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anticipate a measurable reduction in Counsel, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., I. Authority force or changes in compensation levels Washington, DC 20590. 1. NPATMA (Pub. L. 106–181, or benefits. Decided: October 25, 2016. codified at 49 U.S.C. 40128) requires the AAC also claims that neither By the Board, Chairman Elliott, Vice FAA and NPS to develop an air tour competition nor the public interest Chairman Miller, and Commissioner management plan for units of the would be adversely affected, as the Begeman. national park system where an operator proposed transaction involves merely a Marline Simeon, has requested authority to provide transfer of one holding company to Clearance Clerk. commercial air tours. The FAA another holding company. AAC states [FR Doc. 2016–26103 Filed 10–27–16; 8:45 am] Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 that, because it does not currently have BILLING CODE 4915–01–P (2012 Act) amended various provisions any ownership interest in any passenger of NPATMA. motor carrier, there would be no net 2. This Federal Register Notice gain in market power with respect to the DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION addresses the following 2012 Act Acquisition Carriers under the proposed amendment provisions (which are transaction. Furthermore, AAC states Federal Aviation Administration codified at 49 U.S.C. 40128(a)(5)): that the bus operations of the a. Exempt national park units that Acquisition Carriers are geographically DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR have 50 or fewer commercial air tour dispersed and there is little or no operations each year from the overlap in service areas or in customer National Park Service requirement to prepare an air tour base. Thus, AAC states that the impact management plan or voluntary of the proposed transaction on the List of Units of the National Park agreement. regulated motor carrier industry would System Exempt From the Provisions of b. Authorize NPS to withdraw the be minimal and that neither competition the National Parks Air Tour exemption if the Director determines nor the public interest would be Management Act that an air tour management plan or adversely affected. voluntary agreement is necessary to AGENCY: On the basis of the application, the Federal Aviation protect resources and values or visitor Board finds that the proposed Administration, Transportation; use and enjoyment. acquisition is consistent with the public National Park Service, Interior. c. Require FAA and NPS to publish a interest and should be tentatively ACTION: List of exempt parks. list each year of national parks covered approved and authorized. If any by the exemption. opposing comments are timely filed, SUMMARY: The National Parks Air Tour these findings will be deemed vacated, Management Act (NPATMA) requires II. List of Exempt Parks 2014 and, unless a final decision can be made the Federal Aviation Administration 1. This list is based on the number of on the record as developed, a (FAA) and National Park Service (NPS) commercial air tour operations reported procedural schedule will be adopted to to develop an air tour management plan to the FAA and NPS by air tour reconsider the application. See 49 CFR for units of the national park system operators conducting air tours under 1182.6(c). If no opposing comments are where an operator has applied for interim operating authority at national filed by the expiration of the comment authority to conduct commercial air park units in calendar year 2014 for period, this notice will take effect tours. The FAA Modernization and which the total operations was 50 or automatically and will be the final Reform Act of 2012 amended various fewer. Parks on the exempt list are those Board action. provisions of NPATMA. One provision that have at least one operator who has This action is categorically excluded exempted national park units with 50 or been granted operating authority to from environmental review under 49 fewer annual flights from the conduct commercial air tours over that CFR 1105.6(c). requirement to prepare an air tour park. Exempt parks are as follows: Board decisions and notices are management plan or voluntary agreement and requires FAA and NPS to Acadia National Park, ME available on our Web site at Big Bend National Park, TX ‘‘WWW.STB.GOV.’’ jointly publish a list of exempt parks. By Federal Register notice (See 77 FR Black Canyon of the Gunnison National It is ordered: Park, CO 1. The proposed transaction is 75254, December 19, 2012), FAA and NPS published an initial list of exempt Capitol Reef National Park, UT approved and authorized, subject to the Capulin Volcano National Monument, parks in 2012 and another list in 2014 filing of opposing comments. NM (See 79 FR 14569–14570, March 14, 2. If opposing comments are timely Carlsbad Caverns National Park, NM 2014). This notice provides the annual filed, the findings made in this notice Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, updated list of parks that are exempt for will be deemed as having been vacated. AZ calendar years 2014 and 2015. 