44088 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 145 / Tuesday, July 29, 2014 / Notices 

1Operating Limitations at New York LaGuardia 

Airport, 71 FR 77854 (Dec. 27, 2006) as amended 

by 79 FR 17222 (Mar. 27, 2014). 

2See 79 FR 16857 (Mar. 26, 2014) (EWR Order); 

79 FR 16854 (Mar. 26, 2014) (JFK Order). 

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section. Members of the public 

may present a written statement to the 

committee at any time. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on July 18th 

2014. 

Mohannad Dawoud, 

Management Analyst, NextGen, Business 

Operations Group, Federal Aviation 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2014–17820 Filed 7–28–14; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Sixty-Fourth Meeting: RTCA Special 

Committee 135, Environmental 

Conditions and Test Procedures for 

Airborne Equipment 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), U.S. Department 

of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Meeting Notice of RTCA Special 

Committee 135, Environmental 

Conditions and Test Procedures for 

Airborne Equipment. 

SUMMARY: The FAA is issuing this notice 

to advise the public of the Sixty-Fourth 

meeting of the RTCA Special Committee 

135, Environmental Conditions and Test 

Procedures for Airborne Equipment. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

October 7–9 2014 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 

p.m. on October 7 and 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 

p.m. on October 8–9. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

RTCA 1150 18th Street NW., Suite 450, 

Washington DC 20036. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

RTCA Secretariat, 1150 18th Street NW., 

Suite 910, Washington, DC 20036, or by 

telephone at (202) 330–0652/(202) 833– 

9339, fax at (202) 833–9434, or Web site 

at http://www.rtca.org or Sophie 

Bousquet, sbousquet@rtca.org, 202– 

330–0663. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463, 5 U.S.C., App.), notice is hereby 

given for a meeting of Special 

Committee 135. The agenda will include 

the following: 

October 7–9 

• Chairmen’s Opening Remarks, 

Introductions. 

• Approval of Summary from the 

Sixty-Third Meeting—(RTCA Paper No. 

123–14/SC135–698). 

• Review FRAC Responses and 

Release the final document for the PMC 

and TAC 

• Review Revised Terms of Reference. 

• Review DO–160G/ED 14G Errata 

Sheet 

• New/Unfinished Business. 

• Establish date/locations for Next 

SC–135 Meetings. 

• Closing and Adjourn 

Coordination with EUROCAE WG–14 

in Paris will be held by WebEx on 

October 7 morning 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. 

(EDT), October 8–9 morning 8:00 a.m.– 

12:00 p.m. (EDT). It is focused on item 

3 and 5 but may be expended as far as 

practicable. 

Attendance is open to the interested 

public but limited to space availability. 

With the approval of the chairman, 

members of the public may present oral 

statements at the meeting. Persons 

wishing to present statements or obtain 

information should contact the person 

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section. Members of the public 

may present a written statement to the 

committee at any time. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on July 18 2014. 

Mohannad Dawoud, 

Management Analyst, NextGen, Business 

Operations Group, Federal Aviation 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2014–17819 Filed 7–28–14; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Notice of Submission Deadline To 

Amend Slot Records for LaGuardia 

Airport 

AGENCY: Department of Transportation, 

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). 

ACTION: Notice of submission deadline. 

SUMMARY: Under this notice, the FAA 

announces the submission deadline of 

August 12, 2014, for requests to amend 

slot records (adjust slot times and 

arrival/departure designations) at New 

York LaGuardia Airport (LGA). 

DATES: Schedules must be submitted no 

later than August 12, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Schedules may be 

submitted by mail to the Slot 

Administration Office, AGC–200, Office 

of the Chief Counsel, 800 Independence 

Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20591; by 

facsimile to: 202–267–7277; or by email 

to: 7-AWA-slotadmin@faa.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert Hawks, Office of the Chief 

Counsel, Federal Aviation 

Administration, 800 Independence 

Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20591; 

telephone number: 202–267–7143; fax 

number: 202–267–7971; email: 

rob.hawks@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Scheduled 

operations at LGA currently are limited 

by FAA Order until a final Slot 

Management and Transparency Rule for 

LaGuardia Airport, John F. Kennedy 

International Airport, and Newark 

Liberty International Airport (RIN 2120– 

AJ89) becomes effective but not later 

than October 29, 2016.1 The LGA Order 

permits the leasing or trading of slots 

through the expiration date of the Order, 

but this mechanism limits a carrier’s 

ability to permanently adjust its slot 

base through trades with another carrier, 

as is common at Ronald Reagan 

Washington National Airport (DCA). 

