Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 54 / Tuesday, March 23, 2021 / Proposed Rules 15445 Aviation Operations Center, 1 Neumann FAA Order 7400.11E, Airspace docket numbers and be submitted in Way, M/D Room 285, Cincinnati, OH 45125; Designations and Reporting Points, and triplicate to the address listed above. phone: (877) 432–3272; email: subsequent amendments can be viewed Commenters wishing the FAA to [email protected]. You may view online at https://www.faa.gov/air_ acknowledge receipt of their comments this referenced service information at the FAA, Airworthiness Products Section, traffic/publications/. For further on this notice must submit with those Operational Safety Branch, 1200 District information, you can contact the comments a self-addressed, stamped Avenue, Burlington, MA 01803. 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The proposal www.archives.gov/federal-register/cfr/ contained in this notice may be changed DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION ibr-locations.html. in light of the comments received. A FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: report summarizing each substantive Federal Aviation Administration Jeffrey Claypool, Federal Aviation public contact with FAA personnel Administration, Operations Support concerned with this rulemaking will be 14 CFR Part 71 Group, Central Service Center, 10101 filed in the docket. [Docket No. FAA–2021–0176; Airspace Hillwood Parkway, Fort Worth, TX Availability of NPRMs 76177; telephone (817) 222–5711. Docket No. 21–ACE–8] An electronic copy of this document SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: RIN 2120–AA66 may be downloaded through the Authority for This Rulemaking internet at https://www.regulations.gov. Proposed Amendment of Class D and Recently published rulemaking E Airspace; Sioux City, IA The FAA’s authority to issue rules documents can also be accessed through regarding aviation safety is found in the FAA’s web page at https:// AGENCY: Federal Aviation Title 49 of the United States Code. www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/ Administration (FAA), DOT. Subtitle I, Section 106 describes the airspace_amendments/. ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking authority of the FAA Administrator. You may review the public docket (NPRM). Subtitle VII, Aviation Programs, containing the proposal, any comments describes in more detail the scope of the received, and any final disposition in SUMMARY: This action proposes to agency’s authority. This rulemaking is amend the Class D and Class E airspace person in the Dockets Office (see the promulgated under the authority ADDRESSES section for the address and at Sioux Gateway Airport/Brigadier described in Subtitle VII, Part A, General Bud Day Field, Sioux City, IA. phone number) between 9:00 a.m. and Subpart I, Section 40103. Under that 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, The FAA is proposing this action as the section, the FAA is charged with result of an airspace review caused by except federal holidays. An informal prescribing regulations to assign the use docket may also be examined during the decommissioning of the Sioux City of airspace necessary to ensure the VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) normal business hours at the Federal safety of aircraft and the efficient use of Aviation Administration, Air Traffic navigation aid as part of the VOR airspace. This regulation is within the Minimum Operational Network (MON) Organization, Central Service Center, scope of that authority as it would Operations Support Group, 10101 Program. The name and geographic amend the Class D airspace, the Class E coordinates of the airport would also be Hillwood Parkway, Fort Worth, TX surface airspace, and the Class E 76177. updated to coincide with the FAA’s airspace extending upward from 700 aeronautical database. feet above the surface at Sioux Gateway Availability and Summary of DATES: Comments must be received on Airport/Brigadier General Bud Day Documents for Incorporation by or before May 7, 2021. Field, Sioux City, IA, to support Reference ADDRESSES: Send comments on this instrument flight rule operations at this This document proposes to amend proposal to the U.S. Department of airport. FAA Order 7400.11E, Airspace Transportation, Docket Operations, Comments Invited Designations and Reporting Points, West Building Ground Floor, Room dated July 21, 2020, and effective W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Interested parties are invited to September 15, 2020. FAA Order Washington, DC 20590; telephone (202) participate in this proposed rulemaking 7400.11E is