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Part IV





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14 CFR Parts 404, 413, and 420



Miscellaneous Changes to Commercial Space Transportation Regulations; 
Final Rule

Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 169 / Thursday, August 31, 2006 / 
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

14 CFR Parts 404, 413, and 420

[Docket No. FAA-2005-21234, Amendment Nos. 404-3, 413-8, and 420-2]
RIN 2120-AI45


Miscellaneous Changes to Commercial Space Transportation 
Regulations

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: This final rule amends FAA regulations governing commercial 
space transportation. These changes are necessary to reflect a 
statutory change, capture current practice and to correct errors in a 
table. The purpose of the changes is to give the public and the 
regulated industry accurate and current information.

DATES: These amendments become effective October 2, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michelle Murray, Office of Commercial 
Space Transportation, Space Systems Development Division (AST-100), 
Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., 
Washington, DC 20591; telephone (202) 267-7892; facsimile (202) 267-
5473, e-mail <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#7e33171d161b12121b50330b0c0c1f073e181f1f50191108"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d79abeb4bfb2bbbbb2f99aa2a5a5b6ae97b1b6b6f9b0b8a1">[email protected]</span></a>.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Availability of Rulemaking Documents

    You can get an electronic copy using the Internet by:
    (1) Searching the Department of Transportation's electronic Docket 
Management System (DMS) Web page (http://dms.dot.gov/search);
    (2) Visiting the Office of Rulemaking's Web page at http://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/; or
    (3) Accessing the Government Printing Office's Web page at http://www.access.gpo.gov/fr/index.html.
    You can also get a copy by sending a request to the Federal 
Aviation Administration, Office of Rulemaking, ARM-1, 800 Independence 
Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20591, or by calling (202) 267-9680. Make 
sure to identify the amendment number or docket number of this 
rulemaking.

Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act

    The Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA) of 
1996 requires FAA to comply with small entity requests for information 
or advice about compliance with statutes and regulations within its 
jurisdiction. If you are a small entity and you have a question 
regarding this document, you may contact a local FAA official, or the 
person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. You can find out 
more about SBREFA on the Internet at http://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/rulemaking/sbre_act/.

Authority for This Rulemaking

    The Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984, as codified and amended at 
49 U.S.C. Subtitle IX--Commercial Space Transportation, ch. 701, 
Commercial Space Launch Activities, 49 U.S.C. 70101-70121 (the Act), 
authorizes the Department of Transportation and thus the FAA, through 
delegations (See 64 FR 19586, Apr. 21, 1999) to oversee, license and 
regulate commercial launch and reentry activities and the operation of 
launch and reentry sites as carried out by U.S. citizens or within the 
United States. 49 U.S.C. 70104, 70105. The Act directs the FAA to 
exercise this responsibility consistent with public health and safety, 
safety of property, and the national security and foreign policy 
interests of the United States. 49 U.S.C. 70105. The FAA is also 
responsible for encouraging, facilitating and promoting commercial 
space launches by the private sector. 49 U.S.C. 70103. A 1996 National 
Space Policy recognizes the Department of Transportation as the lead 
Federal agency for regulatory guidance regarding commercial space 
transportation activities.
    The rules that we are adopting are part of the Commercial Space 
Transportation Regulations and fall within the authority above.

Background

    On May 19, 2005, the FAA published a notice of proposed rulemaking 
(NPRM) in the Federal Register (70 FR 29164). Readers should refer to 
the NPRM for additional background information. We received comments 
from eight sources, including five individuals, one corporation, the 
International Astronomical Union, and the American Astronomical 
Society. These comments are discussed in detail later in this preamble.

Discussion of the Rules Adopted

Section 404.3 Waiver of the Requirement for a License

    The Commercial Space Act of 1998 (Pub. L. 105-303) modified section 
70105(b)(3) of the Commercial Space Launch Act to allow the Associate 
Administrator to waive the requirement to obtain a license for an 
individual applicant. The Associate Administrator must determine that 
the waiver is in the public interest and will not jeopardize the public 
health and safety, the safety of property, or any national security or 
foreign policy interest of the United States. We are amending our 
regulations to reflect this authority.

