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http://www.regulations.gov at any time 

or to the Docket Management Facility in 

Room W12–140 of the West Building 

Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, between 

9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Frances Shaver, ARM–207, (202) 267– 

4059, FAA, Office of Rulemaking, 800 

Independence Ave., SW., Washington, 

DC 20591 or Walter Binkley, (405) 954– 

3284, FAA, Aircraft Registration Branch, 

PO Box 25504, Oklahoma City, OK 

73125. 

This notice is published pursuant to 

14 CFR 11.85. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on October 19, 

2011. 

Dennis R. Pratte, 

Acting Director, Office of Rulemaking. 

Petition for Exemption 

Docket No.: FAA–2011–1029. 

Petitioner: Maryland State Police 

Aviation Command. 

Section of 14 CFR Affected: § 47.15(b). 

Description of Relief Sought: 

Maryland State Police Aviation 

Command requests relief from 

§ 47.15(b). If granted, an exemption 

would allow Maryland State Police 

Aviation Command to use registration 

numbers ‘‘N1MSP’’ through ‘‘N11MSP’’ 

for its new AW139 medevac fleet. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

[Docket No. FAA–2010–0109] 

Petition for Waiver of the Terms of the 

Order Limiting Scheduled Operations 

at LaGuardia Airport; Procedures for 

the Reallocation of Slots at Ronald 

Reagan Washington National Airport 

and LaGuardia Airport 

AGENCY: Department of Transportation, 

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). 

ACTION: Notice of procedures for the 

reallocation of slots at Ronald Reagan 

Washington National Airport and 

LaGuardia Airport. 

SUMMARY: Under this notice, the FAA 

announces the procedures for the 

reallocation of slots at Ronald Reagan 

Washington National Airport and 

LaGuardia Airport, which are being 

divested by Delta Air Lines, Inc. and US 

Airways, Inc. resulting from a grant of 

waiver to them. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

October 7, 2011, the Secretary of 

Transportation and the Administrator of 

the Federal Aviation Administration 

(FAA) granted with conditions a joint 

waiver request by Delta Air Lines, Inc. 

(Delta) and US Airways, Inc. (US 

Airways) from the prohibition on 

purchasing operating authorizations 

(slots) at LaGuardia Airport (LGA). 76 

FR 63702 (Oct. 13, 2011) (the Waiver). 

The Waiver permitted Delta and US 

Airways 30 days to accept the terms of 

the Waiver. They accepted by joint letter 

on October 12, 2011. 

Among the conditions of the Waiver, 

the Secretary and the Administrator 

require Delta and US Airways 

collectively to dispose of 16 slots at 

Ronald Reagan Washington National 

Airport (DCA) and 32 slots at LGA. 

Those divested slots will be reallocated 

in one slot bundle for DCA and two slot 

bundles (of 16 slots each) for LGA to 

eligible new entrant and limited 

incumbent carriers. The following 

discussion describes the procedures and 

timelines for that reallocation. 

Registration for the Slot Reallocation 

The Waiver establishes that new 

entrant and limited incumbent carriers 

with less than five percent of the total 

slot holdings at DCA or LGA, and which 

do not code share to or from DCA or 

LGA with any carrier that has five 

percent or more of the total slot 

holdings, may participate in the 

reallocation at the respective airport. 

Eligible participating carriers also may 

not be subsidiaries, either partially or 

wholly owned, of a company whose 

combined slot holdings are equal to or 

greater than five percent of the total slot 

holdings at DCA or LGA respectively, 

with the exception of Frontier Airlines 

as noted in the Waiver. 

Because the identities of slot bidders 

are undisclosed during the bidding 

period, the FAA is requiring registration 

by eligible carriers to participate in the 

reallocation process. Eligible carriers 

may register by e-mail to 7-awaslotadmin@faa.gov between October 19 

and October 28, 2011. Please include 

‘‘DCA/LGA Slot Reallocation’’ in the 

email subject line. An eligible carrier 

must register as an individual carrier 

and may not submit a joint bid with 

another carrier. The registering carrier 

must indicate whether it intends to bid 

on slot bundles at DCA or LGA or both 

airports. The registering carrier must 

state whether there is common 

ownership or control of, by, or with any 

other carrier at the respective airport. 

