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Pilot portfolio is performing very well, 

at about one-half the rate of liquidation 

and one-quarter the rate of loan 

purchase compared to all other 7(a) 

loans of $150,000 or less. In addition, 

the demand for GO Loans has continued 

during FY2011 in response to the 

ongoing need to rebuild the Gulf Coast 

areas devastated by Hurricanes Katrina 

and Rita and the setback in these efforts 

caused by the several natural disasters 

that affected the region this year. The 

approximate number of GO Loans is 

only slightly less than the number of 

loans approved in FY 2010 at 

approximately 520 loans. 

Thus, the Agency believes it is 

appropriate to extend this unique and 

vital program through December 31, 

2013, with no further extensions after 

that. In the interim, the Agency will 

determine whether a program should be 

developed that provides for disaster 

recovery financial assistance under 

SBA’s 7(a) Business Loan Program that 

could be applied to any region that 

meets a predetermined set of criteria. 

Accordingly, the SBA is also extending 

its waiver of the Agency regulations 

identified in the Federal Register notice 

at 70 FR 69645 with the exception noted 

above through December 31, 2013 only. 

SBA’s waiver of these regulations is 

authorized by 13 CFR 120.3. These 

waivers apply only to those loans 

approved under the GO Loan Pilot, 

which expires December 31, 2013. As 

part of the GO Loan Pilot, these waivers 

apply only to those small businesses 

located in, locating to, or relocating in 

the parishes/counties that have been 

Presidentially-declared as disaster areas 

resulting from Hurricanes Katrina or 

Rita, plus any contiguous parishes/ 

counties. A list of all eligible parishes/ 

counties will be included in an SBA 

procedural notice that will announce 

the extension of the GO Loan Pilot. 

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 636(a)(24); 13 CFR 

120.3. 

Dated: September 26, 2011. 

Steven J. Smits, 

Associate Administrator, Office of Capital 

Access. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Approval of Noise Compatibility 

Program; Kissimmee Gateway Airport, 

Kissimmee, FL 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA) announces its 

findings on the Noise Compatibility 

Program Update (NCP) submitted by the 

City of Kissimmee 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 

December 11, 2009, the FAA 

determined that the Noise Exposure 

Maps submitted by the City of 

Kissimmee under Part 150 were in 

compliance with applicable 

requirements. On September 23, 2011, 

the FAA approved the Kissimmee 

Gateway Airport Noise Compatibility 

Program Update. Some of the 

recommendations of the Program were 

approved. 

DATES: Effective Date: The effective date 

of the FAA’s approval of the Kissimmee 

Gateway Airport Noise Compatibility 

Program Update is September 23, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Allan M. Nagy, Federal Aviation 

Administration, Orlando Airports 

District Office, 5950 Hazeltine National 

Drive, Suite 400, Orlando, Florida 

32822, phone number: 407–812–6331. 

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 Update for 

Kissimmee Gateway Airport, effective 

September 23, 2011. 

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 

Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations 

(CFR) part 150 is a local program, not 

a Federal program. The FAA does not 

substitute its judgment for that of the 

airport operator with respect to which 

measure should be recommended for 

action. The FAA’s approval or 

disapproval of 14 CFR part 150 program 

recommendations is measured 

according to the standards expressed in 

14 CFR 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 14 CFR 

part 150; 

b. Program measures are reasonably 

consistent with achieving the goals of 

reducing existing non-compatible land 

uses around the airport and preventing 

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 

14 CFR 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 action 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 appropriate FAA 

Airports District Office. 

The City of Kissimmee submitted to 

the FAA on November 16, 2009, the 

Noise Exposure Maps, descriptions, and 

other documentation produced during 

the noise compatibility planning study 

conducted from September 19, 2008, 

through September 23, 2011. The 

Kissimmee Gateway Airport Noise 

Exposure Maps were determined by 

FAA to be in compliance with 

applicable requirements on December 

11, 2009. Notice of this determination 

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was published in the Federal Register 

on December 29, 2009. 

The Kissimmee Gateway Airport 

study contains a proposed Noise 

Compatibility Program Update 

comprised of actions designed for 

phased implementation by airport 

management and adjacent jurisdictions 

from Sepember 23, 2011 to the year 

2014. It was requested that 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 April 1, 2011, 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 a 

total of nineteen (19) elements, four (4) 

of which were FAA and/or airport 

operator actionable measures for noise 

mitigation on and off the airport. The 

FAA completed its review and 

determined that the procedural and 

substantive requirements of the Act and 

14 CFR part 150 have been satisfied. 

The overall Program, therefore, was 

approved by the FAA effective 

September 23, 2011. 

Outright approval was granted for two 

(2) of the specific program elements. In 

addition, two (2) of the program 

elements were disapproved by the FAA. 

Operational Measure #2 was 

disapproved for purposes of part 150 

because it did not provide any 

quantifiable reduction in noise impacts 

to non-compatible land uses. Land Use 

Measure #16 was disapproved for 

purposes of part 150 because the local 

municipal jurisdictions have not yet 

adopted a lower local standard which 

defines incompatible land uses below 

DNL 65 dBA. The other fifteen (15) 

program elements were elements from 

the original Noise Compatibility 

Program completed by the City of 

Kissimmee and approved by the FAA in 

1994, which were requested to be 

rescinded by the airport operator in the 

current Program. At the airport 

operators request, the FAA has 

withdrawn its 1994 approval of these 15 

elements in accordance with 14 CFR 

part 150.35(d)(5). 

These determinations are set forth in 

detail in a Record of Approval signed by 

the FAA on September 23, 2011. 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 

and at the administrative office of the 

City of Kissimmee. The Record of 

Approval also will be available on-line 

at: http://www.faa.gov/ 

airports_airtraffic/airports/ 

environmental/airport_noise/part_150/ 

states/. 

Issued in Orlando, Florida on September 

23, 2011. 

W. Dean Stringer, 

Manager, Orlando Airports District Office. 

[FR Doc. 2011–25155 Filed 9–29–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Noise Exposure Map Update for 

Buffalo Niagara International Airport, 

Buffalo, NY 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA) announces its 

determination that the updated noise 

exposure maps submitted by the Niagara 

Frontier Transportation Authority 

(NFTA), for Buffalo Niagara 

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. 

DATES: Effective Date: The effective date 

of the FAA’s determination on the noise 

exposure maps is September 20, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Suki Gill, Environmental Protection 

Specialist, Federal Aviation 

Administration, New York Airports 

District Office, 600 Old Country Road, 

Suite 446, Garden City, NY 11530, 

Telephone (516) 227–3815. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice announces that the FAA finds 

that the updated noise exposure maps 

submitted for Buffalo Niagara 

International Airport are in compliance 

with applicable requirements of 14 Code 

of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 150 

(hereinafter referred to as ‘‘part 150’’), 

effective September 20, 2011. Under 49 

U.S.C. section 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 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 NFTA. The 

documentation that constitutes the 

‘‘Noise Exposure Maps’’ as defined in 

section 150.7 of part 150 includes: 

Figure 6 ‘‘2008 Noise Exposure Map 

with Land Use’’ and Figure 9 ‘‘2013 

Noise Exposure Map & Affected Land 

Uses.’’ The FAA has determined that 

these noise exposure maps and 

accompanying documentation are in 

compliance with applicable 

requirements. This determination is 

effective on September 20, 2011. 

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 

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 to the 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 

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