Section 404.5 Petition for Reconsideration

    The FAA amends 14 CFR 404.5 by adding a process for reconsidering a 
denial of a waiver or petition. The addition of a license waiver 
process to 14 CFR 404.3 highlighted the fact that our existing petition 
processes do not allow for reconsideration of a denial of a waiver or 
petition.
    Currently, 14 CFR 404.5(b) allows the Associate Administrator for 
Commercial Space Transportation to grant a petition for a waiver if the 
waiver is in the public interest and will not jeopardize public health 
and safety, the safety or property, or any national security or foreign 
policy interest of the United States. Existing 14 CFR 404.5(c) provides 
that if the Associate Administrator determines that the petition does 
not justify granting the waiver, the petition is denied.
    14 CFR 404.5(e) will allow a petitioner to request reconsideration 
of a petition denial within 60 days of the date of the denial. For FAA 
to accept the petition, it will have to show one of the following:
    <bullet> The petitioner has a significant additional fact and a 
reason for not presenting it in the original petition,
    <bullet> The FAA made an important factual error in the denial of 
the original petition, or
    <bullet> The denial by the FAA is not in accordance with applicable 
law and regulations.

Section 413.7(c) Signature and Certification of Accuracy of an 
Application

    Existing 14 CFR 413.7(c)(1) requires that an application for 
licensed activities must be legibly signed, dated, and certified as 
true, complete, and accurate by an officer authorized to act for the 
corporation (italics added) in licensing matters. To reduce the burden 
of licensing on the commercial space industry, the FAA amends 14 CFR 
413.7(c)(1) to allow corporations to designate a person to sign 
applications who is not an officer of the corporation. For large 
corporations, the requirement for an officer of the company to submit 
an application is often difficult. Getting the original application 
signed by an officer may not be difficult, but the final application 
usually includes additional

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information. It is sometimes difficult for all of the additional 
information or data to be signed by an officer of the corporation. The 
application process will be streamlined if an officer of a corporation 
can delegate his or her responsibility in licensing matters.

Part 420 Appendix C, Correction of Table C-3

    Appendix C to part 420 provides a method for a launch site operator 
applicant to estimate the expected casualty (Ec) for a representative 
launch vehicle using a flight corridor generated either by appendix A 
or appendix B to part 420. As part of the calculation, a casualty area 
lookup table is used. Recent analysis has shown that expected casualty 
values generated by appendix C are inaccurate due to incorrect casualty 
areas in Table C-3. We are replacing the lookup table with corrected 
casualty areas, which in turn will produce more reasonable Ec values. 
The new values will be, on average, an order of magnitude lower than 
their original counterparts. This change will affect launch site 
applicants who wish to use the appendix C method to comply with part 
420. To date, no one has applied for a launch site operator license 
using the appendix C method.

Prohibition of Obtrusive Space Advertising

    The NPRM contained a definition of ``obtrusive space advertising'' 
that was proposed to be added to the definitions section in 14 CFR 
401.5. We proposed adding to 14 CFR 415.51 a requirement that the FAA 
would review a payload proposed for launch to determine if the launch 
of the payload will result in obtrusive space advertising. Section 
415.51, as proposed, would also have placed a prohibition on the launch 
of a payload if it resulted in obtrusive space advertising. We intended 
the proposal to address the statutory requirements contained in the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2000 
(Pubic Law 106-391 of October 30, 2000), which amended 49 U.S.C. 
chapter 701.
    Advertising from space is a new form of communication that had the 
potential to become widespread as the space industry developed. Prior 
to the enactment of Public Law 106-391, this form of advertisement had 
been used on such activities as placing advertising logos on uniforms, 
launch vehicles, launch facilities, and launch infrastructure. Outer 
space offered the possibility to promote messages in entirely new ways. 
Objects placed in orbit, if large enough, could be seen by people 
around the world for long periods of time greatly increasing the value 
of advertising. However, their visibility in the sky could have adverse 
effects on the general public, astronomers, and other components of the 
space industry. Large advertisements could destroy the darkness of the 
night sky. Their size and light emissions could impede astronomical 
observations that rely on a dark celestial environment. Their size and 
light could also cause interference with the satellite control systems 
that use star trackers and sun sensors for guidance and navigation.
    Congress responded to the potential conflict in the use of outer 
space by these competing interests by enacting Public Law 106-391, 
which banned all obtrusive space advertising. Obtrusive space 
advertising, as defined in 49 U.S.C. 70102, is ``advertising in outer 
space that is capable of being recognized by a human being on the 
surface of the Earth without the aid of a telescope or other 
technological device.''
    The language we proposed in the NPRM for the definition of 
``obtrusive space advertising'' was the same as that contained in Sec.  
70102. After reviewing the comments and the language of the statutes 
the FAA is withdrawing the proposal to change Sec.  401.5 and Sec.  
415.51 as proposed in the NPRM because we determined that the 
regulatory prohibition is not necessary. The statutory prohibitions are 
sufficient to prevent the launch of a payload containing obtrusive 
space advertising.

