71096 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 235 / Wednesday, December 8, 2004 / Notices 

General information concerning USTR 

may be obtained by accessing its 

Internet Web site (http://www.ustr.gov).

Barbara Weisel, 

Assistant United States Trade Representative.

[FR Doc. 04–26923 Filed 12–7–04; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration 

Notice Before Waiver With Respect to 

Land at Raleigh County Memorial 

Airport, Beckley, WV

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of intent of waiver with 

respect to land. 

SUMMARY: The FAA is publishing notice 

of proposed release of 8.379 acres of 

land at the Raleigh County Memorial 

Airport, Beckley, West Virginia to the 

Raleigh County Airport Authority and 

the Raleigh County Commission for the 

development of an industrial park. 

There are no impacts to the Airport and 

the land is not needed for airport 

development as shown on the Airport 

Layout Plan. Fair Market Value of the 

land will be paid to the Raleigh County 

Airport and the Raleigh County 

Commission, and used for Airport 

purposes.

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before January 7, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Comments on this 

application may be mailed or delivered 

in triplicate to the FAA at the following 

address: Connie Boley-Lilly, Program 

Specialist, Federal Aviation 

Administration, Beckley Airport District 

Office, 176 Airport Circle, Room 101, 

Beaver, West Virginia 25813. 

In addition, one copy of any 

comments submitted to the FAA must 

be mailed or delivered to Thomas 

Cochran, Airport Manager, Raleigh 

County Memorial Airport at the 

following address: Thomas Cochran, 

Airport Manager, Raleigh County 

Memorial Airport, 176 Airport Circle, 

Room 105, Beaver, West Virginia 25813.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Connie Boley-Lilly, Program Specialist, 

Beckley Airport District Office, (304) 

252–6216 ext. 125, FAX (304) 253–8028.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 

5, 2000, new authorizing legislation 

became effective. That bill, the Wendell 

H. Ford Aviation investment and 

Reform Act for the 21st Century, Public 

Law 10–181 (April 5, 2000; 114 Stat. 61) 

(AIR 21) requires that a 30 day public 

notice must be provided before the 

Secretary may waive any condition 

imposed on an interest in surplus 

property.

Issued in Beckley, West Virginia on 

November 17, 2004. 

Larry F. Clark, 

Manager, Beckley Airport District Office, 

Eastern Region.

[FR Doc. 04–26980 Filed 12–7–04; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration 

Noise Compatibility Program Notice; 

Georgetown Municipal Airport, 

Georgetown, TX

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA) announces that it 

is reviewing a proposed noise 

compatibility program that was 

submitted for Georgetown Municipal 

Airport under the provisions of 49 

U.S.C. 47501 et seq. (the Aviation Safety 

and Noise Abatement, hereinafter 

referred to as ‘‘the Act’’) and 14 CFR 

part 150 by the City of Georgetown. This 

program was submitted subsequent to a 

determination by FAA that associated 

noise exposure maps submitted under 

14 CFR part 150 for the Georgetown 

Municipal Airport were in compliance 

with applicable requirements, effective 

January 26, 2004. The proposed noise 

compatibility program will be approved 

or disapproved on or before May 29, 

2005.

EFFECTIVE DATES: The effective date of 

the start of FAA’s review of the noise 

compatibility program is November 30, 

2004. The public comment period ends 

January 29, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Paul Blackford, Environmental 

Specialist, Federal Aviation 

Administration, Texas Airports 

Development Office, ASW–650, 2601 

Meacham Boulevard, Fort Worth, Texas 

76193–0650. Telephone (817) 222–5607. 

Comments on the proposed noise 

compatibility program should also be 

submitted to the above office.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice announces that the FAA is 

reviewing a proposed noise 

compatibility program for Georgetown 

Municipal Airport, which will be 

approved or disapproved on or before 

May 29, 2005. This notice also 

announces the availability of this 

program for public review and 

comment. 

An airport operator who has 

submitted noise exposure maps that are 

found by FAA to be in compliance with 

the requirements of Federal Aviation 

Regulations (FAR) part 150, 

promulgated pursuant to the Act, may 

submit a noise compatibility program 

for FAA approval which sets forth the 

measures the operator has taken or 

proposes to reduce existing noncompatible uses and prevent the 

introduction of additional noncompatible uses. 

The FAA has formally received the 

noise compatibility program for 

Georgetown Municipal Airport, effective 

on November 29, 2004. The airport 

operator has requested that the FAA 

review this material and that the noise 

mitigation measures, to be implemented 

jointly by the airport and surrounding 

communities, be approved as a noise 

compatibility program under section 

47504 of the Act. Preliminary review of 

the submitted material indicates that it 

conforms to FAR part 150 requirements 

for the submittal of noise compatibility 

programs, but that further review will be 

necessary prior to approval or 

disapproval of the program. The formal 

review period, limited by law to a 

maximum of 180 days, will be 

completed on or before May 29, 2005. 

The FAA’s detailed evaluation will be 

conducted under the provisions of 14 

CFR part 150, section 150.33. The 

primary considerations in the 

evaluation process are whether the 

proposed measured may reduce the 

level of aviation safety or create an 

undue burden on interstate or foreign 

commerce, and whether they are 

reasonably consistent with obtaining the 

goal of reducing existing noncompatible land uses and preventing the 

introduction of additional noncompatible land uses. 

Interested persons are invited to 

comment on the proposed program with 

specific reference to these factors. All 

comments relating to these factors, other 

than those properly addressed to local 

land use authorities, will be considered 

by the FAA to the extent practicable. 

Copies of the noise exposure maps and 

the proposed noise compatibility 

program are available for examination at 

the following locations: 

Federal Aviation Administration, 

2601 Meacham Boulevard, Fort Worth, 

Texas 76193–0650; City of Georgetown, 

P.O. Box 409, Georgetown, Texas 78627 

Questions may be directed to the 

individual named above under the 

heading FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT.

Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 235 / Wednesday, December 8, 2004 / Notices 71097

Issued in Forth Worth, Texas, November 

30, 2004. 

Naomi L. Saunders, 

Manager, Airports Division.

[FR Doc. 04–26850 Filed 12–7–04; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration 

Intent To Prepare an Environmental 

Impact Statement and Hold Scoping 

Meetings for a Replacement General 

Aviation Airport at Mesquite, NV

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice to hold one (1) public 

scoping meeting and one (1) 

Governmental/Public Agency scoping 

meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA) is issuing this 

notice to advise the public that an 

Environmental Impact Statement will be 

prepared for the proposed release of 

federal grant-in-aid obligations for the 

existing Mesquite Airport and 

development of a replacement general 

aviation airport for Mesquite, Nevada at 

another site. To ensure that all 

significant issues related to the 

proposed action are identified, one (1) 

public scoping meeting and one (1) 

governmental and public agency 

scoping meeting will be held.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Barry Franklin, Environmental 

Protection Specialist, San Francisco 

Airports District Office, Federal 

Aviation Administration, WesternPacific Region, 831 Mitten Road, 

Burlingame, California, 94010; 

Telephone (650) 876–2778, extension 

614. Comments on the scope of the EIS 

should be submitted to the address 

above and must be received no later 

than 5 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, 

February 20, 2005.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 

will prepare an Environmental Impact 

Stateament for proposed release of 

federal grant-in-aid obligations at the 

existing Mesquite Airport and 

development of a replacement general 

aviation airport. The need to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

is based on the procedures described in 

FAA Order 5050.4A, Airport 

Environmental Handbook, information 

that indicates the site of the proposed 

replacement airport may contain desert 

tortoise (a federal listed species) and the 

proposed replacement airport 

development is likely to be 

controversial on environmental 

grounds. 

The city of Mesquite, as owner and 

operator of Mesquite Airport, has 

determined I would like to use the 

existing airport site for another land use 

and proposes to construct a replacement 

general aviation airport on Mormon 

Mesa to continue to provide access to 

the national air transportation system. 

The proposed federal actions are to 

release the city from its federal grant-inaid obligations at the existing airport 

and approve the Airport Layout Plan for 

the replacement airport. The existing 

Mesquite Airport was constructed in 

1990. The city proposes to construct the 

replacement airport without the use of 

federal funds and transfer the existing 

grant-in-aid obligations in the 

replacement airport site. The land 

proposed for the replacement airport 

has been made available to the city of 

Mesquite through The Mesquite Lands 

Act of 1999, as amended. The Lead 

Agency for the preparation of the EIS is 

the Federal Aviation Administration. 

The FAA proposes to evalaute the 

following development alternatives and 

the No Action Alternative in the EIS as 

described below. 

Alternative One: Construct 

Replacement General Aviation Airport 

at Mormon Mesa 

• Redevelop the existing airport site 

for a non-aviation use. 

• Acquisition of approximately 2622 

acres of land to accommodate the 

proposed replacement airport, airport 

access road and Runway Protection 

Zones. 

• Site preparation, grading and 

drainage for a replacement airport 

including a new runway not less than 

5,100 feet long by 75–feet wide and 

associated parallel taxiway system and 

aircraft parking apron, access road and 

other associated facilities. 

• Paving, lighting, and marking of the 

runway, taxiways, aircraft parking 

apron, access road. 

• Installation of utilities necessary to 

operate the airport. 

• Installation of navigational aids. 

• Development of appropriate 

instrument flight procedures for the 

replacement airport. 

Alternative Two: Construct the 

Replacement Airport in a Different 

Location 

This alternative includes all the 

features of Alternative 1. 

Alternative Three: Expand the Existing 

Airport 

Under this alternative, the existing 

airport, constructed on top of a mesa, 

would be expanded to the fullest extent 

possible to accommodate continued 

general aviation aircraft operations. 

Alternative Four: No action Alternative 

Under the alternative the existing 

airport would be retained with no 

improvements. The city would not 

change the land use of the existing 

airport and a replacement airport would 

not be constructed. 

Comments and suggestions are invited 

from Federal, State and local agencies, 

and other interested parties to ensure 

that the full range of issues related to 

these proposed projects are addressed 

and all significant issues are identified. 

Written comments and suggestions 

concerning the scope of the EIS may be 

mailed to the FAA informational contact 

listed above and must be received no 

later than 5 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, 

February 20, 2005. 

Public Scoping Meeting: The FAA 

will hold one (1) public and one (1) 

governmental agency scoping meeting to 

solicit input from the public and various 

Federal, State and local agencies having 

jurisdiction by law or having specific 

expertise with respect to any 

environmental impacts associated with 

the proposed projects. The public 

scoping meeting will be held on 

Thursday, January 20, 2005, at the 

Mesquite City Hall, 10 East Mesquite 

Boulevard, Mesquite, Nevada 89027. 

The meeting will be held from 5 p.m. to 

8 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST). A 

scoping meeting will be held 

specifically for governmental and public 

agencies the same day from 1 p.m. to 3 

(PST) in the same location as the public 

scoping meeting.

Issued in Hawthorne, California, on 

December 1, 2004. 

Mark A. McClardy, 

Manager, Airports Division, Western—Pacific 

Region, AWP–600.

[FR Doc. 04–26981 Filed 12–7–04; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration 

[Summary Notice No. PE–2004–87] 

Petitions for Exemption; Summary of 

Petitions Received

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of petitions for 

exemption received. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to FAA’s rulemaking 

provisions governing the application, 

processing, and disposition of petitions 

for exemption part 11 of Title 14, Code