Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 230 / Monday, November 30, 2020 / Proposed Rules 76497

The FAA is issuing this rulemaking (b) Affected Airworthiness Directives (ADs) (k) Related Information under the authority described in None. (1) For EASA AD 2018–0176, contact the Subtitle VII, Part A, Subpart III, Section EASA, Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 3, 50668 (c) Applicability 44701: General requirements. Under Cologne, Germany; telephone +49 221 8999 that section, Congress charges the FAA This AD applies to Airbus Helicopters 000; email [email protected]; internet with promoting safe flight of civil Model SA–365N, SA–365N1, AS–365N2, AS www.easa.europa.eu. You may find this 365 N3, EC 155B, and EC155B1 helicopters, EASA AD on the EASA website at https:// aircraft in air commerce by prescribing certificated in any category, equipped with ad.easa.europa.eu. You may view this regulations for practices, methods, and magnetic plugs, part number (P/N) 1B7807 or material at the FAA, Office of the Regional procedures the Administrator finds P/N 704A34543017 (electrical), or P/N Counsel, Southwest Region, 10101 Hillwood necessary for safety in air commerce. 365A32–1711–00 (non-electrical), as Pkwy, Room 6N–321, Fort Worth, TX 76177. This regulation is within the scope of applicable, installed in the main gearbox For information on the availability of this that authority because it addresses an (MGB) pump intake. material at the FAA, call 817–222–5110. This material may be found in the AD docket on unsafe condition that is likely to exist or (d) Subject the internet at https://www.regulations.gov develop on products identified in this Joint Aircraft System Component (JASC) rulemaking action. by searching for and locating Docket No. Code 6320, Main Rotor Gearbox. FAA–2020–1036. Regulatory Findings (e) Reason (2) For more information about this AD, contact Mahmood Shah, Aviation Safety The FAA determined that this This AD was prompted by the FAA’s Engineer, Fort Worth ACO Branch, FAA, proposed AD would not have federalism determination that to improve the process 10101 Hillwood Pkwy., Fort Worth, TX implications under Executive Order and performance in collecting metal particles 76177; telephone 817–222–5538; email in MGB certain existing magnetic plugs [email protected]. 13132. This proposed AD would not (electrical and non-electrical) installed in the have a substantial direct effect on the MGB pump intake must be replaced with Issued on November 20, 2020. States, on the relationship between the improved non-electrical magnetic plugs. The Lance T. Gant, national Government and the States, or FAA is issuing this AD to address metal Director, Compliance & Airworthiness on the distribution of power and particles causing seizure of the MGB, loss of Division, Aircraft Certification Service. power to the main rotor, and subsequent loss responsibilities among the various [FR Doc. 2020–26249 Filed 11–27–20; 8:45 am] levels of government. of control of the helicopter. BILLING CODE 4910–13–P For the reasons discussed above, I (f) Compliance certify this proposed regulation: Comply with this AD within the (1) Is not a ‘‘significant regulatory compliance times specified, unless already DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION action’’ under Executive Order 12866, done. Federal Aviation Administration (2) Will not affect intrastate aviation (g) Requirements in Alaska, and Except as specified in paragraph (h) of this 14 CFR Part 71 (3) Will not have a significant AD: Comply with all required actions and economic impact, positive or negative, compliance times specified in, and in [Docket No. FAA–2020–1058; Airspace on a substantial number of small entities accordance with, European Aviation Safety Docket No. 20–AGL–39] Agency (now European Union Aviation under the criteria of the Regulatory RIN 2120–AA66 Flexibility Act. Safety Agency) (EASA) AD 2018–0176, dated August 21, 2018 (EASA AD 2018–0176). List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 39 Proposed Amendment of Class E (h) Exceptions to EASA AD 2018–0176 Airspace and Revocation of Class E Air transportation, Aircraft, Aviation (1) Where EASA AD 2018–0176 refers to its Airspace; Multiple Minnesota Towns safety, Incorporation by reference, effective date, this AD requires using the AGENCY: Safety. effective date of this AD. Federal Aviation (2) The ‘‘Remarks’’ section of EASA AD Administration (FAA), DOT. The Proposed Amendment 2018–0176 does not apply to this AD. ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking (3) Although the service information (NPRM). Accordingly, under the authority referenced in EASA AD 2018–0176 specifies delegated to me by the Administrator, to discard certain parts, this AD does not SUMMARY: This action proposes to the FAA proposes to amend 14 CFR part include that requirement. amend the Class E airspace extending 39 as follows: (4) Where EASA AD 2018–0176 refers to upward from 700 feet above the surface flight hours (FH), this AD requires using at multiple Minnesota Towns and to PART 39—AIRWORTHINESS hours time-in-service. DIRECTIVES revoke the Class E airspace extending (i) Special Flight Permit upward from 700 feet above the surface ■ 1. The authority citation for part 39 Special flight permits may be issued in at Silver Bay Municipal Airport, Silver accordance with 14 CFR 21.197 and 21.199 continues to read as follows: Bay, MN. The FAA is proposing this to operate the helicopter to a location where action as the result of airspace reviews Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40113, 44701. the helicopter can be modified (if the caused by the decommissioning of operator elects to do so), provided the multiple non-federal non-directional § 39.13 [Amended] helicopter is operated using day visual flight beacons (NDBs) within Minnesota. The ■ rules and no passengers are onboard. 2. The FAA amends § 39.13 by adding names and geographic coordinates of the following new airworthiness (j) Alternative Methods of Compliance various airports would also be updated directive: (AMOCs): to coincide with the FAA’s aeronautical Airbus Helicopters: Docket No. FAA–2020– The Manager, Rotorcraft Standards Branch, database. FAA, may approve AMOCs for this AD. Send 1036; Project Identifier MCAI–2020– DATES: Comments must be received on 01430–R. your proposal to: Manager, Rotorcraft Standards Branch, FAA, 10101 Hillwood or before January 14, 2021. (a) Comments Due Date Pkwy., Fort Worth, TX 76177; telephone ADDRESSES: Send comments on this The FAA must receive comments by 817–222–5110; email 9-ASW-FTW-AMOC- proposal to the U.S. Department of January 14, 2021. [email protected]. Transportation, Docket Operations,

VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:33 Nov 27, 2020 Jkt 253001 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\30NOP1.SGM 30NOP1 TKELLEY on DSKBCP9HB2PROD with PROPOSALS 76498 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 230 / Monday, November 30, 2020 / Proposed Rules

West Building Ground Floor, Room Municipal Airport Kirkwood Field, Aviation Administration, Air Traffic W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Crookston, MN; Glencoe Municipal Organization, Central Service Center, Washington, DC 20590; telephone (202) Airport, Glencoe, MN; and Mora Operations Support Group, 10101 366–9826, or (800) 647–5527. You must Municipal Airport, Mora, MN, to Hillwood Parkway, Fort Worth, TX identify FAA Docket No. FAA–2020– support instrument flight rule 76177. 1058/Airspace Docket No. 20–AGL–39, operations at these airports; and to Availability and Summary of at the beginning of your comments. You revoke the Class E airspace extending Documents for Incorporation by may also submit comments through the upward from 700 feet above the surface Reference internet at https://www.regulations.gov. at Silver Bay Municipal Airport, Silver You may review the public docket Bay, MN, as the airspace is no longer This document proposes to amend containing the proposal, any comments required. FAA Order 7400.11E, Airspace Designations and Reporting Points, received, and any final disposition in Comments Invited person in the Dockets Office between dated July 21, 2020, and effective 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday Interested parties are invited to September 15, 2020. FAA Order through Friday, except federal holidays. participate in this proposed rulemaking 7400.11E is publicly available as listed FAA Order 7400.11E, Airspace by submitting such written data, views, in the ADDRESSES section of this Designations and Reporting Points, and or arguments, as they may desire. document. FAA Order 7400.11E lists subsequent amendments can be viewed Comments that provide the factual basis Class A, B, C, D, and E airspace areas, online at https://www.faa.gov/air_ supporting the views and suggestions air traffic service routes, and reporting traffic/publications/. For further presented are particularly helpful in points. developing reasoned regulatory information, you can contact the The Proposal Airspace Policy Group, Federal Aviation decisions on the proposal. Comments Administration, 800 Independence are specifically invited on the overall The FAA is proposing an amendment Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20591; regulatory, aeronautical, economic, to Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations telephone: (202) 267–8783. The Order is environmental, and energy-related (14 CFR) part 71 by: also available for inspection at the aspects of the proposal. Amending the Class E airspace National Archives and Records Communications should identify both extending upward from 700 feet above Administration (NARA). For docket numbers and be submitted in the surface to within a 6.5-mile information on the availability of FAA triplicate to the address listed above. (increased from a 6.4-mile) radius of Order 7400.11E at NARA, email: Commenters wishing the FAA to Aitkin Municipal Airport-Steve Kurtz [email protected] or go to https:// acknowledge receipt of their comments Field, Aitkin, MN; removing the Aitkin www.archives.gov/federal-register/cfr/ on this notice must submit with those NDB and associated extension from the ibr-locations.html. comments a self-addressed, stamped airspace legal description; and updating postcard on which the following the name (previously Aitkin Municipal FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: statement is made: ‘‘Comments to Airport) and geographic coordinates of Jeffrey Claypool, Federal Aviation Docket No. FAA–2020–1058/Airspace the airport to coincide with the FAA’s Administration, Operations Support Docket No. 20–AGL–39.’’ The postcard aeronautical database; Group, Central Service Center, 10101 will be date/time stamped and returned Amending the Class E airspace Hillwood Parkway, Fort Worth, TX to the commenter. extending upward from 700 feet above 76177; telephone (817) 222–5711. All communications received before the surface at Appleton Municipal SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: the specified closing date for comments Airport, Appleton, MN, by removing the Authority for This Rulemaking will be considered before taking action extension northwest of the airport as it on the proposed rule. The proposal is no longer required; and updating the The FAA’s authority to issue rules contained in this notice may be changed geographic coordinates of the airport to regarding aviation safety is found in in light of the comments received. A coincide with the FAA’s aeronautical Title 49 of the United States Code. report summarizing each substantive database; Subtitle I, Section 106 describes the public contact with FAA personnel Amending the Class E airspace authority of the FAA Administrator. concerned with this rulemaking will be extending upward from 700 feet above Subtitle VII, Aviation Programs, filed in the docket. the surface to within a 6.4-mile describes in more detail the scope of the (decreased from a 7-mile) radius of agency’s authority. This rulemaking is Availability of NPRMs Benson Municipal Airport, Benson, MN; promulgated under the authority An electronic copy of this document and updating the geographic described in Subtitle VII, Part A, may be downloaded through the coordinates of the airport to coincide Subpart I, Section 40103. Under that internet at https://www.regulations.gov. with the FAA’s aeronautical database; section, the FAA is charged with Recently published rulemaking Amending the Class E airspace prescribing regulations to assign the use documents can also be accessed through extending upward from 700 feet above of airspace necessary to ensure the the FAA’s web page at https:// the surface to within a 6.4-mile safety of aircraft and the efficient use of www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/ (decreased from a 7-mile) radius of airspace. This regulation is within the airspace_amendments/. Cambridge Municipal Airport, scope of that authority as it would You may review the public docket Cambridge, MN; and updating the amend the Class E airspace extending containing the proposal, any comments geographic coordinates of the airport to upward from 700 feet above the surface received, and any final disposition in coincide with the FAA’s aeronautical at: Aitkin Municipal Airport-Steve person in the Dockets Office (see the database; Kurtz Field, Aitkin, MN; Appleton ADDRESSES section for the address and Amending the Class E airspace Municipal Airport, Appleton, MN; phone number) between 9:00 a.m. and extending upward from 700 feet above Benson Municipal Airport, Benson, MN; 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, the surface to within a 6.4-mile Cambridge Municipal Airport, except federal holidays. An informal (decreased from a 7-mile) radius of Cambridge, MN; Cloquet Carlton County docket may also be examined during Cloquet Carlton County Airport, Airport, Cloquet, MN; Crookston normal business hours at the Federal Cloquet, MN; and updating the

VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:33 Nov 27, 2020 Jkt 253001 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\30NOP1.SGM 30NOP1 TKELLEY on DSKBCP9HB2PROD with PROPOSALS Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 230 / Monday, November 30, 2020 / Proposed Rules 76499

geographic coordinates of the airport to unlikely to result in adverse or negative AGL MN E5 Appleton, MN [Amended] coincide with the FAA’s aeronautical comments. It, therefore: (1) Is not a Appleton Municipal Airport, MN database; ‘‘significant regulatory action’’ under (Lat. 45°13′39″ N, long. 96°00′16″ W) Amending the Class E airspace Executive Order 12866; (2) is not a That airspace extending upward from 700 extending upward from 700 feet above ‘‘significant rule’’ under DOT feet above the surface within a 6.4-mile the surface to within a 6.4-mile Regulatory Policies and Procedures (44 radius of the Appleton Municipal Airport. (decreased from a 7-mile) radius of FR 11034; February 26, 1979); and (3) * * * * * Crookston Municipal Airport Kirkwood does not warrant preparation of a Field, Crookston, MN; and updating the regulatory evaluation as the anticipated AGL MN E5 Benson, MN [Amended] name (previously Crookston Municipal impact is so minimal. Since this is a Benson Municipal Airport, MN Kirkwood Field) and geographic routine matter that will only affect air (Lat. 45°19′55″ N, long. 95°39′02″ W) coordinates of the airport to coincide traffic procedures and air navigation, it That airspace extending upward from 700 with the FAA’s aeronautical