Finally, the registering carrier must 

certify that it will disclose no purchase 

offer information to any person other 

than its agent. 

The FAA will confirm eligibility and 

respond by email with a bidder 

identification number for each slot 

bundle no later than November 10, 

2011. 

Slot Bundles 

The Waiver requires the divested slots 

to be reallocated in bundles. For DCA 

slots, there is one bundle of 16 slots 

(DCA Bundle). For LGA slots, there are 

two bundles of 16 slots each (LGA 

Bundle A and LGA Bundle B). The 

contents of the slot bundles are 

included in an appendix to this 

document. 

Bidding on Slot Bundles 

The Waiver permits a bidding period 

of seven business days. Accordingly, the 

bidding period will open at 9 a.m., 

Eastern time, on November 14, 2011, 

and it will close at 5 p.m., Eastern time, 

on November 22, 2011. Registered 

bidders may submit cash-only bids at 

any time during that bidding period and 

may submit multiple bids during the 

bidding period. The FAA will construe 

the latest received bid as that bidder’s 

final bid. 

Registered bidders may submit bids 

via email to 7-awa-slotadmin@faa.gov. 

Please include ‘‘DCA/LGA Slot 

Reallocation’’ in the e-mail subject line. 

The FAA requests the following format 

for required bid information in the body 

of the email: 

Bidder Identification Number, Slot 

Bundle, Preference Ranking, Bid Price 

The preference ranking applies only 

to the LGA slot bundles, and the FAA 

will use it only if one bidder submits 

the highest bid for both bundles. This 

preference ranking should be either a 

‘‘1’’ (first priority) or a ‘‘2’’ (second 

priority). 

The FAA will reject any bid that does 

not contain all required bid information. 

The FAA also will reject any bid 

received after 5 p.m., Eastern time, on 

November 22, 2011. The FAA will use 

its email system time stamp as the 

submission time of the bid. Bids are 

effective upon receipt, and the FAA will 

not permit the withdrawal of any bid. 

The FAA will post a running tally of 

bids for each slot bundle at http:// 

www.faa.gov/about/office_org/ 

headquarters_offices/agc/ReAllocation. 

That tally will include the required bid 

information and time stamp of the bid. 

The FAA will post bids at 

approximately 9 a.m., 12 p.m., and 4 

p.m., Eastern time, on each business day 

of the bidding period (for bids received 

by 8 a.m., 11 a.m., and 3 p.m., Eastern 

time, respectively). On November 22, 

the FAA will post bids each hour from 


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9 a.m. through 4 p.m., Eastern time, for 

bids received prior to the previous half 

hour (e.g., at 10 a.m. for all bids 

received by 9:30 a.m.). On the following 

day, November 23, 2011, the FAA will 

post bids received during the last hour 

of bidding. 

Completing the Slot Reallocation 

Transaction 

On November 23, 2011, the FAA will 

notify the divesting carrier and the 

winning bidder for each bundle of the 

winning bid and contact information for 

completing the transaction. The Waiver 

requires the divesting carrier and each 

winning bidder to enter into a binding 

agreement with respect to the sale of the 

divested slots within five business days 

from the FAA’s notice of the winning 

bid. Accordingly, the FAA expects the 

carriers will notify the FAA that they 

have entered into binding agreements 

with respect to the sale of the divested 

slots, via e-mail to 7-awaslotadmin@faa.gov, no later than 

December 1, 2011. That notification 

must certify that only monetary 

consideration will be or has been 

exchanged for the slots. 

Posting Bid Information 

After the FAA receives notice of the 

binding agreement between the 

divesting carrier and the winning 

bidder, it will post the winning bid and 

identity of the winning bidder at 

http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/

headquarters_offices/agc/ReAllocation. 

The FAA also will post all other bid 

information with the name of the 

respective bidders. 

In the unlikely event that no bids are 

received for a particular slot bundle, 

those slots would revert to the FAA. The 

FAA would post notice if no bids were 

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

office_org/headquarters_offices/agc/

ReAllocation. 