Discussion of Comments

    We received several comments on the proposal, which were 
exclusively in the area of obtrusive space advertising and almost 
evenly divided between two opposite positions. Comments from Kyle 
Bennett, David L. Williamson, and Christopher G. Modzelewski were 
generally opposed to the proposed obtrusive space advertising 
prohibition. Alternatively, comments from Carla M. Beaudet, Nickolaus 
E. Leggett and representatives of the American Astronomical Society 
(AAS), and the International Astronomical Union (IAU) generally 
supported the obtrusive space advertising prohibition. Finally, 
comments from Randall Clague represented a moderate position. After 
reviewing the public comments, two major areas of contention became 
apparent between the opposing groups.
    The first area of contention exists between commenters who believe 
that obtrusive space advertising will degrade the quality of the night 
sky versus those who believe the economic benefit derived from allowing 
obtrusive space advertising is too great to prohibit it. Ms. Beaudet 
and representatives from the AAS and IAU believe that obtrusive space 
advertising will lower the quality of the night sky. Ms. Beaudet 
compares obtrusive space advertising to ugly billboards along highways. 
Alternatively, Mr. Bennett and Mr. Williamson believe that forms of 
advertising that may be classified as obtrusive could be important 
funding sources for commercial space endeavors. Mr. Bennett and Mr. 
Modzelewski believe that the proposed prohibition will not stop 
deployment of obtrusive space advertising but will simply drive 
companies overseas to purchase launch services in countries that do not 
have similar restrictions on the launch of obtrusive space advertising.
    The second area of contention exists between commenters who believe 
the proposed definition of ``obtrusive space advertising'' is not 
encompassing enough and those who believe it is too encompassing. The 
AAS and IAU believe that obtrusive space advertising will obscure 
astronomical observations. In addition, the IAU seeks a more 
restrictive quantitative definition. Alternatively, Mr. Modzelewski and 
Mr. Williamson believe that the proposed definition is too encompassing 
and fails to take into consideration certain solutions that may 
mitigate the perceived ``obtrusive'' aspects of space advertising. Mr. 
Clague proposes a quantitative tool that could provide a bright line 
test for identifying obtrusive space advertising. His tool utilizes 
three basic characteristics of light sources including, brightness, 
size, and dwell time to determine a visual nuisance value.
    After reviewing the comments, the FAA is withdrawing the proposal 
to change Sec.  401.5 and Sec.  415.51 in the NPRM because it has 
determined that the regulatory prohibition is not necessary. We believe 
the statutory prohibitions are sufficient to prevent the launch of a 
payload containing obtrusive space advertising.
    Section 70109a(a) stops the FAA from issuing, transferring, or 
waiving the launch license requirements for the launch of a payload 
containing any material to be used for the purposes of obtrusive space 
advertising. This statutory provision requires the FAA to follow the 
intent of Congress and refrain from involvement in an attempt to 
legally launch a payload containing obtrusive space advertising. If an 
applicant approaches the FAA in an attempt to launch a payload 
containing obtrusive space advertising, the FAA will rely on the 
existing regulatory authority of 14 CFR 415.51, 415.57, and

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415.59 to review the payload. The FAA will consider factors of 
brightness, size, and dwell time in making a determination. If after 
considering these factors, the FAA determines that the payload contains 
obtrusive space advertising, then the applicant will be notified of the 
statutory prohibition as provided in 14 CFR 415.61. Section 70109a(b) 
prohibits holders of a license from launching a payload containing any 
material to be used for purposes of obtrusive space advertising. This 
provision covers existing license holders.