Additionally, the Order permanently 

allocates slots, unlike the EWR and JFK 

Orders that allocate slots and permit slot 

retimings on a seasonal basis, subject to 

availability of slots through a 

transparent process generally following 

the International Air Transport 

Association (IATA) Worldwide Slot 

Guidelines (WSG).2

Recently the FAA has received a 

number of requests to retime LGA slots 

and change arrival/departure 

designations. Although the FAA has 

received similar requests for slot 

adjustments on a seasonal basis since 

the LGA Order became effective, the 

FAA has noticed an increase in the 

volume of requests and the number of 

carriers seeking accommodation. Some 

requests have been the same season after 

season, indicating that carriers may 

desire adjustments that remain in effect 

until the expiration of the LGA Order. 

Historically, the FAA has evaluated and 

confirmed these adjustment requests, 

consistent with the LGA Order and prior 

FAA practice, on the basis of whether 

they have an operational benefit or a 

neutral effect on operations. Since 2007, 

many of these adjustments have 

improved LGA operational performance. 

To evaluate LGA slot adjustments for 

the upcoming 2014–15 winter IATA 

scheduling season in a fair and 

transparent manner, the FAA is 

establishing a deadline of August 12, 

2014, for carriers to request retiming 

and changes to the arrival/departure 

designation of currently-held slots. 

Carriers should provide slot information 

in sufficient detail including, at 

minimum, the operating carrier, slot 

number, scheduled time of arrival or 

departure, frequency, arrival/departure 

designation, and effective dates. 

Consistent with past practice, the FAA 

will evaluate requests in light of the 


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overall operational impact at LGA and 

whether the requests improve or have a 

neutral effect on operational 

performance. The FAA will consider 

both short-term adjustments and 

adjustments through the expiration of 

the LGA Order. In addition, if the FAA 

receives conflicting requests for 

retiming, the FAA will give priority to 

new entrants and limited incumbents, 

consistent with the LGA Order and FAA 

practice. The terms of the LGA Order 

prevent the FAA from allocating new 

slots in hours at or above the slot limit. 

The FAA will evaluate requests 

received by August 12, 2014, and 

intends to respond to the requests no 

later than August 19, 2014. The FAA 

cannot guarantee that all requests to 

adjust slots will be confirmed. Requests 

received after August 12, 2014, will be 

evaluated after timely requests in the 

order they are received. As permitted 

under paragraph A.5 of the LGA Order, 

carriers are encouraged to engage in slot 

trades, when possible, to achieve 

desired timings. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on July 23, 

2014. 

Mark W. Bury, 

Assistant Chief Counsel for International Law, 

Legislation, and Regulations. 

[FR Doc. 2014–17662 Filed 7–24–14; 4:15 pm] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

[Docket No. FTA–2014–0016] 

Notice of Buy America Waiver for 

Waterjets 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration, 

DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Buy America waiver. 

SUMMARY: In response to the Golden 

Gate Bridge Highway & Transportation 

District’s (Bridge District) request for a 

Buy America waiver for waterjets, the 

Federal Transit Administration (FTA) 

hereby waives its Buy America 

requirements for waterjets to be 

installed in the Bridge District’s M.V. 

Mendocino ferry vessel. This waiver is 

limited to a single procurement for the 

waterjets to be installed in the M.V. 

Mendocino ferry vessel, which is part of 

an FTA-funded project. 

DATES: This waiver is effective 

immediately. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mary J. Lee, FTA Attorney-Advisor, at 

(202) 366–0985 or mary.j.lee@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purpose of this notice is to announce 

that FTA has granted a non-availability 

waiver for the Bridge District’s 

procurement of waterjets to be installed 

in its M.V. Mendocino ferry vessel. 