DATES: Registration by eligible carriers 

must be completed by October 28, 2011. 

The bidding period for registered 

bidders will open at 9 a.m., Eastern 

time, on November 14, 2011, and will 

close at 5 p.m., Eastern time, on 

November 22, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Requests for registration 

and bids may be submitted by e-mail to 

the Slot Administration Office at 7- 

AWA-slotadmin@faa.gov. Information 

regarding the slot reallocation may be 

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

office_org/headquarters_offices/agc/

ReAllocation. 

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; e-mail: 

rob.hawks@faa.gov. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on October 18, 

2011. 

Rebecca B. MacPherson, 

Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations. 

Appendix 

The DCA Bundle consists of: 

Slot ID Time Frequency 

1147 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 0700 X67 

1132 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 0800 Daily 

1150 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 0800 Daily 

1056 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 0900 Daily 

1030 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1000 Daily 

1083 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1000 Daily 

1223 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1100 Daily 

1027 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1200 Daily 

1142 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1300 Daily 

1109 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1400 Daily 

1389 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1600 Daily 

1238 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1700 Daily 

1401 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1800 Daily 

1515 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1800 Daily 

1308 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 2000 X6 

1065 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 2100 X6 

The LGA Bundle A consists of: 

Slot ID Time Arr./Dep. Frequency 

3197 .......................................................................................................................................... 0600 Departure .......... X67 

3183 .......................................................................................................................................... 0630 Departure .......... X67 

2138 .......................................................................................................................................... 0730 Arrival ............... X67 

2202 .......................................................................................................................................... 0830 Departure .......... X67 

3003 .......................................................................................................................................... 0830 Arrival ............... X67 

3230 .......................................................................................................................................... 0930 Departure .......... X67 

3636 .......................................................................................................................................... 1100 Arrival ............... X67 

3430 .......................................................................................................................................... 1230 Departure .......... X6 

3415 .......................................................................................................................................... 1300 Arrival ............... X6 

2160 .......................................................................................................................................... 1400 Departure .......... X6 

2188 .......................................................................................................................................... 1500 Arrival ............... X6 

3089 .......................................................................................................................................... 1600 Departure .......... X6 

3606 .......................................................................................................................................... 1700 Arrival ............... X6 

3015 .......................................................................................................................................... 1830 Departure .......... X6 

3848 .......................................................................................................................................... 2000 Arrival ............... X6 

3110 .......................................................................................................................................... 2100 Arrival ............... X6 

The LGA Bundle B consists of: 


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Slot ID Time Arr./Dep. Frequency 

3326 .......................................................................................................................................... 0630 Departure .......... X67 

2201 .......................................................................................................................................... 0700 Departure .......... X67 

2108 .......................................................................................................................................... 0800 Arrival ............... X67 

3318 .......................................................................................................................................... 0930 Departure .......... X67 

2072 .......................................................................................................................................... 1000 Arrival ............... X67 

2182 .......................................................................................................................................... 1030 Departure .......... X67 

3093 .......................................................................................................................................... 1230 Arrival ............... X6 

3075 .......................................................................................................................................... 1330 Departure .......... X6 

3098 .......................................................................................................................................... 1430 Arrival ............... X6 

3569 .......................................................................................................................................... 1600 Departure .......... X6 

2004 .......................................................................................................................................... 1630 Arrival ............... X6 

2129 .......................................................................................................................................... 1730 Departure .......... X6 

2007 .......................................................................................................................................... 1830 Arrival ............... X6 

2038 .......................................................................................................................................... 1930 Departure .......... X6 

3104 .......................................................................................................................................... 2030 Arrival ............... X6 

3054 .......................................................................................................................................... 2130 Arrival ............... X6 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

Environmental Impact Statement: 

