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such other relief as the Department may 

deem necessary or appropriate. 

Docket Number: DOT–OST–2011– 

0068. 

Date Filed: March 29, 2011. 

Due Date for Answers, Conforming 

Applications, or Motion to Modify 

Scope: April 19, 2011. 

Description: Application of American 

Eagle Airlines, Inc. requesting a 

certificate of public convenience and 

necessity authorizing scheduled foreign 

air transportation of person, property, 

and mail from a point or points in the 

United States, via intermediate points, 

to a point or points in any open skies 

country. 

Docket Number: DOT–OST–2011– 

0073. 

Date Filed: April 1, 2011. 

Due Date for Answers, Conforming 

Applications, or Motion to Modify 

Scope: April 22, 2011. 

Description: Application of Orange 

Air, LLC requesting a certificate of 

public convenience and necessity 

authorizing Orange Air to engage in 

interstate charter air transportation of 

persons, property and mail. 

Docket Number: DOT–OST–2011– 

0074. 

Date Filed: April 1, 2011. 

Due Date for Answers, Conforming 

Applications, or Motion to Modify 

Scope: April 22, 2011. 

Description: Application of Orange 

Air, LLC requesting a certificate of 

public convenience and necessity 

authorizing Orange Air to engage in 

foreign charter air transportation of 

persons, property, and mail between 

any place in the United States and any 

place outside thereof. 

Renee V. Wright, 

Program Manager, Docket Operations, 

Federal Register Liaison. 

[FR Doc. 2011–9162 Filed 4–14–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of the Secretary 

Aviation Proceedings, Agreements 

Filed the Week Ending April 2, 2011 

The following Agreements were filed 

with the Department of Transportation 

under the Sections 412 and 414 of the 

Federal Aviation Act, as amended (49 

U.S.C. 1382 and 1384) and procedures 

governing proceedings to enforce these 

provisions. Answers may be filed within 

21 days after the filing of the 

application. 

Docket Number DOT–OST–2011– 

0069. 

Date Filed March 30, 2011. 

Parties Members of the International 

Air Transport Association. 

Subject (a) TC23 between Middle 

East, Africa and TC3 (except South West 

Pacific) Flex Fares Resolutions, Geneva, 

14–15 June 2010 (Memo 0449/0447), 

TC23 between Middle East, Africa and 

TC3 (except South West Pacific) Flex 

Fares, Geneva, 14–15 June 2010 (Memo 

0454/0452), TC23 between Middle East, 

Africa and TC3 (except South West 

Pacific) Minutes (Memo 0450/0448). 

(b) TC23 Middle East/Africa—TC3 

(except South West Pacific) Flex Fare 

Resolution 111tt, Mail Vote 673 (Memo 

0458/0454), Intended Effective Date: 1 

April 2011. 

Renee V. Wright, 

Program Manager, Docket Operations, 

Federal Register Liaison. 

[FR Doc. 2011–9164 Filed 4–14–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Noise Exposure Map; Louisville 

Interntional Airport, Louisville, KY 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA) announces its 

determination that the Noise Exposure 

Maps submitted by Louisville Regional 

Airport Authority for Louisville 

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: Effective Date: The effective date 

of the FAA’s determination on the noise 

exposure maps is April 7, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Phillip J. Braden, Federal Aviation 

Administration, Memphis Airports 

District Office, 2862 Business Park 

Drive, Building G, Memphis, Tennessee 

38118, 901–322–8181. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice announces that the FAA finds 

that the Noise Exposure Maps submitted 

for Louisville International Airport are 

in compliance with applicable 

requirements of Title 14 Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR) part 150, effective 

April 7, 2011. 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 

noncompatible 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 

noncompatible uses and prevent the 

introduction of additional 

noncompatible uses. 

The FAA has completed its review of 

the Noise Exposure Maps and 

accompanying documentation 

submitted by Louisville Regional 

Airport Authority. The documentation 

that constitutes the ‘‘Noise Exposure 

Maps’’ as defined in Section 150.7 of 14 

CFR part 150 includes: Figure 11, 

‘‘Existing Condition 2011 Noise 

Exposure Map’’; Figure 12, ‘‘Forecast 

Condition 2012 Noise Exposure Map’’; 

Figure 4, ‘‘Existing 2011 North Flow 

Arrival and Departure Tracks’’; Figure 5, 

‘‘Existing 2011 South Flow Arrival and 

Departure Tracks’’; Figure 6, ‘‘Forecast 

2016 North Flow Arrival and Departure 

RNAV Tracks’’; Figure 7, ‘‘Forecast 2016 

South Flow Arrival and Departure 

RNAV Tracks’’; Figure 8, ‘‘Military 

Arrival and Departure Tracks’’; Figure 

13, ‘‘Comparison of Existing 2011 and 

Forecast 2016 Noise Exposure Maps’’; 

Table 4, ‘‘2011 Operations Summary’’; 

