Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 141 / Tuesday, July 24, 2007 / Notices 40357 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Noise Exposure Map Notice for 

McCarran International Airport, Las 

Vegas, CA 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA) announces its 

determination that the noise exposure 

maps submitted by Clark County 

Department of Aviation, Las Vegas, 

Nevada for McCarran 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. 

EFFECTIVE DATES: The effective date of 

the FAA’s determination on the noise 

exposure maps is July 10, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joseph R. Rodriguez, Federal Aviation 

Administration, San Francisco Airports 

District Office, 831 Mitten Road, Room 

210, Burlingame, California 94010–

1303, Telephone: 650/876–2778, 

extension 610. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice announces that the FAA finds 

that the noise exposure maps submitted 

for McCarran International Airport are 

in compliance with applicable 

requirements of Part 150, effective July 

10, 2007. Under 49 U.S.C. 47503 of the 

Aviation Safety and Noise Abatement 

Act (hereinafter referred to as ‘‘the 

Act’’), an airport operator may submit to 

the FAA noise exposure maps which 

meet applicable regulations and which 

depict non-compatible 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 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 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 the Clark County 

Department of Aviation. The 

documentation that constitutes the 

‘‘Noise Exposure Maps’’ as defined in 

section 150.7 of Part 150 includes: 

Exhibit V–1 ‘‘2004 Noise Exposure 

Map,’’ and Exhibit V–2 ‘‘Preliminary 

2011 Noise Exposure Map.’’ The Noise 

Exposure Maps contain current and 

forecast information including the 

depiction of the airport and its 

boundaries, the runway configurations, 

land uses such as residential, open 

space, commercial/office, community 

facilities, libraries, churches, open 

space, infrastructure, vacant and 

warehouse and those areas within the 

Day-Night Average Sound Level (DNL) 

60, 65, 70 and 75 noise contours. 

Estimates for the number of people 

within these contours for the year 2004 

are shown in Table V–1. Estimates of 

the future residential population within 

the 2011 noise contours are shown in 

Table 7.1. Exhibit IV–10 displays the 

location of noise monitoring sites. Flight 

tracks for the existing and the five-year 

forecast Noise Exposure Maps are found 

in Exhibits IV–7, IV–8, and IV–9. The 

type and frequency of aircraft operations 

(including nighttime operations) are 

found in Tables IV–15, IV–16, IV–17, 

IV–18, IV–19, and IV–20. The FAA has 

determined that these noise exposure 

maps and accompanying documentation 

are in compliance with applicable 

requirements. This determination is 

effective on July 10, 2007. 

FAA’s determination on an airport 

operator’s noise exposure maps is 

limited to a finding that the maps were 

developed in accordance with the 

procedures contained in Appendix A of 

FAR Part 150. Such determination does 

not constitute approval of the 

applicant’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 tot he depicted noise 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 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 FAR Part 150.21 of FAR Part 

150, that the statutorily required 

consultation has been accomplished. 

Copies of the full noise exposure map 

documentation of the FAA’s evaluation 

of the maps are available for 

examination at the following locations: 

Federal Aviation Administration, 

Planning and Environmental Division, 

APP–400, 800 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Washington, DC 20591. 

Federal Aviation Administration, 

Western-Pacific Region, Airports 

Division, Room 3012, 15000 Aviation 

Boulevard, Hawthorne, California 

90261. 

Federal Aviation Administration, San 

Francisco Airports District Office, 831 

Mitten Road, Room 210, Burlingame, 

California 94010–1303. 

Randall H. Walker, Director of 

Aviation, Clark County Department of 

Aviation, P. O. Box 11005, Las Vegas, 

Nevada 89111–1005. 

Questions may be directed to the 

individual named above under the 

heading FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Issued in Hawthorne, California on July 10, 

2007. 

Mia Paredes Ratcliff, 

Acting Manager, Airports Division, AWP–600, 

Western-Pacific Region. 

[FR Doc. 07–3605 Filed 7–23–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–M 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Third Meeting: RTCA Special 

Committee 210, Cabin Management 

Systems 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of RTCA Special 

Committee 210, Cabin Management 

System. 

SUMMARY: The FAA is issuing this notice 

to advise the public of a meeting of 

RTCA Special Committee 210, Cabin 

Management. 

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