Harris County, Texas 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent (NOI). 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to 40 CFR 1508.22 

and 43 TAC § 2.5(e)(2), the FHWA and 

the Texas Department of Transportation 

(TxDOT) are issuing this notice to 

advise the public that an environmental 

impact statement (EIS) will be prepared 

for the proposed North Houston 

Highway Improvement Project, in Harris 

County, Texas. The proposed project 

and study limits begin at interchange of 

United States Highway (US) 59 and 

State Highway (SH) 288 and follow 

northward along IH 45 to the 

interchange of IH 45 and Beltway 8 

North, a distance of approximately 16 

miles. The proposed project area also 

includes portions of IH 10, IH 610, US 

59, SH 288 near the downtown area, and 

the Hardy Toll Road located north of 

downtown Houston. The proposed 

project will be developed in compliance 

with Section 6002 of the Safe, 

Accountable, Flexible, Efficient 

Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for 

Users (SAFETEA–LU) and the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gregory Punske, P.E., District Engineer, 

Federal Highway Administration— 

Texas Division, 300 East 8th Street, 

Room 826, Austin, Texas 78701. 

Telephone: 512–536–5960. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

North-Hardy Planning Studies: 

Alternative Analysis Report (Highway 

Component) was completed in 

November 2005. The report evaluated 

the alternatives for transportation 

improvements within the study corridor 

and recommended a locally preferred 

alternative to meet the corridor’s 

highway transportation needs, while 

minimizing impacts to the surrounding 

environment. 

Projected increases in population and 

employment in the Houston 

metropolitan area will contribute to 

additional IH 45 congestion, which is 

already serious to severe. The proposed 

project is needed to address the serious 

to severe congestion and to 

accommodate existing and anticipated 

future traffic. Additionally the project is 

needed to bring the roadway up to 

current design standards, which would 

improve safety and provide for more 

efficient movement of people and goods. 

Additional efficiency is also needed to 

aid in evacuation events. The purpose of 

the proposed project is to manage the 

traffic congestion in the IH 45 corridor, 

improve mobility, provide expanded 

transit and carpool opportunities, bring 

the roadway facility up to current 

design standards to improve safety and 

operations, and expand capacity for 

emergency evacuations. 

The EIS will evaluate potential 

impacts from construction as well as 

routine operations of the proposed 

project, including, but not limited to the 

following: Impacts or potential 

displacements to residents and 

businesses; impacts to air and noise; 

impacts to water quality; impacts to 

waters of the United States; impacts to 

historic and archeological resources; 

impacts to hazardous materials; impacts 

to floodplains; impacts to socioeconomic resources (including 

environmental justice and limited 

English proficiency populations); 

indirect impacts; cumulative impacts; 

impacts to land use; impacts to 

vegetation; and impacts to wildlife. 

A Project Coordination Plan will be 

provided in accordance with Public Law 

109–59, Safe, Accountable, Flexible, 

Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A 

Legacy for Users (SAFETEA–LU), Title 

VI, Subsection 6002, Efficient 

Environmental Reviews for Project 

Decision Making, August 10, 2005, to 

facilitate and document the lead 

agencies, structure interaction with the 

public and other agencies, and to inform 

the public and other agencies of how the 

coordination will be accomplished. The 

Project Coordination Plan will promote 

early and continuous involvement from 

stakeholders, agencies, and the public as 

well as describe the proposed project, 

the roles of the agencies and the public, 

the project need and purpose, schedule, 

level of detail for alternatives analysis, 

methods to be used in the 

environmental analysis, and the 

proposed process for coordination and 

communication. 

The Project Coordination Plan is 

designed to be part of a flexible and 

adaptable process. The Project 

Coordination Plan will be available for 

public review, input, and comment at 

public meetings, including scoping 

meetings and hearings, held in 

accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

through the evaluation process. 

Pursuant to 23 U.S.C. Chapter 1, 

Subchapter 1, Section 139 of SAFETEA– 

LU, cooperating agencies, participating 

agencies and the public will be given an 

opportunity for input in the 

development of the project. The first of 

a series of public scoping meetings, 

conducted in an open house format, is 

planned to be held in the fall of 2011. 

As part of the NEPA process, this 

meeting will be the first in a series of 

meetings to solicit public comments 

throughout the planning process. 

A scoping meeting is an opportunity 

for participating agencies, cooperating 

agencies and the public to be involved 


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