Table 5, ‘‘Modeled Average Daily 

Aircraft Operations for 2011’’; Table 6, 

‘‘2016 Operations Summary’’; Table 7, 

‘‘Modeled Average Daily Aircraft 

Operations for 2016’’; Table 9, ‘‘Overall 

Runway Use Percentages for 2011’’; 

Table 10, ‘‘Modeled Average Daily 

Runway Use for 2011’’; Table 14, 

‘‘Overall Runway Use Percentages for 

2016’’; Table 15, ‘‘Modeled Average 

Daily Runway Use for 2016’’; Table 21, 

‘‘Military Helicopter Flight Tracks and 

Use’’; Table 25, ‘‘Estimated Residential 

Population within 2011 and 2016 DNL 

Contours’’. The FAA has determined 

that these Noise Exposure Maps and 

accompanying documentation are in 

compliance with applicable 

requirements. This determination is 

effective on April 7, 2011. 

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 


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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, 

Memphis Airports District Office, 

2862 Business Park Drive, Building G, 

Memphis, Tennessee 38118. 

Questions may be directed to the 

individual named above under the 

heading, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Issued in Memphis, Tennessee on April 7, 

2011. 

Phillip J. Braden, 

Manager, Memphis Airports District Office. 

[FR Doc. 2011–9224 Filed 4–14–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

[Docket No. FAA–2011–0361] 

Policy and Procedures Concerning the 

Use of Airport Revenue; Policy 

Regarding Airport Rates and Charges: 

Petition of the Clark County 

Department of Aviation To Use a 

Weight-Based Air Service Incentive 

Program 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of petition; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: This notice requests 

comments on a petition to accept an air 

service incentive program at McCarran 

International Airport (Airport) as 

consistent with Federal law and policies 

on the use of airport revenue and on 

airport rates and charges. The petitioner 

Clark County Department of Aviation is 

the owner and operator of the Airport. 

The petitioner is the recipient of Federal 

grants under the Airport Improvement 

Program (AIP), and is subject to 

obligations under AIP grant agreements, 

including Federal law and policy on the 

use of airport revenue and on airport 

rates and charges. The FAA has 

interpreted these policies, and the 

underlying Federal statutes, to permit a 

temporary waiver of standard airport 

fees for carriers that provide new air 

service at an airport, as an incentive to 

begin or expand air service. The agency 

recently issued the Air Carrier Incentive 

Program Guidebook to provide specific 

guidance to airport operators on the use 

of air service incentive programs. That 

guidance restates FAA’s previously 

issued opinions regarding what 

constitutes new service as characterized 

in the FAA’s Policy and Procedures 

Concerning the Use of Airport Revenue 

(Revenue Use Policy) (64 FR 7696). 

Since the inception of the Revenue Use 

Policy in 1999, the FAA has defined 

new air service as: (a) Service to an 

airport destination not currently served, 

(b) nonstop service where no nonstop 

service is currently offered, (c) new 

entrant carrier, and/or (d) increased 

frequency of flights to a specific 

destination. The FAA’s interpretation 

has not permitted an airport operator to 

offer an incentive program that provides 

discounts based on increased aircraft 

weight or an increased number of seats 

on existing flights. The petitioner 

proposes an incentive program that 

would reward air carriers for an increase 

in landed weight. An increase in landed 

weight could result from an increase in 

the size of aircraft used, or ‘‘upgauging,’’ 

on existing flights as well as from added 

flights. The petitioner requests that the 

FAA amend existing guidance to make 

clear that its proposed incentive plan is 

consistent with Federal law and general 

agency policies on the use of airport 

revenue and on airport rates and 

charges. The FAA is publishing this 

notice of the petition for public 

comment on whether agency guidance 

should be interpreted or amended as 

requested. 

DATES: Send your comments on or 

before May 31, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments 

[identified by Docket Number FAA– 

2011–0361] using any of the following 

methods: 

• Government-wide rulemaking Web 

site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov 

and follow the instructions for sending 

your comments electronically. 

• Mail: Docket Operations, U.S. 

Department of Transportation, West 

Building, Ground Floor, Room W12– 

140, Routing Symbol M–30, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 

20590. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

• Hand Delivery: To Docket 

Operations, Room W12–140 on the 

ground floor of the West Building, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, 

DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

Privacy: We will post all comments 

we receive, without change, to http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information you provide. For 

more information, see the Privacy Act 

discussion in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this document. 

Docket: To read background 

documents or comments received, go to 

http://www.regulations.gov at any time 

or to Room W12–140 on the ground 

floor of the West Building, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, 

between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stacy Swigart, Airport Compliance 

Division, ACO–100, Federal Aviation 

Administration, 800 Independence 

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591, 

telephone (202) 267–8725; facsimile: 

(202) 267–5257; e-mail: 

Stacy.Swigart@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: An air 

service incentive program is a 

temporary reduction in the fees that an 

airport operator charges air carriers at 

the airport, or other temporary benefits 

for carriers, for the purpose of 

promoting new or additional air service. 


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