Paperwork Reduction Act

    The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3507(d)) requires 
that the FAA consider the impact of paperwork and other information 
collection burdens imposed on the public. We have determined that there 
are no new information collection requirements associated with this 
final rule.

Economic Evaluation

    Changes to Federal regulations must undergo several economic 
analyses. First, Executive Order 12866 directs that each Federal agency 
shall propose or adopt a regulation only upon a reasoned determination 
that the benefits of the intended regulation justify its costs. Second, 
the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 requires agencies to analyze the 
economic impact of regulatory changes on small entities. Third, the 
Trade Agreements Act (Pub. L. 96-39) prohibits agencies from setting 
standards that create unnecessary obstacles to the foreign commerce of 
the United States. In developing U.S. standards, the Trade Act requires 
agencies to consider international standards and, where appropriate, 
that they be the basis for U.S. standards. Fourth, the Unfunded 
Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-4) requires agencies to 
prepare a written assessment of the costs, benefits, and other effects 
of proposed or final rules that include a Federal mandate likely to 
result in the expenditure by State, local, or tribal governments, in 
the aggregate, or by the private sector, of $100 million or more 
annually (adjusted for inflation with base year of 1995). This portion 
of the preamble summarizes the FAA's analysis of the economic impacts 
of this final rule.
    Department of Transportation Order DOT 2100.5 prescribes policies 
and procedures for simplification, analysis, and review of regulations. 
If the expected cost impact is so minimal that a proposed or final rule 
does not warrant a full evaluation, this order permits that a statement 
to that effect and the basis for it be included in the preamble if a 
full regulatory evaluation of the cost and benefits is not prepared. 
Such a determination has been made for this final rule. The reasoning 
for this determination follows.
    The final rule regarding license waivers amends 14 CFR 404.3 to 
allow the FAA to waive the requirement for a license when the Associate 
Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation determines that 
waiving the requirement for a license is in the public interest and 
will not jeopardize public health and safety, the safety of property, 
or any national security or foreign policy interest of the United 
States. The license waiver amendment will codify current practice and 
procedures as established in the Commercial Space Act of 1998. Since 
the amendment will codify current practice and procedures, there should 
be no costs or benefits.
    The final rule will amend 14 CFR 404.5 to allow for reconsideration 
of a denial of a waiver. This change will provide due process to a 
person whose petition for a waiver or exemption was denied by the FAA. 
There is the potential for a cost savings if the petitioner can show 
that the FAA has made a factual error or has not correctly applied 
existing law to a waiver request.
    The final rule regarding the delegation of signing off for 
licensing matters amends 14 CFR 413.7(c) to allow corporations to 
designate a duly appointed person to sign in licensing matters who is 
not an officer of the corporation. Currently, only an officer 
authorized to act for the corporation in licensing matters has this 
signature authority. The rule will reduce the burden of licensing on 
the commercial space transportation industry by allowing corporations 
to delegate this authority to a person other than a corporate officer. 
The rule will expedite the licensing process because if the corporate 
officer were not available the delegated person could act in his or her 
place. The overall impact could result in a cost savings.
    The rule will change Table C-3 of Appendix C in part 420 to correct 
values of the effective casualty area. An effective casualty area is 
defined in 14 CFR 420.5 as the aggregate casualty area of each piece of 
debris created by a launch vehicle failure at a particular point on its 
trajectory. Launch site applicants seeking a license to operate a site 
where guided expendable launch vehicles may be launched use these 
casualty areas to calculate the expected casualty of a proposed vehicle 
along a specified flight corridor. Recent analysis has shown that 
expected casualty values generated by appendix C are inaccurate due to 
incorrect casualty areas in Table C-3. We are replacing the lookup 
table with corrected casualty areas, which in turn will produce more 
reasonable expected casualty values. The new values will be, on 
average, an order of magnitude lower than their original counterparts. 
The rule will affect launch site operator or license applicants who 
wish to use Appendix C to comply with part 420. Launch vehicle 
operators will not be affected by this rule because each vehicle they 
propose to launch from a site will require the use of their vehicle-
specific attributes instead of the above mentioned table values when 
calculating the effective casualty area.
    The rule will allow for more accurate estimates of expected 
casualty calculations for the launch of a guided expendable launch 
vehicle. The primary benefit from the change is that more sites will 
initially qualify for a launch site operator license. Since this final 
rule merely revises and clarifies FAA rulemaking procedures, the 
expected outcome will have a minimal impact with possible cost savings 
to the industry, and a regulatory evaluation was not prepared.

