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release of 2.43 acres of land at the 

Oceano Airport, Oceano, California, 

from all the conditions in the grant 

agreements under the provisions of 

Section 125 of the Wendell H. Ford 

Aviation Investment Reform Act for the 

21st Century (AIR 21), now 49 U.S.C. 

47107(h)(2). The land will be sold to the 

San Luis Obispo County Sanitation 

District and used for commercial 

purposes by the District for purposes 

compatible with the airport. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before October 9, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Comments on this 

application may be mailed or delivered 

in triplicate to the FAA at the following 

address: Federal Aviation 

Administration, San Francisco Airports 

District Office, Federal Register 

Comment, 831 Mitten Road, Room 210, 

Burlingame, CA 94010. In addition, one 

copy of any comments submitted to the 

FAA must be mailed or delivered to Ms. 

Klassje Narine, Airport Manager, County 

of San Luis Obispo, 1087 Santa Rosa 

Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401, 

(805) 781–5205. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Racior Cavole, Airports Compliance 

Specialist, San Francisco Airports 

District Office, Western-Pacific Region, 

Federal Aviation Administration, 831 

Mitten Road, Burlingame, California 

94010. Telephone (650) 876–2778, 

extension 627. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the Wendell H. Ford 

Aviation Investment and Reform Act for 

the 21st Century (AIR 21), Public Law 

10–181 (Apr. 5, 2000; 114 Stat. 61), this 

notice must be published in the Federal 

Register 30 days before the Secretary 

may waive any condition in grant 

agreements imposed on a federally 

obligated airport. 

The FAA invites public comment on 

the request to release 2.43 acres of 

airport property from all federal 

obligations. The FAA determined that 

the County of San Luis Obispo request 

to release property meets the procedural 

requirements for a release, pending 

approval of an environmental analysis. 

The FAA may approve the request in 

whole or in part and is seeking public 

comments on the impacts to civil 

aviation concerning this release. 

The following is a brief overview of 

the request: 

The County of San Luis Obispo 

requested a release from surplus 

property agreement obligations for 

approximately 2.43 acres of airport land 

at the Oceano Airport for land obligated 

by the conditions in grant agreements 

with the United States that required the 

land be used for airport purposes. The 

release is to facilitate a transfer of fee 

ownership of one parcel and a grant of 

an easement over another parcel that are 

part of Oceano Airport. This request is 

the result of Eminent Domain 

proceedings brought by the South San 

Luis Obispo County Sanitation District 

through the Superior Court of the State 

of California to acquire the land by 

condemnation. The Stipulation for 

Judgment requires that the County of 

San Luis Obispo apply to the FAA for 

a proper release of the subject parcels. 

As compensation, the District will pay 

the agreed upon settlement of $282,875 

representing the fair market value of the 

property. 

The property release consists of two 

parcels. Parcel ‘‘A,’’ containing 1.76 

acres, will be conveyed in fee simple. 

Parcel ‘‘B,’’ containing 0.67 acres, will 

be granted as a non-exclusive easement 

of airport property over which the 

District will have access to Parcel ‘‘A.’’

The property is needed by the South 

San Luis Obispo County Sanitation 

District for the operation of its plant and 

bio-solids drying ponds and to ensure 

access to its existing property adjacent 

to the airport. It has been determined 

that the property is not needed for 

airport purposes. Use of the sale 

proceeds of $282,875 will be invested in 

airport capital improvements, thereby 

serving the interest of the airport and 

civil aviation. 

Issued in Burlingame, California on August 

16, 2007. 

Edward N. Agnew, 

Acting Manager, San Francisco District 

Office, Western-Pacific Region. 

[FR Doc. 07–4325 Filed 9–5–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

FAA Approval of Noise Compatibility 

Program; Rickenbacker International 

Airport, Columbus, OH 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA) announces its 

findings on the noise compatibility 

program submitted by Columbus 

Regional Airport authority under the 

provisions of 49 U.S.C. (the Aviation 

Safety and Noise Abatement Act, 

hereinafter referred to as ‘‘the Act’’) and 

14 CFR part 150. These findings are 

made in recognition of the description 

of Federal and nonfederal 

responsibilities in Senate Report No. 

