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• Build Alternative 1; adding one 

general purpose lane in each direction. 

• Build Alternative 2; adding two 

general purpose lanes in each direction. 

• Build Alternative 3; adding one toll 

lane to the existing carpool lane in each 

direction that will be managed together 

(Federal Highway Administration 

tolling authority required); also adding 

one general purpose lane in each 

direction north of Euclid Street to I–605. 

• Build Alternative 4; on I–405 from 

Euclid Street to I–605, providing 

additional general purpose lane at 

various locations and improving various 

interchanges. 

• Transportation Systems 

Management (TSM)/Transportation 

Demand Management (TDM)/Mass 

Transit Alternative; making only lowcost operational improvements, rather 

than major capital projects, to maximize 

the efficiency of the present highway 

system and expand travelers’ 

transportation choices. 

Based on a Preliminary Environmental 

Analysis Report (PEAR) for the I–405 

Improvement Project, it is anticipated 

that the project may require the 

following Federal permits: Section 404 

Permit for filling/dredging waters of the 

United States and Section 401 Water 

Quality Certification. The 

environmental document will analyze 

factors that include, but are not limited 

to, the following: Aesthetics, cultural 

resources, biological resources, 

hazardous wastes and materials, public 

services and facilities, water quality, 

floodplain, noise, air quality, recreation, 

community impacts, and transportation/ 

traffic. Some of these alternatives may 

have impacts on the above mentioned 

resources, as well as on water quality, 

cultural resources, parks/recreation 

facilities, and community character and 

cohesion; the environmental 

documentation process will assess for 

potential impacts and suggest ways to 

reduce or mitigate them. 

This document is available at http:// 

www.octa.net/405improvement and 

http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist12/405/ 

index.htm. 

Letters describing the proposed action 

and soliciting comments will be sent to 

appropriate Federal, State, Participating 

Agencies, various Tribal governments, 

and local agencies, and to private 

organizations and citizens who have 

previously expressed or are known to 

have interest in this proposal. The 

environmental review process will 

begin in Fall 2009. Public scoping 

meetings will be held in Fountain 

Valley, Huntington Beach, Westminster, 

and Rossmoor, California, on September 

22, 23, 30, and October 01, respectively. 

In addition, a public hearing will be 

held. Public notice will be given of the 

time and place of the meeting and 

hearing. The draft EIS will be available 

for public and agency review and 

comment prior to the public hearing. 

To ensure that the full range of issues 

related to this proposed action are 

addressed and all significant issues 

identified, comments, and suggestions 

are invited from all interested parties. 

Comments or questions concerning this 

proposed action and the EIS should be 

directed to Ms. Deshpande at Caltrans at 

the address provided above. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Number 20.205, Highway Research, 

Planning and Construction. The regulations 

implementing Executive Order 12372 

regarding intergovernmental consultation on 

Federal programs and activities apply to this 

program.) 

Issued on: August 26, 2009. 

Cindy Vigue, 

Director, State Programs, Federal Highway 

Administration, Sacramento, California. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

Intent to Prepare an Environmental 

Impact Statement for Proposed Transit 

Improvements to the Red Line, Cook 

County, IL 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration 

(FTA), Department of Transportation. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

SUMMARY: The FTA, as the lead federal 

agency, and the Chicago Transit 

Authority (CTA) intend to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

for the Red Line Extension Project in 

Cook County, Illinois. CTA operates the 

rapid transit system in Chicago, Cook 

County, Illinois. The proposed project, 

described more completely within, 

would extend the Red Line, a heavy rail 

transit line, to connect the 95th Street 

Station to 130th Street. The purpose of 

this Notice of Intent is to alert interested 

parties regarding the intent to prepare 

the EIS, to provide information on the 

nature of the proposed project and 

possible alternatives, to invite public 

participation in the EIS process. 

DATES: Written comments on the scope 

of the EIS, including the project’s 

purpose and need, the alternatives to be 

considered, the impacts to be evaluated, 

and the methodologies to be used in the 

evaluations should be sent to CTA on or 

before October 27, 2009. See ADDRESSES

below for the address to which written 

public comments may be sent. Two 

public scoping meetings to accept 

comments on the scope of the EIS will 

be held on the following dates: 

• Tuesday, September 22, 2009; 6 

p.m. to 8 p.m.; at the Historic Pullman 

Visitor Center, 11141 S. Cottage Grove 

Avenue, Chicago, IL 60628. 

