[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 9 (Monday, January 14, 2013)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 2646-2647]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-00646]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
14 CFR Part 71
[Docket No. FAA-2012-0966; Airspace Docket No. 12-AWA-5]
RIN 2120-AA66
Proposed Modification of Class B Airspace; Las Vegas, NV
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM); Reopening of comment
period.
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SUMMARY: This action reopens the comment period for an NPRM that was
published on October 26, 2012. In that document, the FAA proposed to
modify the Las Vegas, NV, Class B airspace area to ensure the
containment of large turbine-powered aircraft within Class B airspace.
DATES: The comment period for the NPRM published in the Federal
Register on October 26, 2012 (77 FR 65332) closed on December 26, 2012,
is reopened until February 13, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Send comments on this proposal to the U.S. Department of
Transportation, Docket Operations, M-30, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590-0001;
telephone: (202) 366-9826. You must identify FAA Docket No. FAA-2012-
0966 and Airspace Docket No. 12-AWA-5, at the beginning of your
comments. You may also submit comments through the Internet at http://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Gallant, Airspace Policy and ATC
Procedures Group, Office of Airspace Services, Federal Aviation
Administration, 800 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20591;
telephone: (202) 267-8783.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Comments Invited
Interested parties are invited to participate in this proposed
rulemaking by submitting such written data, views, or arguments as they
may desire. Comments that provide the factual basis supporting the
views and suggestions presented are particularly helpful in developing
reasoned regulatory decisions on the proposal. Comments are
specifically invited on the overall regulatory, aeronautical, economic,
environmental, and energy-related aspects of the proposal.
Communications should identify both docket numbers (FAA Docket No.
FAA-2012-0966 and Airspace Docket No. 12-AWA-5) and be submitted in
triplicate to the Docket Management Facility (see ADDRESSES section for
address and phone number). You may also submit comments through the
Internet at http://www.regulations.gov.
Commenters wishing the FAA to acknowledge receipt of their comments
on this action must submit with those comments a self-addressed,
stamped postcard on which the following statement is made: ``Comments
to Docket Nos. FAA-2012-0966 and Airspace Docket No. 12-AWA-5.'' The
postcard will be date/time stamped and returned to the commenter.
All communications received on or before the specified closing date
for comments will be considered before taking action on the proposed
rule. The proposal contained in this action may be changed in light of
comments received. All comments submitted will be available for
examination in the public docket both before and after the closing date
for comments. A report summarizing each substantive public contact with
FAA personnel concerned with this rulemaking will be filed in the
docket.
Availability of NPRM's
An electronic copy of this document may be downloaded through the
Internet at http://www.regulations.gov.
You may review the public docket containing the proposal, any
comments received, and any final disposition in person in the Dockets
Office (see ADDRESSES section for address and phone number) between
9:00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays. An informal docket may also be examined during normal
business hours at the office of the Western Service Center, Operations
Support Group, Federal Aviation Administration, 1601 Lind Ave. SW.,
Renton, WA 98057.
Persons interested in being placed on a mailing list for future
NPRMs should contact the FAA's Office of Rulemaking, (202) 267-9677,
for a copy of Advisory Circular No. 11-2A, Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking Distribution System, which describes the application
procedure.
Background
In the Federal Register of October 26, 2012, the FAA issued a NPRM
entitled
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``Proposed Modification of Class B Airspace; Las Vegas, NV'' (77 FR
65332). The FAA requested that comments on that proposal be received on
or before December 26, 2012. By letter dated December 7, 2012, the
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) requested that the FAA
extend the comment period for at least 30 days. AOPA stated that the
original comment period encompassed two Federal holidays and that no
comments had been posted to the docket as of the date of their letter.
AOPA added that an extension would provide additional time for the
public to review the NPRM and submit substantive comments on the
proposal.
Reopening of Comment Period
The FAA has reviewed AOPA's request for additional time to comment
on the NPRM and has determined that reopening of the comment period is
consistent with the public interest and that good cause exists for
taking this action.
Accordingly, the comment period for Docket No. FAA-2012-0966;
Airspace Docket No. 12-AWA-5, is reopened as indicated in the DATES
section, above.
Issued in Washington, DC, on January 8, 2013.
Gary A. Norek,
Manager, Airspace Policy and ATC Procedures Group.
[FR Doc. 2013-00646 Filed 1-10-13; 4:15 pm]
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