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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of the Secretary 

Notice of Applications for Certificates 

of Public Convenience and Necessity 

and Foreign Air Carrier Permits Filed 

Under Subpart B (Formerly Subpart Q) 

During the Week Ending October 27, 

2012 

The following Applications for 

Certificates of Public Convenience and 

Necessity and Foreign Air Carrier 

Permits were filed under Subpart B 

(formerly Subpart Q) of the Department 

of Transportation’s Procedural 

Regulations (See 14 CFR 301.201 et 

seq.). The due date for Answers, 

Conforming Applications, or Motions to 

Modify Scope are set forth below for 

each application. Following the Answer 

period DOT may process the application 

by expedited procedures. Such 

procedures may consist of the adoption 

of a show-cause order, a tentative order, 

or in appropriate cases a final order 

without further proceedings. 

Docket Number: DOT–OST–2012– 

0178. 

Date Filed: October 22, 2012. 

Due Date for Answers, Conforming 

Applications, or Motion to Modify 

Scope: November 12, 2012. 

Description: Application of Scott Air, 

LLC (‘‘SCA’’) requesting a certificate of 

public convenience and necessity to the 

extent necessary to authorize SCA to 

engage in interstate scheduled air 

transportation of persons, property and 

mail utilizing small aircraft. 

Docket Number: DOT–OST–2012– 

0180. 

Date Filed: October 23, 2012. 

Due Date for Answers, Conforming 

Applications, or Motion to Modify 

Scope: November 13, 2012. 

Description: Application of Gama 

Charters Inc. (‘‘Gama’’) requesting a 

certificate of public convenience and 

necessity authorizing Gama to engage in 

the foreign charter air transportation of 

persons, property and mail with a 

Boeing Business Jet aircraft (‘‘BBJ’’). 

Gama also requests the Department 

exercise its discretionary authority to 

issue Gama an exemption pendente lite 

pending Department action on the 

instant certificate application. 

Docket Number: DOT–OST–2012– 

0181. 

Date Filed: October 23, 2012. 

Due Date for Answers, Conforming 

Applications, or Motion to Modify 

Scope: November 13, 2012. 

Description: Application of Gama 

Charters Inc. (‘‘Gama’’) requesting a 

certificate of public convenience and 

necessity authorizing Gama to engage in 

interstate charter air transportation of 

persons, property and mail with a 

Boeing Business Jet aircraft (‘‘BBJ’’). 

Gama also requests an exemption 

pendente lite to the extent necessary to 

allow it to conduct Part 135 services 

with BBJ aircraft pending Department 

action on the instant application. 

Docket Number: DOT–OST–2010– 

0093. 

Date Filed: October 24, 2012. 

Due Date for Answers, Conforming 

Applications, or Motion to Modify 

Scope: November 14, 2012. 

Description: Application of Open 

Joint Stock Company Transaero Airlines 

(‘‘Transaero’’) requesting to amend its 

foreign air carrier permit to include 

authority for Transaero to provide 

scheduled foreign air transportation of 

persons, property, and mail (i) from any 

point or points behind the Russian 

Federation, via any point or points in 

the Russian Federation and intermediate 

points, to San Francisco, California, and 

(ii) from San Francisco, California, to 

any point or points in the Russian 

Federation and beyond. 

Barbara J. Hairston, 

Acting Program Manager, Docket Operations, 

Federal Register Liaison. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of the Secretary 

Notice of Applications for Certificates 

of Public Convenience and Necessity 

and Foreign Air Carrier Permits Filed 

Under Subpart B (Formerly Subpart Q) 

During the Week Ending October 20, 

2012 

The following Applications for 

Certificates of Public Convenience and 

Necessity and Foreign Air Carrier 

Permits were filed under Subpart B 

(formerly Subpart Q) of the Department 

of Transportation’s Procedural 

Regulations (See 14 CFR 301.201 et. 

seq.). The due date for Answers, 

Conforming Applications, or Motions to 

Modify Scope are set forth below for 

each application. Following the Answer 

period DOT may process the application 

by expedited procedures. Such 

procedures may consist of the adoption 

of a show-cause order, a tentative order, 

or inappropriate cases a final order 

without further proceedings. 

Docket Number: DOT–OST–2012– 

0182. 