96–52 (1980). On January 25, 2007, the 

FAA determined that the noise exposure 

maps submitted by Columbus Regional 

Airport Authority under Part 150 were 

in compliance with applicable 

requirements. On July 9, 2007, the FAA 

approved the Rickenbacker 

International Airport noise 

compatibility program. All of the 

recommendations of the program were 

approved. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: The effective date of the 

FAA’s approval of the Rickenbacker 

International Airport noise 

compatibility program is July 9, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Katherine S. Jones, Community Planner, 

Detroit Airports District Office, Metro 

Airport Center, 11677 South Wayne 

Road, Suite 107, Romulus, Michigan, 

Phone (734) 229–2900. Documents 

reflecting this FAA action may be 

reviewed at this same location. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice announces that the FAA has 

given its overall approval to the noise 

compatibility program for Rickenbacker 

International Airport, effective July 9, 

2007. 

Under section 47504 of the Act, an 

airport operator who has previously 

submitted a noise exposure map may 

submit to the FAA a noise compatibility 

program which sets forth the measures 

taken or proposed by the airport 

operator for the reduction of existing 

non-compatible land uses and 

prevention of additional non-compatible 

land uses within the area covered by the 

noise exposure maps. The Act requires 

such programs to be developed in 

consultation with interested and 

affected parties including local 

communities, government agencies, 

airport users, and FAA personnel. 

Each airport noise compatibility 

program developed in accordance with 

Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) Part 

150 is a local program, not a Federal 

program. The FAA does not substitute 

its judgment for that of the airport 

proprietor with respect to which 

measures should be recommended for 

action. The FAA’s approval or 

disapproval of FAR Part 150 program 

recommendations is measured 

according to the standards expressed in 

Part 150 and the Act and is limited to 

the following determinations: 

a. The noise compatibility program 

was developed in accordance with the 

provisions and procedures of FAR Part 

150; 

b. Program measures are reasonably 

consistent with achieving the goals of 

reducing existing non-compatible land 

uses around the airport and preventing 

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the introduction of additional noncompatible land uses; 

c. Program measures would not create 

an undue burden on interstate or foreign 

commerce, unjustly discriminate against 

types or classes of aeronautical uses, 

violate the terms of airport grant 

agreements, or intrude into areas 

preempted by the Federal Government; 

and 

d. Program measures relating to the 

use of flight procedures can be 

implemented within the period covered 

by the program without derogating 

safety, adversely affecting the efficient 

use and management of the navigable 

airspace and air traffic control systems, 

or adversely affecting other powers and 

responsibilities of the Administrator 

prescribed by law. 

Specific limitations with respect to 

FAA’s approval of an airport noise 

compatibility program are delineated in 

FAR Part 150, section 150.5. Approval 

is not a determination concerning the 

acceptability of land uses under Federal, 

State, or local law. Approval does not by 

itself constitute an FAA implementing 

action. A request for Federal acton or 

approval to implement specific noise 

compatibility measures may be 

required, and an FAA decision on the 

request may require an environmental 

assessment of the proposed action. 

Approval does not constitute a 

commitment by the FAA to financially 

assist in the implementation of the 

program nor a determination that all 

measures covered by the program are 

eligible for grant-in-aid funding from the 

FAA. Where federal funding is sought, 

requests for project grants must be 

submitted to the FAA Detroit Airports 

District Office in Romulus, Michigan. 

Columbus Regional Airport Authority 

submitted to the FAA on December 21, 

2006 the noise exposure maps, 

descriptions, and other documentation 

produced during the noise compatibility 

planning study conducted from 2005 

through 2006. The Rickenbacker 

International Airport noise exposure 

maps were determined by FAA to be in 

compliance with applicable 

requirements on January 25, 2007. 

Notice of this determination was 

published in the Federal Register on 

February 6, 2007 (FR Doc. 07–507 Filed 

2–5–07; 8:45 am). 

The Rickenbacker International 

Airport study contains a proposed noise 

compatibility program comprised of 

actions designed for phased 

implementation by airport management 

and adjacent jurisdictions starting in 

2007. It was requested that the FAA 

evaluate and approve this material as a 

noise compatibility program as 

described in section 47504 of the Act. 

