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Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

OMB Control Number: 2120–0672. 

Forms(s): N/A. 

Affected Public: A total of 10 

respondents. 

Abstract: An Advisory Circular (AC) 

establishes criteria for Qualified Internet 

Communications Providers (QICP), who 

provide access to aviation weather, 

Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) and 

aeronautical data via the Public Internet. 

The AC describes procedures for a 

provider to become and remain an FAA 

approved QICP, and the information 

collected is used to determine the 

provider’s eligibility. 

Estimated Annual Burden Hours: An 

estimated 2,873 hours annually.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to the 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, 725 17th Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20503, Attention FAA 

Desk Officer. 

Comments are invited on: Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the Department, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility: the accuracy of 

the Department’s estimates of the 

burden of the proposed information 

collection; ways to enhance the quality, 

utility and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including the use of 

automated collection technique or other 

forms of information technology.

Dated: Issued in Washington, DC on 

October 18, 2004. 

Judith D. Street, 

FAA Information Collection Clearance 

Officer, Standards and Information Division, 

APF–100.

[FR Doc. 04–23670 Filed 10–21–04; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration 

Notice of Intent to Request Renewal 

From the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) of One New Public 

Collection of Information

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.), the FAA invites the public 

comment on one public information 

collection which will be submitted to 

OMB for renewal.

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before December 21, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed 

or delivered to the FAA at the following 

address: Ms. Judy Street, Room 613, 

Federal Aviation Administration, 

Standards and Information Division, 

APF–100, 800 Independence Ave., SW., 

Washington, DC 20591.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Judy Street at the above address or on 

(202) 267–9895.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, an agency may 

not conduct or sponsor, and a person is 

not required to respond to a collection 

of information unless it displays a 

currently valid OMB control number. 

Therefore, the FAA solicits comments 

on the following collection of 

information in order to evaluate the 

necessity of the collection, the accuracy 

of the agency’s estimate of the burden, 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected, and 

possible ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection in preparation for 

submission to renew the clearance of 

the following information collection. 

1. 2120–XXXX, National Assessment 

of General Aviation Single Engine Land 

Pilots. The Civil Aerospace Medical 

Institute (CAMI) will collect the 

information on behalf of the Federal 

Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Flight 

Standards (AFS) organization. Newly 

certified general aviation (GA) Airplane 

Single-Engine Land (ASEL) pilots 

within the United States will receive an 

anonymous and voluntary survey to 

complete and return by mail. The 

information collected will be used to 

assess pilots’ experiences during the 

certification process. CAMI will be 

responsible for the logistical details 

associated with mailing out surveys and 

collecting and processing the responses. 

The current estimated annual reporting 

burden is 6,250 hours.

Issued in Washington, DC on October 15, 

2004. 

Judith D. Street, 

FAA Information Collection Clearance 

Officer, APF–100.

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration 

Associate Administrator for 

Commercial Space Transportation 

Notice of Availability and Request for 

Comment on a Draft Supplemental 

Environmental Assessment (EA) for 

the East Kern Airport District (EKAD) 

Launch Site Operator License for the 

Mojave Airport, CA

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), Associate 

Administrator for Commercial Space 

Transportation (AST) prepared the Draft 

Supplemental EA.

ACTION: Notice of availability and 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

regulations, the FAA is initiating a 

public review and comment period for 

a Draft Supplemental EA. In February 

2004, the FAA released a Final 

Environmental Assessment for the East 

Kern Airport District Launch Site 

Operator License for the Mojave Airport, 

which analyzed the environmental 

impacts of operating a launch site at the 

Mojave Airport in Mojave, California. 

The February 2004 EA was prepared to 

support an application from EKAD to 

operate a licensed launch facility at the 

Mojave Airport. Two types of launch 

vehicles were included in the analysis 

as typical vehicles that would operate 

from the Mojave Airport. The first 

vehicle type, referred to in the EA as 

Concept A, includes air-drop designs 

where two vehicles, an airplane and a 

launch vehicle are mated together, and 

the airplane carries the launch vehicle 

to a predetermined altitude where the 

launch vehicle is dropped and its rocket 

engines ignite. The second vehicle type 

referred to in the EA as Concept B 

includes horizontally launched 

vehicles, which use rocket power to 

takeoff from a standard aviation runway. 

The FAA issued a launch license to 

Scaled Composites, Limited Liability 

Corporation (LLC) on April 7, 2004 for 

launches of the SpaceShipOne vehicle, 

which is similar to Concept A launch 

vehicles described and analyzed in the 

February 2004 EA. The February 2004 

EA considered the environmental 

impacts of launching up to six (6) 

Concept A launch vehicles from the 

Mojave Airport in 2004. To ensure that 

Scaled Composites and other potential 

Concept A vehicle operators would have 

maximum flexibility in using the 

Mojave Airport to support their launch 

programs, the Draft Supplemental EA 

considers the environmental impacts of 

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four (4) additional Concept A launches 

in 2004 for a maximum of 10 launches 

in 2004. The Draft Supplemental EA 

considers the cumulative impacts of the 

six (6) previously analyzed launches, 

the four (4) additional launches of 

Concept A vehicles, and other existing 

and proposed operations at the Mojave 

Airport.

DATES: The public comment period for 

the NEPA process begins with the 

publication of this notice and request 

for comment in the Federal Register. To 

ensure that all comments can be 

addressed in the Final Supplemental 

EA, comments must be received by the 

FAA no later than November 24, 2004. 

