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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Parts 23, 25, 33, and 35 

[Docket No. FAA–2007–27310; Notice No. 

07–04] 

RIN 2120–AI95 

Airworthiness Standards; Propellers; 

Reopening of Comment Period 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking 

(NPRM); reopening of comment period. 

SUMMARY: On April 11, 2007, the FAA 

published a Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding the 

revision of airworthiness standards for 

the issuance of original and amended 

type certificates for airplane propellers. 

The comment period closed on June 11, 

2007. However, the FAA is reopening 

the comment period for an additional 45 

days in response to requests from 

McCauley Propeller Systems, Hartzell 

Propeller, Inc., and the General Aviation 

Manufacturers Association. The 

reopening of the comment period is 

needed to permit these companies, and 

other affected parties, additional time to 

develop comments responsive to the 

NPRM. 

DATES: The comment period for the 

NPRM published on April 11, 2007 (72 

FR 18136) closed June 11, 2007, and is 

reopened until August 6, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments 

identified by Docket Number FAA–

2007–27310 using any of the following 

methods: 

• DOT Docket Web site: Go to 

http://dms.dot.gov and follow the 

instructions for sending your comments 

electronically. 

• Government-wide rulemaking Web 

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

and follow the instructions for sending 

your comments electronically. 

• Mail: Send comments to the Docket 

Management Facility; U.S. Department 

of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., West Building Ground 

Floor, Room W12–140, Washington, DC 

20590. 

• Fax: Fax comments to the Docket 

Management Facility at 202–493–2251. 

• Hand Delivery: Bring comments to 

the Docket Management Facility in 

Room W12–140 of the West Building 

Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, between 

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

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

For more information on the 

rulemaking process, see the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

Privacy: We will post all comments 

we receive, without change, to http:// 

dms.dot.gov, including any personal 

information you provide. Using the 

search function of our docket Web site, 

anyone can find and read the comments 

received into any of our dockets, 

including the name of the individual 

sending the comment (or signing the 

comment for an association, business, 

labor union, etc.). You may review 

DOT’s complete Privacy Act Statement 

in the Federal Register published on 

April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477–78). 

Docket: To read background 

documents or comments received, go to 

http://dms.dot.gov at any time or to the 

Docket Management Facility in Room 

W12–140 of the West Building Ground 

Floor at 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: Jay 

Turnberg, Engine and Propeller 

Directorate Standards Staff, ANE–110, 

Federal Aviation Administration, 12 

New England Executive Park, 

Burlington, Massachusetts 01803–5299; 

telephone (781) 238–7116; facsimile 

(781) 238–7199, e-mail: 

jay.turnberg@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Comments Invited 

The FAA invites interested persons to 

participate in this rulemaking by 

submitting written comments, data, or 

views. We also invite comments relating 

to the economic, environmental, energy, 

or federalism impacts that might result 

from adopting the proposals in this 

document. The most helpful comments 

reference a specific portion of the 

proposal, explain the reason for any 

recommended change, and include 

supporting data. To ensure the docket 

does not contain duplicate comments, 

please send only one copy of written 

comments, or if you are filing comments 

electronically, please submit your 

comments only one time. 

We will file in the docket all 

comments we receive, as well as a 

report summarizing each substantive 

public contact with FAA personnel 

concerning this proposed rulemaking. 

Before acting on this proposal, we will 

consider all comments we receive on or 

before the closing date for comments. 

We will consider comments filed after 

the comment period has closed if it is 

possible to do so without incurring 

expense or delay. We may change this 

proposal in light of the comments we 

receive. 

Proprietary or Confidential Business 

Information 

Do not file in the docket information 

that you consider to be proprietary or 

confidential business information. Send 

or deliver this information directly to 

the person identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

document. You must mark the 

information that you consider 

proprietary or confidential. If you send 

the information on a disk or CD–ROM, 

mark the outside of the disk or CD–ROM 

and also identify electronically within 

the disk or CD–ROM the specific 

information that is proprietary or 

confidential. 

Under 14 CFR 11.35(b), when we are 

aware of proprietary information filed 

with a comment, we do not place it in 

the docket. We hold it in a separate file 

to which the public does not have 

access, and place a note in the docket 

that we have received it. If we receive 

a request to examine or copy this 

information, we treat it as any other 

request under the Freedom of 

Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552). We 

process such a request under the DOT 

procedures found in 49 CFR part 7. 

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/avr/ 

arm/index.cfm; or 

(3) Accessing the Government 

Printing Office’s web page at http:// 

www.gpoaccess.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 docket number, notice 

number, or amendment number of this 

rulemaking. 

Background 

On April 11, 2007, the FAA published 

in the Federal Register (72 FR 18136) 

Notice No. 07–05, Airworthiness 

Standards; Propellers. This proposed 

rule would revise the airworthiness 

standards for the issuance of original 

and amended type certificates for 

airplane propellers. The proposed 

standards would address the current 

advances in technology and harmonize 

FAA and European Aviation Safety 

Agency propeller certification 

requirements, thereby simplifying 


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airworthiness approvals for imports and 

exports. The comment period closed on 

June 11, 2007. 

By requests dated May 3, May 31, and 

June 6, Hartzell Propeller, Inc. 

(Hartzell), McCauley Propeller Systems 

(McCauley), and the General Aviation 

Manufacturers Association (GAMA), 

respectively, asked that the comment 

period be extended by 60 days to permit 

a more careful review and consideration 

of the proposed rule. 

