26388 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 86 / Wednesday, May 4, 2022 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Noise Exposure Maps Notice for 

Piedmont Triad International Airport, 

Greensboro, North Carolina 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The FAA announces its 

determination that the noise exposure 

maps submitted by the Piedmont Triad 

Airport Authority for the Piedmont 

Triad International Airport are in 

compliance with applicable 

requirements. 

APPLICABLE DATE: The effective date of 

the FAA’s determination on the noise 

exposure maps is April 27, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Memphis Airports District Office, 

Tommy Dupree, Manager, Federal 

Aviation Administration, 2600 

Thousand Oaks Blvd., Suite 2250, 

Memphis, Tennessee 38118, Telephone: 

(901) 322–8181. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice announces that the FAA finds 

that the noise exposure maps submitted 

for the Piedmont Triad 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 of 14 CFR part 

150, effective January 13, 2004. 

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 during a forecast period that 

is at least five (5) years in the future, 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 

the FAA to be in compliance with the 

requirements of 14 CFR 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 Piedmont Triad 

Airport Authority. The documentation 

that constitutes the ‘‘Noise Exposure 

Maps’’ (NEM) as defined in Section 

150.7 includes a 2020 Base Year NEM, 

Figure 7–1, and a 2025 Future Year 

NEM, Figure 7–2, located in Chapter 7 

of the report. The figures contained 

within Chapter 7 are scaled to fit within 

the report context; however, the official, 

to scale, 2020 Base Year NEM and 2025 

Future Year NEM are an attachment to 

the official report. 

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 single 

and two-family residential; multi-family 

residential; mixed residential and 

commercial; commercial and office; 

industrial and manufacturing; 

transportation, parking and utilities; 

public facilities and institutions; 

unclassified; open space, cemetaries, 

and outdoor recreation; vacant land; 

places of worship; schools; historic 

structures; hospitals; and day care/ 

assisted living facilities and those areas 

within the Day Night Average Sound 

Level (DNL) 65, 70 and 75 noise 

contours. Estimates of the residential 

population within the 2020 Base Year 

and 2025 Future Year noise contours are 

shown in Table 7–1 of Chapter 7 of the 

report. Figure 5–1 in Chapter 5 displays 

the location of noise monitoring sites. 

Flight track maps are provided in 

Figures 6–6 through 6–8 of Chapter 6. 

The type and frequency of aircraft 

operations, including nighttime 

operations and engine runups, are found 

in Tables 6–7 through 6–15 in Chapter 

6. 

As discussed in Chapter 9 of the 

report, the Piedmont Triad Airport 

Authority provided the general public 

the opportunity to review and comment 

on the NEMs. This public comment 

period opened on November 17, 2020 

and closed on December 17, 2020. A 

public workshop was held on June 27, 

2019 on the Part 150 process. A public 

workshop and hearing for the NEMs was 

held on December 8, 2020. All 

comments received during the public 

comment period and throughout the 

development of the NEMs, as well as 

responses to these comments, are 

contained in Appendix G of the report. 

The FAA has determined that these 

noise exposure maps and accompanying 

documentation are in compliance with 

applicable requirements. This 

determination is effective on April 27, 

2022. 

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 

14 CFR 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 

authorities 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, 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, 

Memphis Airports District Office, 2600 

Thousand Oaks Blvd., Memphis, 

Tennessee 38118, and Piedmont Triad 

International Airport, 1000A Ted 

Johnson Parkway, Greensboro, North 

Carolina 27409. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tommy Dupree, Manager, Memphis 

Airports District Office, Federal 

Aviation Administration, 2600 

Thousand Oaks Blvd., Suite 2250, 

Memphis, TN 38118, Telephone: (901) 

322–8181. 

Issued in Memphis, TN, on April 27, 2022. 

Tommy L. Dupree, 

Manager, Memphis Airports District Office. 

[FR Doc. 2022–09568 Filed 5–3–22; 8:45 am] 

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