Date Filed: October 17, 2012. 

Due Date for Answers, Conforming 

Applications, or Motion to Modify 

Scope: November 7, 2012. 

Description: Application of Global 

Supply Systems Limited (‘‘GSS’’) 

requesting a new or amended foreign air 

carrier permit to enable GSS, consistent 

with the open skies, U.S.-European 

Union (‘‘EU’’) Air Transport Agreement, 

to provide: (i) Foreign scheduled and 

charter air transportation of property 

and mail from any point or points 

behind any Member State of the 

European Union, via any point or points 

in any Member State and via any 

intermediate points to any point or 

points in the United States and beyond; 

(ii) foreign scheduled and charter air 

transportation of property and mail 

between any point or points in the 

United States and any point or points in 

any member of the European Common 

Aviation Area; (iii) foreign scheduled 

and charter cargo air tansportation 

between any point or points in the 

United States and any point or points; 

(iv) other charters pursuant to the 

requirements set forth in the 

Department’s regulations governing 

charters; and (v) transportation 

authorized by any additional route 

rights made available to European 

Union carriers in the future. GSS also 

requests (i) exemption authority, to the 

extent necessary and for an initial 

period of two years or until the 

requested permit is issued, to enable it 

to hold out and provide the service 

described above; and (ii) such 

additional or other relief as the 

Department may deem necessary or 

appropriate. 

Barbara J. Hairston, 

Acting Program Manager, Docket Operations, 

Federal Register Liaison. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

[Docket No. FAA–2012–1191] 

Orders Limiting Operations at John F. 

Kennedy International Airport, 

LaGuardia Airport, and Newark Liberty 

International Airport; High Density 

Rule at Reagan Washington National 

Airport 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Limited Waiver of the 

Slot Usage Requirement. 

SUMMARY: This action announces a 

limited waiver of the requirement to use 

Operating Authorizations (slots) at John 

F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), 

LaGuardia Airport (LGA), and Newark 


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1 14 CFR 93.227 (DCA); 74 FR 51648 (Oct. 7, 

2009) (EWR); 74 FR 51650 (Oct. 7, 2009) (JFK); 77 

FR 30585 (May 23, 2012) (LGA). 

Liberty International Airport (EWR). 

This action also declines to grant a 

waiver of the requirement to use slots at 

Reagan Washington National Airport. 

This waiver is effective from October 28, 

2012 through November 2, 2012. 

DATES: Effective November 15, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert Hawks, Office of the Chief 

Counsel, Federal Aviation 

Administration, 800 Independence 

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20591; 

telephone: (202) 267–7143; email: 

rob.hawks@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On October 29, 2012, Hurricane 

Sandy made landfall in southern New 

Jersey. Combined with another weather 

front, Hurricane Sandy transitioned to 

an extratropical storm that caused 

widespread power outages, severe 

flooding, and severe disruption of 

transportation systems in the 

northeastern and mid-Atlantic United 

States. This disruption included airport 

closures and mass cancellation of 

scheduled flights. 

The degree of disruption and 

cancellations varied by airport across 

the region, and flight disruptions 

occurred at slot-controlled and non-slotcontrolled airports. JFK and EWR were 

effectively closed on October 29 and 30 

and had limited operational capacity on 

October 31. LGA was effectively closed 

from October 29 through October 31 and 

had limited operational capacity on 

November 1. DCA was effectively closed 

on October 29 and 30 and had reduced 

operational capacity on October 31. 

Recovery of normal operations took 

several days after the storm. 

FAA Analysis 

Under the FAA’s High Density Rule at 

DCA and Orders limiting operations at 

LGA, JFK, and EWR, slots must be used 

at least 80 percent of the time. These 

rules are expected to accommodate 

routine weather and other cancellations 

under all but the most unusual 

circumstances. Slots not meeting the 

minimum usage requirement will be 

withdrawn or not receive historic 

precedence for the following scheduling 

season, depending on the airport.1 The 

FAA may grant a waiver from the 

minimum usage requirement in highly 

unusual and unpredictable conditions 

that are beyond the control of the carrier 

and affect carrier operations for a period 

of five or more consecutive days (for 

LGA, JFK, and EWR) or of nine or more 

consecutive days (for DCA). However, 

the FAA does not routinely grant 

general waivers to the usage 

requirement except under the most 

unusual circumstances. 