The FAA has determined that 

reopening the comment period for 45 

days will allow Hartzell, McCauley, 

GAMA, and others sufficient time for a 

more thorough review of applicable 

issues and questions raised by the 

NPRM, and for the drafting of 

responsive comments. 

In order, therefore, to give all 

interested persons additional time to 

complete their comments, the FAA 

finds that it is in the public interest to 

reopen the comment period for fortyfive (45) days. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on June 14, 

2007. 

Dorenda D. Baker, 

Deputy Director, Aircraft Certification 

Service. 

[FR Doc. 07–3050 Filed 6–15–07; 4:02 pm] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Part 39 

[Docket No. 2003–NM–67–AD] 

RIN 2120–AA64 

Airworthiness Directives; Empresa 

Brasileira de Aeronautica S.A. 

(EMBRAER) Model EMB–135 and 

EMB–145 Series Airplanes 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration, DOT. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; withdrawal. 

SUMMARY: This action withdraws a 

notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) 

that proposed a new airworthiness 

directive (AD), applicable to certain 

EMBRAER Model EMB–135 and EMB–

145 series airplanes. That action would 

have required an inspection of the base 

and support surfaces of the glide slope 

antenna and of certain electrical 

connectors of the navigation system, 

and applicable corrective actions if 

necessary. Since the issuance of the 

NPRM, we have received new data 

showing that the proposed inspection 

and corrective actions will not eliminate 

the display of erroneous or misleading 

information to the flightcrew in the 

cockpit. However, we have been 

informed that the navigation system 

manufacturer has developed effective 

corrective actions to address the unsafe 

condition identified in the NPRM. Since 

we issued the NPRM, we have issued 

other rulemaking, which provides 

corrective actions for the identified 

unsafe condition. Accordingly, the 

proposed rule is withdrawn. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Todd Thompson, Aerospace Engineer, 

International Branch, ANM–116, FAA, 

Transport Airplane Directorate, 1601 

Lind Avenue SW., Renton, Washington 

98057–3356; telephone (425) 227–1175; 

fax (425) 227–1149. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A 

proposal to amend part 39 of the Federal 

Aviation Regulations (14 CFR part 39) to 

add a new airworthiness directive (AD), 

applicable to certain EMBRAER Model 

EMB–135 and EMB–145 series 

airplanes, was published in the Federal 

Register as a Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking (NPRM) on March 11, 2004 

(69 FR 11549). The proposed rule would 

have required an inspection of the base 

and support surfaces of the glide slope 

antenna and of certain electrical 

connectors of the navigation system, 

and applicable corrective actions if 

necessary. That action resulted from 

reports of degradation in the 

performance of the VOR/ILS/MB system 

due to the presence of moisture, dirt, 

and corrosion between the base and the 

support of the glide slope antenna and 

in the electrical connectors of the 

navigation system. The proposed 

actions were intended to prevent the 

display of erroneous or misleading 

information to the flightcrew in the 

cockpit due to degradation in the 

performance of the VOR/ILS/HM 

system. 

Actions That Occurred Since the NPRM 

Was Issued 

Since the issuance of that NPRM, we 

have received new data showing that 

the degradation in the performance of 

the VOR/ILS/MB system was not caused 

by dirt and corrosion affecting the glide 

slope antenna and certain navigation 

system connectors. The degraded 

performance was caused by a parasitic 

oscillation affecting an internal module 

of the navigation system, and the 

navigation system manufacturer has 

provided service information detailing 

proven corrective actions. Accordingly, 

we issued AD 2006–22–05 (71 FR 

62907, October 27, 2006), which 

superseded AD 2003–04–06, 

amendment 39–13054 (68 FR 8539, 

February 24, 2003). AD 2006–22–05 

provides terminating action for the 

unsafe condition described in AD 2003–

04–06, which was also addressed by the 

previously mentioned NPRM, Docket 

No. 2003–NM–67–AD. Therefore, that 

NPRM is redundant. 

FAA’s Conclusions 

Upon further consideration, we have 

determined that the proposed rule is not 

necessary. Accordingly, the NPRM is 

hereby withdrawn. 

Withdrawal of this NPRM constitutes 

only such action, and does not preclude 

the agency from issuing another action 

in the future, nor does it commit the 

agency to any course of action in the 

future. 

Regulatory Impact 

Since this action only withdraws a 

notice of proposed rulemaking, it is 

neither a proposed nor a final rule and 

therefore is not covered under Executive 

Order 12866, the Regulatory Flexibility 

Act, or DOT Regulatory Policies and 

Procedures (44 FR 11034, February 26, 

1979). 

List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 39 

Air transportation, Aircraft, Aviation 

safety, Safety. 

The Withdrawal 

Accordingly, the notice of proposed 

rulemaking, Docket 2003–NM–67–AD, 

published in the Federal Register on 

March 11, 2004 (69 FR 11549), is 

withdrawn. 

Issued in Renton, Washington, on June 13, 

2007. 

Ali Bahrami, 

Manager, Transport Airplane Directorate, 

Aircraft Certification Service. 

[FR Doc. E7–11928 Filed 6–19–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Part 39 

[Docket No. FAA–2007–28376; Directorate 

Identifier 2007–NM–108–AD] 

RIN 2120–AA64 

Airworthiness Directives; Boeing 

Model 767–200, –300, and –300F Series 

Airplanes 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking 

(NPRM). 

SUMMARY: The FAA proposes to adopt a 

new airworthiness directive (AD) for 


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