Copies of the Draft Supplemental EA 

will be made available at the following 

libraries: 

• Edwards Air Force Base Library 

• Kern County Library (Boron, 

California City, Mojave, and Tehachapi 

Branches) 

• Kern River Valley Library (Lake 

Isabella and Rosamond Branches) 

• Palmdale City Library

A downloadable electronic version of 

the Draft Supplemental EA is available 

on the FAA Internet site http://

ast.faa.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Written and oral comments regarding 

the Draft Supplemental EA should be 

submitted to, Mr. Doug Graham, FAA 

Environmental Specialist, Mojave 

Airport Supplemental EA, c/o ICF 

Consulting, 9300 Lee Highway, Fairfax, 

VA 22031; e-mail 

mojave.sea@icfconsulting.com; or fax 

(703) 934–3951. 

Additional Information: The purpose 

of the proposed action is to offer the 

Mojave Airport as an alternative 

location to Federal facilities or other 

commercial sites for launches of 

horizontal launch vehicles. This is 

consistent with the FAA’s mission to 

ensure protection of the public, 

property, and the national security and 

foreign policy interests of the U.S., in 

the event of a commercial launch or 

reentry activity, and to encourage, 

facilitate, and promote U.S. commercial 

space transportation. Launches of 

SpaceShipOne and other Concept A 

launch vehicles from the Mojave Airport 

are needed to help meet the increasing 

demand for access to space. This 

demand for access to space cannot be 

met solely by the National Aeronautics 

and Space Administration (NASA) or 

Department of Defense (DoD). As the 

demand continues to increase it is 

conceivable that more than six (6) 

launches of Concept A launch vehicles 

may be required in 2004. 

At this time, SpaceShipOne is the 

only operational Concept A vehicle that 

can launch from the Mojave Airport. 

Scaled Composites has notified EKAD 

that they may need to conduct up to 10 

launches in 2004. The proposed action 

in the Draft Supplemental EA is for the 

FAA to license up to four (4) additional 

launches of Concept A vehicles from the 

Mojave Airport in 2004. There are no 

Concept B launches proposed in 2004. 

This would bring the maximum total 

number of launches of Concept A 

vehicles to 10 for 2004. Neither Scaled 

Composites, nor any other potential 

Concept A vehicle operator has 

identified a need to conduct more than 

six (6) launches per year in the years 

2005 to 2008. Because there is no 

reasonably foreseeable need to conduct 

more than six (6) launches per year in 

2005 to 2008, no additional launches are 

considered in subsequent years and the 

number of launches would remain as 

described in the February 2004 EA.

No construction activities are 

proposed as part of this proposed 

action. Existing infrastructure, including 

hangars and runways, would be used to 

support launch and landing operations 

at the airport. 

Concept A launch operators would 

coordinate with the Mojave Airport and 

air traffic control towers in accordance 

with existing protocols prior to 

conducting launches and landings at the 

Mojave Airport. 

Under the no action alternative, the 

FAA would not increase the number of 

licensed launches of Concept A 

vehicles. As analyzed in the February 

2004 EA, six (6) total launches of 

Concept A vehicles could occur from 

the Mojave Airport in 2004; however, 

the four (4) additional proposed 

launches would not occur. 

Potential impacts of the proposed 

action and no action alternative were 

analyzed in the Draft Supplemental EA. 

Potential environmental impacts of 

successful launches include impacts to 

air quality, airspace, biological 

resources, cultural resources, health and 

safety, hazardous materials and 

hazardous waste, geology and soils, land 

use, noise, socioeconomics and 

environmental justice, transportation, 

visual and aesthetic resources, and 

water resources. The impacts of the no 

action alternative would be the same as 

those described in the February 2004 

EA. 

Potential cumulative impacts of 

proposed action are also addressed in 

the Draft Supplemental EA.

Date Issued: October 18, 2004. Washington, 

DC. 

Herbert Bachner, 

Manager, Space Systems Development 

Division.

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration 

RTCA Special Committee 186: 

Automatic Dependent Surveillance—

Broadcast (ADS–B)

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), dot.

ACTION: Notice of RTCA Special 

Committee 186 meeting. 

SUMMARY: The FAA is issuing this notice 

to advise the public of a meeting of 

RTCA Special Committee 186: 

Automatic Dependent Surveillance—

Broadcast (ADS–B).

DATES: The meeting will be held 

November 1–5, 2004 starting at 9 a.m. 

(unless stated otherwise).

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

RTCA, Inc., 1828 L Street, NW., Suite 

805, Washington, DC 20036.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

RTCA Secretariat, 1828 L Street, NW., 

Suite 805, Washington, DC 20036; 

telephone (202) 833–9339; fax (202) 

833–9434; Web site http://www.rtca.org.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–

463, 5 U.S.C., Appendix 2), notice is 

hereby given for a Special Committee 

186 meeting. Note: Specific working 

group sessions will be held on 

November 1, 2 & 3. The plenary agenda 

will include: 

• November 4–5: 

• Opening Plenary Session 

(Chairman’s Introductory Remarks, 

Review of Meeting Agenda, Review/

Approval of Previous Meeting 

Summary). 

• SC–186 Activity Reports. 

• WG–1, Operations & 

Implementation. 

• WG–2, Traffic Information 

Service—Broadcast (TIS–B). 

• WG–3, 1090 MHz Minimum 

Operational Performance Standard 

(MOPS). 

• WG–4, Application Technical 

Requirements. 

• WG–5, Universal Access 

Transceiver (UAT) MOPS. 

• WG–6, Automatic Dependent 

Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS–B) 

Minimum Aviation System Performance 

Standards (MASPS).