The FAA has granted waivers of the 

slot usage requirement in circumstances 

similar to those of Hurricane Sandy. The 

FAA generally considers the days of the 

weather event as well as a couple 

additional days to resume normal 

operations. For example, in February 

2010, the FAA granted a general waiver 

because unusual snowstorms closed 

slot-controlled airports for multiple 

days and also caused mass cancellations 

resulting from reduced airport capacity. 

For LGA, JFK, and EWR, the FAA has 

determined the unusual circumstances 

created by Hurricane Sandy meet the 

criteria for a limited waiver of the 

minimum slot usage requirement. 

Accordingly, the FAA will treat as used 

any slot or Operating Authorization 

held by a carrier from October 28 

through November 2, 2012. 

For DCA, the FAA has determined 

that overall operational disruption did 

not last for the required nine or more 

consecutive days. Operational data 

show normal operations largely had 

resumed by November 1, 2012. 

Although the FAA has determined 

that a general waiver of the usage 

requirement is inappropriate for DCA, it 

acknowledges that some carriers operate 

flights between DCA and airports in the 

NYC area or northeastern U.S. affected 

by the storm. These circumstances may 

have created a unique hardship for 

those carriers justifying waiver relief. To 

assess that hardship and determine 

whether relief is warranted, the FAA 

requests that affected carriers submit an 

individual request for limited waiver. 

However, a carrier must demonstrate 

operational disruptions of scheduled 

flights that lasted nine or more 

consecutive days to be eligible for 

waiver relief. 

FAA Decision 

In consideration of the foregoing, the 

FAA GRANTS a limited waiver of the 

usage requirement for LGA, JFK, and 

EWR for the period from October 28 

through November 2, 2012. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on November 7, 

2012. 

Rebecca B. MacPherson, 

Assistant Chief Counsel for International Law, 

Legislation, and Regulations. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

Notice of Final Federal Agency Actions 

on Proposed Highway in Indiana 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Limitation on Claims 

for Judicial Review of Actions by FHWA 

and United States Army Corps of 

Engineers (USACE), DoD. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces actions 

taken by the FHWA and the USACE that 

are final within the meaning of 23 

U.S.C. 139(l)(1). The actions relate to 

proposed highway projects for a 26.7 

mile segment of I–69 in the Counties of 

Greene and Monroe, State of Indiana, 

and grant licenses, permits, and 

approvals for the project. 

DATES: By this notice, the FHWA is 

advising the public of final agency 

actions subject to 23 U.S.C. 139(l)(1) and 

are final within the meaning of that law. 

A claim seeking judicial review of those 

Federal agency actions that are covered 

by this notice will be barred unless the 

claim is filed on or before April 14, 

2013. If the Federal law that authorizes 

judicial review of a claim provides a 

time period of less than 150 days for 

filing such claim, then the shorter time 

period applies. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

the FHWA: Ms. Michelle Allen, Federal 

Highway Administration, Indiana 

Division, 575 North Pennsylvania 

Street, Room 254, Indianapolis, IN 

46204–1576; telephone: (317) 226–7344; 

email: Michelle.Allen@dot.gov. The 

FHWA Indiana Division Office’s normal 

business hours are 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., 

e.t. For the USACE: Mr. Greg Mckay, 

Chief, North Section Regulatory Branch, 

Louisville District, United States Army 

Corps of Engineers, P.O. Box 59, 

Louisville, KY 40201–0059; telephone: 

(502) 315–6685; email: 

gregory.a.mckay@usace.army.mil. 

Normal business hours are 8 a.m. to 5 

p.m., e.t. You may also contact Mr. 

Thomas Seeman, Project Manager, 

Indiana Department of Transportation 

(INDOT), 100 North Senate Avenue, 

Indianapolis, IN 46204; telephone: (317) 

232–5336; email: 

TSeeman@indot.IN.gov. Normal 

business hours for the Indiana 

Department of Transportation are: 8 a.m. 

to 4:30 p.m., e.t. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that the FHWA and other 

Federal agencies have taken final agency 

actions by issuing licenses, permits, and 

approvals for the highway project in the 

State of Indiana listed below. The 


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