3. This notice will be effective Cedar Breaks National Monument, UT December 13, 2016, unless opposing FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Colonial National Historical Park, VA comments are filed by December 12, Keith Lusk—Mailing address: Federal Colorado National Monument, CO 2016. Aviation Administration, P.O. Box Coronado National Memorial, AZ 4. A copy of this notice will be served 92007, Los Angeles, California 90009– Devils Tower National Monument, WY on: (1) The U.S. Department of 2007. Telephone: (310) 725–3808. Email Dinosaur National Monument, UT/CO Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier address: [email protected]. Vicki Dry Tortugas National Park, FL Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey Ward—Mailing address: Natural Sounds El Malpais National Monument, NM Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590; (2) and Night Skies Division, National Park El Morro National Monument, NM the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Service, 1201 Oakridge Drive, Suite Fort Bowie National Historic Site, AZ Division, 10th Street & Pennsylvania 100–31, Fort Collins, CO 80525. Fort Davis National Historic Site, TX Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20530; Telephone: (970) 267–2117. Email Fort Union National Monument, NM and (3) the U.S. Department of address: [email protected]. Gila Cliff Dwellings National Transportation, Office of the General SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Monument, NM

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Golden Spike National Historic Site, UT interim operating authority at national Tuzigoot National Monument, AZ Grand Teton National Park, WY park units in calendar year 2015 for Voyageurs National Park, MN Great Sand Dunes National Park and which the total operations was 50 or Preserve, CO fewer. Parks on the exempt list are those Walnut Canyon National Monument, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, that have at least one operator who has AZ NM been granted operating authority to Wupatki National Monument, AZ Hohokam Pima National Monument, AZ conduct commercial air tours over that Yellowstone National Park, ID/MT/WY Hovenweep National Monument, CO/ park. Exempt parks are as follows: Yosemite National Park, CA UT Acadia National Park, ME Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Big Bend National Park, TX Yucca House National Monument, CO Site, AZ Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Zion National Park, UT Kings Canyon National Park, CA Park, CO Lake Chelan National Recreation Area, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, NC 2. Mesa Verde National Park, CO, is WA Capitol Reef National Park, UT on the 2014 exempt list but not on the Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA Capulin Volcano National Monument, 2015 exempt list because the combined Mesa Verde National Park, CO NM number of commercial air tours reported Mojave National Preserve, CA by all air tour operators was 50 tours or Montezuma Castle National Monument, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, NM Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, fewer in 2014, but exceeded 50 tours in AZ 2015. Navajo National Monument, AZ AZ North Cascades National Park, WA Cedar Breaks National Monument, UT 3. Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Olympic National Park, WA Colorado National Monument, CO NC, is not on the 2014 exempt list but Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Coronado National Memorial, AZ is on the 2015 exempt list because the AZ Devils Tower National Monument, WY combined number of commercial air Pecos National Historical Park, NM Dinosaur National Monument, UT/CO tours reported by all air tour operators Petrified Forest National Park, AZ Dry Tortugas National Park, FL exceeded 50 tours in 2014, but was 50 Petroglyph National Monument, NM El Malpais National Monument, NM tours or fewer in 2015. Pipe Spring National Monument, AZ El Morro National Monument, NM 4. Colonial National Historical Park, Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River, TX Fort Bowie National Historic Site, AZ VA; Lake Chelan National Recreation Saguaro National Park, AZ Fort Davis National Historic Site, TX Area, WA; and Lassen Volcanic Salinas Pueblo Missions National Fort Union National Monument, NM National Park, CA are on the 2014 Monument, NM Gila Cliff Dwellings National exempt list but not on the 2015 exempt San Juan Island National Historical Monument, NM list because there is no longer any Park, WA Golden Spike National Historic Site, UT operator(s) who has applied for Sequoia National Park, CA Grand Teton National Park, WY operating authority to conduct Sunset Crater Volcano National