Regulatory Flexibility Determination

    The Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 (Pub. L. 96-354) (RFA) 
establishes ``as a principle of regulatory issuance that agencies shall 
endeavor, consistent with the objectives of the rule and of applicable 
statutes, to fit regulatory requirements to the scale of the business, 
organizations, and governmental jurisdictions subject to regulation. To 
achieve this principle, agencies are required to solicit and consider 
flexible regulatory proposals and to explain the rationale for their 
actions to assure that such proposals are given serious consideration. 
The RFA covers a wide-range of small entitites, including small 
business, not-for-profit organizations, and small governmental 
jurisdictions. Agencies must perform a review to determine whether a 
rule will have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of 
small entities. If the agency determines that it will, the agency must 
prepare a regulatory flexibility analysis as described in the RFA.
    However, if an agency determines that a rule is not expected to 
have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small 
entities, section 605(b) of the RFA provides that the head of the 
agency may so certify and a regulatory flexibility analysis is not 
required. The certification must include a statement providing the

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factual basis for this determination, and the reasoning should be 
clear.
    This final rule amends FAA regulations governing commercial space 
transportation. These changes are necessary to reflect a statutory 
change, capture current practice and to correct errors in a table. The 
purpose of the changes is to give the public and the regulated industry 
accurate and current information. These miscellaneous changes to the 
commercial space transportation regulations will have minimal cost 
impact. Therefore, as the FAA Administrator, I certify that this rule 
will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of 
small entities.

International Trade Impact Assessment

    The Trade Agreements Act of 1979 (Pub. L. 96-39) prohibits Federal 
agencies from establishing any standards or engaging in related 
activities that create unnecessary obstacles to the foreign commerce of 
the United States. Legitimate domestic objectives, such as safety, are 
not considered unnecessary obstacles. The statute also requires 
consideration of international standards and, where appropriate, that 
they be the basis for U.S. standards. The FAA has assessed the 
potential effect of this final rule and has determined that it will 
have only a domestic impact and therefore no effect on any trade-
sensitive activity.

Unfunded Mandates Assessment

    Title II of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-
4) requires each Federal agency to prepare a written statement 
assessing the effects of any Federal mandate in a proposed or final 
agency rule that may result in an expenditure of $100 million or more 
(adjusted annually for inflation with the base year 1995) in any one 
year by State, local, and tribal governments, in the aggregate, or by 
the private sector; such a mandate is deemed to be a ``significant 
regulatory action.'' The FAA currently uses an inflation-adjusted value 
of $128.1 million in lieu of $100 million.
    This final rule does not contain such a mandate. The requirements 
of Title II do not apply.

Executive Order 13132, Federalism

    The FAA has analyzed this final rule under the principles and 
criteria of Executive Order 13132, Federalism. We determined that this 
action will not have a substantial direct effect on the States, on the 
relationship between the national Government and the States, or on the 
distribution of power and responsibilities among the various levels of 
government, and therefore will not have federalism implications.

Environmental Analysis

    FAA Order 1050.1E identifies FAA actions that are categorically 
excluded from preparation of an environmental assessment or 
environmental impact statement under the National Environmental Policy 
Act in the absence of extraordinary circumstances. The FAA has 
determined this rulemaking action qualifies for the categorical 
exclusion identified in paragraph 312(d) and involves no extraordinary 
circumstances.

Regulations That Significantly Affect Energy Supply, Distribution, or 
Use

    The FAA has analyzed this final rule under Executive Order 13211, 
Actions Concerning Regulations that Significantly Affect Energy Supply, 
Distribution, or Use (May 18, 2001). We have determined that it is not 
a ``significant energy action'' under the executive order because it is 
not a ``significant regulatory action'' under Executive Order 12866, 
and it is not likely to have a significant adverse effect on the 
supply, distribution, or use of energy.

List of Subjects in 14 CFR Parts 404, 413, and 420

    Aviation safety, Environmental protection, Space transportation and 
exploration.