• Thursday, September 24, 2009; 6 

p.m. to 8 p.m.; at the Woodson Regional 

Chicago Public Library, 9525 S. Halsted 

Street, Chicago, IL 60628. 

The buildings used for the scoping 

meetings are accessible to persons with 

disabilities. Any individual who 

requires special assistance, such as a 

sign language interpreter, to participate 

in the scoping meeting should contact 

Mr. Darud Akbar, Government and 

Community Relations Officer, at 312– 

681–2708 or 

dakbar@transitchicago.com, five days 

prior to the meeting. 

Scoping materials describing the 

project purpose and need and the 

alternatives proposed for analysis will 

be available at the meetings and on the 

CTA Web site http:// 

www.transitchicago.com/RedEIS. Paper 

copies of the scoping materials may also 

be obtained from Mr. Darud Akbar, 

Government and Community Relations 

Officer, at 312–681–2708 or 

dakbar@transitchicago.com. An 

interagency scoping meeting will be 

held on Thursday, September 24 at 

10:30 a.m. at CTA Headquarters, in 

Conference Room 2C, 567 W. Lake 

Street, Chicago, IL 60661. 

Representatives of Native American 

tribal governments and of all federal, 

state, regional and local agencies that 

may have an interest in any aspect of 

the project will be invited to be 

participating or cooperating agencies, as 

appropriate. 

ADDRESSES: Comments will be accepted 

at the public scoping meetings or they 

may be sent to Mr. Jeffrey Busby, 

General Manager, Strategic Planning, 

Chicago Transit Authority, P. O. Box 

7602, Chicago, IL 60680–7602, or via email at 

RedExtension@transitchicago.com. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

David Werner, Community Planner, 

Federal Transit Administration, Region 

V, 200 West Adams Street, Suite 320, 

Chicago, IL 60606, phone 312–353– 

3879, e-mail david.werner@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Scoping 

The FTA and CTA invite all 

interested individuals and 

organizations, public agencies, and 

Native American Tribes to comment on 

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the scope of the EIS, including the 

project’s purpose and need, the 

alternatives to be studied, the impacts to 

be evaluated, and the evaluation 

methods to be used. Comments should 

address (1) alternatives that may better 

achieve the project’s need and purposes 

at less cost or with fewer adverse 

impacts, and (2) any significant 

environmental impacts relating to the 

alternatives. 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) ‘‘scoping’’ (40 CFR 1501.7) has 

specific and fairly limited objectives, 

one of which is to identify the 

significant issues associated with 

alternatives that will be examined in 

detail in the document, while 

simultaneously limiting consideration 

and development of issues that are not 

truly significant. It is in the NEPA 

scoping process that potentially 

significant environmental impacts— 

those that give rise to the need to 

prepare an environmental impact 

statement—should be identified; 

impacts that are deemed not to be 

significant need not be developed 

extensively in the context of the impact 

statement, thereby keeping the 

statement focused on impacts of 

consequence. Transit projects may also 

generate environmental benefits; these 

should be highlighted as well—the 

impact statement process should draw 

attention to positive impacts, not just 

negative impacts. 

Once the scope of the environmental 

study, including significant 

environmental issues to be addressed, is 

settled, an annotated outline of the 

document will be prepared and shared 

with interested agencies and the public. 

The outline serves at least three worthy 

purposes, including (1) Documenting 

the results of the scoping process; (2) 

contributing to the transparency of the 

process; and (3) providing a clear 

roadmap for concise development of the 

environmental document. 

Purpose and Need for the Project 

The purpose of the Red Line 

Extension project is to reduce travel 

times to jobs for far South Side and 

South Suburban residents and improve 

the performance of the existing Red Line 

95th Street Station terminal. The project 

would also provide an opportunity to 

support economic development 

initiatives. 

