Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 101 / Thursday, May 25, 1995 / Notices 27803 safety, adversely affecting the efficient procedural and substantive ACTION: Notice. use and management of the navigable requirements of the Act and FAR Part airspace and air traffic control systems, 150 have been satisfied. The overall SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation or adversely affecting other powers and program, therefore, was approved by the Administration (FAA) announces that it responsibilities of the Administrator Assistant Administrator for is reviewing a proposed revision to the prescribed by law. effective July 25, 1994. noise compatibility program that was Specific limitations with respect to Outright approval was granted for all submitted by the Regional the FAA’s approval of an airport noise of the specific program elements with Authority of Louisville and Jefferson compatibility program are delineated in the exception of Item 1b, Development County (RAA) under the provisions of FAR Part 150, section 150.5. Approval of SIDS and STARS (Standard Title I of the Aviation Safety and Noise is not a determination concerning the Instrument Departure and Standard Abatement Act of 1979 (Public Law 96– acceptability of land uses under Federal, Arrival Procedures), which was 193) and 14 CFR Part 150. The existing state, or local law. Approval does not by disapproved pending submittal of noise compatibility program was itself constitute an FAA implementing additional information. approved April 8, 1994. The proposed action. A request for Federal action or The approved items are: revision to the noise compatibility approval to implement specific noise program will be approved or compatibility measures may be Noise Abatement Procedures disapproved on or before November 13, required, and an FAA decision on the 1a. Voluntary Noise Abatement 1995. request may require an environmental Procedures DATES: The effective date of the FAA’s assessment of the proposed action. 2. Monitoring and Review of the Noise review of the revision to the noise Approval does not constitute a Exposure Maps/Noise Compatibility compatibility program is May 17, 1995. commitment by the FAA to financially Plan Status The public comment period ends July assist in the implementation of the Land Use Measures 16, 1995. program nor a determination that all FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: measures covered by the program are 1. Land Acquisition and Relocation of Noise Impacted Mobile Homes Cynthia K. Wills, 2851 Directors Cove, eligible for grant-in-aid funding from the Suite 3, Memphis, Tennessee 38131– FAA. Where federal funding is sought, 2. Easement Acquisition 3. Soundproofing and/or Climate 0301; 901–544–3495. Comments on the requests for project grants must be proposed revision to the noise submitted to the FAA Airports Control for Locally Determined Qualified Compatible Residences compatibility program should also be District Office in Belleville, . submitted to the above office. Bishop International Airport 4. Airport Zoning/Overlay District 5. Real Estate Disclosure Authority submitted noise exposure SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This maps, descriptions, and other These determinations are set forth in notice announces that the FAA is documentation produced during the detail in a Record of Approval endorsed reviewing a proposed revision to the noise compatibility planning study by the Assistant Administrator for noise compatibility program for (conducted from August 1988 through Airports on July 25, 1994. The Record Louisville International Airport which September 1993) to the FAA. The of Approval, as well as other evaluation will be approved or disapproved on or Bishop International Airport noise materials and documents which before November 13, 1995. This notice exposure maps were determined by the comprised the submittal to the FAA, are also announces the availability of this FAA to be in compliance with available for review at the following program for public review and applicable requirements on March 1, locations: comment. 1993. Notice of this determination was Federal Aviation Administration, An airport operator who has published in the Federal Register on Detroit Airports District Office, submitted noise exposure maps that are March 15, 1993. Airport, East, 8820 Beck found by FAA to be in compliance with The Bishop International Airport Road, Belleville, Michigan 48111 the requirements of Federal Aviation study contains a proposed noise Bishop International , Regulations (FAR) Part 150, compatibility program comprised of Bishop International Airport, G–3425 promulgated pursuant to Title I of the actions designed for phased W. Bristol Road, Flint, Michigan Act, may submit a noise compatibility implementation by airport management 48507–3183 program for FAA approval which sets and adjacent jurisdictions from the date Questions may be directed to the forth the measures the operator has of study completion to the year 1999. It individual named above under the taken or proposed for the reduction of was requested that the FAA evaluate heading, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION existing noncompatible uses and for the and approve this material as a noise CONTACT. prevention of the introduction of additional noncompatible uses. compatibility program as described in Issued in Belleville, Michigan, May 11, section 104(b) of the Act. The FAA 1995. The FAA has formally received the proposed revision to the noise began its review of the program on Jack D. Roemer, January 26, 1994, and was required by compatibility program for Louisville Acting Manager, Detroit Airports District International Airport, effective May 1, a provision of the Act to approve or Office, Great Lakes Region. disapprove the program within 180 days 1995. It was requested that the FAA [FR Doc. 95–12900 Filed 5–24–95; 8:45 am] (other than the use of new flight review this material and that the noise procedures for noise control). Failure to BILLING CODE 4910±13±M mitigation measure proposed by the approve or disapprove such program airport be approved as a revision to the within the 180-day period would have Receipt of Revision to Noise noise compatibility program under been deemed to be an approval of such Compatibility Program and Request for Section 104(b) of the Act. Preliminary program. Review, Louisville International review of the submitted material The submitted program contained Airport, Louisville, KY indicates that it conforms to the seven (7) proposed actions for noise requirements for the submittal of noise mitigation. The FAA completed its AGENCY: Federal Aviation compatibility programs, but that further review and determined that the Administration, DOT. review will be necessary prior to 27804 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 101 / Thursday, May 25, 1995 / Notices approval or disapproval of the program. Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to minimize adverse environmental The formal review, limited by law to a will be prepared on the potential effects effects. maximum of 180 days will be of alternatives to accommodate the long- To ensure a full cooperative effort, the completed on or before November 13, term air transportation needs of the FAA as lead agency on the federal EIS, 1995. Minneapolis-St. Paul region, including a recognizes the magnitude of this The FAA’s detailed evaluation will be new major airport site and a proposal and extends an invitation to conducted under the provisions of 14 comprehensive plan for expansion and affected Federal, State and local CFR Part 150, § 150.33. The primary improvements to the existing considerations in the evaluation process Minneapolis-St. Paul International agencies to participate as a cooperating are whether the proposed measures may Airport. To ensure that all significant agency on this project. In accepting the reduce the level of aviation safety, issues related to the proposed action are duties and role of a cooperating agency, create an undue burden on interstate or identified, the FAA is soliciting the agency shall participate in the NEPA foreign commerce, or be reasonably information and comments from the process at the earliest point, shall consistent with obtaining the goal of public concerning this project and is participate in the scoping process, shall reducing existing noncompatible land advising Federal, State and local assist in preparing those portions of the uses and preventing the introduction of agencies and the public of the scoping EIS in which it has the greatest additional noncompatible land uses. process and scheduled meetings that technical expertise and shall make Interested persons are invited to will be conducted as part of this available staff support to enhance comment on the proposed program with process. interdisciplinary capability. Agencies specific reference to these factors. All FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: interested in participating as a comments, other than those properly cooperating agency are requested to Mr. Glen Orcutt, Airports District Office, addressed to local land use authorities, Federal Aviation Administration, respond to the FAA at the address listed will be considered by the FAA to the 6020—28th Avenue South, Room 102, at the beginning of this notice. extent practicable. Copies of the noise Minneapolis, Minnesota 55450–2706 The environmental review of the compatibility program, and the (612) 725–4221. project will be conducted in accordance proposed revisions to the noise compatibility program are available for SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FAA with the requirements of the National examination at the following locations: proposes to prepare an EIS on the Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amendment (42 U.S.C. 4371, et seq.), Federal Aviation Administration, 800 potential consequences and possible CEQ regulations (40 CFR 1500–1508), Independence Avenue, SW., Room alternatives of a new major airport site FAA Orders 5050.4A and 1050.1D and 617, Washington, DC 20591 selection that would allow construction Federal Aviation Administration, of a replacement airport for the all applicable Federal and State Memphis Airports District Office, Minneapolis-St. Paul region, a regulations and local ordinances. comprehensive plan for the expansion 2851 Directors Cove, Suite 3, PUBLIC SCOPING: A scoping meeting will at the existing Minneapolis-St. Paul Memphis, Tennessee 38131 be conducted on June 27, 1995, at the International Airport, other reasonable Administrative Office, Regional Airport Metropolitan Airports Commission Authority of Louisville and Jefferson alternatives and the no action alternative. A First Phase Scoping General Offices, 6040—28th Avenue County, Louisville International South, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Airport, Louisville, Kentucky 40209 Report describing the Dual Track Planning Process was prepared and beginning at 2:00 p.m. for Federal, State Questions may be directed to the and local agencies. Scoping meetings for individual named above under the made available for public and agency review on March 30, 1992. Three public the public will be held on June 26, 1995, heading, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION meetings were held in April 1992 for at the Metropolitan Airports CONTACT. public and agency comment. Responses Commission General Offices 6040—28th Issued in Memphis, Tennessee, May 17, to substantive comments were Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1995. published in March 1993. beginning at 7:00 p.m. and again at 7:00 LaVerne F. Reid, A Second Phase Scoping Document p.m. on June 27, 1995, at the Hastings Manager, Memphis Airports District Office. has been prepared by the Metropolitan Middle School Auditorium, 9th and [FR Doc. 95–12903 Filed 5–24–95; 8:45 am] Airports Commission (MAC), a Vermillion Streets, Hastings, Minnesota BILLING CODE 4910±13±M cooperating agency in the to allow for public input. Agencies and environmental process. This Scoping the public will be notified of subsequent Document will be circulated to Federal, meetings as they are scheduled. Written Intent To Prepare an Environmental State and local agencies and will be comments will be accepted until July 5, Impact Statement and to Conduct available to the public for their review 1995, and may be directed to the FAA Second Phase Scoping on Airport and comment. The Second Phase at the following address: Federal Alternatives to Accommodate the Scoping Document describes the results Aviation Administration, Airports Long-term Air Transportation Needs of of the Dual Track Planning process District Office, MSP–ADO–600, 6020— the Minneapolis-St. Paul Region, MN which was described in the First Phase 28th Avenue South, Room 102, AGENCY: Federal Aviation Scoping Report. A state and federal Minneapolis, Minnesota 55450–2706. Administration, Department of Environmental Impact Statement for the Issued in Des Plaines, Illinois, on May 18, Transportation. Dual Track Planning is being prepared 1995. by the MAC and the FAA, respectively, ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an Benito De Leon, Environmental Impact Statement and to The EIS will compare all reasonable Manager, Planning/Programming Branch, conduct second phase public scoping. alternatives required to meet the Minneapolis-St. Paul region year 2020 Airports Division, FAA, Great Lakes Region. SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation aviation demand, disclose their [FR Doc. 95–12901 Filed 5–24–95; 8:45 am] Administration (FAA) is issuing this environmental consequences and ensure BILLING CODE 4910±13±M notice to advise the public that an that mitigating measures are considered