Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 15 / Monday, January 25, 2010 / Notices 3959 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Railroad Administration 

[Docket No. FRA–2000–7257; Notice No. 58] 

Railroad Safety Advisory Committee; 

Notice of Meeting 

AGENCY: Federal Railroad 

Administration (FRA), Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Announcement of Railroad 

Safety Advisory Committee (RSAC) 

Meeting. 

SUMMARY: FRA announces the forty-first 

meeting of the RSAC, a Federal advisory 

committee that develops railroad safety 

regulations through a consensus 

process. The RSAC meeting topics will 

include opening remarks from the FRA 

Administrator, and status reports will be 

provided by the Locomotive Standards, 

Passenger Safety, Track Safety 

Standards, and Medical Standards 

Working Groups. Status updates will be 

provided on the following tasks arising 

out of the Rail Safety Improvement Act 

of 2008 (RSIA): Positive Train Control, 

Passenger Hours of Service, Railroad 

Bridge Safety Management, and 

Conductor Certification. FRA may offer 

a new task on Minimum Training 

Standards for Safety-Related Railroad 

Employees, as required by the RSIA. 

This agenda is subject to change, 

including the possible addition of 

further proposed tasks. 

DATES: The meeting of the RSAC is 

scheduled to commence at 9:30 a.m. on 

Thursday, February 11, 2010, and will 

adjourn by 4:30 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The RSAC meeting will be 

held at the Marriott Washington, 

Wardman Park Hotel, located at 2660 

Woodley Road, NW., Washington, DC. 

The meeting is open to the public on a 

first-come, first-served basis, and is 

accessible to individuals with 

disabilities. Sign and oral interpretation 

can be made available if requested 10 

calendar days before the meeting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Larry Woolverton, RSAC Administrative 

Officer/Coordinator, FRA, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue, SE., Mailstop 25, 

Washington, DC 20590, (202) 493–6212; 

or Grady Cothen, Deputy Associate 

Administrator for Safety, FRA, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., Mailstop 25, 

Washington, DC 20590, (202) 493–6302. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

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

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463), FRA is giving notice of a meeting 

of the RSAC. The RSAC was established 

to provide advice and recommendations 

to FRA on railroad safety matters. The 

RSAC is composed of 54 voting 

representatives from 31 member 

organizations, representing various rail 

industry perspectives. In addition, there 

are non-voting advisory representatives 

from the agencies with railroad safety 

regulatory responsibility in Canada and 

Mexico, the National Transportation 

Safety Board, and the Federal Transit 

Administration. The diversity of the 

Committee ensures the requisite range 

of views and expertise necessary to 

discharge its responsibilities. See the 

RSAC Web site for details on pending 

tasks at: http://rsac.fra.dot.gov. Please 

refer to the notice published in the 

Federal Register on March 11, 1996 (61 

FR 9740), for additional information 

about the RSAC. 

Issued in Washington, DC on January 19, 

2010. 

Grady C. Cothen, Jr., 

Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety 

Standards and Program Development. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1281 Filed 1–22–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Fifth Meeting—RTCA Special 

Committee 220: Automatic Flight 

Guidance and Control 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of RTCA Special 

Committee 220: Automatic Flight 

Guidance and Control meeting. 

SUMMARY: The FAA is issuing this notice 

to advise the public of a meeting of 

RTCA Special Committee 220: 

Automatic Flight Guidance and Control. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

February 23–25, 2010. February 23rd– 

24th from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and February 

25th from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Hilton Garden Inn Tucson Airport, 

6575 South Country Club Road, Tucson, 

Arizona, USA 85706, Tel. +1–520–741– 

0505, Fax: +1–520–741–0510. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: (1) 

RTCA Secretariat, 1828 L Street, NW., 

Suite 805, Washington, DC 20036; 

telephone (202) 833–9339; fax (202) 

833–9434; Web site http://www.rtca.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

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

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463, 5 U.S.C., Appendix 2), notice is 

hereby given for a Special Committee 

220: Automatic Flight Guidance and 

Control meeting. The agenda will 

include: 

• Welcome/Agenda Overview 

• MOPS General Status 

• MOPS Part 23 inputs status 

• MOPS Part 25/27 inputs status 

• Breakout into individual MOPS 

sections WGs 

• All-hands to Merge the MOPS 

sections WGs 

• Report out from each MOPS WG: 

status, schedule, issues 

• Establish Dates, Location, Agenda for 

Next Meeting, Other Business 

Attendance is open to the interested 

public but limited to space availability. 

With the approval of the chairmen, 

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 January 15, 

2010. 