The need for the project is based on 

the following considerations: lack of 

park-and-ride, passenger drop-off, and 

poor pedestrian facilities limit access to 

the existing 95th Street terminal of the 

Red Line; customers accessing the 

existing terminal facility by bus 

experience measureable delays resulting 

from poor performance of surrounding 

arterial intersections, insufficient space 

for bus loading and unloading, and 

insufficient space for bus layovers; 

congested bus and passenger conditions 

at the existing terminal station and bus 

facility result in safety issues and 

diminish the attractiveness of transit as 

an alternative to other travel modes; 

roadway performance in the project area 

is adversely impacted by narrow arterial 

streets and frequent at-grade freight rail 

crossings; and, the project area 

population is highly transit-dependent, 

minority and low-income. 

Project Location and Environmental 

Setting 

The proposed heavy rail transit (HRT) 

project area lies about 11 miles south of 

the Chicago Central Area (commonly 

referred to as the ‘‘Loop’’). The limits of 

the project area are from 95th Street on 

the north to 130th Street on the south. 

The Calumet-Sag Channel/Little 

Calumet River extends along the 

southern edge of the project area and 

Lake Calumet is located to the east. 

The project area includes parts of 

eight community areas in the far South 

of the City of Chicago. Community areas 

include Washington Heights, Morgan 

Park, Roseland, Pullman, West Pullman, 

South Deering, Hegewisch and 

Riverdale. The project area encompasses 

significant residential (primarily single 

family), industrial (existing and vacant), 

transportation, and commercial 

developments. 

The locally preferred alternative 

(LPA) for the proposed Red Line 

Extension project was approved by the 

Chicago Transit Board for further study 

in the EIS on August 12, 2009. The LPA 

would extend the heavy rail transit line 

from the 95th Street Station south along 

the I–57 Expressway to the Union 

Pacific Railroad (UPRR) right-of-way 

near Eggleston Avenue. From that point, 

the line extends south from I–57 along 

the UPRR corridor to approximately 

111th Street where it turns southeast 

along existing railroad and industrial 

right-of-way to terminate in the vicinity 

of 130th Street. The extension would 

add 5.3 new route miles of rapid transit 

to the existing Red Line, four additional 

stations at approximately 103rd, 111th, 

115th, and 130th Streets with new parkand-ride and bus terminal facilities at 

each station. 

Alternatives 

The Red Line Extension Final 

Alternatives Analysis Report (2009) 

prepared by CTA identified three 

alternatives for further consideration in 

the EIS. These alternatives include: A 

No Build Alternative, Transportation 

System Management (TSM) Alternative, 

and the UPRR HRT Alternative (the 

LPA). Additionally, the Halsted Street 

HRT Alternative from the Red Line 

Extension Alternatives Analysis Screen 

3 Report (2009) will be considered in 

the EIS. 

No Build Alternative: The No Build 

Alternative is defined as the existing 

transportation system, plus any 

committed transportation 

improvements. Committed 

transportation improvements include 

projects that are already in the Chicago 

Metropolitan Agency for Planning 

(CMAP) financially constrained 

Transportation Improvement Program 

(TIP). The Red Line project area has five 

bridge reconstructions, and several road 

improvement projects included in the 

FY 2007–2012 TIP. These improvements 

are primarily on highway segments in 

the vicinity of the project area and 

generally do not lie adjacent to or 

intersect with the proposed TSM or 

HRT alternatives. 

Bridge projects in the TIP include: 

Illinois 1 (Halsted Street) at the Little 

Calumet River; I–94 (Bishop Ford 

Expressway) at the Stony Island ramp 

and at Cottage Grove Road; I–57 at 

103rd Street; and I–57 at Genoa Road. 

Road improvement projects include a 

variety of landscaping, safety fencing, 

and resurfacing projects, and 

coordination of signal timing on Stony 

Island Avenue from 95th Street north, 

and on 95th Street from Western 

Avenue east to Ewing Avenue. There is 

also a bicycle and pedestrian multi-use 

trail proposed to extend from the 

existing Centennial Trail in Lemont to 

the Burnham Greenway in Burnham. 

Bus transit service under the No Build 

Alternative would be focused on the 

preservation of existing services and 

projects. No significant changes to bus 

service are anticipated in the project 

area. All elements of the No Build 

Alternative are included in each of the 

other alternatives. 