With certain exceptions, FTA’s Buy 

America requirements prevent FTA 

from obligating an amount that may be 

appropriated to carry out its program for 

a project unless ‘‘the steel, iron, and 

manufactured goods used in the project 

are produced in the United States.’’ 49 

U.S.C. 5323(j)(1). A manufactured 

product is considered produced in the 

United States if: (1) All of the 

manufacturing processes for the product 

must take place in the United States; 

and (2) All of the components of the 

product must be of U.S. origin. A 

component is considered of U.S. origin 

if it is manufactured in the United 

States, regardless of the origin of its 

subcomponents. 49 CFR 661.5(d). If, 

however, FTA determines that ‘‘the 

steel, iron, and goods produced in the 

United States are not produced in a 

sufficient and reasonably available 

amount or are not of a satisfactory 

quality,’’ then FTA may issue a waiver 

(non-availability waiver). 49 U.S.C. 

5323(j)(2)(B); 49 CFR 661.7(c). 

Earlier this year, FTA received a 

petition from the Bridge District seeking 

a waiver that would permit them to 

procure replacement waterjets for the 

M.V. Mendocino ferry vessel that would 

not be manufactured in the United 

States and therefore would not comply 

with FTA’s Buy America requirements. 

The Bridge District submitted 

documentation showing that it had 

sought a domestic manufacturer of 

waterjets meeting its technical 

requirements, but the one domestic 

manufacturer it located, NAMjet of 

Arkansas, was not capable of 

constructing commercial waterjets 

meeting the Bridge District’s design 

needs, and that the only responsive 

bidder, HamiltonJet of New Zealand, 

would not be able to provide a Buy 

America-compliant waterjet to the 

Bridge District. Pursuant to 49 CFR 

661.7, FTA published a notice in the 

Federal Register on July 8, 2014, (79 FR 

38665) seeking public comment on the 

Bridge District’s request. 

During the comment period, FTA 

received no objections to the Bridge 

District’s petition. In fact, FTA received 

no comments at all, indicating a likely 

lack of interest from domestic 

manufacturers who were ready, willing, 

and able to produce waterjets meeting 

the Bridge District’s specifications. As 

part of its due diligence, FTA also 

reached out to its sister agency, the 

Maritime Administration (MARAD), the 

modal agency within the US 

Department of Transportation 

responsible for maritime matters, 

including domestic vessel construction. 

MARAD’s Office of Shipyards and 

Marine Engineering confirmed that of 

the domestic manufacturers of waterjets, 

there were none capable of meeting the 

higher volume performance standards 

required for the Bridge District’s ferry. 

Based upon the Bridge District’s 

representations that it is unable to 

procure Buy America-compliant 

waterjets, the lack of responses to FTA’s 

Federal Register Notice, and FTA’s 

outreach to its MARAD counterparts, 

FTA is issuing a non-availability waiver 

for HamiltonJet’s high-capacity waterjets 

pursuant to 49 CFR 661.7(c). This 

waiver is limited to the procurement of 

waterjets for the M.V. Mendocino. 

Subsequent requests for replacement 

waterjets will be subject to similar 

notice-and-comment publication 

requirements. 

Dana Nifosi, 

Deputy Chief Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2014–17779 Filed 7–28–14; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

Notice and Request for Comments 

AGENCY: Surface Transportation Board, 

DOT. 

ACTION: 30-day notice of request for 

approval: End-of-Year Railroad Service 

Outlook. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burdens, and as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3519 (PRA), 

the Surface Transportation Board (STB 

or Board) gives notice that it is 

requesting from the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval of the information collection 

resulting from the Board’s annual 

request that Class I carriers and rail 

carriers that are members of the 

American Shortline and Regional 

Railroad Association (ASLRRA) provide 

the Board with information about the 

plans and preparations that these rail 

carriers have made in anticipation of the 

increased demand for rail service during 

the fall peak demand season. 

The Board previously published a 

notice about this collection in the 

Federal Register on June 24, 2013, at 78 

FR 37882 (60-day notice). That notice 

allowed for a 60-day public review and 

comment period. No comments were 

received. 

Comments may now be submitted to 

OMB concerning: (1) The accuracy of 


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