database; is certified that this rule, when feet above the surface within a 6.4-mile Amending the Class E airspace promulgated, would not have a radius of Benson Municipal Airport. extending upward from 700 feet above significant economic impact on a * * * * * the surface at Glencoe Municipal substantial number of small entities Airport, Glencoe, MN, by removing the under the criteria of the Regulatory AGL MN E5 Cambridge, MN [Amended] Glencoe NDB and associated extension Flexibility Act. Cambridge Municipal Airport, MN from the airspace legal description; and ° ′ ″ ° ′ ″ Environmental Review (Lat. 45 33 27 N, long. 93 15 51 W) updating the geographic coordinates of That airspace extending upward from 700 the airport to coincide with the FAA’s This proposal will be subject to an feet above the surface within a 6.4-mile aeronautical database; environmental analysis in accordance radius of the Cambridge Municipal Airport. Amending the Class E airspace with FAA Order 1050.1F, * * * * * extending upward from 700 feet above ‘‘Environmental Impacts: Policies and the surface to within a 6.4-mile Procedures’’ prior to any FAA final AGL MN E5 Cloquet, MN [Amended] (decreased from a 6.5-mile) radius of regulatory action. Cloquet Carlton County Airport, MN Mora Municipal Airport, Mora, MN; ° ′ ″ ° ′ ″ List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 71 (Lat. 46 42 04 N, long. 92 30 13 W) removing the Mora NDB and associated That airspace extending upward from 700 extension from the airspace legal Airspace, Incorporation by reference, feet above the surface within a 6.4-mile description; and updating the Navigation (air). radius of the Cloquet Carlton County Airport. geographic coordinates of the airport to * * * * * coincide with the FAA’s aeronautical The Proposed Amendment database; Accordingly, pursuant to the AGL MN E5 Crookston, MN [Amended] And revoking the Class E airspace authority delegated to me, the Federal Crookston Municipal Airport Kirkwood extending upward from 700 feet above Aviation Administration proposes to Field, MN the surface at Silver Bay Municipal amend 14 CFR part 71 as follows: (Lat. 47°50′30″ N, long. 96°37′17″ W) Airport, Silver Bay, MN, as the That airspace extending upward from 700 instrument procedures at this airport PART 71—DESIGNATION OF CLASS A, feet above the surface within a 6.4-mile have been cancelled and the airspace is B, C, D, AND E AIRSPACE AREAS; radius of the Crookston Municipal Airport no longer required. AIRTRAFFIC SERVICE ROUTES; AND Kirkwood Field. This action is the result of airspace REPORTING POINTS reviews caused by the decommissioning * * * * * of the Aitkin, Appleton, Benson, ■ 1. The authority citation for 14 CFR AGL MN E5 Glencoe, MN [Amended] Cambridge, Cloquet, Crookston, part 71 continues to read as follows: Glencoe Municipal Airport, MN Glencoe, Mora, and Silver Bay non- Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 106(g); 40103, (Lat. 44°45′22″ N, long. 94°04′53″ W) federal NDBs, which provided 40113, 40120; E.O. 10854, 24 FR 9565, 3 CFR, That airspace extending upward from 700 navigation information for the 1959–1963 Comp., p. 389. feet above the surface within a 6.3-mile instrument procedures these airports. radius of Glencoe Municipal Airport. Class E airspace designations are § 71.1 [Amended] * * * * * published in paragraph 6005 of FAA ■ 2. The incorporation by reference in Order 7400.11E, dated July 21, 2020, 14 CFR 71.1 of FAA Order 7400.11E, AGL MN E5 Mora, MN [Amended] and effective September 15, 2020, which Airspace Designations and Reporting Mora Municipal Airport, MN is incorporated by reference in 14 CFR Points, dated July 21, 2020, and (Lat. 45°53′31″ N long. 93°16′23″ W) 71.1. The Class D and E airspace effective September 15, 2020, is That airspace extending upward from 700 designations listed in this document amended as follows: feet above the surface within a 6.4-mile will be published subsequently in the radius of the Mora Municipal Airport. Order. Paragraph 6005 Class E Airspace Areas Extending Upward from 700 feet or More * * * * * FAA Order 7400.11, Airspace Above the Surface of the Earth Designations and Reporting Points, is AGL MN E5 Silver Bay, MN [Remove] published yearly and effective on * * * * * Issued in Fort Worth, Texas, on November September 15. AGL MN E5 Aitkin, MN [Amended] 23, 2020. Regulatory Notices and Analyses Aitkin Municipal Airport-Steve Kurtz Field, MN Steven T. Phillips, ° ′ ″ ° ′ ″ The FAA has determined that this (Lat. 46 32 54 N, long. 93 40 36 W) Acting Manager, Operations Support Group, regulation only involves an established That airspace extending upward from 700 ATO Central Service Center. body of technical regulations for which feet above the surface within a 6.5-mile [FR Doc. 2020–26214 Filed 11–27–20; 8:45 am] frequent and routine amendments are radius of the Aitkin Municipal Airport-Steve necessary to keep them operationally Kurtz Field. BILLING CODE 4910–13–P current, is non-controversial and * * * * *

VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:33 Nov 27, 2020 Jkt 253001 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 9990 E:\FR\FM\30NOP1.SGM 30NOP1 TKELLEY on DSKBCP9HB2PROD with PROPOSALS