The FAA began its review of the 

program on January 25, 2007 and was 

required by a provision of the Act to 

approve or disapprove the program 

within 180 days (other than the use of 

new or modified flight procedures for 

noise control). Failure to approve or 

disapprove such program within the 

180-day period shall be deemed to be an 

approval of such program. 

The submitted program contained 

thirteen (13) proposed actions for noise 

mitigation on and/or off the airport. The 

FAA completed its review and 

determined that the procedural and 

substantive requirements of the Act and 

FAR Part 150 have been satisfied. The 

overall program, therefore, was 

approved by the FAA effective July 9, 

2007. 

Outright approval was granted for all 

of the specific program elements. These 

elements were: Straight out departures 

of itinerant aircraft from Runway 23L/R 

until reaching 3,000 feet mean sea level 

before turning on course; Formalize 

civil noise abatement procedures which 

include: right turns to a 070-degree 

heading after departing to the northeast; 

and observing a preferential reverse 

flow runway use for civil jet aircraft; 

Formalize military noise abatement 

procedures, which include: right turns 

to a 070-degree heading after departing 

to the northeast; preferential southwest 

flow for touch-and-go operations; and 

observing preferential reverse flow use; 

Develop an Airport Land Use 

Management District (ALUMD) based on 

the most recent Future 60 Day-Night 

Average Sound Level (DNL) Noise 

Exposure Map/Noise Compatibility 

Program (NEM/NCP) noise contour, 

natural geographic and jurisdictional 

boundaries; Implement land use 

controls to discourage residential 

development and encourage airport 

compatible development within the 

ALUMD; Offer acquisition to eligible 

undeveloped properties within the 65- 

DNL noise contour of the Future (2011) 

NEM/NCP; For those undeveloped 

properties that are offered but unwilling 

to be acquired through LU–20, offer 

avigation easements to restrict the 

development of incompatible land uses 

within the 65-DNL noise contour of the 

Future (2011) NEM/NCP: Seek 

cooperation from the Board of Realtors 

to participate in a voluntary fair 

disclosure program for the property 

located within the ALUMD; Establish a 

Noise Abatement Committee; Establish/ 

continue a noise complaint response 

program; Periodic review and update of 

the NEM and NCP; Develop a public 

information program to communicate 

information about the NCP; and Provide 

for updates/enhancement of the CRAA 

Airport Noise & Flight Track Monitoring 

System. 

These determinations are set forth in 

detail in a Record of Approval signed by 

the Great Lakes Region Airports 

Division Manager on July 9, 2007. The 

Record of Approval, as well as other 

evaluation materials and the documents 

comprising the submittal, are available 

for review at the FAA office listed above 

at the administrative offices of the 

Rickenbacker International Airport, 

7161 Second Street, Columbus, Ohio 

43217 and Columbus Regional Airport 

Authority, Port Columbus International 

Airport, 4600 International Gateway, 

Columbus, Ohio. The Record of 

Approval also will be available on-line 

at http://www.faa.govairports_airtraffic/ 

airports/environmental/airport_noise. 

Issued in Romulus, Michigan, July 20, 

2007. 

Irene R. Porter, 

Acting Manager, Detroit Airports District 

Office, Great Lakes Region. 

[FR Doc. 07–4322 Filed 9–5–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

Annual Materials Report on New 

Bridge Construction and Bridge 

Rehabilitation 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Section 1114 of the Safe, 

Accountable, Flexible, Efficient 

Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for 

Users (SAFETEA–LU) (Pub. L. 109–59; 

119 Stat. 1144) continued the highway 

bridge program to enable States to 

improve the condition of their highway 

bridges over waterways, other 

topographical barriers, other highways, 

and railroads. Section 1114(f) amends 

23 U.S.C. 144 by adding subsection (r), 

requiring the Secretary of 

Transportation (Secretary) to publish in 

the Federal Register a report describing 

construction materials used in new 

Federal-aid bridge construction and 

bridge rehabilitation projects. 

DATES: The report will be posted on the 

FHWA Web site no later than August 

10, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: The report will be posted on 

the FHWA Web site at: http:// 

www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/britab.htm. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Ann Shemaka, Office of Bridge 

Technology, HIBT–30, (202) 366–1575, 

or Mr. Thomas Everett, Office of Bridge 

Technology, HIBT–30, (202) 366–4675, 

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