The Amendment

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For the reasons stated in the preamble, the Federal Aviation 
Administration amends Chapter III of Title 14, Code of Federal 
Regulations as follows:

PART 404--REGULATIONS AND LICENSING REQUIREMENTS

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1. The authority citation for part 404 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 49 U.S.C. 70101-70121.


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2. Revise Sec.  404.3 to read as follows:


Sec.  404.3  Filing of petitions to the Associate Administrator.

    (a) Any person may petition the Associate Administrator to:
    (1) Issue, amend, or repeal a regulation to eliminate as a 
requirement for a license or permit any requirement of Federal law 
applicable to commercial space launch and reentry activities and the 
operation of launch and reentry sites;
    (2) Waive any such requirement in the context of a specific 
application for a license or permit; or
    (3) Waive the requirement for a license.
    (b) Each petition filed under this section must:
    (1) Be submitted in duplicate to the:
    (i) Office of Commercial Space Transportation, Federal Aviation 
Administration, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., Room 331, Washington, DC 
20591; or
    (ii) Documentary Services Division, Attention Docket Section, Room 
4107, U.S. Department of Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW., 
Washington, DC 20590.
    (2) Set forth the text or substance of the regulation or amendment 
proposed, the regulation to be repealed, the licensing or permitting 
requirement to be eliminated or waived, or the type of license or 
permit to be waived;
    (3) In the case of a petition for a waiver of a particular 
licensing or permitting requirement, explain the nature and extent of 
the relief sought;
    (4) Contain any facts, views, and data available to the petitioner 
to support the action requested; and
    (5) In the case of a petition for a waiver, be submitted at least 
60 days before the proposed effective date of the waiver unless good 
cause for later submission is shown in the petition.
    (c) A petition for rulemaking filed under this section must contain 
a summary, which the Associate Administrator may cause to be published 
in the Federal Register, which includes:
    (1) A brief description of the general nature of the action 
requested; and
    (2) A brief description of the pertinent reasons presented in the 
petition for instituting the rulemaking.
    (d) A petition filed under this section may request, under 14 CFR 
413.9, that the Department withhold certain trade secrets or 
proprietary commercial or financial data from public disclosure.

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3. Amend Sec.  404.5 by adding new paragraph (e) to read as follows:


Sec.  404.5  Action on petitions.

* * * * *
    (e) Reconsideration. Any person may petition FAA to reconsider a 
denial of a petition the person had filed. The petitioner must send a 
request for reconsideration within 60 days after being notified of the 
denial to the same address to which the original petition went. For FAA 
to accept the petition, the petitioner must show the following:
    (1) There is a significant additional fact and the reason it was 
not included in the original petition;
    (2) FAA made an important factual error in our denial of the 
original petition; or
    (3) The denial by the FAA is not in accordance with the applicable 
law and regulations.

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PART 413--LICENSE APPLICATION PROCEDURES

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4. The authority citation for part 413 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 49 U.S.C. 70101-70121.


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5. Revise Sec.  413.7(c)(1) to read as follows:


Sec.  413.7  Application.

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    (c) * * *
    (1) For a corporation: An officer or other individual duly 
authorized to act for the corporation in licensing matters.
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PART 420--LICENSE TO OPERATE A LAUNCH SITE

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6. The authority citation for part 420 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 49 U.S.C. 70101-70121.


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7. Revise Table C-3 of Appendix C to part 420 to read as follows:
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Appendix C to Part 420--Risk Analysis

                 Table C-3.--Effective Casualty Area (Miles \2\) as a Function of IIP Range (NM)
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                                     Orbital launch vehicles                                        Suborbital
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                                                                                                     vehicles
Instantaneous impact point range       Small          Medium       Medium large        Large     ---------------
        (nautical miles)                                                                              Guided
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0-49............................     3.14 x 10-2     1.28 x 10-1     4.71 x 10-2     8.59 x 10-2      4.3 x 10-1
50-1749.........................     2.47 x 10-2     2.98 x 10-2     9.82 x 10-3     2.45 x 10-2      1.3 x 10-1
1750-5000.......................     3.01 x 10-4     5.52 x 10-3     7.82 x 10-3     1.14 x 10-2     3.59 x 10-6
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    Issued in Washington, DC on August 16, 2006.
Marion C. Blakey,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 06-7354 Filed 8-30-06; 8:45 am]
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