Transportation System Management 

(TSM) Alternative: A TSM Alternative is 

proposed because it is required as part 

of the New Starts evaluative process; in 

this case, it does not meet the purposes 

of and need for the proposed project. 

The TSM Alternative is Bus Rapid 

Transit (BRT) that would operate 

between the 95th Street Station and 

130th Street via East 95th Street, 

Michigan Avenue, East 127th Street, 

South Indiana Avenue, and East 130th 

Street. Proposed BRT service would 

operate in mixed traffic with traffic 

signal priority along 95th Street, 

Michigan Avenue, and 130th Street. 

The TSM Alternative is 5.5 miles long 

and would include four intermediate 

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stops at 103rd, 111th, 115th, and 130th 

Streets with park-and-ride facilities 

proposed at all of the new stops. The 

95th Street terminal would be expanded 

to extend the existing bus bays along 

State and Lafayette Streets 

approximately 250-feet north to 94th 

Street to improve circulation and safety. 

The TSM alternative assumes that buses 

from the south would continue to serve 

the 95th Street Station. 

UPRR Heavy Rail Transit (HRT) 

Alternative/Locally Preferred 

Alternative (LPA): The proposed LPA 

would operate between the existing Red 

Line 95th Street Station and 130th 

Street. The line would be on an elevated 

structure from the 95th Street as it heads 

south along the I–57 Expressway for 

nearly one-half mile until reaching the 

UPRR corridor in the vicinity of 

Eggleston Avenue. It would then turn 

south along the UPRR corridor to 

approximately 111th Street where it 

would turn southeast. East of South 

Prairie Avenue the alignment would 

cross over the Canadian National/Metra 

tracks near 119th Street where it would 

transition to an at-grade profile and then 

continue southeast along the former 

Michigan Central/Indiana Harbor Belt 

(IHB) railroad right-of-way to terminate 

in the vicinity of 130th Street. 

The LPA is 5.3 miles long and would 

include three new intermediate stations 

at 103rd, 111th, and 115th Streets and 

a new terminal station at 130th Street 

with new park-and-ride and bus 

terminal facilities at each station. This 

alternative assumes that buses from the 

south would be re-routed to serve the 

new intermediate and terminal stations 

to speed passenger travel to downtown 

Chicago. 

The new HRT tracks would be placed 

immediately adjacent to the UPRR rightof-way on either the west side (West 

Side Option) or the east side (East Side 

Option). Both options would require 

adjacent property acquisition to 

accommodate the CTA right-of-way and 

station facilities at 103rd, 111th, and 

115th Streets. Based on a preliminary 

analysis of the conceptual alignment 

plans and Cook County parcel data, the 

West Side Option would require up to 

112 property acquisitions and/or 

displacements and the East Side Option 

would require 138. In addition, the West 

Side Option could impact Fernwood 

Parkway between 99th Street and 103rd 

Streets which could trigger a Section 

4(f) of the Department of Transportation 

Act evaluation in the EIS. The East Side 

Option could impact Wendell Smith 

Park adjacent to the I–57 Expressway 

which could also trigger a Section 4(f) 

evaluation in the EIS. Kensington 

Playground Park near 118th Street 

would not be impacted by either option. 

There are two options for the 130th 

Street terminal station. The Red Line 

extension would continue south along 

the IHB right-of-way to either a south or 

west terminal station location along the 

north side of 130th Street, just west of 

the I–94 Bishop Ford Freeway. 

Halsted Street HRT Alternative: The 

proposed Halsted Street HRT 

Alternative would be operated on an 

elevated structure between the existing 

Red Line 95th Street Station and the 

Halsted Street/Vermont Avenue 

intersection in the vicinity of 127th 

Street. The alignment would follow the 

median of I–57 Expressway until 

reaching Halsted Street. It would then 

turn south onto Halsted Street and 

continue in the median to Vermont 

Avenue. 

The Halsted Street HRT Alternative is 

5.0 miles long and would include three 

new intermediate stations at 103rd, 

111th, 119th Streets and a new terminal 

station at Vermont Avenue with new 

park-and-ride and bus terminal facilities 

at the intermediate and terminal 

stations. This alternative assumes that 

buses from the south would be re-routed 

to serve the new intermediate and 

terminal stations to speed passenger 

travel to downtown Chicago. 

