
As discussed in Chapter 6 of the NEM Report, the Port Authority of
New York and New Jersey provided the general public the opportunity to
review and comment on the NEMs. This public comment period opened on
September 22, 2016 and closed on October 24, 2016. A public workshop
for the Draft NEMs was held on September 29, 2016. All comments
received during the public comment period and throughout the
development of the NEMs, as well as responses to these comments, are
contained in Appendix L of the NEM Report.
Following the closure of the public review period, on March 1,
2017, Delta Air Lines announced that the airline would cease McDonnell
Douglass 88 aircraft operations at LGA, effective March 2, 2017, using
Airbus 320, Boeing 737, and McDonnell Douglass 90 aircraft instead. The
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey reviewed the potential effect
of this change to the Future Year 2021 fleet mix on the Future Year
2021 NEM, as detailed in the Cover Letter of the NEM submittal package.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey determined that the
change in fleet mix will not result in substantial, new noncompatible
use nor would it significantly reduce noise over existing noncompatible
uses contained within the 2021 DNL 65 contour area. However, due to
anticipated changes to the limits of the Future Year 2021 DNL 65
contour, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has committed to
reflect any changes to the Future Year 2021 NEM associated with the
change to Delta's fleet mix in the forthcoming Noise Compatibility Plan
submittal as well as inform the public regarding this change via the
project Web site at https://panynjpart150.com/LGA_homepage.asp. The FAA
concurs with this approach.
The FAA has determined that these noise exposure maps and
accompanying documentation are in compliance with applicable
requirements. This determination is effective on May 5, 2017.
FAA's determination on an airport operator's noise exposure maps is
limited to a finding that the maps were developed in accordance with
the procedures contained in Appendix A of FAR part 150. Such
determination does not constitute approval of the applicant's data,
information or plans, or a commitment to approve a noise compatibility
program or to fund the implementation of that program. If questions
arise concerning the precise relationship of specific properties to
noise exposure contours depicted on a noise exposure map submitted
under Section 47503 of the Act, it should be noted that the FAA is not
involved in any way in determining the relative locations of specific
properties with regard to the depicted noise contours, or in
interpreting the noise exposure maps to resolve questions concerning,
for example, which properties should be covered by the provisions of
Section 47506 of the Act. These functions are inseparable from the
ultimate land use control and planning responsibilities of local
government. These local responsibilities are not changed in any way
under Part 150 or through FAA's review of noise exposure maps.
Therefore, the responsibility for the detailed overlaying of noise
exposure contours onto the map depicting properties on the surface
rests exclusively with the airport operator that submitted those maps,
or with those public agencies and planning agencies with which
consultation is required under Section 47503 of the Act. The FAA has
relied on the certification by the airport operator, under Section
150.21 of FAR part 150, that the statutorily required consultation has
been accomplished.
Copies of the full noise exposure map documentation and of the
FAA's evaluation of the maps are available for examination at the
following locations:
Federal Aviation Administration, Eastern Region, Airports Division,
AEA-600, 1 Aviation Plaza, Jamaica, New York 11434
Federal Aviation Administration, New York Airports District Office, 1
Aviation Plaza, Jamaica, New York 11434
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Aviation Department, 4
World Trade Center, 150 Greenwich Street, 18th Floor, New York, New
York 10007
Issued in Jamaica, NY, on May 9, 2017.
Steven M. Urlass,
Director, Airports Division, Eastern Region.
[FR Doc. 2017-09903 Filed 5-16-17; 8:45 am]
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