Great Sand Dunes National Park and commercial air tours over those parks. Monument, AZ Preserve, CO At all the other parks on the 2015 list, Timpanogos Cave National Monument, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, there is at least one operator who has UT NM applied for operating authority to Tumacacori National Historic Park, AZ Hohokam Pima National Monument, AZ conduct tours over that park. Tuzigoot National Monument, AZ Hovenweep National Monument, CO/ Voyageurs National Park, MN UT IV. List of Exempt Parks for Future Walnut Canyon National Monument, Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Years AZ Site, AZ Wupatki National Monument, AZ Kings Canyon National Park, CA The FAA and NPS will publish a list Yellowstone National Park, ID/MT/WY Mojave National Preserve, CA of exempt parks annually. The list could Yosemite National Park, CA Montezuma Castle National Monument, change from year to year since parks Yucca House National Monument, CO AZ may be added to or removed from the Zion National Park, UT Navajo National Monument, AZ exempt list based on the previous year’s 2. NPS is authorized to withdraw a North Cascades National Park, WA number of annual operations. In order to park from the exempt list if NPS Olympic National Park, WA continue to be exempt, a park must have determines that an air tour management Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, 50 or fewer annual commercial air tour plan or voluntary agreement is AZ operations in any given calendar year. necessary to protect park resources and Pecos National Historical Park, NM The list could also change if NPS values or park visitor use and Petrified Forest National Park, AZ withdraws an exempted park. NPS is enjoyment. Under this statutory Petroglyph National Monument, NM authorized to withdraw a park from the authority, the NPS Director informed Pipe Spring National Monument, AZ exempt list if NPS determines that an air the FAA Administrator in writing on Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River, TX tour management plan or a voluntary September 15, 2015, that NPS withdrew Saguaro National Park, AZ agreement is necessary to protect park the exemption for Death Valley National Salinas Pueblo Missions National resources and values or park visitor use Park and Mount Rainier National Park. Monument, NM and enjoyment. Pursuant to the 2012 These two parks have been removed San Juan Island National Historical Act, the NPS shall inform the FAA in from the 2014 exempt list. Park, WA writing of each determination to Sequoia National Park, CA withdraw an exemption. At parks that III. List of Exempt Parks 2015 Sunset Crater Volcano National lose exempt status, operators will return 1. This list is based on the number of Monument, AZ to interim operating authority commercial air tour operations reported Timpanogos Cave National Monument, requirements until an air tour to the FAA and NPS by air tour UT management plan or a voluntary operators conducting air tours under Tumacacori National Historic Park, AZ agreement has been established.

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Issued in Hawthorne, CA, on August 11, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: of the North 1⁄2 of the Southwest 1⁄4 of 2016. Irene R. Porter, Program Manager, said Section; Thence Northeasterly Glen A. Martin, Federal Aviation Administration, 127.77 feet along a 1834.86 foot radius Regional Administrator, Western-Pacific Airports Detroit District Office, 11677 curve to the left, the long chord of Region, Federal Aviation Administration. South Wayne Road, Suite 107, Romulus, which bears N85°43′00″ E. 127.74 feet to Issued in Washington, DC, on August 17, Michigan 48174, Telephone Number: the North and South 1⁄4 line of said 2016. (734) 229–2915/FAX Number: (734) Section as monumented; Thence ° ′ ″ Raymond M. Sauvajot, 229–2950. S00 18 36 E. 22.12 feet along said 1 Associate Director, Natural Resource SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In North and South ⁄4 line to the Northerly Stewardship and Science, National Park accordance with section 47107(h) of line of the Right of Way as described in Service. Title 49, United States Code, this notice Document number 2007R–1 0240, [FR Doc. 2016–26092 Filed 10–27–16; 8:45 am] is required to be published in the Grand Traverse County Register of BILLING CODE 4910–13–P Federal Register 30 days before Deeds; Thence Southwesterly 127.00 modifying the land-use assurance that feet along a 1856.86 foot radius curve to requires the property to be used for an the right, the long chord of which bears DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION aeronautical purpose. S85°45′07″ W. 126.97 feet; Thence The property is currently a wooded S87°42′41″ W. 2099.33 feet (previously Federal Aviation Administration area maintained for compatible land use recorded as 2101.33 feet) along a line surrounding the airfield. The proposed which is 53 feet north