Francisco Estrada C., 

RTCA Advisory Committee. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1287 Filed 1–22–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Noise Exposure Map Notice for Kona 

International Airport at Keahole, 

Keahole, North Kona, HI 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA) announces its 

determination that the noise exposure 

maps submitted by the State of Hawaii 

for Kona International Airport at 

Keahole 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 January 12, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Peter Ciesla, Federal Aviation 

Administration, Western Pacific Region, 

Airports Division, P.O. Box 92007, Los 

Angeles, California 90009–2007, 

Telephone: (310) 725–3612. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice announces that the FAA finds 

that the noise exposure maps submitted 

for Kona International Airport at 

Keahole are in compliance with 

applicable requirements of Part 150, 


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effective January 12, 2010. 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 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 State of Hawaii. The 

documentation that constitutes the 

‘‘noise exposure maps’’ as defined in 

section 150.7 of Part 150 includes: 

Exhibit 1, Existing Conditions (2008) 

Noise Exposure Map and Exhibit, 

Future Condition (2013) 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, noise sensitive institutions, 

a school, non noise-sensitive land uses, 

and growth risk areas, and also those 

areas within the noise contours. 

Estimates for the number of people 

within these contours, for the year 2008 

is shown in Table 4C. Estimates of the 

future number of people within the 

2013 noise contours is shown in Table 

4F. Flight tracks for the existing and the 

five-year forecast Noise Exposure Maps 

are found in Exhibits 3E, 3F, 3G, and 

3H. The type and frequency of aircraft 

operations (including nighttime 

operations) are found in Tables 3A and 

3B for the existing conditions (2008) 

and the future conditions (2013). The 

FAA has determined that these noise 

exposure maps and accompanying 

documentation are in compliance with 

applicable requirements. This 

determination is effective on January 12, 

2010. 

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 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 

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, that the 

statutorily required consultation has 

been accomplished. 

Copies of the full noise exposure map 

documentation and of the FAA’s 

evaluation of the maps are available for 

examination at the following locations: 

Federal Aviation Administration, 

Western-Pacific Region, Airports 

Division, Room 3012, 15000 Aviation 

Boulevard, Hawthorne, California 

90261; 

Federal Aviation Administration, 

Honolulu Airports District Office, 300 

Ala Moana Boulevard, 7–128, 

Honolulu, Hawaii 96850; 

State of Hawaii, Department of 

Transportation, Airports Division, 400 

Rodgers Boulevard, Suite 700, 

Honolulu, Hawaii 96819–1880; 

Kona International Airport at Keahole, 

73–200 Kupipi Street, Kailua-Kona, 

Hawaii 96740–2645. 

Questions may be directed to the 

individual named above under the 

heading, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Issued in Hawthorne, California on January 

12, 2010. 

Mia Paredes Ratcliff, 

Acting Manager, Airports Division, AWP–600, 

Western-Pacific Region. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1326 Filed 1–22–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Railroad Administration 

Petition for Waiver of Compliance 

In accordance with Part 211 of Title 

49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), 

notice is hereby given that the Federal 

Railroad Administration (FRA) has 

received a request for a waiver of 

compliance from certain requirements 

of its safety standards. The individual 

petition is described below, including 

the party seeking relief, the regulatory 

provisions involved, the nature of the 

relief being requested, and the 

petitioner’s arguments in favor of relief. 

Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers BoardCaltrain 

[Waiver Petition Docket Number FRA–2009– 

0124] 

The Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers 

Board (JPB) seeks a waiver of 

compliance from certain provisions of 

Title 49 CFR Part 238 Passenger 

Equipment Safety Standards. 

Specifically, JPB is considering 

purchasing non-FRA compliant highefficiency electric multiple unit (EMU) 

vehicles, constructed to European safety 

standards for its Caltrain commuter rail 

service between San Francisco, CA, and 

Gilroy, CA. JPB seeks relief from the 

requirements of § 238.204 Static End 

Strength; § 238.205 Anti-Climbing 

Mechanism; § 238.207 Link Between 

Coupling Mechanism; § 238.211 

Collision Posts; and § 238.213 Corner 

Posts. 

JPB, which owns and operates the 

Caltrain commuter rail service between 

San Francisco, CA, and Gilroy, CA 

[MilePost (MP) 51.9], is currently 

considering a program that increases 

system capacity by removing constraints 

within the system. This program, 

referred to as ‘‘Caltrain 2025,’’ will allow 

Caltrain to expand service and reduce 

costs while providing a measurably 

safer transportation network. Along 

with electrification of mainline tracks 

and implementation of an enhanced 

positive train control system, a key 

component of this program involves the 

operation of some non-FRA compliant 

high-efficiency EMU vehicles 

constructed to European safety 

standards that feature Crash Energy 


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