Near the proposed station areas, there 

may be additional impacts to adjacent 

land owners if land acquisition would 

be required for station facilities such as 

bus turnarounds or parking facilities. 

This would be most applicable at the 

proposed terminal station at 127th/ 

Vermont since several properties are 

located close to Halsted Street in this 

segment and there may be higher offstreet facility needs. 

Possible Effects 

The purpose of this EIS process is to 

study, in a public setting, the effects of 

the proposed project and its alternatives 

on the quality of the human 

environment. Areas of investigation for 

transit projects generally include, but 

are not limited to: Land use, 

development potential, land acquisition 

and displacements, historic resources, 

visual and aesthetic qualities, air 

quality, noise and vibration, energy use, 

safety and security, and ecosystems, 

including threatened and endangered 

species; investigation may reveal that 

the proposed project will not affect or 

affect substantially many of those areas. 

Measures to avoid, minimize, or 

mitigate any significant adverse impacts 

will be identified. 

FTA Procedures 

The regulations implementing NEPA, 

as well as provisions of the Safe, 

Accountable, Flexible, Efficient 

Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for 

Users (SAFETEA–LU), call for public 

involvement in the EIS process. Section 

6002 of SAFETEA–LU requires that FTA 

and CTA do the following: (1) Extend an 

invitation to other Federal and nonFederal agencies and Native American 

tribes that may have an interest in the 

proposed project to become 

‘‘participating agencies;’’ (2) provide an 

opportunity for involvement by 

participating agencies and the public to 

help define the purpose and need for a 

proposed project, as well as the range of 

alternatives for consideration in the EIS; 

and (3) establish a plan for coordinating 

public and agency participation in, and 

comment on, the environmental review 

process. An invitation to become a 

participating or cooperating agency, 

with scoping materials appended, will 

be extended to other Federal and nonFederal agencies and Native American 

tribes that may have an interest in the 

proposed project. It is possible that FTA 

and CTA will not be able to identify all 

Federal and non-Federal agencies and 

Native American tribes that may have 

such an interest. Any Federal or nonFederal agency or Native American tribe 

interested in the proposed project that 

does not receive an invitation to become 

a participating agency should notify at 

the earliest opportunity the Project 

Manager identified above under 

ADDRESSES. 

A comprehensive public involvement 

program and a Coordination Plan for 

public and interagency involvement 

will be developed for the project and 

posted on CTA’s Web site http:// 

www.transitchicago.com/RedEIS. The 

public involvement program includes a 

full range of activities including 

maintaining the project Web page on the 

CTA Web site and outreach to local 

officials, community and civic groups, 

and the public. Specific activities or 

events for involvement will be detailed 

in the project’s public participation 

plan. 

The Paperwork Reduction Act seeks, 

in part, to minimize the cost to the 

taxpayer of the creation, collection, 

maintenance, use, dissemination, and 

disposition of information. Consistent 

with this goal and with principles of 

economy and efficiency in government, 

it is FTA policy to limit insofar as 

possible distribution of complete 

printed sets of environmental 

documents. Accordingly, unless a 

specific request for a complete printed 

set of environmental documents is 

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received (preferably in advance of 

printing), FTA and its grantees will 

distribute only the executive summary 

of the environmental document together 

with a Compact Disc of the complete 

environmental document. A complete 

printed set of the environmental 

document is available for review at the 

grantee’s offices and elsewhere; an 

electronic copy of the complete 

environmental document is also 

available on the grantee’s Web page. 

CTA may seek New Starts funding for 

the proposed project under 49 United 

States Code 5309 and will, therefore, be 

subject to New Starts regulations (49 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 

611). The New Starts regulations also 

require the submission of certain 

project-justification information to 

support a request to initiate preliminary 

engineering. This information is 

normally developed in conjunction with 

the NEPA process. Pertinent New Starts 

evaluation criteria will be included in 

the EIS. 

The EIS will be prepared in 

accordance with NEPA and its 

implementing regulations issued by the 

Council on Environmental Quality (40 

CFR Parts 1500–1508) and with the 

FTA/Federal Highway Administration 

regulations ‘‘Environmental Impact and 

Related Procedures’’ (23 CFR Part 771). 

Issued on: August 24, 2009. 