of, and parallel Public Notice for Waiver of non-aeronautical land use would be for with the South line of the North 1⁄2 of Aeronautical Land-Use Assurance roadway improvements to support the the Southwest 1⁄4 of said Section to the new commercial/industrial AGENCY: Federal Aviation West line of said Section; Thence development. The property was ° ′ ″ Administration (FAA), DOT. N00 45 58 E. 22.03 feet to the point of originally owned by the City of Traverse Beginning of this description. ACTION: Notice of intent of waiver with City, Michigan and was subject to an Containing 1.25 Acres. respect to land; Cherry Capital Airport, AP–4 Instrument of conveyance from Traverse City, Michigan. Issued in Romulus, Michigan, on October the City to the United States 12, 2016. Government dated May 17, 1943. At the John L. Mayfield, Jr., SUMMARY: The FAA is considering a end of the war the U.S. Government proposal to change 1.25 acres of airport transferred the property back to the City Manager, Detroit Airports District Office, FAA, Great Lakes Region. land from aeronautical use to non- of Traverse City, Michigan. In 1966 the aeronautical use and to authorize the National Emergency Use Provision was [FR Doc. 2016–26087 Filed 10–27–16; 8:45 am] sale of airport property located at Cherry released from this property. The airport BILLING CODE 4910–13–P Capital Airport, Traverse City, will receive Fair Market Value for the Michigan. The aforementioned land is land to be transferred to the County to DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION not needed for aeronautical use. support the road improvements. The The proposed property is located east disposition of proceeds from the sale of Federal Aviation Administration of the airport terminal area adjacent to the airport property will be in the current South Airport Road right-of- accordance with FAA’s Policy and Public Notice for Waiver of way at the Cherry Capital Airport. The Procedures Concerning the Use of Aeronautical Land-Use Assurance property is currently a wooded area Airport Revenue, published in the maintained for compatible land use Federal Register on February 16, 1999 AGENCY: Federal Aviation surrounding the airfield. The proposed (64 FR 7696). Administration (FAA), DOT. non-aeronautical land use would be for This notice announces that the FAA ACTION: Notice of intent of waiver with roadway improvements to support the is considering the release of the subject respect to land; Cherry Capital Airport, new commercial/industrial airport property at the Cherry Capital Traverse City, Michigan. development. Airport, Traverse City, Michigan, from SUMMARY: The FAA is considering a federal land covenants, subject to a DATES: Comments must be received on proposal to change 63.04 acres of airport reservation for continuing right of flight or before November 28, 2016. land from aeronautical use to non- as well as restrictions on the released ADDRESSES: Documents are available for property as required in FAA Order aeronautical use and to authorize the review by appointment at the FAA 5190.6B section 22.16. Approval does lease of airport property located at Detroit Airports District Office, Irene R. not constitute a commitment by the Cherry Capital Airport, Traverse City, Porter, Program Manager, 11677 South FAA to financially assist in the disposal Michigan. The aforementioned land is Wayne Road, Suite 107, Romulus, of the subject airport property nor a not needed for aeronautical use. The proposed property is located east Michigan 48174. Telephone: (734) 229– determination of eligibility for grant-in- of the airport terminal area along South 2915/Fax: (734) 229–2950 and Cherry aid funding from the FAA. Capital Administrative Offices, 727 Fly Airport Road at the Cherry Capital Don’t Drive, Traverse City, Michigan. Property Description Airport. The property is currently a Telephone: (231) 947–2250. Part of Section 18, T27N, R10W, City wooded area maintained for compatible Written comments on the Sponsor’s of Traverse City, Grand Traverse land use surrounding the airfield. The request must be delivered or mailed to: County, Michigan, described as: proposed non-aeronautical land use Irene R. Porter, Program Manager, Commencing at the West 1⁄4 corner of would be for compatible commercial/ Federal Aviation Administration, said Section; Thence S00°45′58″ W. industrial development, allowing the Airports Detroit District Office, 11677 1244.58 feet along the West line of said airport to become more self-sustaining. South Wayne Road, Suite 107, Romulus, Section to the Point of Beginning of this DATES: Comments must be received on Michigan 48174, Telephone Number: description: Thence N87°42′41″ E. or before November 28, 2016. (734) 229–2915/FAX Number: (734) 2098.16 feet along a line that is 75 feet ADDRESSES: Documents are available for 229–2950. north of and parallel with the South line review by appointment at the FAA

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