[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 27 (Friday, February 8, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9449-9450]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-02894]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Noise Exposure Map Notice, Southwest Florida International
Airport, Fort Myers, FL
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces its
determination that the Noise Exposure Maps submitted by the Lee County
Port Authority for the Southwest Florida International Airport under
the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 47501 et. Seq (Aviation Safety and Noise
Abatement Act) and 14 CFR Part 150 are in compliance with applicable
requirements.
DATES: This notice is effective February 8, 2013, and is applicable
beginning January 30, 2013.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Allan Nagy, Federal Aviation
Administration, Orlando Airports District Office, 5950 Hazeltine
National Drive Citadel International Building, Suite 400, Orlando, FL
32822, 407-812-6331.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice announces that the FAA finds
that the Noise Exposure Maps submitted for Southwest Florida
International Airport are in compliance with applicable requirements of
Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 150, effective November
15, 2012. Under 49 U.S.C. section 47503 of the Aviation Safety and
Noise Abatement Act (the Act), an airport operator may submit to the
FAA Noise Exposure Maps which meet applicable regulations and which
depict non-compatible land uses as of the date of submission of such
maps, a description of projected aircraft operations, and the ways in
which such operations will affect such maps. The Act requires such maps
to be developed in consultation with interested and affected parties in
the local community, government agencies, and persons using the
airport. An airport operator who has submitted Noise Exposure Maps that
are found by FAA to be in compliance with the requirements of 14 CFR
Part 150, promulgated pursuant to the Act, may submit a Noise
Compatibility Program for FAA approval which sets forth the measures
the airport operator has taken or proposes to take to reduce existing
non-compatible uses and prevent the introduction of additional non-
compatible uses.
The FAA has completed its review of the Noise Exposure Maps and
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accompanying documentation submitted by the Lee County Port Authority.
The documentation that constitutes the ``Noise Exposure Maps'' as
defined in Section 150.7 of 14 CFR Part 150 includes: Table 4.1, RSW
Noise Measurement Locations; Table 7.1, 2011 Annual Operations; Table
7.2, 2011 Annual-Average Day Fleet Mix (Itinerant Operations); Table
7.3, 2011 Annual-Average Day Fleet Mix (Local Operations); Table 7.4,
2017 Annual Operations; Table 7.5, 2017 Annual-Average Day Fleet Mix
(Itinerant Operations); Table 7.6, 2017 Annual-Average Day Fleet Mix
(Local Operations); Table 7.7, 2011 and 2017 Air Carrier Aircraft Stage
Length Percentages; Table 7.8, 2011 Runway Use Percentages; Table 7.9,
2011 and 2017 Departure Flight Track Use Percentages; Table 7.10, 2011
and 2017 Arrival Flight Track Use Percentages; Table 7.11, 2011 and
2017 Local (Touch and Go) Flight Track Use Percentages; Table 8.1, 2012
DNL Contour Surface Areas; Table 8.2, 2017 DNL Contour Surface Areas;
Table 8.3, 14 CFR Part 150 Land Use Compatibility Guidelines; Table
8.4, Lee County Airport Noise Zones; Figure 1.2, Airport Location Map;
Figure 1.3, Existing Land Uses; Figure 2.1, Airport Diagram; Figure 2-
2, U.S. National Airspace System; Figure 2.3, Southwest Florida
International Airspace; Figure 2-7, RSW Published Arrivals and
Departures; Figure 5.1, RSW RNAV Departures Established Since the 2006
14 CFR Part 150 Study; Figure 5-2, RSW RNAV Arrivals Established Since
the 2006 14 CFR Part 150 Study; Figure 5-3, Monthly Operations; Figure
7.1, Modeled Flight Tracks--Northeast Flow; Figure 7.2, Modeled Flight
Tracks--Southwest Flow; Figure 7.3, Modeled Flight Tracks--Touch and
Go; Figure 8.1, 2012 DNL Noise Contours; Figure 8.2, 2017 DNL Noise
Contours; Figure 8.3, Future Land Use; Figure 8.4, Airport Noise Zones;
Appendix C, RSW Published IFR Procedures; Appendix L, Map ``A'' 2012
NEM and Map ``B'', 2017; NEM Chapter 9, Page 9-1, Airport Sponsor's
Noise Exposure Map Certification; November 1, 2012 Airport Sponsor NEM
Submittal Letter.
The FAA has determined that these Noise Exposure Maps and
accompanying documentation are in compliance with applicable
requirements. This determination is effective on January 30, 2013.
FAA's determination on the airport operator's Noise Exposure Maps
is limited to a finding that the maps were developed in accordance with
the procedures contained in Appendix A of 14 CFR Part 150. Such
determination does not constitute approval of the airport operator's
data, information or plans, or a commitment to approve a Noise
Compatibility Program or to fund the implementation of that Program. If
questions arise concerning the precise relationship of specific
properties to noise exposure contours depicted on a Noise Exposure Map
submitted under Section 47503 of the Act, it should be noted that the
FAA is not involved in any way in determining the relative locations of
specific properties with regard to the depicted noise exposure
contours, or in interpreting the Noise Exposure Maps to resolve
questions concerning, for example, which properties should be covered
by the provisions of Section 47506 of the Act. These functions are
inseparable from the ultimate land use control and planning
responsibilities of local government. These local responsibilities are
not changed in any way under 14 CFR Part 150 or through FAA's review of
Noise Exposure Maps. Therefore, the responsibility for the detailed
overlaying of noise exposure contours onto the map depicting properties
on the surface rests exclusively with the airport operator that
submitted those maps, or with those public agencies and planning
agencies with which consultation is required under Section 47503 of the
Act. The FAA has relied on the certification by the airport operator,
under Section 150.21 of 14 CFR Part 150, that the statutorily required
consultation has been accomplished.
Copies of the full Noise Exposure Maps documentation and of the
FAA's evaluation of the maps are available for examination at the
following locations: Federal Aviation Administration, Orlando Airports
District Office, 5950 Hazeltine National Drive, Citadel International
Building, Suite 400, Orlando, FL 32822.
Questions may be directed to the individual named above under the
heading, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Issued in Orlando, FL, on January 30, 2013.
Bart Vernace,
Manager, Orlando Airports District Office, Federal Aviation
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2013-02894 Filed 2-7-13; 8:45 am]
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