Department of Transportation January 14, 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is issuing this notice to advise the public that a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS)Proposed New Runways and Associated Development at Washington Dulles International Airport, has been prepared and is available for public review and comment. The DEIS incorporates a Draft Air Quality General Conformity Determination (DGCD) and Draft Section 106 Historic Resources Report. Written requests for the DEIS and written comments on the DEIS and related documents can be submitted to the individual listed in the section FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Public Information Meetings and Public Hearings will be held on February 22 and February 23, 2005. The public comment periods will commence on January 21, 2005 and will close on March 7, 2005. Public Comment and Information Meetings/Public Hearings: The start of the public comment period on the DEIS and associated studies will be January 21, 2005 and will end on March 7, 2005. Public Information Meetings and Public Hearings will be held on February 22, 2005 in Loudoun County and on February 23, 2005 in Fairfax County. The Public Information Meetings will begin at 5 p.m. (EST) and will last until 8 p.m. (EST). The Public Hearings will be conducted concurrently with the information meetings and will begin at 6 p.m. (EST). The location for the Public Information Meetings/Public Hearings is as follows: February 22, 2005, Loudoun County, Farmwell Station Middle School, 44281 Glouscester Parkway, Ashburn, VA; February 23, 2005, Fairfax County, Stone Middle School, 5500 Sully Park Drive, Centreville, VA. Copies of the DEIS and related documents may be viewed during regular business hours at the following locations: 1. Centreville Regional Library, 14200 St. Germaine Drive, Centreville, VA. 2. Chantilly Regional Library, 4000 Stringfellow Road, Chantilly, VA. 3. Great Falls Library, 9830 Georgetown Pike, Great Falls, VA. 4. Herndon Fortnightly Library, 768 Center Street, Herndon, VA. 5. Reston Regional Library, 11925 Bowman Towne Drive, Reston, VA. 6. Fairfax City Regional Library, 3915 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, VA. 7. Ashburn Library, 43316 Hay Road, Ashburn, VA. 8. Rust Library, 380 Old Waterford Road, Leesburg, VA. 9. Middleburg Library, 101 Reed Street, Middleburg, VA. 10. Purcellville Library, 220 E. Main Street, Purcellville, VA. 11. Sterling Library, 120 Enterprise Street, Sterling, VA. 12. Eastern Loudoun Regional Library, 21030 Whitfield Place, Sterling, VA. 13. Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library, 7584 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA. A limited number of copies of the DEIS and related documents will also be available for review by appointment only at the following FAA/ Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) Offices. Please call to make arrangements for viewing: Federal Aviation Administration, Washington Airports District Office, 23723 Air Freight Lane, Suite 210, Dulles, VA, (703) 661-1364; Washington Dulles International Airport, Airport Managers Office, Main Terminal Baggage Claim Level, Dulles, VA, (703) 572-2710. An Executive Summary will be available January 21, 2005 on Dulles Airport's Web site at https://www.mwaa.com/dulles/ EnvironmentalStudies/RunwaysEIS.htm.

This notice announces a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposed policy on hazardous misleading attitude information. It covers the display of hazardously misleading attitude information, which should be considered a catastrophic failure condition at the aircraft level. This notice is necessary to advise the public of this FAA policy and give all interested persons an opportunity to present their views on it.

The FMCSA announces its decision to exempt 29 individuals from the vision requirement in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs). The exemptions will enable these individuals to qualify as drivers of commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) in interstate commerce without meeting the vision standard prescribed in 49 CFR 391.41(b)(10).

This action corrects a final rule (Airspace Docket No. 04-ASW- 11) published in the Federal Register on December 13, 2004 (69 FR 72113). In that rule, the effective date was inadvertently published as January 20, 2005. The correct effective date is March 17, 2005. This action corrects that error.

Pursuant to FAA's rulemaking provisions governing the application, processing, and disposition of petitions for exemption, part 11 of Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR), this notice contains the disposition of certain petitions previously received. The purpose of this notice is to improve the public's awareness of, and participation in, this aspect of FAA's regulatory activities. Neither publication of this notice nor the inclusion or omission of information in the summary is intended to affect the legal status of any petition or its final disposition.

The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that an environmental impact statement will be prepared for a proposed highway project in Transylvania County, North Carolina.