Marisol R. Simon, 

Regional Administrator, FTA Region V. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

Fiscal Year 2010 Safety Grants 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice; correction. 

SUMMARY: FMCSA is correcting a notice 

that appeared in the Federal Register on 

August 12, 2009 (74 FR 40638), which 

informed the public of FMCSA’s Fiscal 

Year (FY) 2010 safety grant 

opportunities and FMCSA’s changes to 

its application and award processes for 

grant programs. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information regarding this notice 

please contact, Ms. Theresa Rowlett at 

202.366.6406. Staff may be reached at 

FMCSA, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 

Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are 

from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., EST, Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For 

FMCSA’s FY 2010 Grants notice 

published on August 12, 2009 (74 FR 

40638), the following corrections are 

made: 

On page 40638, in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section, the 

contact for the Commercial Vehicle 

Information Systems and Networks 

Grants (CVISN) is corrected from 

‘‘CVISN Grants—Julie Lane, 

julie.lane@dot.gov, 202–385–2391’’ to 

‘‘CVISN Grants—Quon Kwon, 

quon.kwan@dot.gov, 202–385–2389’’. 

On page 40638, in the FY 2010 Safety 

Grants Program section, the schedule 

for the New Entrant Safety Audit Grants 

and the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance 

Program (MCSAP) High Priority Grants 

is corrected from ‘‘New Entrant Safety 

Audit Grants—September 1, 2009, 

MCSAP High Priority Grants—October 

15, 2009’’ to ‘‘New Entrant Safety Audit 

Grants—October 15, 2009, MCSAP High 

Priority Grants—September 15, 2009.’’ 

Issued on August 24, 2009. 

William A. Quade, 

Associate Administrator for Enforcement and 

Program Delivery. 

[FR Doc. E9–21019 Filed 8–31–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

4th Meeting: RTCA Special Committee 

221: Aircraft Secondary Barriers and 

Alternative Flight Deck Security 

Procedures 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of RTCA Special 

Committee 221 meeting: Aircraft 

Secondary Barriers and Alternative 

Flight Deck Security Procedures. 

SUMMARY: The FAA is issuing this notice 

to advise the public of a meeting of 

RTCA Special Committee 221: Aircraft 

Secondary Barriers and Alternative 

Flight Deck Security Procedures. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

September 15–16, 2009. September 15th 

from 12 a.m. to 5 p.m., September 16th 

from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

RTCA, Inc., MacIntosh—NBAA and 

Hilton—ATA Rooms, 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 

221: Aircraft Secondary Barriers and 

Alternative Flight Deck Security 

Procedures meeting. The agenda will 

include: 

• Welcome/Introductions/ 

Administrative Remarks; 

• Approval of Summary of the 

Second Meeting held June 23–24, 2009, 

RTCA Paper No. 174–09/SC221–013; 

• Leadership Comments; 

• Review of Threat Work Group— 

Status Report; 

• Review of Alternative Methods 

Work Group—Status Report; 

• Review of Installed Physical 

Secondary Barrier (IPSB) Work Group— 

Status Report; 

• Presentation/Discussion of SC–221 

Schedule and Milestones; 

• Discussion of Working Group 

reports: re-allocation of groups, capture 

learning points, discuss additional or 

follow-on goals; 

• Approval and Tasking of Existing/ 

Proposed Working Groups; 

• Other Business—Including 

Proposed Agenda, Date and Place for 

Next Meeting. 

Attendance is open to the interested 

public but limited to space availability. 

With the approval of the chairmen, 

members of the public may present oral 

statements at the meeting. Persons 

wishing to present statements or obtain 

information should contact the person 

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section. Members of the public 

may present a written statement to the 

committee at any time. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on August 24, 

2009. 

Francisco Estrada C., 

RTCA Advisory Committee. 

[FR Doc. E9–21063 Filed 8–31–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Eightieth Meeting: RTCA Special 

Committee 159: Global Positioning 

System (GPS) 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of RTCA Special 

Committee 159 meeting: Global 

Positioning System (GPS). 

SUMMARY: The FAA is issuing this notice 

to advise the public of a meeting of 

RTCA Special Committee 159: Global 

Positioning System (GPS). 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

September 29–October 2, 2009, from 9 

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