publicly available as listed 366–9826, or (800) 647–5527. You must by submitting such written data, views, in the ADDRESSES section of this identify FAA Docket No. FAA–2021– or arguments, as they may desire. document. FAA Order 7400.11E lists 0176/Airspace Docket No. 21–ACE–8 at Comments that provide the factual basis Class A, B, C, D, and E airspace areas, the beginning of your comments. You supporting the views and suggestions air traffic service routes, and reporting may also submit comments through the presented are particularly helpful in points. internet at https://www.regulations.gov. developing reasoned regulatory You may review the public docket decisions on the proposal. Comments The Proposal containing the proposal, any comments are specifically invited on the overall The FAA is proposing an amendment received, and any final disposition in regulatory, aeronautical, economic, to 14 CFR part 71 by: person in the Dockets Office between environmental, and energy-related Amending the Class D airspace at 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday aspects of the proposal. Sioux Gateway Airport/Brigadier through Friday, except federal holidays. Communications should identify both General Bud Day Field, Sioux City, IA, VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:08 Mar 22, 2021 Jkt 253001 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\23MRP1.SGM 23MRP1 15446 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 54 / Tuesday, March 23, 2021 / Proposed Rules by adding an extension 1 mile each side Class D and E airspace designations § 71.1 [Amended] of the 001° bearing from the airport are published in paragraph 5000, 6002, ■ 2. The incorporation by reference in extending from the 4.3-mile radius to and 6005, respectively, of FAA Order 14 CFR 71.1 of FAA Order 7400.11E, 4.4 miles north of the airport; updating 7400.11E, dated July 21, 2020, and Airspace Designations and Reporting the name (previously Sioux Gateway/ effective September 15, 2020, which is Points, dated July 21, 2020, and Col. Bud Day Field) and geographic incorporated by reference in 14 CFR effective September 15, 2020, is coordinates of the airport to coincide 71.1. The Class D and E airspace amended as follows: with the FAA’s aeronautical database; designation listed in this document will Paragraph 5000 Class D Airspace. removing the cities associated with the be published subsequently in the Order. * * * * * airports to comply with changes to FAA FAA Order 7400.11, Airspace Order 7400.2M, Procedures for Designations and Reporting Points, is ACE IA D Sioux City, IA [Amended] Handling Airspace Matters; and published yearly and effective on Sioux Gateway Airport/Brigadier General updating the outdated term ‘‘Airport/ September 15. Bud Day Field, IA Facility Directory’’ to ‘‘Chart (Lat. 42°24′09″ N, long. 96°23′05″ W) Supplement’’; Regulatory Notices and Analyses Martin Field, NE (Lat. 42°27′15″ N, long. 96°28′21″ W) Amending the Class E surface The FAA has determined that this airspace at Sioux Gateway Airport/ regulation only involves an established That airspace extending upward from the Brigadier General Bud Day Field by surface to and including 3,600 feet MSL body of technical regulations for which within a 4.3-mile radius of Sioux Gateway adding an extension 1 mile each side of frequent and routine amendments are Airport/Brigadier General Bud Day Field the 001° bearing from the airport necessary to keep them operationally excluding that airspace within a 1-mile extending from the 4.3-mile radius to current, is non-controversial and radius of Martin Field, and within 1 mile 4.4 miles north of the airport; updating unlikely to result in adverse or negative either side of the 001° bearing from the Sioux the name (previously Sioux Gateway/ comments. It, therefore: (1) Is not a Gateway Airport/Brigadier General Bud Day Col. Bud Day Field) and geographic ‘‘significant regulatory action’’ under Field extending from the 4.3-mile radius of coordinates of the airport to coincide Sioux Gateway Airport/Brigadier General Executive Order 12866; (2) is not a Bud Day Field to 4.4 miles north of the Sioux with the FAA’s aeronautical database; ‘‘significant rule’’ under DOT Gateway Airport/Brigadier General Bud Day removing the cities associated with the Regulatory Policies and Procedures (44 Field. This Class D airspace area is effective airports to comply with changes to FAA FR 11034; February 26, 1979); and (3) during the specific dates and times Order 7400.2M; and updating the does not warrant preparation of a established in advance by a Notice to outdated term ‘‘Airport/Facility regulatory evaluation as the anticipated Airmen.